Samuel Coit (1708 - 1792)

Born 1708 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima (Kinne) Coit — married 22 Mar 1779 in Griswold, New London, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Oct 1792 at about age 84 in North Society of Preston, Connecticut, USA (now Griswold)

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Marc Cohen [send private message]

Biography

Samuel Coit, born in 1708 at Plainfield, Connecticut, was the second child of Experience Wheeler & Joseph Coit.

Colonel Samuel Coit served with 8th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Samuel Coit is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A023933.

Samuel Coit was a Colonel who raised a regiment in Norwich in the Revolutionary War, about 1758. He was a representative in the General Assembly of Preston City in 1761 and subsequent years. he was a judge, bench of county court and maritime court during the Revolution.

This branch of the family became known as the Preston Coits.

Samuel Coit first married Sarah Spalding in 1730 and had eleven children…Isaac, Benjamin, Samuel, William W. (Capt.), Oliver, Wheeler, John, Sarah Spalding, Joseph, Isaac #2 and Olive.

After Sarah's death, in 1779 he married Mrs. Jemima Hall.

Samuel Coit died 4 Oct 1792 at Preston, Connecticut. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #48413203

• The Coit family; or the descendants of John Coit, : who appears among the settlers of Salem, Massachusets pg. 33

• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)

• Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83

• Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62

• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920

• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934

• Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934

• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

• Wheeler, Richard. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 639, no. 44: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n661/mode/1up

Profile History

This profile was created through the import of HOAGUE.GED on 22 May 2011.

Title

Title: Col.