COE, EBENEZER - Union Cemetery, Dalton, 1736-1827. No marker or inscription. Lt. Capt. John Leacke's Co. Westmoreland Co. Militia
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OF ENGLISH AND POSSIBLY SCOTTISH ANCESTRY
DISTANT RELATION OF FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, POET/ESSAYIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON, AND GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
LT. IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, PENNSYLVANIA CONTINENTAL LINE
2G GRANDSON OF SHIP MASTER JOHN CARMAN, THE FOUNDER OF HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND
GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTEMAN ELDER JOSEPH PRUDDEN
OHIO PIONEER
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LT. EBENEZER COE, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), Aug. 2008:
Ebenezer Coe was born about 1736 near Morristown, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the eldest of thirteen children of Benjamin Coe and his wife Rachel Prudden.
At the age of 25, on Sept. 17, 1761, in Morristown, he married 21-year-old Eunice Jagger, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Jagger. They had 7 children.
On Mar. 12, 1763, Ebenezer renewed the covenant with the Morristown Church. That same year Ebenezer was taxed in Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania for for 2 horses, 2 cattle and 4 sheep.
Ebenezer served as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain James Leach in Colonel George Baird's regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
Reportedly, the family moved to Pennsylvania during the Revolution. In later life, Ebenezer lived with his sister Mrs. Williams and with his son Stephen Coe in Jefferson County, Ohio, and in Dalton, Wayne County ,Ohio, where he died on July 25, 1827 at 90 years old. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Union Cemetery (Dalton Cemetery) there.
In a centennial address in 1875, Rev. Aaron Williams, a grandnephew of Ebenezer's noted, "He was a man of fervent piety and daily had secret prayers in his chamber."
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OF ENGLISH AND POSSIBLY SCOTTISH ANCESTRY
DISTANT RELATION OF FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, POET/ESSAYIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON, AND GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
LT. IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, PENNSYLVANIA CONTINENTAL LINE
2G GRANDSON OF SHIP MASTER JOHN CARMAN, THE FOUNDER OF HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND
GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTEMAN ELDER JOSEPH PRUDDEN
OHIO PIONEER
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LT. EBENEZER COE, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), Aug. 2008:
Ebenezer Coe was born about 1736 near Morristown, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the eldest of thirteen children of Benjamin Coe and his wife Rachel Prudden.
At the age of 25, on Sept. 17, 1761, in Morristown, he married 21-year-old Eunice Jagger, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Jagger. They had 7 children.
On Mar. 12, 1763, Ebenezer renewed the covenant with the Morristown Church. That same year Ebenezer was taxed in Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania for for 2 horses, 2 cattle and 4 sheep.
Ebenezer served as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain James Leach in Colonel George Baird's regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
Reportedly, the family moved to Pennsylvania during the Revolution. In later life, Ebenezer lived with his sister Mrs. Williams and with his son Stephen Coe in Jefferson County, Ohio, and in Dalton, Wayne County ,Ohio, where he died on July 25, 1827 at 90 years old. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Union Cemetery (Dalton Cemetery) there.
In a centennial address in 1875, Rev. Aaron Williams, a grandnephew of Ebenezer's noted, "He was a man of fervent piety and daily had secret prayers in his chamber."
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COE, EBENEZER - Union Cemetery, Dalton, 1736-1827. No marker or inscription. Lt. Capt. John Leacke's Co. Westmoreland Co. Militia
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OF ENGLISH AND POSSIBLY SCOTTISH ANCESTRY
DISTANT RELATION OF FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, POET/ESSAYIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON, AND GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
LT. IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, PENNSYLVANIA CONTINENTAL LINE
2G GRANDSON OF SHIP MASTER JOHN CARMAN, THE FOUNDER OF HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND
GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTEMAN ELDER JOSEPH PRUDDEN
OHIO PIONEER
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LT. EBENEZER COE, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), Aug. 2008:
Ebenezer Coe was born about 1736 near Morristown, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the eldest of thirteen children of Benjamin Coe and his wife Rachel Prudden.
At the age of 25, on Sept. 17, 1761, in Morristown, he married 21-year-old Eunice Jagger, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Jagger. They had 7 children.
On Mar. 12, 1763, Ebenezer renewed the covenant with the Morristown Church. That same year Ebenezer was taxed in Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania for for 2 horses, 2 cattle and 4 sheep.
Ebenezer served as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain James Leach in Colonel George Baird's regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
Reportedly, the family moved to Pennsylvania during the Revolution. In later life, Ebenezer lived with his sister Mrs. Williams and with his son Stephen Coe in Jefferson County, Ohio, and in Dalton, Wayne County ,Ohio, where he died on July 25, 1827 at 90 years old. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Union Cemetery (Dalton Cemetery) there.
In a centennial address in 1875, Rev. Aaron Williams, a grandnephew of Ebenezer's noted, "He was a man of fervent piety and daily had secret prayers in his chamber."
submitted by member# 46950879
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OF ENGLISH AND POSSIBLY SCOTTISH ANCESTRY
DISTANT RELATION OF FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, POET/ESSAYIST RALPH WALDO EMERSON, AND GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
LT. IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, PENNSYLVANIA CONTINENTAL LINE
2G GRANDSON OF SHIP MASTER JOHN CARMAN, THE FOUNDER OF HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND
GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTEMAN ELDER JOSEPH PRUDDEN
OHIO PIONEER
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LT. EBENEZER COE, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), Aug. 2008:
Ebenezer Coe was born about 1736 near Morristown, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the eldest of thirteen children of Benjamin Coe and his wife Rachel Prudden.
At the age of 25, on Sept. 17, 1761, in Morristown, he married 21-year-old Eunice Jagger, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Jagger. They had 7 children.
On Mar. 12, 1763, Ebenezer renewed the covenant with the Morristown Church. That same year Ebenezer was taxed in Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania for for 2 horses, 2 cattle and 4 sheep.
Ebenezer served as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain James Leach in Colonel George Baird's regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
Reportedly, the family moved to Pennsylvania during the Revolution. In later life, Ebenezer lived with his sister Mrs. Williams and with his son Stephen Coe in Jefferson County, Ohio, and in Dalton, Wayne County ,Ohio, where he died on July 25, 1827 at 90 years old. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Union Cemetery (Dalton Cemetery) there.
In a centennial address in 1875, Rev. Aaron Williams, a grandnephew of Ebenezer's noted, "He was a man of fervent piety and daily had secret prayers in his chamber."
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