"Boy Coffee" appeared in a Connecticut 1732 probate record listing several people enslaved by the deceased, Captain John Sheldon (1658-1732) formerly of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Coffee his wife and child £130
Boy George 80
Boy Coffee 80
Boy Robbin 70
Girl Sue 60
John Sheldon was a Deerfield resident whose wife and child were killed in a raid on the town by French soldiers and their Native allies in February, 1704. Sheldon traveled to New France (Canada) multiple time to negotiate the release of his survivng children and other Deerfielders taken captive in the raid. He married Elizabeth Pratt of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1708, where he relocated permanently and died in 1733, aged 75.
On April 5, 1710, the estate of Henry Wolcott (1643-1709) of Windsor, Connecticut, "Dooe thare fore sell unto him the sd John Sheldin a negro lad Called Lundun of a bout foreteen years of age, by the best account wee Can come at, Which sd negrow rode behind sd John Sheldin towards Dearefeild on the last day of march in the yeare 1710-" (from the bill of sale) Sheldon of Deerfield, Massachusetts, paid 45 pounds for Lundun "in province bills." (George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (facsimile edition printed from the original in 1972; original edition printed by E.A. Hall for the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA, 1895-96), Vol. II pp. 891, 293-296.)
A probate inventory taken after his death reveals that Sheldon enslaved seven more people after he left Deerfield: Coffee and his wife and child, George, Coffee, Robbin, and Sue. In his will dated 1726, Sheldon specified "I give to my wife my negro boy named Coffe during her widowhood, then to return to my son John Sheldon or to my daughter Abigail Sheldon, to which their mother shall please to give it." (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District 1729-1750. Vol. III. n.p., 1906. (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 1729-1750, Vol. III. n.p. 1906; an online database may be accessed via ancestry.com.) Note: No enslaved people appear in the probate inventory of John's son, John Sheldon Jr. (1681-1713) in 1713. The John Sheldon referred to in John Sheldon Senior's will refers to his son by his second marriage, John Sheldon, Jr. (1718-1796.)