[Illustration: Charles Carleton Coffin]




THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine_

VOL. III. APRIL, 1885. NO. I.

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CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.


Among the emigrants from England to the western world in the great
Puritan exodus was Joanna Thember Coffin, widow, and her son Tristram,
and her two daughters, Mary and Eunice. Their home was in Brixton, two
miles from Plymouth, in Devonshire. Tristram was entering manhood's
prime--thirty-three years of age. He had a family of five children.
Quite likely the political troubles between the King and Parliament, the
rising war cloud, was the impelling motive that induced the family to
leave country, home, friends, and all dear old things, and become