"289. Thomas Chester Coit, son of Thomas and Sarah Chester Coit, born in Norwich, Nov. 1,1791, removed with his parents to Pomfret, and then to Canterbury; was apprenticed to the jeweler's trade at the age of 14 years, which he followed twelve years in Norwich and fifteen years in Natchez, Mississippi. In 1835 he went into a large business in New York City, dealing in expensive lamps, chandeliers, etc., but the panic of 1837 entirely broke him down, and he died Feb. 28, 1841, poor, although he had been wealthy. He married Mary Ann Morgan in 1829, but had no children. His widow, after his decease, lived in Philadelphia."