Anna Maria (Campbell) Coit (1800 - 1831)

Born 1 Jan 1800 in Jamaica, British West Indies

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Died 27 Sep 1831 at age 31 in New London, New London, Connecticut USA

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Anna Maria was born in 1800 to Capt. Robert H. Campbell and Justina Henrietta Maria Kelly. Anna Campbell ... She passed away in 1831.

She married John Calkins Coit April 16, 1825. They had two children...Henrietta Maria Coit (Malloy) and John Taylor Coit...before her untimely death in 1831. There exists an eyewitness account of her death in a letter. She died while on a visit to the Coit family in New London, CT.

Inscription on her marker in the Cedar Grove Cemetery of New London, CT: Sacred to the memory of Ann Maria Coit, wife of John C. Coit, of Cheraw, S.C., she was the daughter of Robert & J.Maria Henrietta Campbell, and was born in Marlborough district, South Carolina, Jan 1, 1800;, and died at New London Sept 27, 1831, reposing an unshaken faith in her Saviour, leaving a husband & two young children to mourn.

"It seems, according to the statements contained in Robert Campbell's will, which is recorded in the office of the Probate Judge, that at the time of his death, he was married to a second wife, Henrietta Campbell, and that Annie Campbell and Robert H. Campbell were the children of this marriage. James Campbell and Lucia Campbell both died unmarried. The Campbell family, now living in Marlboro County, is probably descended from Robert Campbell through his second marriage with Henrietta Campbell. This sketch, however, is intended, primarily, to deal only with the issue of the first marriage and, more especially, with the careers of Robert B. Campbell and John Campbell. The last will of Captain Robert Campbell, as well as the inventory of his estate, show that when he died he was a very wealthy man, according to the standards of that day. The great bulk of his property was left to his children by his first marriage, although he provided very handsomely for his surviving wife, Henrietta Campbell, and her children."

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Sources

• "Sketches of Old Marlboro" by Duncan Donald McColl, 1916
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
• The Coit family; or the descendants of John Coit, : who appears among the settlers of Salem, Mass. pg. 116
• U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, American Mercury 10 Oct 1831, Connecticut, USA
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84192740/coi