Ancestry of
Joseph Coolidge

(1747–1820)

Joseph Coolidge

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Coolidge 
  • Mother:
  • Marguerite Olivier   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jul 1747 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Oct 1820 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Family tradition states that Joseph Coolidge was a member of the Sons of Liberty and participated in the Boston Tea Party. This is very possible as multiple members of the Coolidge family are known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party, but evidence is needed to support the claim that Joseph Coolidge also participated.

• Marriages for Joseph Coolidge

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Boyer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jun 1772

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  • Spouse:
  • Katharine Boyer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Apr 1788

• Sources for Joseph Coolidge

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for Joseph Coolidge.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1923, Vol. 77, pp. 290, 294.
  • ⁴ The Repertory (Boston, Massachusetts), 10 OCT 1820, p. 4, Obituary for Jseoph Coolidge.
  • ⁵ Avery, C. Louise, American Silver of the XVII & XVIII Centuries: A Study Based on The Clearwater Collection, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 68.
  • ⁶ Bridgeman, Thomas, Memorials of the Dead in Boston: Containing Exact Transcripts of Inscriptions . . . in King's Chapel Burial Ground . . ., Boston: Benjamin B Mussey and Co. (1853), 190, 283-284, incorrectly gives death year as 1821.
  • ⁷ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/22/2023).