I found this curious book in the Digital Commonwealth archives. Who was Eunice Coffin MD? And why did she have this lace, I wonder?

https://digital.clarkart.edu/digital/collection/p16245coll1/id/101325

Looks like it's knitted and crocheted stuff. 

This is sort of the same Coffin family, probably, as the Ipswich/Newbury ones--but the family split in the early 1700s and a famous branch of the Coffins went to Nantucket.