John CODDINGTON ^242,243,401

  General Notes:

John served as a private for a period under Captain Van Tuyl during the Revolutionary War. He was at the Battle of Springfield. He met General Washington when he was a teenager, when Washington's troops took the cow of his widowed and blind mother. ¹⁶⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a Farmer in Mount Horeb, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA.

• Military: Private and Matross [gunner's asst.] Capt. Daniel Neil's Company of Artillery, New Jersey State Troops, 10 Mar 1776-1 Mar 1777, , Middlesex Co., New Jersey, USA. ⁴⁰⁴

• Military: Private under Capts. Sebring, Van Tuyler, Ten Ecyk, Moffet, McCoy, Taylor, and Col. Farlinghauser, , , New Jersey, USA. ¹⁶⁹

• Military: Certificate 582 for £1:18:04, Continental pay, 8 Jun 1784, , Middlesex Co., New Jersey, USA. ⁴⁰⁵

• He was contained in a pension record on 1 Jun 1840 in , Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA. ⁴⁰³ Revolutionary War soldier, 78 years of age.

• He has conflicting burial information of Mount Horeb Cmty, Mount Horeb, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA. ⁴⁰⁶

John married Mary COON Est 1807.²⁴² (Mary COON was born about 1787 in Mount Horeb, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA, died on 5 Apr 1861 in Mount Horeb, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA ^242,406 and was buried in Mount Horeb M.E. Church, Mount Horeb, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA.)

John next married.