Sunday, April 7, 2013

Massachusetts Roots

This post is a mental reminder of the great book resources I found researching the Macy family of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Macy family had many marriages with the Coffin, Folger, Starbuck, Barnard, and Coleman families. Below is a list of books found on Archive.org.

The Coleman family : descendants of Thomas Coleman, of Nantucket, in line of the oldest son, 10 geneartions, 1602-1898 - 296 years
Author: Silas Bunker Coleman
Published in Detroit, Michigan, 1898
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23289141M/The_Coleman_family

Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635-1868
Author Silvanus Jenkins Macy
Publisher: Joel Munsell, 1868
http://archive.org/details/genealogymacyfa00macygoog

The Coffin family : the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America; together with reminiscences and anecdotes of some of his numerous descendants, and some historical information concerning the ancient families named Coffyn (1881)
Allen Coffin, b. 1836
Publisher: Nantucket, Hussey & Robinson, 1881