Bette, Your information about the three Samuel Bunker children marrying three Zephaniah Coffin children is also confirmed within the Book: *The Coffin Family* edited by Louis Coffin and copyrighted by the Nantucket Historical Association in 1962 -- Library of Congress Catalog Card # 62-18214 ... Yet, it should be noted that one of the three Coffin children is actually a stepsister of the other two children ... Zephaniah Coffin and his first wife, Miriam Macy, dau of John and Judith Macy, had four children: Hepsabeth [md Tristram Coffin] Stephen [md Mary Bunker, dau of Samuel and Priscilla] Shubael [md 1) Abigail Paddack, 2) Mary Swain] Dinah [md Abisha Bunker, son of Samuel and Priscilla] Zephaniah and his second wife, Abigail Coleman, dau of Solomon and Mary Coleman, had six children: Mary [md Charles Bunker, son of Samuel and Priscilla] Miriam [md Richard Macy] Paul [md Susanna Bunker, dau of Jonathan and Judith] Zephaniah [md Hepsabeth Bunker, dau of Jonathan and Judith] Solomon [md 1) Eunice Macy, 2) Phebe (Clark) Gardner] Abigail [md Solomon Bunker, son of David and Elizabeth] You will note that children from the second marriage were close to another Bunker family <grin> for two boys married daughters of Jonathan and Judith Bunker ... After entering the above info for you, I realized that you were talking about my family <grin> ... The stepsister, Mary Coffin, and her husband, Charles Bunker, are my GGGG-Grandparents ... I have their marriage date as 12m/11d/1760 as per my Society of Mayflower Descendants Application, and would love to see what the original [marriage] record has on it ... Harold Wilkinson [Pensacola, Florida] Bette Richards wrote: > I am working on entries from Leach's Nantucket Quakers and have found that > three children of Samuel Bunker (RN4061) married three children of Zephaniah > Coffin. We have known for years that the Bunkers married Coffins but there > were so many Coffins in Nantucket that we had no information before this > time that the Coffins were all children of Zephaniah. > Abishai Bunker m. 1783 Dinah Coffin > Mary Bunker m. 1751 Stephen Coffin > Charles Bunker, overseer and elder of the Quaker church, m. 1760 Mary > Coffin. > > Samuel Bunker was also an elder in the Quaker church. > > Bette > > > ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== > Post your information and queries. We love it. No BUNKER rock left untouched. Spelling variations ok - we don't "know" the original. > > >