Eleazer Coffeen

RESIDENCE and MARRIAGE During the year 1758 came John Coffeen from Boston,

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and his brothers Eleazer and Henry Coffeen from Lunen- burg. The former settled on the farm now of Thomas and Charles G. Buswell. Henry married Lucy Hale soon after his arrival, and located near the Jaffrey line, and not far from the clearing of Abel Platts. Eleazer was not married in 1771, and no reference to his house, if he had one, is found upon the records.

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80 HISTORY OF BINDGE.

The four men above sixty years of age were Joseph Page, Samuel Larrabee, Abel Platts, and Nathaniel Page. These names are first upon the foregoing list. Joseph Page and Samuel Larrabee were widowers. Elizabeth (Wheeler) Hale, widow of Moses Hale, was the widow enumerated in the census, and the slave was the property of Samuel Larrabee, Jr. The only remaining class in this enumeration included the unmarried men between sixteen and sixty years of age. They were : Eleazer Coffeen, brother of John and Henry ; John, son of Rev. Seth Dean ; John Demary, Jr. ; Timothy, son of Stephen Gates ; Joseph Gillson ; Josiah, Simeon, and Nathaniel, sons of Josiah Ingalls ; John Lovejoy, Jr. : George, son of Daniel Lake ; Stephen, son of Samuel Larrabee, Jr. ; Joseph and Abijah, sons of Joseph Page ; Jonathan Parker, Jr. ; Joel and William, sons of Joel Russell ; Samuel, son of Jonathan Stanley ; and Thomas Walker.

Such were the inhabitants of the settlement at the close of the year, and within six weeks of the date of the incorporation of the town.

Eleazer Coffeen" was b. Sept. 14, 1731, and lived in Rindge about twenty years. In 1778 he removed to Cavendish, Yt. In 1771 he was not md.

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