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nuity to the wife & children of the lessor - gives impression that the transaction was a family affair.

Conclusions: Peter Coffin & Mary Boscawen were not the progenitors of the Nantucket Coffins; but Peter Coffin was, in some as yet unexplained way, connected to the Portlinch Coffins. Many Coffin publications refer to the Carminowe "connection" involving land owned by Phillipa Carminowe in Plympton, near Butlers. I think this is irrelevant.

N.K. Jeans. The Old Rectory St Michael Penkivel, Truro

*Since 1980, I have examined such registers as are available for the Parishes with which Peter Coffin was connected and can find no references to any issue. The Boscawen Family, on the other hand, are very well documented, and there is no reason to believe Lord Falmouth to be incorrect. The conclusion I have come to is as positive as one can be at this distance in time.

N.K.J.

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