The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in
Devonshire. The Coffins have held a number of manors, the most notable of which is
Portledge in Devon, England, which they held for over nine centuries. The progenitor of most of the American Coffins was
Tristram Coffin, a
Royalist, who came to
Massachusetts from the Coffin family farm at Brixton, Devonshire in 1642. He was one of the original proprietors of
Nantucket. Tristram Coffin's descendants include the
Boston Brahmin, a group of elite families based in and around
Boston. Many American Coffins are or were
Quakers.
Coffin Family, cursed family in the novel Coffins by
Rodman Philbrick
Doctor Coffin: actor Del Manning fakes his death to operate a series of Hollywood mortuaries while fighting crime at night as Doctor Coffin. Written by
Perley Poore Sheehan, the stories were originally published in the pulp magazine Thrilling Detective from 1932 to 1933.
Enoch Coffin, title character of the
Lovecraftian fiction anthology Encounters with Enoch Coffin, by
W. H. Pugmire and
Jeffrey Thomas. Enoch is a painter/sculptor who seeks out the supernatural as inspiration for his art.
Mistress Coffin, murder victim in the novel The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin by Robert Begiebing. Set in New England in 1648, it is apparently based on an actual unsolved murder from that period.
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