An American Family History

Abraham Coffing

also spelled Coffin

Early Quakers were persecuted. In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished on pain of death.

Abraham Coffing was born about 1712 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a son of Jacob Coffing, Sr.

His wife was named Margaret.

Abraham and Margaret's children may have icluded:

Jacob Coffing (1738, married Catherine),
Ann Coffing (married John Yerkes son of John Yerkes),
Margaret Coffing (1739, married John Nice),
Abraham Coffing,
Grace Coffing (married Joshua Yerkes), and
Martha Coffing (married Elias Yerkes son of Silas Yerkes)
William Coffing (1745, died young).

They were members of the Abington Monthly Meeting.

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Abraham's will was dated October 22, 1766, and proved in Philadelphia on November, 28.

A 1780 indenture from John Nice et al to John Yerkes transferred Abraham's land and said:

the said Ann intermarried with the said John Yerkes
the said Margaret with the said John Nice
the said Grace with one Joshua Yerkes and
the said Martha with one Elias Yerkes

Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake.

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