Newby Coggeshall (1726-1814) was the sixth child of William Coggeshall and Elizabeth Newby. He was originally from Portsmouth. In 1751, Newby married Mary Mason at St. Michael’s Church in Bristol. Newby and Mary had eight children: Elizabeth, William, Mary, Haile, James, Nancy, Henry, and John. For multiple years, Newby served as quartermaster of the Newport County Troop of Light Horse. He became captain of the Bristol Company in 1763, and was later promoted to major. During the Rhode Island Campaign of 1778, Newby was called up to serve in the Bristol County Alarm Company. In 1787, he was a justice of the Bristol County Court of Common Pleas.
Bristol, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783
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