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Eli Jay's [BO:Centenial History of West Branch:BO] lists Joseph's name as Joseph Coate, son of John and Esther Teague Coate, b. Nov 1, 1810. He also signs his name as Joseph T. Coate in a marriage record for a Hunnicut as a witness. His wife Agnes signs as a witness in 1842 as Agnes Coate. It is said by some sources that he was the son of Esther Coate before she married John Coate. Obviously, John Coate adopted him if he was not already John's son. (C-1546) In the 1880 census, Joseph lists both of his parents birthplace as South Carolina.

Joseph married Agnes BANGHAM on 20 Apr 1832 in Dover M.M., Clinton, OH, USA. Agnes (daughter of Benjamin BANGHAM and Lucy UNKNOWN) was born about 1818 in , , OH, USA; died after 1880 in Of Adam Twp., Clinton, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His birth date and the dates of all of his children's births are noted in the Center Monthly Meeting records in Hinshaw which was located in Clinton Co., Ohio.

This could be the John Coat who was disowned by the Quaker Church on 4/26/1800 in the Bush River Monthly Meeting for an unknown reason. (C-100) However, by Aug. 25, 1804, they are listed in Quaker records as removing to Miami MM, OH from Newberry MM. In the 1820 census he lives within 2 farms of his brother William and then James. He has 3 sons and 2 daughters under age 10. He and his wife are between the age of 26 and 45. He is listed as living near his brother James and William in the 1827 Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH tax lists. He is the John Coats living in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in the 1830 census within 2 doors of his older brother James on page 75. He and his wife Mary sold land to Samuel Teague in Miami Co., on Aug. 27, 1833 and to William Jay on June 28, 1834 in county deed records. He is listed in the Clinton Co. Center Monthly Meeting records on 12/17/1834 when he, his 2nd wife and all their children were received on certificate from Union Monthly Meeting in Miami Co., Ohio dated 11/12/1834. He also is stated as of Greene Co., Ohio when some of his children marry in the 1830s.

Info on his death date comes from Krell's Collection in Philadelphia where the place was listed as Miami Co., Ohio. This place seems unlikely unless we find evidence that he moved back to Miami Co., Ohio. It is entirely possible that he was simply buried there but died in Clinton or Green Co., Ohio instead. He signed his name to his daughters Rebecca's marriage in 1837, but didn't to his son, Hiram's marriage in 1838. He is likely the John Coates who was proposed to be the clerk, or keeper of the Minutes at the New Hope MM in Greene Co., Ohio. He apparently didn't accept this because his signature is never where the clerk's signature is in the minutes. His son, Hiram, however, did take that position. (C-1017, E)

John married Esther TEAGUE on 30 Aug 1809 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Esther (daughter of Samuel TEAGUE and Rebecca FURNAS) was born on 26 Feb 1790 in , , SC, USA; died on 1 Feb 1826 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Little is known of Marmaduke Coate's earliest life. His birth date has been stated to be 1733 or 1738 in various biographical descriptions of him. "Ancestors of American Presidents", by G.B. Roberts gives his birth date and place to be 6/13/1738 in Guilford Co., North Carolina. (C-409) A Roster of South Carolinian Pensions in the American Revolution gives his birth date as June 13, 1738. (C-614p) Rose Amelia Coate (b.1866) submitted the birth date of June 13, 1733 to Mrs. A.E.Krell in the early 1900's. (C-390p) The oldest record found was from Laura Douglas Coate, b. June 15, 1856. She states that her grandfather, Marmaduke was born June 13, 1738. (C-417) Another of unknown authority lists it as Sunday, 5 January 1738 in Newberry District, South Carolina. This last date I believe is a mix-up with the date several of Marmaduke and Ann Pole Coate's children and grandchildren died in a Indian raid. (C-202, 1430). A family tree sent to A.E. Krell by Charles Rufus Coate, b. 1877 lists his birth date as May 9, 1738 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Jun 13, 1738 date is more likely correct from the weight of the sources -- and from the fact as pointed out by Patti Sue McCrary that he would likely have been under age 21 when he is listed on a certificate of removal under his father's name in 1757. Hinshaw also lists him at age as upward of 84y when he died on 9/25/1822 in Union MM records. This probably means that he turned 84 in that year, again giving him a 1738 birth date.

The picture I had up of Marmaduke that is widely circulated from a book about West Milton, Ohio, could not be him for the following reasons. 1) The first experimental photos occurred in Europe about the time of his death in his 80's. 2) He obviously looks younger than the 80's in the picture. I, therefore, took the poor quality of the picture to consider that it was a sketch. However, this theory doesn't hold up for another reason. I just recently received email from a person versed in fashion, and the cloths he is wearing look like someone in the 1850's or 1860's when photography is around. The photo has obviously been mislabled starting with the history book on West Milton, Ohio. To my knowledge, there is no sketch of our Marmaduke in existance and certainly no photograph since they weren't in existence here in the U.S. even the year he died.

The parentage of Marmaduke Coate has also been in controversy for much of the last century. Note that of the half dozen records I found from early 20th century family members listing their lineage, all but two said that Marmaduke Coate was the son of William and Rebecca Sharp Coate. (C-152,390e) This is the same family tradition passed down to my father from my great Aunt Mamie and Aunt Grace, and my great grandmother, Ida Jane Harb. WE NOW KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT THIS IS INCORRECT. OUR MARMADUKE IS NOT THE SON or DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM AND REBECCA SHARP COATE. The fact that William and Rebecca's sons Marmaduke and William died without children is verified in a deed dispute over land that son Barzilla inherited. This indenture (located by Gary W. Coats and Pat Moran) dated May 3, 1783 states that William and Rebecca's son's Marmaduke, William, and Israel successively died without issue," leaving son Barzilla in control of the land. His sisters and their husbands made claim to their fair share of their father's land in this document. Only son, Barzilla survived and he did not have a son named Marmaduke. Once and for all, we finally know that our Marmaduke could not be the son or grandson of William and Rebecca as is listed in so much second hand family history.

The great news is that we now know with certainty via Y-DNA that Marmaduke descends through the following lineage as the son and grandsons of the following ancestors: Henry (b.1700), Samuel (b. 1670), John(b. 1640), and Henry (b. abt 1595. Samuel on back were born in Somerset, England. Though we don't yet have 2 independent YDNA testers that descend through the eldest Henry's other siblings to prove his father through YDNA, we do have the will of Marmaduke Coate b. abt or bef. 1552 of Curry Rivel, Somerset, England who named his son Henry in it. This is a solid and proven line because of YDNA and the will.

In the old days, we had to discern his parents from patterns. Marmaduke came from Newberry, SC before he moved to Ohio. There is only evidence of one Marmaduke of his generation in Newberry, South Carolina. Only Henry is verified as having a son Marmaduke in the records. Marmaduke is specifically listed in the Kingwood Monthly Meeting Quaker records when his father, Henry obtains a certificate of removal to the New Garden M.M. on July 14, 1757 for himself and sons, John, James and Marmaduke. (C-319-340, C-476) Henry and his sons live within a few miles of each other in the New Garden M.M., the Fredericksburg M.M. and the Bush River M.M. in Newberry, South Carolina. Quaker naming patterns also verify that Marmaduke's parents were Henry and Esther. David Hackett Fischer in "Albion's Seed" includes a section on them in which he states that Quakers named their first born after the children's grandparents, ex: The first born son was named after the mother's father, the first born daughter was named after the father's mother, the second son was named after the father's father, the 2nd born daughter was named after the mother's mother. This fits Marmaduke and Mary's parents for the first three children as the son of Henry and Esther Willson Coate. (C-1969)

In conclusion, the evidence that supports that Marmaduke is the son of Henry and Esther is as follows: 1) Marmaduke had a daughter named Esther and a son was named Henry, named in traditional Quaker order after Marmaduke's parents. 2) Henry had a son named Marmaduke as verified in Quaker records. 3) There is only one Marmaduke of this age in any census records 4) There is no overlap in any time-lined event (from deed, church, court, census or bible records) to indicate that there is more than one Marmaduke of that age group in South Carolina, 5) Henry, Marmaduke, James and John all bought land in what was Berkeley Co., SC and lived within miles of each other and 6) great YDNA evidence at FTDNA.

Here's what is known about Marmaduke's life: Family tradition says that when he was a youth, his friend's family was captured by Indians. Several were rescued, but not their daughter, Mary Jane Coppock. When of age, Marmaduke traveled through various Indian tribes until he found her. He bought her back for a horse, bridle and saddle and married her. In 1763 or 4/29/1769, Marmaduke left New Garden Monthly Meeting without a letter of transfer and was dismissed from membership for such. Marmaduke Coate had a plat drawn for 200 acres of land from John Thorpe in Berkley Co. (now Newberry), SC on Dec. 1, 1767 on the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers on Bush Creek called Reedy Branch. This was granted to him on Feb. 6, 1771/Apr. 10, 1771 depending upon which index is checked and the meaning of the dates. It appears to have been sold as a plat to an unknown person on July 6, 1826 well after his death. (C-95, 692, 2083*). Reedy Branch flows into Big Beaverdam Creek about a mile north of the Town of Newberry. (Note: This Big Beaverdam Creek is different than the Beaver Dam Creek that Big John Coate lived on.) His adjoining neighbors were Clement Davis, Elijah Teague, and Thad Pearson. This property is near and possibly on the land where the current Newberry airport is. My best guess by comparing his plat map and maps of the region is that it's southwest of the current day airport on property that includes the forks of Bush River, Big Beaverdam Creek and Reedy Creek (Branch). This is land that is filed with current day Greenville Co. but was the 96th district back in his day. Son Samuel also owned land in this same area. (C-2112, 2113, E)

"Quaker Families of South Carolina and Georgia", states that Marmaduke moved to South Carolina in 1769. Marmaduke made condemnation in 1770 to the Fredericksburg MM, South Carolina. He was accepted back into the Quaker church by the Newberry Monthly Meeting at which time they gave his wife, Mary a transfer also. In this same year on Oct. 16, 1770, a Thomas Pearson purchased land on "Roudy" Branch of Bush Creek in the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers, Berkley Co. that was bordered by land owned by Marmaduke Coate and Elijah Teague. Both Pearsons and Teagues married into the Coate family verifying that this is our Marmaduke. (C-1412) "During the Revolutionary War, ... (the Marmaduke who lived in South Carolina), many times gave food to the soldiers and fed and kept overnight as many as 80 men and horses. For this he was paid by the government which entitled his descendents to become members of National Societies of Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution and if his specific grave can be located, to be marked with the official marker." A c.1995/6 book on Revolutionary War Veterans of South Carolina, and in that volume it says he was in the militia. It gives his birth date as c. June 13, 1738 and his wife as Mary Jane Coppock. It sources Audited Account #1316, y1039 in Columbia records. I have Audited Account 1316 and it lists many bills of payment to Marmaduke for forage for horses and soldiers in 1781, 1782 and 1787. It does not however, list his birth date or his wife's name, so I suspect I did not receive the entire document. (C-793, 1413, 2003)

He is in the 1779 census for the 96th District of South Carolina. Marmaduke was listed in the Petit Jury Records for June, 1786 and Feb. 1793 in Newberry Co., South Carolina. He is listed as an early businessman in the area in Summer's "Newberry Co., SC" book. There is only one Marmaduke Coate living in the Ninety-Sixth District, Newberry Co, South Carolina in the 1790 census. It lists 5 males over age 16, 4 males under age 16 and 3 females. This fits Marmaduke's children and he and his wife except for 1 extra male over age 16. Possibly they have another male living with them to help with the work load or it's a miscount. (C-219, 559) In the 1800 South Carolina census there is one Marmaduke Cote living in Newberry that fits our Marmaduke perfectly. His household consisted of 1 male between 10-16, 2 between 16 and 26 and 1 male over age 45. One female age 10-16 was listed and one over 45. (This second female is missed in some readings of the census I have seen.) He is in the Bush River Monthly Meeting Minutes multiple times. He and several others were appointed to go check out a new Monthly Meeting that was requesting full status in the 1770's. In a 1780 meeting, he and Robert Evans (his brother-in-law) were appointed to write up a certificate of transfer for John Wilson who needed to return to Pennsylvania to work on his "outward" affairs. (E)

Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land which was surveyed and platted on Apr. 14, 1788 located in the 96th District on Bush River adjoining Clement Davis's land. Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land from Simon and Lucynda Reeder of Randolph Co. in Newberry on Aug. 28, 1798. (C-893) He is the Marmaduke that purchased land from Joseph Caldwell on Sept. 6, 1798 as son Moses and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth witnessed it. (C-1062, 1077) He purchased 160 acres from George Abernathy on July 26, 1802 also in Newberry. Witnesses to the deed of sale were Samuel Miles and William Miles. (The only other Marmaduke in Newberry at the time was is nephew, aged 13.) Marmaduke and Mary sold 160 out of 200 acres of their land on the Broad and Saluda Rivers to (son) James Coate on Sept. 1, 1804. He is also probably the Marmaduke who sold land to William Hall on July 31, 1804 in Newberry.(E)

Marmaduke, wife Mary, sons John and Jesse removed from Bush River MM, SC to Miami MM, Warren Co., Ohio on a certificate dated Aug. 25, 1804. (C-100) The route they likely took (that most of the Newberry Quakers took) would have been "up the Broad River across western North Carolina through the Aleghany Mountains across Tennesse and Kentucky to Cincinnati" (where the land office was) to Waynesville in Warren County, Ohio where the Miami Meeting was formed in 1803. (C-1519i) Marmaduke's family actually settled two counties north of there in Miami Co., OH where he bought 160 acres of land on Nov. 5, 1804 in section 32, Range 5, Twp. 7, Southeast Quarter, Newton Twp. (C-24, 55) He paid $1.04 in tax on this property in the 1810 tax records. (C-61b) Marmaduke was listed at age 68 in Beers at the point of this move. He was the second white settler to build a home in Newton Twp.

When the first settler and first minister, Michael Williams and his large family heard the construction work, they discovered their whereabouts via his boat. They became instant friends. The first trail in the township was likely established between their two cabins. (C-10, C-1519g) Marmaduke appears to have finally gained rights to the land in section 32, township 7, range 5 in Miami Co, OH on Feb 1, 1809 from President Thomas Jefferson, with both Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State, James Madison signing the original deed. He was listed as of Darke Co., OH at the time. (C-2230) Fifty Two acres of land from this section apparently was inherited by all of his children and grandchildren of his deceased daughter, Esther, as they sold land from this location to Moses Kelley in 1826. Marmaduke was in the deed records for Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH in 1811 and the tax records for same in 1816. (C-1025)

Marmaduke died in 1822 in Miami Co., Ohio. His will is dated Oct. 2, 1817. It is included herein transcribed by Annie Natalelli Waloszek: "I Marmaduke Coate of the state of Ohio, Miami County, being at this time in good healthe and sound memory and in my perfect senses, have thought fit to make ordain and constitute this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say Firstly I hereby will and order all my just debts and funeral charges to be justly ponctually, and timely paid before any division or other distribution of my estate be made. Secondly I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary Coates all my Estate, both Real and personal, during her natural life-- Thirdly I give unto my five sonnes, namely Moses, Henry, Samuel, James & William Coate, and also to my daughter Sarah Hall, each one dollar. Fourthly, I give unto my sons (viz) Moses Henry, Samuel, James, William, John & Jesse, my crofs? Cross? in law, each to have an equal claim to the same. Fifthly I give I give and bequeath unto my son John Coate (from and after the decease of my above named wife Mary Coate) all that part of the plantation or tract of land whereon I now live, lying on the North side of line made to divide off Moses Kelly's part to him his heirs and assigns forever-- the Milking? Heiling? house late? excepted. Sixthly It is my wish and desire that as I and my above named wife are now far advanced in age and we know not the number of our days here, and as we expecte to reside on the above mentioned tract or Quarter section of lands and the Infirmity of old age may Require filial tenderness and care for our Comfortable living and support, that if such care be Requested and carfully extended to us, or either of us as the occasion may Require, by John and Jesse Coate above named, that all my movable estate after the decease of my said Wife be Equally Divided between them -- and lastly, I nominate and appoint my well beloved sons Samuel and James Coate, sole executors of this my last will and Testament, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will, hereby Revoking and Disannuling all former and other wills by me made or suffered to be made, in Witness whereof I hyave hereunto set my hand and seal this twentysecond day of the Tenth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seventeen -- signed sealed and acknowledged by the said Marmaduk Coate (his signature mark & seal) as his last will and Testament, in the presence of us who were present at the signing and sealing thereof.Samuel TeagueIsaac EmbraeeT. William Elleman" He is buried in Old Union Cemetery northeast of Ludlow Falls, which was a part of his farm that he donated for a cemetery." No marker currently stands for him.

In "Annals of Newberry" it states that all of his sons died (some at an advanced age) in good standing with the Quaker church. "They are an honor to Miami County". (C-18, 27, 95, 217: WEST MILTON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL, 1807-1957, pg. 7.) On 4/17/1826, his children and some of his grandchildren sold his land to Moses Kelly. His named descendants who had inherited his land and were selling it were: Moses and Elizabeth Coate, Henry and Rebeca Coate, Samuel and Margaret Coate, James and Susannah Coate, William and Elizabeth Coate, John Coate, Jesse and Polly Coate, Robert and Eunice Pemberton, Nehemiah and Elizabeth Thomas, Isaiah and Elizabeth Pemberton, Abner and Mary Barrett, Sarah Ann Hall and John and Drucella Pemberton. Every person listed not named Coate was a grandchild (with their spouse) of Marmaduke Coate through his deceased daughter, Esther. It contained 52 acres and was located at the southeast corner of section 32 in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. (C-Doc) Now lets also look at the second line of thought that Marmaduke is a child of William and Rachel Ann Budd Coate instead. This tradition was collected on paper beginning in 1915 for a court case which will be later described. It was Mrs. A.E. Pemberton Krell, of Whitestone, Long Island, who kept track of all the family lineages sent to her. She was "prevailed upon ... in 1915 to inlist in the research work for proper evidence to establish our rights" to the Coate/Coppock 99 year lease. The bulk of Mrs. Krell's collection is made up of her transcriptions of each family member's submitted three to five generation charts. No description of their sources were required or entered by Mrs. Krell. However, when I was reading other loose items in the file, Mrs. Krell mentioned some other sources she had viewed. Sources I found referred to were: Mary Pearson Greenlee's family tree (descendant of Big John Coate), marriages of Quaker records (C-388), Ohio County death records, Judge O'Neals "Annales of Newberry Co., SC", Congressional Library in D.C., her mother, Wills of William Coate, d. 1728 and William Coate, who died 1749, Bessies Sufferings, and John Whittings Persecutions Exposed. (C-416)

In her files was a handwritten history of the Coate Family. It had multiple lines that were scratched out and replaced with Amanda E. Pemberton Krell's writing. It is transcribed below VERBATIM. "Marmaduke Coate born 1733 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Died 1822, Son of William and Rachel. (Note this last phrase was written on top of the scratched out line: Was the son of William and Rebecca French Sharp Allen Coate.) Just when William Coate, Marmaduke's father went to South Carolina has not been able (to be) learn. Mary Coppock Coate was the wife of Marmaduke Coate and the Daughter of Moses and Martha Scarr Coppock who came from England. Mary Coppock was a captive of the Indians, Corn Planter Tribe of Pennsylvania for some 18 or 20 years. Marmaduke Coate bought her from them in the year of 1764 (or 1754?) for the price of a horse, saddle and bridle. I could not find this white child as a captive in the Indian Department at the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C. (Signed A.E.Krell)

Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coates children are as follows: Esther b. in S.C. 9/3/1766, d. 1802 in South Carolina. Moses Coate B. 9/5/1768, Henry b. 8/18/1770, Sarah b. 12/11/1774, Samuel b. 8/28/1772, William b. 1/2/1779, James b. 6/23/1777, John b. 7/19/1785, Jerre B. 1/3/1788 Marmaduke Coate was the second white settler in (?) Union Township, was born in Penn. 1733. He came here in his 68th year. He had 7 sons, two daughters. Moses, his second child and Samuel the 4th child came to Miami valley on a Prospecting tour in 1804 being well pleased with the appearance of things they determined to take permanent home here and were latter joined by the remaining members the fall of 1805. M. Coate died in 1822 the advanced age of 84 years. In his will dated Oct. 22, 1817 and probated Apr. 8, 1822 he lists wife Mary, sons Moses, Henry, Samuel, James, John Jesse, William, dau. Sarah Hall. (C-27)

His wife died some years later in Ohio. If her life could be written it would make a large interesting book. She had been capture by the indians at the age of 6 years. Thomas Coppock was the 4th white man to settle in Union Township, Miami Co., Ohio came from SC, 6 boys 3 girls. He also lived in (Warren) county Ohio a short time. The head of these families were all brother in laws, as far as families his went they formed a large settlement. Samuel Teague the older located on Section 28, Benjamin (Pearson) on South Section 33, William Furnas took the north quarter section 33, Jacob (Embrell) was a native of Tennessee. He was the second husband of Ann Coppock (Hawartt) widow of James (Hawartt) and the father of Pheba Coate the wife of Benjamin Coate. And in 1917, 4 other children of Marmaduke & Mary Coppock Coate were located in the South namely: Stephen Marmaduke, Sus(annah), Emily Estela, (Petter) J. Coate." *( *This added 1917 information was basically from Mrs. Mary Pearson Greenlee, an Aunt by marriage to Mrs. Pemberton Krell. In that info she lists three extra children for them, namely: Steven Marmaduke, b. 10 March 1757, m. 1) Polly McNut, 2) m. Martha Ann Mathews; Susannah, b. 1758?; and Emily Estell, b. 1762?. (C-151, C-208, C-210, 482) Stephan married/stayed in the southern states. His children are listed in C-210 and 482. This is the family tradition of descendants of Stephen Marmaduke Coate. I, personally, have found no record of any Steven in any southern state so far. There was a Stephen Coats who was a PA Revolutionary Soldier and a Stephen Coates who was between age 70 and 79 living in New York City, 7th Ward in the 1830 New York Census records, C-1423. Susanah, according to Mary Greenlee, married Richard Thompson in her later years & then moved into Montgomery Co., Ohio. She is possibly the Susan Thompson who lost her husband in 1816 and was living in Sycamore Twp., Hamilton Co., OH in 1820. If so she was over age 45, had a 2 daughters between 16 and 26, 1 son under age 10, and 1 between 10 and 16. She does not appear in the 1830 census. (C-1574)] Stephen, Estell and Susanah were not recorded in Ohio meetings." (C-387) There are multiple Coates now living that trace their line back through them to our Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coate. I have become convinced , however, that they are not the children of Marmaduke and Mary Coppock for the following reasons. One, Stephen's birth date would have been 3 months before Marmaduke is listed with his father, not with a wife, in his certificate of removal to New Garden MM, North Carolina. When he begins the purchasing process to obtain land in Berkeley Co. in 1767, he purchases 200 acres. This means that there were 3 persons in his household; he, his wife and one child. This would account for himself, his wife Mary, and his first daughter Esther born in 1766. In Marmaduke's bible records, will and in Quaker records only the children I've listed are referenced beginning with Esther Coate. In a April 17, 1826 deed in Miami Co., Ohio, all of the children of Marmaduke, their spouses and the grandchildren of Marmaduke's deceased daughter, Esther, sell land they inherited from Marmaduke - whether they lived in Miami Co., Ohio at the time or not. Not one of the EXTRA children listed above are included. Again, like the bible record and Quaker records only the following children were heirs of Marmaduke Coate: Moses, Henry, Sarah, James, William, John, Jesse and children of his daughter Esther, desc. namely: Robert, John, Isaiah, Mary and Elizabeth Pemberton and their spouses. Lastly, Quakers did not give their children middle names in that time period. He might have been named Stephen or Marmaduke, but not both. From my point of view, there is enough evidence to state that the Stephen Marmaduke, Susanne, Emily and Peter often connected to him are not his children.)...... Mrs. Krell's information is continued herein..... "Many of these records (could) I believe to be incorrect in dates of birth - marriages do not seem to date correct. But copies is found to be in records in homes of relatives (and) Friends Records and as take to be mistakes of different record keepers appointed. As many like my self uneducated which our great mistake if one has the advantage of an Education in Early Life. Can say for my self I was among the western indians until a girl of between 10-11 years and miles from any school. My father moved from the western country again into Iowa, Keokuk Iowa, (Lee) Co. and that was mostly settled at that time with half Breeds and collard People. I was some of an independent nature and wanted to learn something of the world in which we lived so got my schooling by out side. Experience has been my own teacher and (trainer), married young, (with) my husband had 3 children, was compelled to take up work in order to live and educate my children was my one great life then in life and thanks be to God I still have my 3 children. Mrs. A.E. Pemberton Townsend Krell." (C- 391)

Evidence supporting Mrs. Krell's lineage that Marmaduke was the son of William and Rachel instead is as follows: 1) Mrs. Krell and the "Old Coates Genealogy" that is highly inaccurate, lists a Marmaduke as the son of William and Rachel Ann Budd. 2) William Coate purchased land one week prior to Marmaduke's first purchase in 1767 in adjoining counties. They both had John Thorpe as a witness to their purchase. This evidence obviously is a weak case. I am personally convinced, that because there is only one Marmaduke that can be verified as living in SC in the 1770s -1790's, he has to be the Marmaduke who is the son of Henry as verified in Quaker records of that time period. The last interesting chapter of Marmaduke Coate's life occurred years after his death. "In 1914 between three and four hundred descendants of Marmaduke Coate (and Moses Coppock) met at the Friends Church in Ludlow Falls, to lay plans for a legal battle for a supposed vast estate in Pennsylvania to which they had been informed they were entitled. The land was valued between forty and two hundred million at the time. Family members, in sincerity, believed the claim to be true. (C-676) The claim was not proven in court, and one of the promoters was brought to trial by the U.S. Government. According to one researcher's grandparents, the land partly in Philadelphia was under a 99 year lease placed in a Quaker Church. The Quaker Church had burned with no trace of the original. (C-656) The land was supposedly originally negotiated for purchase in 1816 by Marmaduke Coate and Moses Coppock with their sons, Moses Coate and Benjamin Coppock with the Cherokees. When the deal was negotiated, they were joined by Daniel Boone and Henderson on the Watauga (River) to conclude the bargain. Over peace pipe, they paid in merchandise and purchase money for land in what is now Chester Co., PA (where Coatsville now stands), Philadelphia Co. (around Copperstown, Oil City and Cranberry, PA) and Venango Co, Pennsylvania (C-1519f) They supposedly received a deed for the property on buckskin from the Indians. Marmaduke and Moses had intended to start a Quaker settlement on this land. When this didn't work out, they then leased it out to several families, two of them being nephews of Daniel Boone. (Park, 1960, pp. 217-218, C-1519) This particular pattern was a part of early PA history. According to a Quaker web site, "Although William Penn was granted all the land in Pennsylvania by the King, he and his heirs chose not to grant or settle any part of it without first buying the claims of Indians who lived there. In this manner, all of Pennsylvania except the northwestern third was purchased by 1768." Knowing this, the Coate land claim, would only have been true if the Coates and Coppocks purchased it from the Indians previous to 1768. They then could have leased it out in 1816. Still possible, but this is obviously a new stretch to the story. (C-1042) There is also another version of this story that says the Coates and Coppocks received this land for their service in the Revolutionary War. The only service we definitely know of, is Marmaduke Coate's supplying provisions in the war.

This land lease was eventually thought to be a hoax. One reason was because Moses and Martha Coppock, signers of the lease, were known to be deceased by 1816. However, there is a Moses William Coppock married to a Martha Lester, that were a generation younger than Moses and Martha Coppock - parent's of Marmaduke Coate's wife, that were still living as far as is known. So this "proof" that the lease was fictitious from this point of view is not solid. In the early 1900's, some persons gave as much as $500.00 for which they received nothing" to prove the validity of this lease in court. (C-210) It seems that many Coate and Coppock families had partial copies of this lease in their possession even back in the 1800's. According to Corinne H. Diller via Mary Helen Pemberton, some heirs visited their land holdings in 1849 and were amazed at the developments on their property. From 1850-1870 many of these Quaker relatives destroyed their copies because they were afraid of the corruption that greed would bring into their lives. Others apparently hid their copies in safe places. In 1908, Mrs. Amanda Krell revisited her birth place, Ludlow Falls, Ohio for the first time in 50 years. She visited and talked with her mother's sisters and apparently learned about the lease from them. By 1914 she had organized the heirs to claim their land. Each family was required that they prove their descent from the signers of the lease, Marmaduke Coate and or Moses Coppock, and CONTRIBUTE MONEY to get a share of the profits for the land which they supposedly owned. They formed the Coate-Coppock Organization of Legal Heirs (Coate Coppock Estate Corportation) and hired a Lawyer by January of 1920. The first attorney's I have evidence of them hiring were Abbott & Monell in Washington D.C. In a letter to interested parties on Mar 15, 1922, Abbott & Monell recommended that the heirs for a trust company that would finance the Coate-Coppock National Bank in Miami Co., Ohio. I'm personally not certain if this Bank was ever actually formed. In a 1924 letter from the attorney's, Glenn B. Coate of Philadelphia was apparently working closely with them to collect funds from the heirs. By Mar. of 1922, an off-branch called the Indianapolis Organization was also formed, William A. Coppock, President. The organization published a newsletter entitled "Independent Coate-Coppock News". (C-2397, 2398) Before the court case was decided, the Coate-Coppock organization switched to two different lawyers. Newly hired Attorney Colonel Abbot produced a map in 1920 that placed the land in Philadelphia at it's heart, near Broad and Market Streets. The description of the original land was so nebulous, that it was very difficult to pinpoint most of it on current maps of the day. (C-701)


In 1927, an unnamed newspaper clipping states that the Coate-Coppock Corporation (headed by Amanda Pemberton Krell? or E.C. Abbot and H.S. Allonell, lawyers for the Original Coate-Coppock Corporation until 1922) and the Coate-Coppock Estate Corporation (headed by Glen D. Coate) were brought up on fraud charges by the U.S. Post Office. (The way the transcription states it, I can't tell who headed the main corporation charged with fraud). Since they were collecting money through the mail to help with their legal expenses, the Post Office charged them with obtaining money via the mail by false pretenses. This charge seems to have been the main defeat of their claims. That and the fact that the original deed and lease had never been found, took the dreams of many.

The following document is from Steven Taylor. It was a transcription of an old handwritten copy in possession of his grandmother. "State of Pennsylvania, Chester County, Philadelphia County and Venango County. To all whom it may concern: We, Marmaduke Coate and Mary Coppock, his wife, Moses Coate and wife Elizabeth, also Moses Coppock and Martha Coppock his wife, and son James Coppock do hereby agree to enter into a 99 year lease contract for and between Marmaduke and Moses Coate and Moses W. Coppock and James Coate and Martha Coppock, wife of Moses Coppock to Wm. Penn Fannazy and Rachel his wife, Caleb Mendanhall and wife Alice and Wm. Tomlinson and Rebecca Teague, Elizah Furnace, Joseph Mendanhall, the last two men are nephews of Daniel Boone, they are the original owners of the 99 year lease.

We leased this land for the price of one ($1.00) dollars per acre, 1889 acres in Chester Co., PA, 2056 acres in Venango Co., PA and 796 acres in Philadelphia. This contract was entered into by us and them in the year of our Lord, 1816, July 22nd, and all improvements from time to time to remain therein by said holders and at our death to descend to our heirs wherever found, the heirs of Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coate, and of Moses and Elizabeth Coppock Coate, Moses Coppock and Martha his wife and James his son and Benj. Coppock. Be it also understood that the holders of the 99 year lease have the privilege of a release for another 99 years at the expiration of the lease if so desired by them and in agreement to our heirs at law. We do hereby bind ourselves and relatives. Administrators to warrant, prove and defend us in all these rights at the end of lease and deliver same into the hands of all or any of our heirs living at that time. We, this 23 day of July, 1816, appear before one James Wade Haworth, one of the Justice to keep the peace in and for the County of said Chester, personally came Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary, Moses Coate and wife Elizabeth, Wm. Moses Coppock and his wife Martha, James son of Moses, Benj. son of Moses. The within grantors of the lease after examined agreeable to the act in such case made and received acknowledged act, the above intentions to be their voluntary act and purpose which therein consist the presence of those present we the 23rd day of July, 1816, we set our hand and n__ thus to. (C-211, 2305) Marmaduke Coate Mary Coppock Coate Moses Coate Elizabeth Coppock Coate Moses Wm. Coppock Martha Coppock James, son of Moses Coppock Witnesses: Abiathar Davis, William Miles, John Furnace (C-543e and another record in my files)

There will possibly always be a mystery surrounding this document. In a 1914 letter which had no signature, a cousin Mary supposedly had sent the lease a few years earlier to the Newberry Library in Chicago where it apparently was not preserved and could not be located in 1914. There is also a tradition that the original was in a Quaker Meeting House in SC or Georgia. In any case, it was never found. These Coates and Coppocks had not lived in Pennsylvania for many, many years when they signed the lease in 1816. Then, a couple people who supposedly signed it were dead at the time. Even though all these facts make it seem fictitious, the fact that many heirs had copies of the lease in the 1800's and that some of them went to check on their land in 1849, does lead to the supposition that it could be based in truth. (C-701) The 2056 acres of land in Venago Co. PA are supposedly held in Franklin County Courthouse records. Many other land records for Coates are in the Chester Co., PA courthouse.

The land supposedly began at the cave of William Coate's property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sources which show some of the Coates land are: "Homes Map" of the Province of PA, by Sharf & Wescott, 1884, in Marple, Old Philadelphia titles available through the Ridgeway Library, Philadelphia, PA, and the Philadelphia Directory of 1835 by Robert De Silver, 110 Walnut St. One very interesting note comes from a couple dozen family letters between Coate members from 1917 to 1921 transcribed by John Ammel. Several patterns are evident in this one group of Coate descendants. These people ranging from age 21 to 65 did not know exactly how they were related to Marmaduke Coate. They first tried to get that information from their elders records, but the elders were suspicious of the court case and had hidden or destroyed their records. They then seemed to have gotten that information from Mrs. Krell so that their lineage was consistent with other Coate relatives. These people were hardworking, conservative families that honestly felt they had a rightful claim to the Coate/Coppock estate settlement. Mrs. Krell worked very hard and traveled the country to various Coate/Coppock meetings to make this case successful. She and other officers were probably the source of some of the information that family members contributed. Also note that when one of these family members received information of import, they copied it in a letter and sent it on to a cousin or Aunt. Lastly note that none of John Ammel's ancestors had a copy of the deed. (C-207, 795, 2305) Pat Moran also sent me copies of a 1924 newspaper that literally published our Coate lineage incorrectly as from William and Rebecca Sharp Coate's son Marmaduke as the leaseor and the immigrant who moved to South Carolina. (We know this is absolutely false from a lease between his brother Barzilla and all his sisters that their son Marmaduke died without having children.)

Glenn B. Coate had then taken over the Coate Coppock Estate venture as Amanda Krell had had a breakdown. Glenn was the write of much of the lenghthy newspaper article that included the incorrect family tree and often requested any descedant of the persons signing the lease to join the cause. An even larger scam was started in the late 1800's for the family of Baker making the claim that a Jacob Baker owned the land on which Philadelphia sat and had leased it out for 99 years. Any persons who could prove their lineage were due to a piece of the pie. Clearing houses were set up throughout the U.S., Canada and England, all as a part of this scam which wasn't proved as fraudulent until the 1930's. By then, the Bakers had contributed millions of dollars to get a piece of the pie. It looks like the Coates and Coppocks were taken in by an almost identical scam to me. (C-2114, 2602)

Marmaduke married Mary Jane COPPOCK about 1763 in , , NC. Mary (daughter of Moses COPPOCK and Martha LESTER) was born about 1743 in Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America; died on 10 Jul 1833 in Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 11 Jul 1833 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary's birth date is the first detail in question about her. By all accounts she was born between the years of 1743 and 1748, with 1744 being the most often given date. The accounts typically revolve around her supposed age at the time of her capture by Indians and none are based on first hand records at the time. Mary's name is usually stated as Mary Jane Coppock. Quakers did not typically give their children middle names in this time period, but the name Mary Jane was actually considered one name together at the time. Sarah Ann was another popular combination at the time predating middle names. Tradition states Mary Jane Coppock was captured by the Indians as a child and was supposedly rescued and purchased back by her childhood friend, and future husband, Marmaduke Coate in 1763 or 1764. The following are a sampling of the accounts about Mary's capture in the records. Each of them has errors and conflicts when it comes to ages and dates, but the general tradition is the same. Note that multiple accounts state that her mother was killed in the raid, but this has been proven to be untrue.

According to a history of Newton Twp., Mary was captured at age 7 and kept in captivity for about five years. Before she escaped she had become familiar with their language and customs which was an aid to other settlers during Indian hostilities. Her length of stay and age of capture vary in almost every source on the subject with the amount of her capture being anywhere from 5 to 10 years, with the 10 year period being a bit more common. One source says that she and her sister were captured by the Cherokee Indians with John Roos being the half breed chief of the tribe. Her sister, "Paleface Koppock", or Martha, ended up marrying John Roos. Mary herself was supposedly called Paleface Nowanee/Nooanee. (C-1519f, 2221)

One of the more detailed accounts passed down in the family was located by Annie Natalelli-Waloszek in 1969 as a typewritten copy of a letter at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St in Philadelphia. This sounds like it was one of the letters in the 1917-20's file claiming descendancy from Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coate to prove inheritance in the Coate Coppock land deal. "Yours received in due time but we saw in the Messenger that your father had gone. Was sorry, my father passed away over the 24th of February age 85, 2 mo, 14days. I have lived to see my Aunt (Handwritten: she lives here in Oregon) she is nearly three years older than father, she will be 89 the 9th of August. She is strong for her age, and has a good memory. She tells us things that father and mother used to tell us when we were little, about the Indians capturing James Coppock family and two sisters. There were two sisters they did not get. James he kept out of there reach and escaped to a white settlement. The sisters names were Mary and Martha. The Martha was the baby and only six weeks old and Mary was about six years old. She was sitting in the bed of a cradle rocking the baby, when the Indians came in and killed the mother and took the girls. They kept them and raised them, Now this was the Mary that married the Coate, his name was Marmaduke Coate. He bought this girl from the Indians when she was 22 years old, he traded them a fine horse and new bridle and saddle for her. Then they had to run for there lives. He was afraid they would kill him and take the girl again. It took five days to reach his home. He built fires at night to deceive them, then they would go 2 or 3 miles away and cover themselves with leaves and bushes to sleep until morning. But little Martha she married an Indian. The Mary and the Che (Cheyenne?) Coates came across her among a tribe of Indians and her sister knew her. They persuaded her to go home with them then, but she wouldn't stay. She went back to her Indian husband. Now this Mary was my great great Grandmother that married the Marmaduke Coate, they had eleven children. My grandfathers name was Moses Coate, Who also married a Coppock. The first Moses Coate had a brother by the name of John and This was my great great grandfather. He was born about 1715. My aunt tells me they all came from England and settled in S. Carolina. Then they all came to Ohio about 1806. The Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary lived to be old, she lived to be 93 years old and he lived to be 96. Now the Ancestors on, as they came down on my Grandmothers side, First John, 2nd Joseph, Calvin, James, Elizabeth Coppock. Now Elizabeth was My Great Great Grandmother. And now on the Coate side, first Marmaduke who married Mary Coppock sister of James Coppock. The Moses my great grandfather and the Moses my Father. I have papers, leases, of everything back to sixteenth century. Rachel"

For years now, Coates have hunted for the exact raid in which Mary and Martha were taken. Dr. David Ramsey as relayed by Percy Pemberton Brown in Park's 1960 version of "The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio" believed the following raid could apply to her. It was from Percy's notes taken from "The History of South Carolina." "This history was first published in 1809. It was the work of Dr. David Ramsay, a physician of Charleston, S.C. and a native of that city. ...In 1754 there was a massacre of Cuttery of Buffalo Creek, near where it enters Broad River, in the north-west corner of York County, S.C. The women of the party were away at the time, having gone to a squires with a young couple wishing to marry. The men were asleep or lounging about, and the children were playing when the savages struck. Sixteen were killed including all the men of the party, and 5 children were taken captive. Some were soon released, but one child recovered in October the following year, was supposed to have been of this party. The tense situation which the governor left to go to Charleston, exploded soon afterward, Indian hostages killed, and the soldiers of Ft. Prince George massacred. Civilians removed from the area... Governor Glen of South Carolina held a treaty with the Cherokees in October 1755, ostensibly to brighten the chain of friendship, but really to obtain a corner of their lands and a liberty to erect forts on the western frontier, as a barrier against the French on the southwest. Both were granted. This was the meeting at which a white child was turned over to the governor's party, who had been recovered by the Cherokees from French Indians."

I personally do not believe this 1754 raid is the one in which Mary Jane Coppock was taken for the following reasons. 1) Marmaduke was likely to be too young in 1754, especially if he was born in 1738 as is the current train of thought. 2) Marmaduke lived in New Jersey in 1755, far from the Carolinas at the time. 3) Marmaduke is also listed without wife when he moves with his father, Henry and brother's James and John from Hunterdon Co., NJ to the New Garden MM, in NC in 1757. 4) All verified children of Marmaduke and Mary Jane Coppock were not born until 1764 as per their bible and Quaker Records, meaning that if he rescued her in 1755, he didn't marry her for years later which again doesn't fit with tradition. 5) She would have only been a captive for a year, and that doesn't match any of the historical accounts on her capture. It is a fascinating story, but not likely to be the exact circumstances of our Mary Jane's Coppock's capture. Patti Sue McCrary has found another Indian raid which has a much better chance of being the raid in which Mary was captured. It also occurred in 1754, but in what was Granville Co., NC at the time. The Tuscaroras Tribe (in the Roanoke River in Bertie and Edgecombe consisting of 100 warriors and 2 women and children) and the Saponi Indians' (14 warriors strong of on the Western side of Granville Co.) rose up in that year, so that a militia was called together of all able bodied males in Granville Co. to protect their new settlements. One thousand, three hundred and seventeen men responded. The Indian uprising which the "History of Edgecombe County" states culminated in 17 persons being killed and ten to twelve captives being taken, was the culmination of Indian revolt in the area. This is the county where her father, Moses Coppock is on the muster rolls in 1754 and where he paid taxes in 1755.

An account of this uprising is supposedly covered in original Council Journals and House Journals for Granville Co., NC or Edgecombe Co., NC which was adjacent to Granville Co. at the time. A 1931 Duke University Masters thesis by Nannie M. Tilley that mentions this raid, sites these Council Journals. It is available in the Richard A. Thorton library in Oxford, North Carolina. (C-2221, 2239) The fit on this account is excellent for the following reasons. 1) Mary would have been a captive for about a 10 year period as many traditions claim. (i.e. Quaker Records of the Miami Co., OH by Davis & Corinee Diller's Coate book.) 2) Her sister could have been amongst the 10 or so captives. 3) Marmaduke and Mary by a traditional account were said to have traveled fast and hard by foot for 5 nights, sleeping under leaves during the day. This would estimate the distance from the tribe to Marmaduke's home from between 50 and 150 miles. Most of the Tuscaroras Indians lived in Granville along the Neuse River near knap of Reeds Creek and in the northern part of the county between Grassy and Island Creeks. From 1753-1758 the Saponi (14 men and 14 women strong) lived slightly north of Henderson. The Saponi, by the way, had assimilated into the Tuscarora, Meherrin, and Machapunga tribes and moved north by 1802. At the time of Mary's capture, these tribes were approximately within 100 miles of where Marmaduke lived in NC in 1763/4. (C-2221, 2225: Swanton, John: The Indian Tribes of North America) 5) Marmaduke would have been of an appropriate age to rescue and marry Mary in 1763/4, about 25. 6) It is where Mary's possible father, Moses Coppock, was on the muster rolls in 1754 as every bodied male was in the militia at that time who lived in that territory. To actually prove the fit is accurate, we might be able to find significant evidence in newspapers of the time or in the colonial records for NC in Granville and Edgcombe Counties.

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Samuel saw his father murdered by the Tories during the Revolutionary War and then ravage the house. He had to bury his father in his own shirt, afterwhich he enlisted in the war serving till it's end. He married at Newberry and then moved to Miami Co., Ohio according to "The Annals of Newberry". He became a Quaker (at marriage???) and was one in the strictest sense of the word. (C-296)

Samuel married Rebecca FURNAS in Mar 1783. Rebecca was born on 19 Apr 1764 in Bush River, Newberry, SC; died on 27 Jun 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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I believe it's this Rebecca Teague (or her daughter) who was named as an overseer of the Union Monthly Meeting in Miami Co., Ohio when it was set off from the West Branch Monthly Meeting on Jan. 2, 1813.

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Henry received 200 acres of his father's land on the hill along Yoark Road in his will written on Nov. 22, 1723. He and Esther Willson declared their first intention to marry on Mar 6, 1731 in the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, NJ. He was supposedly from Buckingham, PA at the time. We now have autosomal DNA matches verifying that I descend from Henry and his wife, Esther Willson. I specifically have found cousins through both Esther Willson's father's and mother's side verifying this line. Isn't DNA wonderful in this field?

A Henry Coat bought 260 acres in 1733 from Robert Willson (brother-in-law). A Henry purchased land in the southwest corner of Readings line in 1735, Hunterdon Co., NJ, north of the Assanpink River (originally the township of Hopewell) from William Biles. A Henry also bought land from Thomas Canby in 1735 which he sold in 1741 to Derrick Hoagland. (C-1,46, 2110) Our Henry was listed as of Amwell Twp. in 1738 when he voted for John Emley and Benjamin Smith in the voting records for Hunterdon Co., NJ. A Jno. Coate was a candidate, but obviously Henry did not vote for him. (C-1824) He is likely the Henry listed as a freeholder who owned at least 50 acres or a house and three acres or more, living in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ in 1741. (C-294)

In 1757 our Henry moved to New Garden MM, Rowan and Guilford Counties, North Carolina from Kingwood MM, NJ. His certificate of removal from Kingswood to New Garden MM, NC is dated 14th, 7mo 1757 and lists himself and sons Marmaduke, James and John. (C-46b) He might be on the list of Taxable Persons in Rowan Co., NC in 1759 along with James and William Coats. That Henry is listed with 2 Poles over age 16 (likely referrring to his 2 youngest sons that were living with.) However, there is an unrelated (by YDNA) set of Coats in Rowan at the time named William, James and Henry who are there by 1755 in the tax records, who moved to Pasqutank Co., NC by 1769 that would account for them instead. Our Henry should not be confused with a Henry purchasing land in this same time period in Virginia who bought 200 acres between 1756-1761. (C-1037, 1498) There were many complaints at New Garden MM against Henry & his sons, James & Marmaduke & sometime before 1764, James & Marmaduke left (without asking for a certificate of removal for which they were disowned). Henry was actually dismissed from New Garden on 7/25/1761. Sons Marmaduke and James were not dismissed until 4/29/1769.(C-1497)

Henry then moved to Newberry, South Carolina. Our Henry purchased 200 acres on July 29, 1765 from John Brooks on Scotch Creek in Berkely Co., SC, a year before William purchased land on Scotts/Scotch Creek just south of the town of Newberry, Berkeley (District)?, S.C. supporting the theory he and William were brothers. Henry's witness when he purchased land included William (brother) and James (son or nephew) Coate. (C-891, 912) This land adjoined Benjamin Pearson of Bush River, Ninety Six District, SC as stated in Benjamin's will on Dec. 10, 1784. He was referred to as the late Henry Coates in this will. Near neighbors were also the late Hugh Creightons and John Brooks. The purchase of 200 acres indicates that there were 3 persons in his household at the time.(C-1699, 1700)

There were several other land transactions, any or all of which could be his purchases. A Henry Coats obtained 150 acres on Dec. 6 1768 and May 16, 1769 in what was then Berkley (now Newberry?), South Carolina. His neighbors were Richard Griffin, Jno Caldwell, John Delany and James Cook. A Henry had land on Mudlick Creek, Craven Co. in 1770 when Ann Hagen purchased land adjoining it. Their neighbors were Richard North , William O'neal, and Anthony Griffin. (C-1411, 1835) (C-1404) Lastly, a Henry obtained 100 acres on May 18, 1773 in Berkley on the waters of the Saludy bounded by vacant land. His son Marmaduke owned land in Berkley. His son "Little John" owned land within 2 miles of brother, Marmaduke. His son, James, could be involved in the following purchases. A James bought 150 acres on Dec. 3, 1771 and 250 acres on May 4, 1772 in Berkley.

Henry's estate is probated in 96 District, South Carolina, June 11, 1784. It was administered by John Coate, Benjamin Pearson, George Powell, and bound to John Thomas Jr. for 2000 pounds in the 96th District. Henry Coate was of Bush River in this record. His inventory was made on Aug. 10, 1784 by Samuel Kelly, Hugh Creighton, and Benjamin Pearson. He had a very small estate inventory and sale. Buyers were Joseph Campbel, one cow and calf, 1 old loom, 1 horse, and 1 trunk; John Man, 1 mare; Henry Coate, 1 mare; John Coate, 1 razor hone?, 1 tract of 200 acrs of land. John Coate, Benjamin Pearson and George Powell put up two thousand pounds sterling to ensure that the estate of Henry Coate, deceased would be distributed properly on June 11, 1784. It is housed at the Abbeville Courthouse, in Abbeville, South Carolina. (Box 21- pack 48 and 487). The original land he purchased from John Brooks in 1765 was in the hands of his son John Coate of Newberry.

John sold it in parts, in 1799 to Henry Coate of Newberry (his son), in 1800 to Frederick Nance, and in 1802 to John McMorris. John was listed as deceased before 1803.

Henry married Esther WILLSON on 3 Jun 1731 in Burlington County, New Jersey, USA. Esther (daughter of Samuel I WILLSON and Hester (Esther) OVERTON) was born on 8 Aug 1711 in Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ; died after 1763 in Of Burlington Co., NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her death date is usually listed as 5/6/1736. The information on her death date probably came from the book "The Willson Family, 1672-1959" by Richard Eugene Willson according to Ron Peterson. (C-2110)

However, it has not been able to be verified and could just as easily apply to her mother, Esther instead. The reasons why it likely applies to her mother instead are the following. Her son, Marmaduke was most likely born in 1738 as he would still have been under the age of 21 when he was listed with his father on their move from NJ to NC in 1757. It appears that her husband could have left community because of an uncomfortable situation for all. He never remarried which is extremely unusual for the times. Members of the Newbold family believe that Michael Newbold, b. 1706 in Burlington Co., NJ was married secondly to Henry Coates' wife, Esther Wilson. According to Newbold descendants, the Henry Coate she was married to in the Hunterdon Co., New Jersey area died sometime around 1755. However, my Henry Coate moved to North Carolina with his sons in 1757 (in Quaker Records) around the time that Michael and Esther were believed to be man and wife. Because no marriage record for Michael Newbold and Esther has been found even though Michael often witnessed Quaker marriages in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, I thought it possible that Esther and Michael had a common law marriage. She is called his wife Esther in Michael Newbold's will written by 1763.

We are in any case, descended from the Henry who moves south with sons to Guilford/Rowan Co., NC and Esther Willson. What is now known through DNA evidence is that I have 2 cousins descended from both of Elizabeth's parents. Esther's mother's side also has a match clear back to Major General Robert Overton (b. 1609) and Anne Gardiner with me. (23andMe.com, cousins: Charlotte Buelow and Bonnie Scudder) We likely have these matches clear back into the 1600's because we descend through both Esther and her brother, Gabriel Willson.

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There are some sources from the early 1900's that state that Moses and Martha came to America from England. (C-356, 1519f) This has been shown to simply be a misinterpretation of the truth, as the Coppocks had been in America from England originally since the 1680's. (C-710) It should be noted that all of the early 1900 records of many separate family members who submitted information to A.E.Krell, several of them state that they were descended from Moses and Martha Scarr Coppock. Martha Lester was the supposed widow of a Mr. Scarr before she married Moses. (C-683)

The marriage record for Moses Coppock and Martha Lester in NJ Colonial Records, doesn't support this, as she is simply listed as Martha Lester. Moses is listed as Moses in his father's will, but is listed as Moses William or William Moses in many family lineages of him. This is a confusion with a Moses William Coppock who was a likely nephew of this Moses (son of his brother, Bartholomew?). (C-1304d, 1348)

His birth is recorded at Chester Monthly Meeting, PA on 2d 5m 1708. He was willed 338 acres in Marlborough, Chester Co., PA in his grandfather, Bartholomew Sr.'s will in 1718 while still a youth. On Jan 26/27, 1729, he deeded 140 acres of this away to Francis Widlo of Marlborough when he had attained a majority in years. On Aug. 4, 1730, he sold 198 acres or the rest of the property he had been given by his grandfather, to Henry Camm, stocking weaver. Moses is listed as a yeoman of Marlborough in both of these deeds. A yeoman was the title for a farmer who owns his own land. I did not find him purchasing other land in Chester Co., PA in the abstracts through 1745. When he marries in 1740 in NJ, he is listed as "of Richalan, Bucks Co., PA". He is not however, listed in any land records for Bucks Co., Pennsylvania He was listed as a cordwainer by profession in Bucks Co., PA in the licenses in Trenton, NJ. (C-2137, 2221)

In the NC Colonial Records, a Moses was enlisted in the Cherokee (French and Indian) Wars in Andrew Hampton's Co., under Col. Wm. Eaton of Granville Co., N.C. This record was dated 10/8/1754. This war service might apply to this Moses who would have been aged about 46 or his nephew, Moses William who would have been about age 18 at the time. Whoever the Moses is that is listed in Granville Co. Muster Rolls in 1754, is listed in the tax records for Granville Co., NC in 1755 with 1 white person in his household. This probably meant 1 white male over the age of 16. Females and children in the household typically weren't counted in these tax records. The next tax record to be taken in Granville wasn't till 1769 and no Coppocks were listed there at that time. I personally believe that this tax record supports the fact that the Coppock in Granville Co., NC in 1754 and 1755 was our Moses because as a general rule, the age to own land and thus be taxed at the time was commonly age 21. In all probability this rules out the 18 or 19 year old Moses William Coppock. Moses was still living in Granville, NC in May of 1763 when he signed his named Moses Coppack to a petition to repeal an extra tax on Mulato's and free negroes. It was presented to the North Carolina Council at that time. Again, however, the deed records give no further clues as there are no Coppocks involved in buying or selling land in Granville Co., NC in this time frame.

The events that do place him in Granville from 1754 to 1763 disproves the statement in the "History of Coates and Coppock Families", that Moses settled in Newberry Co., SC in Feb. 1758 where his son James was born shortly thereafter. No proof has been found at this point that Moses ever lived in South Carolina. (C-1304c.2, 1519f, 2221, 2245)

There is contradictory information available about Moses's death. Many sources state that he was killed by Indians and this occurred in 1754 or 1760. His approximated death date is now sometime between May 1763 and Dec. 1767 when his wife only is listed as she petitions the Newberry, SC council for 300 acres of land on Bush River. (Note that it is the same day that son-in-law Marmaduke petitions for land). She is also listed as a widow when she actually finalizes the land deal of 300 acres in 1771 in what is then called Berkeley Co, South Carolina. Since her husband would have been the purchaser of the land in 1767 if he had been living, it can be assumed that he was dead by the Dec. 1767 date. According to letters from Mary Helen Pemberton in 1982, he was killed by Indians near White Lick Meeting house. White Lick reported to the Bush River Monthly Meeting so this still needs verified. (C-253b, 2221, 2289, 2245, 2289, E)

Moses married Martha LESTER on 22 Sep 1740 in , , NJ, USA. Martha (daughter of Peter LESTER, daughter of Peter LESTER and Joyce UNKNOWN) was born before 1721 in , Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA; died about Feb 1797 in , Newberry, SC, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Martha's surname is usually published as Lester but she was also stated to be a Scarr in some sources suggesting that she had a previous husband. The New Jersey Colonial Records dispell both. When she marries Moses in 1740, she is simply listed as Martha Lester with no indication of being a widow or having the name Scarr. Her husband's name is simply Moses Coppock and her father is listed as Peter Lester, yeoman. They were both listed as of Richland Twp., Bucks Co., PA in the NJ colonial marriage records found in the New Jersey Archives, Marriage Licenses, Set 2, Reel 8, p. 57 1/2 (C-683, 2220, 2298) From the above record we know that Martha is the daughter of Peter, but which Peter, Sr. or Jr.? They both lived in Richland Twp., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Martha's parents are invariably listed in second hand sources as Peter and Mary Lester with her birth date being given as 1704 or 1719 respectively. Let's attack this problem from Martha's age.

The only thing we know for certain on her age at this point, is that she was born before 1721, because she would have been at least 18 when she and Mary Lester were witnesses signing consecutively at a Quaker marriage of Wm & Martha (Foulke) Edwards in 8mo 24, 1738. (C-2222) If she had been born in 1704 she would have been four years older than her husband. She also would have been only 12 in 1716 when her parents changed their monthly meeting location to Gwynedd and would have been included as moving with her parents and sister Elizabeth in her families monthly meeting transfer. She was not included. If she was born in 1719, she would have been 33 years older than Peter Lester's wife's first child, making it an extremely unusual stretch of time for one mother to be having children. She basically would have been born after her siblings had all grown and moved away. (C-613)

It should also be noted that she is not listed as the child of Peter and Mary Lester in "Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks" or in the Griffith Genealogy in Wales and North America. (C-247, 1875) Lastly, in 1740 when Martha marries, her father is listed as a Yeoman (farmer). It is much more likely that her father the farmer was Peter Lester Jr. who was in his 40's than the Peter Lester, Sr. who was about 80 years old.

Taking her age, her father's location and profession into account as well as the other points above, we can now feel much more comfortable that her father was Peter Lester (Jr.) who was the son of the original Peter and Mary Duncalf Lester.

Martha and her husband lived in Granville Co., NC from 1754 through at least May of 1763 when Moses signed a petition and was on tax lists and militia rolls for that county. By Dec. of 1767, Moses likely died (in an Indian raid?) when Martha and son-in-law, Marmaduke Coate had moved to Newberry Co., South Carolina. Both were listed on Tuesday, the (1st) of Dec, 1767) with "The following Petitions for Warrants of Survey to prolong Warrants and Certifying Platts were presented and Read."

She was listed as Martha Coppock (her husband wasn't mentioned) requesting 300 acres on Bush River. Her likely son-in-law, Marmaduke requested 200 acres on the waters of Bush River at the same time. The number of acres petitioned reflected the number of persons in one's household. Martha would account for 100 or her acres and then 4 other persons would account for the rest requested at 50 acres per head. She had 2 married daughters at this point in time that probably got their own land suggesting that her other 4 children still lived at home. This last statement is theory. (C-2289)

On 12/30/1771 she witnessed her daughter Martha's Quaker wedding ceremony in the Bush River Meeting, NC. Martha is listed in some sources as having been killed by Indians, but this is a confusion with her husband. A William Mendenhall sometime in the mid 1900's passed down his family's tradition about her this way, " Martha (Lester) Coppock ..."had to go to a Wedding with in the city, leaving at home, Mary, her brother and her husband, who were killed along with 15 others of the city with one exception Mary ......." then along came Marmaduke to provide ransom, marry her indian fashion, then return her to her home.)" (E)

Though the William Mendenhall's tradition has yet to be verified, Martha's will does let us know that she was not the person killed by Indians. Martha's will written Nov. 13, 1794, was probated on Feb. 28, 1797 in Book B, p. 82-83. Important points included that she lived in Newberry in common health. She gave each of her daughters 2 pounds: Rebekah Evans, Mary Coats, Phebe Pugh and Martha Tomlinson. To son James, she gave the 300 acres she was currently living on and her personal estate. Her executors were son, James Coppock, and son-in-law, Marmaduke Coate. (C-683) The original will is apparently missing from the Probate records, but a will book copy is still available. Witnesses were Mercer Babb, Wright Coates, Rhoda Babb and Jas. Weeks. (C-2082)

Notes:

"Elijah was captain of a company of what might be called Regulators, who before and at the begining of the Revolution were employed to hold in check the outlaws that abounded in that part of North Carolina."

Elijah married Alice MORGAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]