Major Nathaniel CODDINGTON, Esq.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Gov. William Coddington and Ann Brinley
• Occupation: Was Town Clerk of Newport.

Nathaniel married Susanna HUTCHINSON on 19 Apr 1677 in Newport, Rhode Island. Susanna (daughter of Capt. Edward HUTCHINSON and Katherine HAMBY) was born on 20 May 1649 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne CODDINGTON was born on 26 Dec 1677 in Newport, Rhode Island; died on 25 Oct 1732 in Braintree, Massachusetts.
2. Col. William CODDINGTON was born on 15 Jul 1680 in Newport, Rhode Island; died in 1755 in Newport, Rhode Island.

Notes:

Name:
Governor Coddington was born in 1601, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, whence he is known to have come, and sailed from Southampton on his first coming to America, arriving at Salem, in 1630; he died at Newport, January 4, 1678, aged 77 years; his first wife was Mary Mosely, daughter of Richard, of Ouseden, County Suffolk, England, who came with him on his first arrival.

He returned to England after the death of his first wife; he married a second, Mary, whose surname is unknown, about 1631; she died July 30, 1647.

He married, third, Anne Brinley, daughter of Thomas Brinley of Exon, England, Auditor General under Charles 1st, and 2d...

William married Anne BRINLEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
Daughter of Thomas Brinley of Exon, England, Auditor General under Charles 1st, and 2d, her brother, Francis Brinley, came to Newport in 1652, at the age of twenty years, probably influenced by that connexion, and married Hannah Carr; he became a prominent and wealthy citizen and large land owner, and was the ancestor the Brinleys of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; another of his sisters married Nathaniel Sylvester, of Shelter Island, and left a progeny extensive and well knowns.