- Joshua Coffin
Joshua Coffin (
October 12 ,1792 –June 24 ,1864 ) was an American antiquary andabolitionist .Coffin was born in
Newbury, Massachusetts . He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1817, and taught school for many years, numbering among his pupils the poetJohn Greenleaf Whittier , who addressed to him a poem entitled "To My Old School-Master."Coffin was ardent in the cause of emancipation, and was one of the founders of the
New-England anti-slavery society in 1832, being its first recording secretary.He published "The History of Ancient Newbury" (Boston, 1845), genealogies of the Woodman, Little, and Toppan families, and magazine articles. As an adult, Coffin lived for a time in the downstairs southwest room of the
Coffin House , his ancestral home; in a tiny study housed within an ell of the house, Joshua wrote his "History of Ancient Newbury".References
*Coffin, Joshua. [http://books.google.com/books?id=FsYMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+Newbury A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury from 1635 to 1845.] Published 1845.
*Coffin, Joshua. [http://books.google.com/books?id=9eLklDk9WKQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Joshua+inauthor:Coffin&lr=&num=50&as_brr=0 An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections.] Published 1860.
*AppletonsExternal links
* [http://www.yale.edu/glc/harriet/01.htm Transcription of a letter] by Coffin to
Lydia Maria Child
*gutenberg author|id=Joshua_Coffin|name=Joshua Coffin
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