Daniel Coit (1698 - 1773)

Born 25 Oct 1698 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Christophers) Coit — married 9 May 1721 in New London, New London Co, Connecticut

Husband of Mehitable (Hooker) Coit — married 21 Jan 1742 in New London, New London, Conn

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1773 at age 74 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Daniel Coit was born 25 Oct 1698 in New London, New London, CT to William and Sarah Chandler Coit. He is listed in Gurdon Saltonstalls baptismal records. He first married Lydia Christophers in 1721and they had one daughter Sarah who lived to the age of four. He then married Mehitable Hooker in 1741 and they had several children who lived to adulthood, including a daughter also named Sarah. After Mehitable's death, in 1764 he married the widow Elizabeth Starr, no issue found for that marriage. He died 1773 in New London.

Marriage

21 JAN 1741/42

Wife: Mehetabel Hooker

Child: William Coit

Child: Sarah Coit

Child: Mehetabel Coit

Child: Esther Coit

Child: Daniel Coit

Sources

• AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55.
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.
• Baile, Frederic William. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Frank Allaben genealogical company, 1913)
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register "Notices of the Greene Family", Vol. 4, Page 75: Martha is the daughter of Daniel and Mehitable Coit of New London. Martha married Daniel Hubbard. Martha had daughter Elizabeth.
• Gurdon Saltonstall\u0027s Baptisms
• Totten, John R., Christophers Family, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1920) Vol. 51, Page 23.