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    Gurdon Saltonstall Coit

    Birth: 10-28-1808

    Death: 11-10-1869

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Rev. Dr. Gurdon S. Coit was a Connecticut Deacon. He was ordinated as a Deacon in 1830 and earned his Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1853. He worked at several different churches in Connecticut during the mid-1800s and lived in the state for his whole life. He and his wife, Eleanor Forrester, had ten children and he died in Fairfield, CT in 1869.

In a letter from Clarance Armstrong Seward to Frederick William Seward on June 30, 1864, Clarance wrote that Gurdon' son, Forrester, was living in Ningbo, China on mercantile business. 

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Rev. Dr. Gurdon S. Coit was a Connecticut Deacon. He was ordinated as a Deacon in 1830 and earned his Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1853. He worked at several different churches in Connecticut during the mid-1800s and lived in the state for his whole life. He and his wife, Eleanor Forrester, had ten children and he died in Fairfield, CT in 1869.

In a letter from Clarance Armstrong Seward to Frederick William Seward on June 30, 1864, Clarance wrote that Gurdon' son, Forrester, was living in Ningbo, China on mercantile business. 

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Find a Grave - Rev Gurdon Saltonstall Coit
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Gurdon Saltonstall Coit in the Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
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Rev Gurdon S Coit in the Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
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