Sixth Generation

58. Coggeshall BUTTS was born on 27 April 1751 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.¹¹⁷ He died on 27 March 1836 at the age of 84 in Newport, Newport Co., RI. He was buried in NT003 - Newport Common Burial Ground, Newport, RI. In the month of October 1775, Commodore Hopkins wrote to Newport that he was in need of 50 men. Coggeshall volunteered and was assigned a midshipman on the Columbus under the command of Abraham Whipple. He was paid $12 per month. They were stationed at Reedy Island in the Delaware River and sailed in February 1776 for New Providence, where they captured a number of cannon and took them to New London, CT. They also captured a schooner. They had an engagement with the British warship Glasgow off Block Island. He was honorably discharged in July 1776. In 1777, he volunteered in a company of militia under Captain Church. He was on an expedition from Howland Ferry to Newport to surprise the Hessian Guard and captured two of them.

He was a prisoner of war in the Revolutionary War. He and Hannah apparently lived in Providence for a time. He resided with daughter Eliza in Bristol after his wife died.

59. Hannah PERRY was born in 1757 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. She died on 22 August 1816 at the age of 59. She was buried in NT003 - Newport Common Burial Ground, Newport, RI. She was a descendant of Edward Perry of Sandwich. Edward's grandson, James, married Anna Bennet, daughter of Jonathan and Anna Williams Bennet.

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