- Immigrated to America in 1638 when 'Mr. Whittingham brought over Mathew and Richard Coye Or Coy. . . with divers other servants who first came from Boston in Lincolnshire to London.' Richard was a brother of Mathew. Richard, at the age of 13 lived some years at Boston before and after 1650, when he was at Salsibury. There, by his wife Martha had Caleb; was of Brookfield 1673, there Richard was killed by Indians at Brookfield, Massachusetts 02 Aug., 1675. Perhaps he and his brothers, Mathew and William, were one of the first settlers in 1637 at Taunton, (Bristol County), now Lincoln County, Maine.
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