Jupiter Coffee (1700 - 1780)

Born 1700 in Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Jupiter Coffee is a part of US Black heritage.

Jupiter Coffee "negro person" former slave of Needham mass not married to widow Deborah [Alden] Dunton

History of Needham:
There was one Newport Green, who boarded colored people, and he may have been of mixed race. The Natick Indians, which included remnants of several tribes, had by 1750 a considerable infusion of negro blood, and it is probable that Oliver Cromwell, Jethro Cato, and others represented both races. The rather notorious Jupiter Coffee, who had been a slave, intermarried with an Indian, and a citizen of our town, than whom no man was better known twenty-five years ago, was said to be of Coffee and Indian descent.

Research Notes

Birthplace estimated

Sources

• George Kuhn Clarke, History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1911: Including West Needham, Now the Town of Wellesley, to Its Separation from Needham in 1881, with Some Reference to Its Affairs to 1911, Privately printed at the University Press, 1912 - Needham (Mass.) - 746 pages