Hello Thurley > Nelson COE, b 20 Feb 1808, Middlefield, Middlesex CT LDS files has him as son of Eli COE and Lois COE. http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=33599195 click on pedigree and it will take you back several generations. He m. Phebe Crowell Tracy