Dionis STEVENS

Abt 1609 - 1684  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Dionis STEVENS  [1]
  Born	Abt 1609	Brixton, Devonshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	4 Mar 1610	Brixton, Devonshire, England
  Migration	1642
  Immigrant?	Y
  Buried	Nov 1684	Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Died	6 Nov 1684	Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I32441	Main
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family	Tristram COFFIN,   b. 4 Mar 1605, Brixton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 2 Oct 1681, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts  (Age 76 years)
  Married	Abt 1630	Brixton, Devonshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Peter COFFIN,   b. 1631, Brixton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 21 Mar 1715, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 84 years) + 2. James COFFIN,   b. 12 Aug 1640, Brixton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 28 Jul 1720, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts  (Age 79 years) + 3. Mary COFFIN,   b. 20 Feb 1645, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Sep 1717, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts  (Age 72 years) + 4. Stephen COFFIN,   b. 11 May 1652, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 18 May 1734, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years) + 5. Elizabeth COFFIN,   b. Nov 1634, Brixton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 1 Dec 1690, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 56 years) + 6. Deacon Tristram COFFIN,   b. 1 Feb 1632, Brixton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 4 Feb 1704, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts  (Age 72 years)   7. John COFFIN,   d. ?   8. Deborah COFFIN,   d. ? + 9. Lt John COFFIN,   b. 30 Oct 1647, Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts ,   d. ?
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F4044	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  d/o Robert Stevens & Dionis. The following is an extract from "History of Newbury" by Joshua Coffin "1653 September- Tristram Coffyn's wife, Dionis, was presented for selling beer at his ordinary, in Newbury, for three pence a quart. Having proved, upon testimony of Samuel Mooers, that she put six bushels of malt into the hogshead she was discharged. Dionis doubtless intended to make a better beer than was afforded at other ordinaries; and as three pence per quart bore the same relation to six bushels of malt, as two pence per quart did to four bushels, she could see no reason why her beer should not sell for three pence per quart notwithstanding the law. Proof of this fact secured her discharge, and there can be little doubt that her beer gained a good reputation from this proceeding, and Coffyn's ordinary became distinguished as the place where the best beer was sold." pg 40.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Genealogical Dictionary of, The First Settlers of New England Before 1692, A , Savage, James., Dexter, Orrando Perry., Farmer, John, (Little, Brown and Co, Boston, MA. 1862).