Excerpt from Descendants of Matthew Coe Have, for several years, as I could spare the time in the intervals of business, and for my own informa tion, been collecting data relating to that branch of the Coe family to which I belong, descending from Matthew Coe, the emigrant of 1645. The record appears to be a quite perfect one for the first two or three generations, and with trifling exceptions almost perfect for the last three or four generations. Occasionally dates may be slightly inaccurate, caused by different dates being given by members of the same family, but the record, as a whole, is reasonably correct. As the members of the family are now so widely scattered and so distant, most of them, from the early home of their fathers in Little Compton, it has seemed to me that I would be doing them a service in printing for their use and for private distribution the results of my inquiry and correspondence. It will serve as a foun dation for future building, and possibly preserve what has been obtained from those who, in the course of nature, must soon pass away. The plan of the record, it will be seen, is to bring the names down to the fourth generation in regular order. Then to take up the names of the four brothers from whom the different families descend, namely, Samuel, William, John. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.