Ambrose Coffee - Timeline

Last Updated : 5-29-13 : Work In Progress!

1755 - Born - Dublin, Ireland
(Birthplace verified from testimony in an 1809 Deposition, quoted in And The Battle Began Like Claps Of Thunder - The Siege of Boonesboro 1778 As Told By The Pioneers. Date still unverified.)

abt 1767 - Immigration to Loudoun County, VA - indentured servant to John Hough (Huff)
(1809 Deposition)

1774 - VA Militia - Fort Fincastle under Sgt. Lane - Dunmore's War
(Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers By Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck)

1775 - Arrival in Kentucky. Land record states "Coffee residing in the country ever since the year 1775". Also referenced on a list by Neal O. Hammon of Kentucky Pioneers, 1773 - 1775.
(Land Claim - 1779)
(Pioneers In Kentucky 1773-1775 by Neal O. Hammon)

1776? - Lee's Town, KY under Major Crittenden - This date conflicts with the 1775 date from the land claim mentioned above.
(1809 Deposition)

Fall 1776 - Harrodsburg, KY
(1809 Deposition)

1777 - Boonesborough, KY
(1809 Deposition)

Feb. 1778 - Boonesborough, KY - w/ Richard May to investigate Boone's capture
(1809 Deposition)

Sept. 1778 - Siege at Fort Boonesborough

1781 - Marriage to Ailsey (Unknown) - date unverified

Oct. 1782 - Lincoln Militia under Capt. William Hoy & George Rogers Clark, expedition against Shawnee
(George Rogers Clark and His Men Doc. 65)

1786 - Bush's Settlement, KY
(1809 Deposition)

1787 - Fayette County, KY
(1787 Tax List)

1788? - Attended Martin's Mill, Lower Howard's Creek, KY
(1809 Deposition)

1792? - Spencer Creek, near Nicholas Anderson's
(1809 Deposition)

Sept 22 1795 Daniel & Violet Williams deeded Ambrose Coffee 20 acres of land on Spencer's Creek which was part of Edward Williams 400 acre preemption
(Clark County Deed Book #1 Page 485)

? - Slate Creek, Montgomery County, KY, near Myers Mill
(1809 Deposition)

1800 - Montgomery County, KY
(Kentucky Census Records via Ancestry.com)

1810 - Montgomery County, KY
(Kentucky Census Records via Ancestry.com)

1820 - Montgomery County, KY
(Kentucky Census Records via Ancestry.com)

1820 - Death, Slate Creek, Montgomery County, KY