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from Andrew Bacon, amounting to nearly
forty-seven square rods. He died in Mid-
dletown May 13, 1800, in his seventysecond
year. He married Hannah Smith,
born oti Long Island, whose mother, Han-
nah, was married (second) to John Bird-
sey of what is now Middlefield. Robert
Paddock, son of Zachariah and Hannah,
was born November 10, 1760, in Middletown,
and died there January 30, 1844.
He married, May 5, 1785, Martha Love-
land, born July 4, 1767, died January 11,
1854. They were the parents of Lucy
Paddock, wife of Elihu Plum.
Henry Loveland Plum, the son of Elihu
and Martha (Loveland) Plum, was born
November 26, 1823, in Westfield, and followed
farming on the paternal homestead,
living in the house—now nearly two hun-
dred years old—nearly opposite the pres-
ent home of his widow and his grandson,
Elihu H. Plum. There he died August 24,
1863. He married, October i, 1845, Lucy
Ann Coe, descendant of an ancient and
honored Connecticut family, traced to an
early period of English history
John Coe, of Gestingthorpe, County Essex, Eng-
land, bom about 1340, in that town in the reign of
Edward III. In 1412, when about seventy years
old, he settled his affairs, dying in the the follow-
ing year. He was the father of John Coo, as the
name was then spelled, bom about 1375, died in
1425. His wife's baptismal name was Eleanor, and
they were the parents of John Coo, bom about
1400, lived at Gestingthorpe, and died after 1448.
His son, Thomas, born about 1430, died in 1507,
and was the father of John Coe, born about 1460,
will proved in 1520, at Gestingthorpe. He married
Joane, daughter of Thomas Golding, and was
the father of John Coe, born about 1495, died in
1533. at Gestingthorpe. His wife, Margaret, was
the mother of John Coe, bom in 1523, lived at
Maplestead and Wiston, married Dorothy. Their
youngest son, Henry Coe, born in 1565, lived at
Thorpe-Morieux, died in 1631. His wife, Mary,
died the same year.
Robert Coe, son of Henry and Mary, was the
immigrant ancestor of the American family. He
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was born at Thorpe-Morieux, County Suffolk,
baptized October 25, 1596. In 1625 he was living
at Boxford, County Suffolk, whence he came to
this country in 1634. He was elected overseer of
cloth at Boxford, April 18, 1625, and was questman
of the Boxford Church in 1629. He sailed
from Ipswich, County Suffolk England, in the
ship "Francis," with his family, settled at Water-
town, Massachusetts, where he was admitted freeman
September 3, 1634. In June of the next year
he went, with others, to settle Wethersfield, Connecticut,
being dismissed from the Watertown
Church May 29, 1635, and remained there about
five years. In November, 1640, he was one of the
fotmders of Stamford, Coimecticut, where he was
a magistrate and deputy to the General Court. For
eight years he lived at Hempstead, Long Island,
where he was an elder of the church and magis-
trate under the Dutch government. In 1652 he
located at Newtown, Long Island, and was there
an elder of the church. In 1653 he was sent to
Boston, Massachusetts, to get protection from the
Indians, and in the same year went on the same
mission to New Amsterdam. In 1656 he was
among the founders of Jamaica, Long Island, from
1658 to 1664 was magistrate. In 1663 the town
owned allegiance to Connecticut and next year he
served as deputy to the General Court at Hartford.
When the English captured New Amster-
dam, Robert Coe was made judge of the Courts of
Oyer and Terminer and high sheriff of Yorkshire.
He died about 1689. His wife, Mary, who accompanied
him from England, was the mother of his
children; she died and was buried October 27,
1628, in Boxford. Their second son, Robert Coe,
born at Boxford, baptized there September 19,
1626, did not go to Long Island, lived in Stratford,
where he died about September, 1659. He married
about 1650 Hannah Mitchell, who was baptized
June 26, 1631, at Halifax, Yorkshire, England,
daughter of Matthew and Susan (Butterfield)
Mitchell. She came with her parents to Wethersfield,
where she met her first husband. She married
(second) Nicholas Elsey, of New Haven,
where she died April 2, 1702. John Coe, son of
Robert and Hannah, born May 10, 1658, at Stratford,
lived with his foster-father at New Haven
until he attained his majority and received by deed
from his mother his father's estate at Stratford.
In 1685 he exchanged this for another lot, on
which he built a house and lived there until his
death. He was a prosperous farmer, land speculator,
merchant, miller, innkeeper, held various town
offices, including representative, was lieutenant and