Coleman Family Line

Coleman/Coultman

Name origin: A dealer or workman in coals. Gaelic colman-a dove.

  • Thomas Coleman (1602-1685)
  • Tobias Coleman (1638-1704)
  • Ephraim Coleman (1680- )

    Thomas Coleman/Coultman

    b.1602 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, parents ukn
    d.1685 Sherbune, RI
    m.(1)abt.1637 Susannah ______
    d.Nov. 17, 1650 Newbury, MA
    m.(2)July 11, 1651 in Hampton Mary Johnson

  • d.Jan. 30, 1663
    m.(3)Margery Fowler
    bapt.May 25, 1615 Marlborough, England d/o Philip and Mary (Winsley) Fowler
    d.Jan. 30, 1663 Hampton

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Tobias Coleman b.1638 Newbury
    2. Benjamin Coleman b.May 1, 1640 Newbury d.Oct. 21, 1650 Hampton, NH
    3. Joseph Coleman b.Dec. 2, 1642 Newbury. d.1690 m.Ann Bunker
    4. John Coleman b.1644 Newbury, MA d.Dec. 1715 Nantucket m.Joanna Folger
    5. Issac Coleman b.Feb. 20, 1647 Newbury MA d.June 6, 1669
    6. Joanna Coleman
    7. Susanna Coleman

    NOTES: Thomas arrived on the ship James from England to Boston on June 3, 1635. He was under contract to Richard Saltens and other to care for stock. Freed May 17, 1637 at Newbury, MA. He spelled the name Coultman.

    From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: Thomas came from Marlborough, Wiltshire, Eng., in 1635; made a freeman at Newbury, Mass., 1637; removed to Nantucket, Mass., 1663.

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    Tobias Coleman

    b.1638 Newbury MA s/o Thomas and Susanna Coleman
    d.aft.1704
    m.Apr. 16, 1668 Lydia Jackson
    b.April 13, 1647 in Rowley MA, d/o Nicholas and Sarah (Riley) Jackson

    CHILDREN included:

    1. Jabez Coleman b.March 27, 1667/8 Rowley, MA d.May 24, 1724 Kingston, NH m.Nov. 1699 Mary Prescott
    2. Sarah Coleman b.June 17, 1670 Rowley, MA d.Jan. 9, 1740 m.June 16, 1696 Rowley, MA Michael Hopkinson
    3. Thomas Coleman b.March 26, 1672 Rowley, MA m.Jan. 1701 Phebe Pearson
    4. Deborah Coleman b.May 25, 1676 Sherbourne, RI d.March 14, 1730 Rowley, MA single
    5. Eleazor Coleman b.ca.1677 Martha's Vineyard m.(1)1713 Mary Langstaff m.(2)March 1716/7 Anne Nutter
    6. Ephraim Coleman b.abt.1678
    7. Lydia Coleman b.abt.1682 m.March 1, 1704 Newbury, MA Moses Richardson
    8. Judah Coleman bapt.Oct. 3, 1686 Rowley, MA d.Dec. 22, 1759 Coventry, CT m.June 11, 1711 Newbury, MA Hepzibah Boynton

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    Ephriam Coleman

    b.abt.1680 Newbury, MA s/o Tobias and Lydia (Jackson) Coleman
    m.abt. 1700 Susannah ______
    b.bef.1684

    CHILDREN included (all b. Newbury, MA):

    1. Ephraim Coleman b.June 1, 1701
    2. Hannah Coleman b.March 1, 1702 d.Apr. 9, 1725 Coventry, CT
    3. Mary Coleman b.June 14, 1706 m.abt.1734 at Newbury, MA Jeremiah Boynton
    4. Ebenezer Coleman b.Aug. 9, 1711 d.Oct. 6, 1801 Coventry, CT m.Aug. 2, 1738 Coventry, CT Sarah Brown

    NOTE: Moved to Coventry CT in 1711.

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