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 | Tristram Coffin (1605-1681) was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather -- on both Dad's and Mother's side. Dad was a direct descendent of Tristram's son, Tristram Jr.; Mother is descended from old Tristram's daughter, Judith. Since Tristram's arrival in America in 1642, we of his line have always given top quality for a fair price.
In 1644 Tristram was allowed to keep an ordinary, sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side and George Carr on the Salisbury side of Carr's Island . . . . |
| Dionis was presented in Court for selling beer for threepence per quart. She proved by the testimony of Samuel Mooers that she put six bushels of malt into the hogshead and hence was discharged by the Court.
The law which she was supposed to have violated was passed in 1645: "Every person licensed to keep an ordinary, shall always be provided with good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead, which he shall not sell above two pence the ale quart, on penalty of forty shillings the first offence and for the second offence shall lose his license." Dionis doubtless intended to make a better beer than was afforded at other ordinaries and as three pence per quart bore the same relation to six bushels of malt as 2d per quart did to four bushels she could see no reason why her beer should not sell for 3d per quart. Proof of this fact secured her discharge and her beer gained a good reputation from this proceeding and Coffyn's ordinary became distinguished as the place where the best beer was sold.
Gleanings from the Coffin Family Tree Ancestry of Abner Coffin of Falmouth, Maine
And Visitors to Massachusetts can visit two historic Coffin homes:
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