Coe Coat of ArmsFootpath to Nether Hall, Gestingthorpe, owned by Lord of the manor John Coo in the 17th century
The Coe family, originally recorded as "le Queu" and then "Coo",[1] were Normans considered gentry and acquired wealth through the cloth trade.[2][3][4] The name was derived from Old Norse "ka" meaning Jackdaw, which is also the meaning of Coe in Old English. The English heraldry of the Coe family uses the Martlet, a small black bird like the Jackdaw. The birds on his supplementary seals had legs, unlike the mythical Martlet, more closely resembling the Jackdaw. The first Coe was probably known as "the Jackdaw".[4]
In the 14th century, John Coo, the earliest known historical direct ancestor of Coe, served with John Hawkwood in the White Company.[5][4] He was awarded the title of Knight by Edward III of England for the Battle of San Gallo in 1364. He established the Hawkwood Chantries in Hedingham Castle in honor of Hawkwood. He is referred to as "Cocco" by Italian historians.[6][4][7][8] Many of Coo's descendants resided at Hedingham, were educated at the Inner Temple, practiced law, held offices in England, and were extensive landowners. One Coo was listed as a Justice of the peace in Essex, others became Lords. Many were yeomen, gentlemen, and esquires. 17th century Lord of the manor John Coo owned many lands, including at Hedingham.[4][9]
Coe was born to Henry and Mary Coe (née Vincent) at Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk, England, and baptized there on October 26, 1596.[4] He was described as a "fine example" of a Puritan and a "great force of character" by J. Gardner Bartlett, the American genealogist.[10] His father, Henry, had been a yeoman, probably a clothmaker, and for several years was churchwarden.[4] In Boxford, Suffolk in April 1625, Coe was elected as the overseer of cloth and in 1629 as the questman of the church.[11] His first wife and mother of his four children died in Boxford in 1628. He remarried shortly after. His only daughter, a twin to his middle son, died before 1634.[4]
Rest, blessed Coe, upon thy bed of ease;
The quiet grave with thee is no decease;
All, all our anguish hath its period fixed,
Ere hence we go not any joy but mixed;
Rare grace, which makes the life of man the best,
This young man lived to God, and now is blest;
Come, parallel this saint, nay, far exceed;
Omit no means that true goodness breed.
Ere trials came he stowed for days of need;
The Lord his widow bless and take his seed.
They crossed the Long Island Sound to what is now Long Island and founded Hempstead, where he was appointed the magistrate and the church elder. During his eight years leading Hempstead, he became an extensive landowner.[4][1][23] Due to his "enterprising spirit", Coe departed Hempstead to found a new settlement. In 1652, he and Edward Jessup became the majority landowners a settlement west of long island in what is now Elmhurst. The town of was originally called Middleburgh, then Hastings, and finally Newton, where Coe was the most prominent person in the town. He was again made the town's magistrate and served for four years as a deputy of the general court,[4][17] the same "representative" government style as the British colonies.[26] As the deputy, Coe traveled in 1653 to Boston and New Amsterdam to ask for protections for the English and Dutch settlements along the island from native attack.[4][17][27]
After the settlement was well-established, Coe re-settled again in 1655 as the leader of Rustdorp, a town on a large tract of land south of Newtown purchased with his youngest son Benjamin and several others. Rustdorp was later renamed to Jamaica. Peter Stuyvesant appointed Coe magistrate of the town under the jurisdiction of New Netherland, an office Coe held until 1664.[4][1] When the English population on Long Island revolted from the Dutch at New Amsterdam and transferred their allegiance to Connecticut, Coe was deputed to the General Court and appointed commissioner for Jamaica. After New Amsterdam surrendered to the English fleet, New York governor Richard Nicolls appointed Coe as the Judge of oyer and terminer of Yorkshire. His final position was as high sheriff of Yorkshire until 1671, after which he retired from public office at the age of 75.[4][23][28]
Near the end of his life, Coe settled his estate among his three sons. He married a third wife when he was over 80 years of age. He bought a farm of fifty acres at Foster's Meadow in Hempstead on November 29, 1678, where he lived until his death before 1690, when his will was executed.[4] His home on Long Island stood until 1930 when it was demolished to accommodate the construction of the Long Island Expressway.[29] A poem was written about him after his passing by the reverend Abraham Pierson, the elder in the New Haven Colony.[25]
Freeport, New York was originally named "Coe's Neck", after Coe, and remains the name of a local park.[30][31]Cos Cob, Connecticut is named after Coe, derived from "Coe's Cob" meaning "Coe's wall".[32]
^ abEllis, Ruby Haskins (March 21, 1935). "Who Are You?: The Romance of Your Name". The Evening Star.
^Burrell, David James; Cobb, Henry Evertson (2016). A Discourse Commemorative Of The Reverend Edward Benton Coe (illustrated ed.). New York: Creative Media Partners, LLC. ISBN9781354722275.
^Dow, George Francis (1988). Every day life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN978-0-486-25565-1.
^American Biographical Institute, ed. (1992). American women of today (1st ed.). Raleigh, N.C: American Biographical Institute. ISBN978-0-934544-63-4.
^Burpee, Charles Winslow (1939). Burpee's The Story of Connecticut. Connecticut: American historical Company, Inc.
^Call, Charles Arthur; Call, Elizabeth Coe; McEwen, John Donald (1952). Anecdotes of the Ancestors and Descendants of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. University of Wisconsin - Madison.
^Hinman, Royal Ralph (1852). A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut. Press of Case, Tiffany, and Company.
^Rockey, John L., ed. (1892). History of New Haven County, Connecticut. Vol. 1. W. W. Preston.
^Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. Vol. 6–7. National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. 1916.
^Brower, William Leverich; Miller, Henry P., eds. (1928). Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York, 1628-1928. The Consistory.
^Chester, Alden; Williams, Edwin Melvin (2005). Courts and Lawyers of New York. Vol. 1. Lawbook Exchange.
^Olmstead, Henry King (2021). Olmsted genealogy, third-fourth supplement, 1923-28. Hassell Street Press. ISBN978-1013458972.
^"Curtis Claire Coe". Statesman Journal. October 29, 1996.
^Hartz, Jill; Knapp, Danielle, eds. (2017). Mark Clarke and Margaret Coe: Our Lives in Paint. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. ISBN9780990353393.
^Wickes, Stephen (1879). History of medicine in New Jersey and of its medical men from the settlement of the province to A.D. 1800. Newark, New Jersey: M.R. Dennis & Company.
^Guinn, James Miller (1907). A History of California and an Extended History of Its Southern Coast Counties. Vol. 2. California: California Historic Record Company.
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