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My Coffee ancestry intermarried a great amount into the Cleveland, Crittenden, Woodson and Graves families. In fact the Coffee, Graves and Cleveland families intermarried so much that is difficult to unscramble them. The outlaw Jesse Woodson James is a descendant of the Woodson family.

Gen. John Coffee of Tennnessee was my g.g.g.g grandfather David Coffee's cousin. Gen. Coffee married Mary Donelson, the niece of Pres. Andrew Jackson's wife. Gen. Coffee's mother was Elizabeth Graves, the g.g.g.grandaughter of Capt. Thomas Graves, who settled in the Eastern Shore Settlement of the Jamestown Colony in 1620. Capt. Graves was the progenitor of the Graves family in America. His descendants also include movie actors James (Graves) Arness and Peter Graves.

My g.g.g.g.grandfather Sgt. William Coffee (1740-1799) fought in the American Revolution. He was in Capt. Samuel Jordan Cabell's 7th Rifle Company, Lt.Col.James Hendricks' 6th Virginia Regiment of Foot, Congressional Forces, Continental Line. The last major engagement Sgt. Coffee participated in was at the battle of at Saratoga NY against British Gen. Burgoyne. In that battle, Capt.Cabell's 7th Rifle Company was detached from Lt.Col.Hendrick's regiment and placed in Col. Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment.

On Dec.6, 1776, Sgt. William Coffee fought at the battle of Trenton; on January 3, 1877, battle of Princeton; and on October 17, 1777, the battle of Saratoga,NY in which he may have been slightly wounded. Sgt.Coffee was discharged on Sept. 14, 1778 after recovering from a minor wound.

Men who were placed in a rifle company were sharpshooters who carried Pennsylvania/Virginia "rifles" rather than smooth-bore "muskets." Muskets that the skirmishers carried did not have bayonet lugs and were thus were not intended for close quarter action. Typically, the men who carried muskets were skirmishers who formed a skirmish line and retreated into wooded areas as the British forces advanced. Then sharpshooters armed with rifles who were hidden in the woods cut down the pursuing British troops. That tactic also was used by Col.Daniel Morgan at the battle of Cowpens NC, and defeated British Col. Banestre Tarleton's cavalry.

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