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Summary from COIT FAMILY: In New London, he was shipmaster, and then occupied himself in mercantile pursuits, until the disturbances of the Revolution induced him to move to Norwich, where his son, Daniel Lathrop Coit, had recently built the house later occupied by his grandson, Daniel Wadsworth Coit.
In 1744, he was head of a committee to petition the King in regard to the defense of New London. In 1761, we was one of 7 managers of a lottery granted by the General Assembly for the erection of a lighthouse. In 1767, he was on a town committee of 15 with regard to the famous Boston resolutions. He eventually went blind, but his mind was active until the end. He is buried with his wife in the old cemetery near his Norwich home.
From handwritten notes/unsigned: While in Norwich he petitioned the King regarding the defense of New London and was one of 15 on town committee with regard to the famous Boston Resolutions.
From page 156+ of OTN: He went to Boston early in life to learn to be a boatbuilder, but "likt it not" and returned home. He learned his trade from his father, John Coit. He hurt his foot, and took up a "seafaring life", which he followed from Jan. 11, 1719 to April 30, 1731. He was on 3 voyages, as mate 5 and master 11 and 19 (a total of 1100 days on the high seas). In 1731 he became a merchant in New London, where he stayed until April 26, 1775. He moved to Norich (either because his children were living there or due to threat of invasion), where he "lodged" with Thomas Leffingwell.
In 1781 when New London was burned he lost 2 houses and 2 stores. In 1783 he bought the old Bushnell homestead in Norwich from Isaac Tracy, Jr. who had inherited it from Isaac Tracy, Sr., who in turn had inherited it from the parents of his wife (Elizabeth Tracy), Benjamin Bushnell. B. Bushnell inherited it from Benajah Bushnell who inherited it from Richard Bushnell , who bought it from Josiah Reed of "Norridge". This house evidently was torn down or moved away.
In its stead, in 1785 his son Daniel Lathrop Coit built the new house, where he lived with his father and mother until their deaths, respectively in 1787 and 1794. (He had married in 1786.)
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