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Earlier this week we talked about the original Tristram Coffyn of Nantucket, who is known to have a massive number of descendants.

He and his wife Dionis* had five children in England, then four more after relocating to the New World. Here are the names of not only all nine of their children, but also their 76 grandchildren:

1. Peter (b. 1631) and his wife Abigail had 11 kids:
   • Parnel, Eliphalet, Abigail, Peter, Jethro**, Tristram, Robert, Edward, Judith, Parnell, Elizabeth
2. Tristram (b. 1632) and his wife Judith had 10 kids:
   • Judith, Deborah, Mary, James, John, Lydia, Enoch, Stephen, Peter, Nathaniel
3. Elizabeth (b. 1634) and her husband Stephen Greenleaf had 10 kids:
   • Stephen, Sarah, Daniel, Elizabeth, John, Samuel, Tristram, Edmund, Judith, Mary
4. Stephen (b. 1637)
5. James (b. 1640) and his wife Mary had 14 kids:
   • Experience, James, Mary, Abigail, Nathaniel, John, Dinah, Elizabeth, Deborah, Ebenezer, Joseph, Benjamin, Ruth, Jonathan
6. Deborah (b. 1642)
7. Mary (b. 1645) and her husband Nathaniel Starbuck had 10 kids:
   • Mary, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Jethro, Barnabas, Eunice, Priscilla, Hephzibah, Ann, Paul
8. John (b. 1647) and his wife Deborah had 11 kids:
   • Lydia, Peter, John, Love, Enoch, Samuel, Hannah, Benjamin, Tristram, Deborah, Elizabeth
9. Stephen (b. 1652) and his wife Mary had 10 kids:
   • Daniel, Dionis, Peter, Stephen, Judith, Susanna, Anna, Mehitable, Hepzibah, Paul

Which of the above names do you like best? Are there any you don’t like at all?

*Dionis’s name is evidently a truncated form of Dionysia, which derives from Dionysius, which originally referred to a devotee of the Greek god Dionysos. The names Dennis and Denise are also derivatives of Dionysius.

**Nantucket’s Oldest House, also called the Jethro Coffin House, was built in 1686 as a wedding gift for Jethro Coffin.

Sources: Tristram Coffin, Sr. (1608-1681) – WikiTree, My Father’s Shoes – Our Coffin Story
Image from Early Settlers of Nantucket by Lydia S. Hinchman