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Samuel Coit

Birth	:	14 Oct 1726 New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death	:	Nov 1792 New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Burial	:	Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, New London County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.3665130, -72.1241350
Plot	:	Section 20
Inscription	:	Age 67
Description	:	Samuel Coit, son and fourth child of John Coit and Grace Christophers, born in New London, Oct. 14. 1726, spent his life there in the ancestral occupation of shipbuilding. He married Elisabeth Ely, daughter of David and Elisabeth Richards Ely of New London, Feb. 18, 1753. She was received to the Congregational Church, March 28, 1740. She was born Feb 9,1733, and died Aug. 14, 1826, aged 94. He died in November, 1792, aged 67, and lies in the new burial ground. His death was from small pox, contracted during a visit to New York city in his son John's... Read More	Samuel Coit, son and fourth child of John Coit and Grace Christophers, born in New London, Oct. 14. 1726, spent his life there in the ancestral occupation of shipbuilding. He married Elisabeth Ely, daughter of David and Elisabeth Richards Ely of New London, Feb. 18, 1753. She was received to the Congregational Church, March 28, 1740. She was born Feb 9,1733, and died Aug. 14, 1826, aged 94. He died in November, 1792, aged 67, and lies in the new burial ground. His death was from small pox, contracted during a visit to New York city in his son John's fishing vessel. Samuel Coit, b. Oct. 14, 1726; bap. Oct. 16, 1726, at New London; he was a ship builder and lived in New London; he served as a private in the Revolutionary War; died from from, smallpox contracted during a visit to New York City on his son John Coit's fishing vessel, and was buried in the Second Burying Ground there. He m. Feb. 18, 1753, at New London, to Elizabeth Richards, b. Feb. 9. 1733/4; bap. Feb. 10, 1733/4, at New London; d. Aug. 14, 1826, aged 94, at New London. She was a dau. of David Richards (b. Dec. 29, 1703; d. ;m. April 3, 1733) and his wife Elizabeth Edgecomb, who resided in New London. Note: The Coit Genealogy, p. 49, states that Samuel Coit, No. 89, m. Elizabeth Ely on Feb. 18, 1753, and states that she was a dau. of David and Elizabeth (Richards) Ely, of New London. This statement is at variance with Bailey's Early Connecticut Marriages, Book II, p. 22, and with the Richards Genealogy, p. 95, also with Miss E. C. Brewster Jones Notes, Book No. 3, Section "A," and also with History of First Church, New London, p. 496. Authorities: Coit Genealogy, pp. 29-30, 49. Bailey's Early Connecticut Marriages, Book II, pp. 16, 22, 29, 31. History First Church, New London, pp. 488, 406. Richards Genealogy (Genealogical Register), Vol. Ill, pp. 94-5. James Rogers and His Descendants, pp. 199, 232-3. ~The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 51; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1920.

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Samuel Coit's memorial is located at: Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, New London County, USA.
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Samuel Coit death on Nov 1792 in New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
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Latitude: 41.3665130
Longitude: -72.1241350

Family Members:

Parent

John Coit Jr.

(1696 - unknow)

Grace Christophers Coit

(1698 - 1745)

Siblings

Richard Coit

(1722 - 1745)

Children

(1761 - 1845)

(1764 - 1831)

(1767 - 1853)

(1770 - 1798)

Lucretia Coit Carroll

(1773 - 1843)

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