William Coit (1676 - 1703)

Born 25 Jan 1676 in New London, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Chandler) Gardiner — married 9 Jun 1697 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 May 1703 at age 27 in New London, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Birth: 25 JAN 1674/75, son of Deacon Joseph Coit and his wife Martha Harris.

Married Sarah Chandler who was the sister of his brother John's wife Mehetabel Chandler Coit. After she was widowed, Sarah Chandler Coit married John Gardiner.

Sources

• Vital Records of Woodstock, 1686-1854 (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, 1914) Page 2
• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
• 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
• One Colonial Woman's World, The Diaries of Mehetabel Chandler Coit by Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
• Find A Grave memorial #11402898
• Bailey, Frederic William. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Bureau of American Ancestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1896) Book 1, Page 104
• Harris, Gale Ion. The Brothers William² and Daniel² Harris of Middletown, Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 655, Page 171.