Biography

Chloe is mentioned in 18341217WHS_FMS.  Chloe was a manumitted slave from SSS's household. This makes sense because in this letter WHS says "your letter came just after I had left Orange County when I might have
made the arrangement you desire concerning Chloes little girl. I can yet do it perhaps if you still remain
of opinion that it is best, but it will be at great inconvenience. The river is closed now as far as Catskill 
and the steamboat ascends no farther than Redhook. It will not be possible for me to leave ^Albany^ before
sometime in January and then the river will be closed as low as New Burgh so that she will have
to go up by land in the stage from Goshen. I cannot very conveniently go from Albany to Goshen to take
her and the prejudice against colored people is so great that we can hardly hope to find any person
willing to take charge of her as a passenger. Under these circumstances I do not readily see how we will
be able to get her to Auburn before the spring opens when an arrangement can more easily be made to 
have her safely brought and delivered to us.
We believe that FMS wanted Chloe's daughter, Mary Coe, to come and live with them. 
According to Town of Warwick Slave Birth and Manumission records, Mary Coe was born in 1819 and would have been 15 at this point.
Chloe married William Coe, and together they also had a son, William Jr (11 24 1827-1841) a son named John (???) Elizabeth (1833-?)  Sara Coe (1836-?) and Susan Coe (1841-?)  Anther girl, Fanny, born in 1851, is sometimes listed as a daughter, sometimes as a granddaughter. She is living with Chloe and William in 1855, (which is also the year Mary died, bringing up the possibility she was Mary's daughter and came to live with them after Mary died, though that is not yet substantiated.) 
Chloe is mentioned repeatedly throughout the letters of Frances and Henry Seward, and Frances writes Henry in a letter on April 22 1832 about Chloe telling her stories of Henry's goodness and generosity growing up, "I was entertained very agreeably by Chloe who knows more than half of the white people in the world. She talked all the time about you having sufficient discernment to discover what pleased her auditor. “Well” said she “Harry ought to be here to night he knows so much more than any of the rest of them” “Well I can say one thing of Harry we loved together so many years and he never said a crass word to me” She then recounted various expedients of yours to obtain spending money and “after all” said she “he would give it away to the first poor man he met, there is many a negro man in Goshen who remembers Harry yet. did he never tell you about his giving such a  person (I cannot recall the names) so much one time”. No I replied he never
tells me any of the good things he has done but I will venture to say that you cannot tell me of any mischief he was ever engaged in that I have not heard before Yes said Chloe I remember the first time you was here he must go and tell you all about his runn[ing] [a]way. I did think it a shame. Well I know one thing I wish he was here tonight”. This was the invariable termination of all Chloes observations."