Early Life
He was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia and was a grandson of Peter Coffee, Sr. (1716-November 1771) and Susannah Mathews (1701–1796). He is sometimes confused by researchers with his first cousin John Coffee, a general in the Tennessee militia.
John E. Coffee moved with his parents and family to a plantation near Powelton in Hancock County, Georgia, in 1800. Coffee later settled in Telfair County, Georgia in 1807, where he developed his own plantation.
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