The History of the Oldest House on Nantucket

[@robertafierro5592]

Look at this beautiful.little house. They built them to last in those days! What a sturdy little building! Good thing there were people around who realized that ot could be a Landmark. We are losing our history as quickly as we are evolving! It's okay to appreciate the past, it really is!

[@benjacobs2560]

Anybody who loves Nantucket and enjoys learning about the island‘s history will love this video. Really well done!!!

[@wilfredwilde9559]

I’ll have to visit this house .Watching this in London. Met some nurses from Nantucket at a concert in Boston once .Very nice people.

[@lorenfay7010]

I enjoyed a guided tour of Nantucket about 1993 and visited this house... The Coffins are in my family tree, so it was fun to see this house... i also climbed the inside of the Congregational Church for good views of the town... I was in my 40s, so easy to do that back then....

[@MH-wg6bz]

Very interesting. It's outstanding that people made the effort to save and restore this house.

[@bridgettejones3292]

I watched this video because I enjoy history. Very well-researched and presented. I really enjoyed it.

[@rjmurphyo0]

I'm a descendant of 2 of Tristram Coffin's children, John Coffin and Stephen Coffin. I am also a descendant of Nathaniel Paddock, the second owner of the oldest house. The last names from the map that's not in my tree or at least, haven't discovered are Pike, Coleman, Bishop, Rolf, Mayhew, Greenleaf.

[@summermen]

You should move in!

[@tedmerr]

hiya cousin!

[@rjmurphyo0]

@@tedmerr how about are you a cousin?

[@kelceyc1509]

I just found out I'm a descent off the coffins!

[@kelceyc1509]

Tristram is my 11th great grandfather

[@pawsnclawsOG]

I loved this video! As a descendant of Coffin, Macy, Starbucks, Gardener and several others, I’ve wanted to visit Nantucket to see my ancestral sites. I’m determined to go one day, but videos such as this are so very interesting!

[@Dee-vj8ig]

I am a descendant of Thomas Macy.

[@jeanneamato8278]

I love this. It has been through a lot and not all good. I was shocked to see it was horribly struck by lightening. Wonderfully restored.

[@Judybosco]

My 10th (?) Great Grandmother is Mary Coffin Starbuck. My daughter discovered this a few years ago. One day we will make the pilgrimage to Nantucket to pay our respects. This was a very informative video!

[@wynnmatthews1858]

She is my 8th Great Grandmother. I was stunned to discover it!

[@Judybosco]

@@wynnmatthews1858 We were also. We had never heard of her until my daughter traced my dads mothers family tree. I think she may be my 9th but I will have to check with my daughter. What was cool was that my daughter discovered that there was a common ancestor on both my dads mothers side and my moms fathers side. We never knew that she had colonial roots.

[@DonnaHedrick-j2b]

I am a descendant of Tristan Coffin and my generation, including me, was in the latest revision of the Coffin Book, which I purchased from NHS . There's a bunch of us!

[@sestrachky4556]

Thank you For putting this together, I enjoyed the video!

[@yvonnerahmes9618]

This is incredible! I so appreciate all this, all the history, the people, the way life was. So wonderful, thank you so much for putting this here and telling us the history of this "Oldest House on Nantucket."

[@ANDYW031084]

You are amazing lady !!!

[@bernardmorse7530]

I am a decedent of Tristram Coffin sr. My mother's side of the family is Coffin with my father's side decended from Anthony Morse. He was an original founder of Newbury in 1635.

[@july3-016]

You and me both

[@LuisaD93]

Thank you for such an informative and pleasant video and sharing its history. Absolutely love these old warm and friendly homes!

[@TennesseeTrio]

This was my parents’ favorite place to visit - it’ll always hold a special place in my heart!

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

I really enjoyed this fascinating history lesson. Thanks for all your work and research.

[@nancynurse]

October 6, 2023, 10:30pm, Acton, MA. This was very interesting. Thank you for the video. I've always wanted to live on Nantucket.

[@grantjonsson3641]

We enjoy Nantucket, and have docked there in the past. Our intention is to return in the summer of 2021 and I am looking forward to getting into the history of the island. We will make a point of getting to the Coffin House. Enjoyed watching this documentary. Thanks from Wisconsin.

[@paulahiggins4725]

Very enjoyable. Nice job!

[@ladybearbaiter]

My guess on the horseshoe shape on the chimney is that it was the family "mark" when branding livestock. Another guess would be that it was an advertisement for something to do with horses. They used ornaments incorporated onto the rooftops back in the 1500's in England to indicate so you could identify different trades and businesses, from a distance

[@tripeeblonde8309]

I wonder when a horseshoe symbol represented good/bad luck - could that post-date this house?

[@kelceyc1509]

I just recently found out my family ones one of the first founding families. Coffin and Gardners. I did a DNA family. I'm so excited to learn about them!

[@BeanMafiaanimals]

My Family are descendants the earliest of our connection appears with the marriage of Deborah Coffin and Thomas Macy b. 1687, 16th Generation. Their daughter Anna Married Richard Worth 17th Generation had a Double connection with the to the Collin line, and the Marriage between Elizabeth Gardner and Stephen Gorham connecting the Coffin lines to the Mayflower Pilgrams.

[@omarra6781]

I'm related to the Coffins, Folgers, Starbucks, and I believe Gardners. If you guys are interested in some really cool trivia, look up Moby Dick and the reason behind the story. Then follow up with how Starbucks coffee got its name. 😉

[@cherylthomas2459]

I'm another one kin to all of you through the Browns

[@court5231]

Wonderful and informative video! Thank you! 🙂

[@johnanonyimous5007]

This is well done, interesting. I've watched it multiple times as I like New England history. I'm from the maritimes in Canada, but a lot of our history is really New England history.

[@Susan.I]

Thank you very much for this information about the Oldest House!

[@carolweaver3269]

We found we are all related (even distantly) if we did research, we find we really do end up back with Adam and Eve. As we have found it very interesting how no matter where you go while researching ancestry you can find people you would never believe to be related to yourself!

[@JoyceB-qv9xq]

Oh, and what year do Adam and Eve appear in your DNA?

[@carolweaver3269]

@@JoyceB-qv9xq Do you realize that this is a silly question? We all go back to Adam and Eve and from the beginning of the time the Lord created Adam and then Eve. We all will end up going back to them. (where would you have come from if not?)

[@JoyceB-qv9xq]

@@carolweaver3269BULLSHIT! I don't believe in fairytales!

[@DVD927]

@@carolweaver3269Africa

[@bjlyon615]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[@maryellenshock]

I know nothing about Nantucket, love history - regardless of what it is!

[@denisevettraino7916]

Absolutely Fascinating...and Interesting !

[@lorilewis7264]

Thank you for this video. I love learning about our American heritage and would love to make it to the East coast to visit the oldest house. thank you

[@JG-yh8wz]

Amazing! Loved this!

[@kell9963]

Fascinating! Thank you for this video. Jethro Coffin is my 2nd cousin 9x removed on my mother's side and I'm trying to research my ancestry.

[@errigal7942]

Very enjoyable. History well done. Love the place

[@jackiejermeay6568]

Very educational and informative😊

[@carolweaver3269]

This is truly a small world and we do find we are all related to so many. I have found it and with my husband since he found thousands around the world from just our families. Many people i have known all our lives and come to find out we wer related. It happens often.

[@tehrcanine4175]

Talking about a house is okay,but I 'm sure everyone would have expected an actual tour of the inside .

[@joanbonnet8229]

Thank you for making this video

[@mamadon2012]

Thank you, I really enjoyed this !😊

[@dennisgrubbs1929]

Great video Thanks 👍

[@kellyfinleybrown9313]

Im not from the area but this was very interesting. Thanks!

[@user-dg7gn4qk1y]

Wonderful story. Check out the Bowne house built 1661, quakers, of Flushing NY (also the Quaker meeting house also 17th century, Both still stand

[@user-ox9lo2nj9q]

I'm from South Africa, I lived in England for a year. Not one mozzie bit me. 🎉 The mozzies here are really bad. I enjoyed the video. I like the friendship vibe. So many explore vids are serious. Thanks guys and girl😂

[@vhyl9370]

What’s a mozzie?

[@user-ox9lo2nj9q]

@vhyl9370 mosquito. 🦟they bite and you itch like CRAZ😮‍💨

[@omarra6781]

I'm related to the Coffins, Starbucks, Folgers, Gardners.

[@tripeeblonde8309]

Very interesting tour of a lovely house. I would like to hear more about the birthing room such as why was an entire room dedicated for that purpose? Was it multi-purpose as well?

[@nikkiscrochetknook]

Im a decendent of the Coffins, Folgers, Macys, Gardners, Swifts, Starbucks and the Husseys hi to my many cousins i see in the comments thank u so much for sharing

[@MarkCordell]

I enjoyed this!

[@godspeed2939]

I love Nantucket! My dad and I visited in 1981 .Does the Johnson and Johnson family still occupy the large house above the cliffs of the Atlantic Ocean…that side was very rough winds and water! Are the cranberry bogs still producing cranberries?

[@paulbutterworthbillericay]

Really interesting, I research Essex Villages Towns & Churches & post on KZbin, if any folk have descendents come from Essex that would be fascinating to me. This house like all houses is layered in family history, its obviously a lot older than most, yesterday I was in Peldon in Essex, the Pub the Peldon Rose is 15th Century & still folk stoop down through the front door, I love the Coffin reunion photo, all from one couple, now isn't that something. I in years back researched a Church in Essex where Lawrence Washington Preached, he was grandfather to George, when you go in the Church which is Norman, a few pictures of the Washingtons are behind the font, with a big stack of chairs & cobwebs, do typical of England, we're not very good at blowing our own trumpet, thanks for posting

[@sugarfalls1]

I'd love to know more about the town! Was there a school? What did the kids do for fun?

[@eyetrollin710]

My mother is from Newfoundland and her family has been there for hundreds of years and I know that one of the older names in some of the communities near where she's from have the last name coffin as well,, seems to be one of the early names in North America though I've never heard it in present conversation

[@Wotsitorlabart]

'The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland' notes that historically there is no definitive answer as to whether the 'prongs' on the horseshoe should point upwards or downwards for good luck.

[@marymaxfield5285]

I had my DNA. Done, and found I am a descendant of the Coffins. Was quite pleased.

[@lucasgood4441]

Great content! +++

[@rjmurphyo0]

My last Direct ancestor with the name of Coffin, Abigail Coffin was born in 1802 and died in 1845 so the reunion this video mentions didn't have any living ancestor with the name of Coffin.

[@vantastic9367]

Huh? I use to work for Robert Coffin back in the 90s on Nantucket, he was a descendant. They use to own the Siasconset golf.

[@bethesdabling3001]

Tristram was my 10th ggrandfather❤

[@Dollgrl1]

Nantucket is my favorite out of all places in New England . My family ancestors are Gardeners from RI I wonder if they’re related ?

[@hollymerchant9550]

I've never seen the Gardner name spelled with an additional "E", sometimes with an "I". Interesting!

[@Dollgrl1]

@@hollymerchant9550 Either my mistake or spellcheck , it is spelled with an I .

[@sshaw4429]

I go there in October. My granddaughter was born there. I love it….but it has gotten out of control in the expenses. Too expensive for average people to live there. Foreigners are the only ones who can get jobs, financial aid, welfare, housing.

[@laurenmay2098]

I don’t know about foreigners getting aid to live in Nantucket? The people a worked for that has a house there are millionaires. There is no way foreigners can live there and pay $600 to get their cars to the other side. These people a worked for has four cars. They leave one at the island all summer long. I know there are some Portuguese influence in the are, but very little. The rest of the population are white collar Americans. Not average people, but the very wealthy. Never being there though.

[@lolamontez7782]

Facts. That's happening everywhere. Especially with open borders. Americans now come last. It's a shame.

[@joannapolowy4647]

well done

[@NeTxGrl]

I'm a direct descendant of the Coffin's and Gardner's.

[@pamjean2308]

Thank u, i enjoyed this very much. Did lightning strike the chimney bc of the metal chimney support rods?

[@robertafierro5592]

I am still struggling with Moby Dick. It's a hard book to read and fully comprehend. In the beginning of the book, Herman Melville describes Nantucket as being a lively little Port Town that was full of American History, already!

[@Audijoe18t]

Is the Coffin family represented by members who lived in Saint Helena island SC? The house is the oldest on st helena island still stands,on coffin point SC.

[@donnafletcher5386]

Interesting. That be nice to know.

[@craigmignone2863]

Now I know the second time I ever stepped on Nantucket was OCTOBER 1ST 1987 which the lightening day at that time I didn't know that Tristam Coffin was a forebear......

[@uwusmolbean]

Hard to grasp how long ago that was, an people with family making a go of it😊

[@failaazeem1207]

Great

[@thebigskyguy]

Hi My great aunt owned 29 Hulbert for 50 years. Is it owned by a private enterprise or does NHS own it? Thanks

[@lindseyc3811]

Neat. Appreciate these. What about the Shanunga | 10 Broadway | c. 1680?

[@freekayn2]

Tristram Coffin is my 9th great grandfather

[@Dee-vj8ig]

It is my understanding that the Macy family owned the island in the 1600’s. I am descended from Thomas Macy.

[@elizagraton8082]

We have reunions every year!

[@wellston2826]

There was an old man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket But his daughter named Nan Ran away with a man And as for the bucket.... Nantucket.

[@familyiseverything1617]

Wow really

[@karlalphelps9909]

He's my great uncle on moms dads side

[@donnafletcher5386]

I am descendant of the Coffin family.

[@amazinggrace5692]

Is the well still there?

[@justmeagain38]

My family was the Barkers.

[@hankstanco]

Owen Coffin was an Essex crewman.

[@briandoane-lr2gd]

is the House coffin family?

[@maryellenshock]

The engraving in the mortar - they didn't save it - why?

[@garymartin5898]

Oh to live there..becca m

[@milliewilkie1969]

there is a house in Lincoln UK been there since 1180 called The Jews House it is now a restaurant ..now thats old

[@arthurhudgens8213]

There was a man from Nantucket......😅

[@maewebster9377]

everyone's a descendant 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪 ok me too 😂😂😂😂

[@brendaleepierson2112]

hi ann

[@alcyneidlinger7531]

Open up!

[@bojigirl5672]

Your voice trails off at the end of every sentence. It’s difficult to hear.

[@JoyceB-qv9xq]

Adjust your hearing aid!

[@bojigirl5672]

@@JoyceB-qv9xq snark.

[@jdsmith5060]

My mom is a Coffin

[@Chris-yv9tv]

There once was a man from nantucket had a d😮😮😮this is a diffrent story sorry.😂😂

[@mollyswanner1607]

Why does the house incude a birthing room? Is that really a thing?

[@mollyswanner1607]

Summer kitchens were necessary to avoid the main house catching on fire

[@themadlad8540]

Will becom3 section 8 housing for some hodgis

[@lindanoble2803]

Forget the lineage but am both a Coffin and Coleman.

[@Spicy-y9z]

A good place to house an illegal immigrant family! We plan on sending 50,000 there.

[@cynthiarosas8214]

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[@areguapiri]

Closed because of the fakeyvirus.

[@1969lumbee]

I wonder who lived on the land before them? Hmm. Land back!

[@lolamontez7782]

Who cares? Every piece of land in the world was stolen by somebody. Nobody is original.... except Adam & eve.

[@stevenduncan5739]

This is not accurate as to the oldest home in America.

[@panamajill]

Oldest house in Nantucket.

[@godseed2214]

This is my family

[@coorkie]

An old house on stolen land.

[@TRUMPeterswan1624]

sounds like yall need some nantucket migrants again!

[@jakelance6]

Nice glasses lol...