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Thomas Coffield

Tavern and Ferry Keeper
1805-1810
Associated Workers

Biographical Information

Born:

date and location unknown

Parents: 

unknown

Spouse:


Children:

unknown

Lived:

Susquehanna Lower Ferry, Cecil County, MD

Died:

date and location unknown

Additional Information

  • The 1810 United States Federal Census lists a total of three whites males, four white females, and six enslaved people (ages and sexes not identified) living in the Coffield household on August 6, 1810.

  • Thomas Coffield referred to as Captain Coffield in a 1805 newspaper advertisement placed by Richard S. Thomas.

Information Sources

Primary Sources

Ca. 1779

Thomas Coffield born.

Birth year inferred from 1801 Chancery Records at State Archives.  see 1801 for specific citation information.


1801

Thomas Coffield, 22 years of age, witness in a Chancery Court case.

Book 57 - 218

MARYLAND INDEXES (Chancery Record, Index). 1668-1851. MSA Citation: S1431-15. Pg. 1188. Accessed via MD State Archives website, Guide to Government Records at https://guide.msa.maryland.gov/pages/item.aspx?ID=S1431-15


2/1/1803

Thomas Coffield from Christian Hoofman and Jacob Lammott Lot No. 460 a waterfront lot on Fayette Street near intersection of Young Street and Concord Street in Havre de Grace.

Harford County Court Land Records. Liber HD Q, pg. 343

Document transcription: Thomas Coffield from Christian Hoofman et al_Deed_1803.docx


7/20/1803

Thomas Coffield buys from James Dall Lots 572 and 272 in Havre de Grace, MD.

Harford County Court Land Records. Liber HD R, pg.91

Document transcription: Thomas Coffield from James Dall Deed- 1803.docx


1804

Thomas Coffield, his tavern mentioned, Havre de grace, in a Chancery Court case.

Book 56 - 677

MARYLAND INDEXES (Chancery Record, Index). 1668-1851. MSA Citation: S1431-15. Pg. 1188. Accessed via MD State Archives website, Guide to Government Records at https://guide.msa.maryland.gov/pages/item.aspx?ID=S1431-15


1/28/1804

Thomas Coffield from buys from Benjamin McCaskey Lot 179 in Havre de Grace

Harford County Court Land Records. Liber HD R, pg. 220

Document transcription: Thomas Coffield from Benjamin McCaskey_Deed_1804.docx


7/23/1804

Thomas Coffield from James White Hall lease of property in Havre de Grace

Harford County Court Land Records. Liber HD R, pg. 428


5/29/1805

Thomas Coffield to Roger Boyce and John Hambleton.  Mortgage of the following property in Havre de Grace owned by Coffield to Boyce and Hambleton for debts Coffield owed to them:

  • Lots 243, 229, 230, 460, 222, 520, 250, and 90

  • Orchard Point Fishery

Harford County Court Land Records. Liber HD S, p. 0048. MSA CE113_18. Document transcription: Thomas Coffield to Roger Boyce_Mortgage_1805.docx


3/19/1806

Thomas Coffield to Gabriel Christie property in Havre de Grace sold to pay debt

Harford County Court Land Records Liber HD S, pg. 238. Document transcription: Thomas Coffleld to Gabriel Christie Deed1806.docx


1811-1812

Death of Thomas Coffield


1/10/1812

William Coffield posts $1,000.00 Administration Bond for Thomas Coffield's estate

Cecil County Register of Wills (Administration Bonds, Index) 1674-1953. CM1465


1/22/1813

William Coffield submits list of accounts due to estate of Thomas Coffield

Cecil County Register of Wills (Inventories) 1675-1976. CM335. Vol. 16, pg. 185-186 [pdf pg. 103-104 of 189





Cecil County Court Minutes, 1805-1809. MSA C635-8. Pg.16, 114, 134, 196, 198, 273

Cecil County Court Minutes, 1810-1814. MSA C635-9. Pg.13, 14


Year: 1810; Census Place: Cecil, Maryland; Roll: 15; Page: 265; Image: Mdm252_15-0081; FHL Roll: 0193668. Accessed through Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/82356:7613?tid=&pid=&queryId=895a8870-3ce5-43a0-8456-cb84c7fbcee6&_phsrc=Gxh213&_phstart=successSource


Advertisement placed by Richard S. Thomas, November 15, 1805. Aurora General Advertiser, 1794–1814 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: August 26, 2019. Accessed at https://www.newspapers.com/image/586574982/




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