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| 2801 | Marmaduke Coate was in the relatives list of the Quaker marriage of Enoch Pearson and Ann Evans. That is because he was an Uncle by marriage to Mary Coppock who was the sister to Rebecca Coppock Evans, Ann's mother. Rebecca Evans attes well as friends, Esther Coate, Isaac Cook, Charity Cook, and Susanna Hollingsworth. | PEARSON, Enoch (I8502)
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| 2802 | Marmaduke first proposed his intention to marry Anne Pole in his MM in Somerset Co., Eng on the 28th day 11 month of 1697/8. His 2nd proposal as Quaker custom dictated was announced at his monthly meeting on the 24th day, 12th month. He was listed as Marmaduke Coate of Hambridge, Parish of Curry Rivel at the time. The meeting cleared his way to proceed with the marriage in Ann Pole's monthly meeting at that time. Note that he would have married Anne in his 40's if he was born in 1652 as his eulogy states. I personally believe that his eulogy had date errors in it as sometimes was the case in Quaker eulogies. They simply took the thought to be age of a person when the records could not be checked and estimated their birth year. Also, records clear up to 1689 list his father, Marmaduke as the Marmaduke "of Hambridge". Record keepers in these small towns knew that there was only one head male of a family named Marmaduke Coate at the time "of Hambridge" and listed him as such to discern him from other younger Marmaduke's in the area. The births of his children from Marmaduke to Hannah are recorded in Somerset Quarterly Meeting records as being from the Kingsbury Episcopi Monthly Meeting in the Middle Division of Somerset Quarterly. Marmaduke Coate came to America in the spring of 1713 with his wife, Ann, and children: Mary, William, Edith, and possibly Marmaduke, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years. In made inquiries of the Kingsbury Episcopi Monthly Meeting in England concerning this move starting on the 30th day 2 mo 1713. On July 27, 1714, he purchased land from John Garwood in Springfield Twp., Burlington Co., New Jersey. In 1720 he and his wife Ann witnessed the wedding of Jacob Garwood to Elloner O?, late servant of his brother Marmaduke Coate in Burlington Co., New Jersey. (C-2571) In 1723 the land he purchased from John Garwood became part of the newly formed New Hanover Township. He also came to own 500 acres near Philadelphia called "White Marsh". He purchased 300 more acres of land in Springfield Twp. which remained in that township after border changes. It was bequeathed to daughter Edith Newbold in his will and in reality turned out to be 400 acres of land. Marmaduke and his wife apparently traveled to England multiple times. They were received on certificates from South Sutton MM, Somerset Co., England on 3/25/1715 and on 4/2/1718. He again traveled to England on certificate dated 8/7/1723 and returned to New Jersey on certificate dated Nov. 3, 1725. He likely died in Burlington Co., NJ and was buried there on Dec. 15, 1729. Quaker records show him to be a well respected, rather wealthy member of the community. One Boston Transcript record dated May 28, 1923 states that he was the secretary to William Penn. It's validity is not certain, but a Coate, brother to a Hall in Hilliard, Oh supposedly has one of Marmaduke's book of notes from when he was a secretary to Penn. (C-351, 536) Note that their son, Marmaduke, was not mentioned in his father or mother's will. No record of him occurs in any Quaker records except for his birth in the Bristol and Somerset quarterly meeting. Because his parents, Marmaduke and Ann Pole Coate, had four more children who died in infancy whose deaths were recorded in the Bristol and Somerset records, it is likely that son Marmaduke did take the trip to America with his parents, but died enroute or shortly after their arrival in the colonies. A lengthy account of this Marmaduke is in Quaker records and was published in 1972 by Heiss. It is copied verbatum from Charlotte Coats Siercks site from http://www.rootsquest.com/~coatsfar/articles.html. Quaker Biographical Sketches of Ministers & Elders and other Concerned members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia 1682-1800 by Willard Heiss, 1972 page 111: Marmaduke Coate. Marmaduke Coate, the son of Marmaduke and Edith Coate, of Hambridge, in the county of Somerset, England, was born in the year 1652. (This was written after his death and could have an inaccurate birthdate.) Whilst yet young, his parents were convinced of the Truth as held by the people called Quakers, and he was evidently brought up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." His parents suffered much in support of the doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ, being fined and imprisoned. The suffering of his father, at least as respects bodily confinement, was unusual, even in that day. For tithes his imprisonments were long, and the spoiling of his goods not small, but through all he continued faithful, bearing an honest testimony by his walking in truth, and cheerfully suffering for it, and leaving a seed behind him, to bear similar sufferings in the same blessed cause. In the Fourth month, 1670, Thomas Whitehead and Jane his wife, being at Yeovil, held a meeting at the house of Henry Lavor, in that place. A magistrate named Helliar, with his officers and some soldiers, came where Friends were assembled, and although it appears that nothing had been said, yet he turned the Friends out of the house, and conducted them prisoners to a neighbouring inn. As they passed along the street, Thomas Whitehead exhorted those about them "to repent and fear God." His wife also made some similar remarks. For this they were each fined L20, and the money was collected off the Friends, who had assembled at the meeting. Marmaduke Coate, the elder, was there, and being a man of substance, his portion of the fine was L20. In the Eighth month, the same year, Marmaduke was sued for tithes, for which, as he could not conscientiously pay the demand, he was cast into prison at Ilchester, where he was found, in the Fourth month, 1678, by John Whiting, who was committed to that place. Henry Walrond, whom John Whiting "characterises" as the greatest persecutor in the county of Somerset, was particularly severe on Marmaduke Coate, because being a man of property, he could the more easily make unrighteous gain off of him than his poorer neighbours. During Marmaduke's long imprisonment for tithes, on one occasion having a little temporary liberty allowed him, perhaps by the jailer, to go and look after his affairs at home, Walrond committed him again, although already a prisoner in the eye of the law. Many were the distraints he made on the goods of this innocent prisoner, until on one occasion meeting with a check, he confessed to Marmaduke that nothing prospered with him, and promised that he would persecute no more. This fit of repentance was soon over, and afterwards he was even more bitter than before, particularly towards Marmaduke. He had been a man of property, with a fair estate, and a fine noble personal But when he put his hands to the work of enriching himself, by spoiling his honest neighbours, everything went against him, He became so poor at last, that no one would trust him for a sixpenny loaf, and he had to spin to make a pitiful subsistence before he died. Whiting quotes concerning him, an old saying, "Such a thrifty trade is persecution, that it leaves men never a friend in heaven or on earth". After stating that Walrond "died miserably poor, as well as miserable otherwise," he gives a saying of Walter Raleigh, - "These are the men that sought the misery of others, and misery found them out. In the year 1682, being still in prison, Marmaduke Coate, John Coate, probably an elder brother, and a number of others prepared the following address: - "To the Judges of Assize, in the County of Somerset. "The representation of the people of God, called Quakers, in humility, "Sheweth, "That we profess faith in one only God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we worship in his Spirit, according to the Holy Scriptures, and in the leadings of the same, are taught to love God above all, and our neighbours as ourselves, and to lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty; and do own Charles the Second to be chief magistrate of this kingdom, and other his dominions, as being eminently preserved and brought into the government thereof, by the immediate hand of God; and do still resolve to be subject to him, and those in authority under him for conscience' sake, as good Protestant subjects, truly desiring to answer the just end of government, which is for the subduing of sin and vice, and encouragement of righteousness and virtue. "Yet notwithstanding we have been, and many of us are still exposed to such perils and sufferings as must inevitably bring many peaceable and industrious families, who desire the good of the king and kingdom, to utter ruin and destruction, and that only for their pure conscience toward God, (before whom we must all appear, and give an account, and receive a reward according to the deeds done in the body,) and that by laws made against papists, or meetings to plot and contrive insurrections, under pretense of religious worship, and seditious conventicles, which principles and practices we utterly deny and detest, as our peaceable deportment under many great sufferings, by those formerly in power, and since also, may sufficiently manifest. Some few particulars of our late sufferings annexed, are presented to your consideration, for this end, that as Providence orders your coming this circuit to do justice, you may not be altogether unacquainted with our sufferings, but may use your authority to relieve the oppressed, and put a stop to the cruel proceedings of our oppressors; at least discountenance such unmerciful practices. That so ye may appear to be such as are a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well, which is truly acceptable to the Lord. Therein his peace and blessing will be with you, which is the earnest desire and prayer of the innocent suffering people aforesaid. John Coate, Joseph Lye, Marmaduke Coate, &c." Marmaduke Coate, the younger, the subject of this memoir, on the 11th of the Ninth month, 1684, was taken at a meeting at Gregory Stoke, by Walrond, and sent to Ilchester prison, where his father still was. On the twenty-sixth of the same month, Edith Coate, a daughter of Marmaduke, the elder, being with others at a meeting in Ilminster, to worship God in spirit and in truth, as they had for many years regularly done, Henry Walrond came with his troop, arrested a number of whom Edith was one, and the next day committed them to prison. At the Sessions, in the Eleventh month, eighty-three of the Friends, in the Somerset prison, were liberated by court, and in the following month, thirty-two more were released by the jailer. Among these last appears to have been Marmaduke Coate, the elder. He was, however, through the instrumentality of his persecutors, in again for tithes before the month had expired. Whilst a prisoner for tithes, he was indicted for absence from the parish place of worship, and fined for a breach of law, which he could not have prevented. In the Sessions held in the Fifth month, 1684, at Bridgewater, in Somerset, the prisoners again addressed the justices, who discharged several of those then recently committed. Again, in the Sixty month, they addressed the justices appointed to hold the assizes at Wells. Still Marmaduke was kept a prisoner. In this summer his beloved daughter Edith was taken sick and deceased. We know not whether the privilege was granted him to take a last farewell of her or not, but we know that he who pitieth those that fear him, is a God of comfort, and able to consider his faithful children under every trial that can come upon them. Walrond fined many of the neightours, who attended her burial. King Charles the Second dying, his brother James came to the throne, and being inclined to favor the Catholics, he was willing to favor all who, for dissent from the Church of England, were in prison. He put forth a proclamation for a general pardon on the 10th of the First month, 1686, and as the executive part thereof was committed to the justices, Friends in the Somerset prisons prepared a statement and address to be laid before the Quarter Sessions held at Wells, on the 30th of the same month. Their address ran thus: "To Chief Justice Herbert and Judge Wright, assigned to hold assized and gaol delivery, for the Western Circuit at Wells, for the county of Somerset, the thirtieth of the month called March, 1686. "Several of the people called Quakers, now prisoners in the gaol at Ivelchester, in the county of Somerset, on behalf of themselves and many others of the same people, in humility, show, "That since the Wise Disposer of all things, hath ordered your employment in this honourable service, to relieve the oppressed, and deliver the captives; and since king James II, that now is, hath committed part of his clemency to your custody, to distribute the same, according as the Lord hath inclined his heart; and having taken particular notice of our sufferings, and signified his will and pleasure, that we, the people commonly called Quakers, should receive the full benefit of his general pardon, with all possible ease; which grace and favor we, with all thankfulness, acknowledge to God as the Chief Author, who hath the hearts of king's at his disposal; and to the king, as being ready herein to mind that which the Lord inclined his heart unto, and not without hope, to find the like opportunity to render to you our hearty thanks, for the full accomplishment of that which our God allows, and the king so readily grants us; and also hearing the report of your nobility and moderation, in managing this weighty trust committed to you, we are emboldened thus to address ourselves, though in plainness of speech, yet in sincerity of heart, to lay before you, that we have for several years been prisoners in the goal aforesaid, not for any plotting against the king or government, or harm done to his subjects. Our peaceable lives have manifested our fidelity to the kings, and love to our neighbors; it being contrary to our principles to do otherwise, but only for conscience' sake, because in obedience to Christ Jesus, we dare not swear at all, or forbear to worship 'God, as he hath ordained, nor conform to those worships which we have no faith in; which, to omit the one, or practice the other, we should thereby sin, and so would our consciences, and break our peace with God; and what good then should our lives do us, if we might enjoy never so much of the world's favor and friendship. "Our humble request, therefore, to you is to consider and compassionate our suffering condition, and improve the power and authority that God and the king hath entrusted you withal, for our relief and liberty; we still resolving and hoping, through God's assistance for the future, to manifest our fear to God, honour to the king, and honesty to all his subjects, by our godly, humble and peaceable conversation. The particular causes of our imprisonments are herewith attested, under our keeper's hand. And we further pray, that mercenary informers and envious prosecutors against us only for conscience' sake, may, according to your wisdom and prudence, be discouraged from prosecuting such actions, by which many industrious and conscientious families and persons are in danger of being ruined; and we encouraged in our diligence, in our respective callings, and may enjoy the benefit of our industry; and so shall we be the better enabled to perform with cheerfulness the duties we owe to God, the king, and all men. The Lord guide you in judgment, and more and more incline your hearts to love mercy, and do justice, and grant you the reward thereof; which is truly our desire and prayer." The names of the prisoners, the cause, with the period of their confinement, are then given. Marmaduke Coate's imprisonment for tithes is notices as fifteen years and five months. The prisoners were released, but Marmaduke Coate did not long survive his liberation. In the year 1689, when the demand for tithes against his estate was made, his widow, Edith Coate, and his son Marmaduke were prosecuted, and committed to prison. The period of their confinement, we know not. About the beginning of 1700, Marmaduke Coate was married to Ann Pole, a daughter of Edward and Mary Pole, of Bustlehay, in Somersetshire. At what period they removed to America, I have not been able to discover, but they settled in Burlington county, New Jersey. They both became useful members of that meeting, and were both members of the meeting of ministers and elders. He was an elder, and she either stood in that capacity, or in that of a minister. Of their son, William, we shall have further to note. Marmaduke Coate, having lived honoured and respected, deceased the 15th day of the Twelfth month, 1729. (Pages 111-113) His will as provided for by Charlotte Coates Sierck's web site is as follows: Will of Marmaduke Coate (transcribed will) I, Marmaduke Coate of the Town and County of Burlington is the West Division of New Jersey-Yeoman-being at this time in pretty good health of body, and of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same and for all other his Mercies do make ordaine and put in writing this my last will and testament in manner and form as followeth and principally of all I give and recomend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buried at the descretion of my Executrix, held after the manner and as toughing. The disposition of al such worldly estate that it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life do give, devise and bequeath there of as followth my will is that all my just debts be truly paid and discharged. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto my son William Coate all that my farm and plantation land and appurtion there to belonging situated in the Township of now Hanover and County of Burlington aforesaid to hold to him my said son William and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for want of such heirs to be equally divided amongst his sisters vis - MARY RAPER, now wife of Caleb Raper; EDITH NEWBOLD, now wife of Thomas Newbold; and HANNAH COOPER, now wife of Isaac Cooper or to survivors of them and their children always provided. And it is my mind and will that my wife shall have a homestead in the said form and plantation during her natural life in these parts and particular as followeth-she shall have the comfort and priviling of part of my dwelling house for her to inhabit is the lower rooms of my dwelling house, the front rooms below and two back lean rooms and the sellar under the now rooms and the orchid part-that little ould orchid containing about acre of land and the garden part is that garden on the south side of the house other little aforesaid as water from the well to - will not be wanting from my son to help his own mother. And whereas-I have a peace of land in Great Britain containing about five or six acres with dwelling house, orchid and other appurtenances which was lately in the possession of one JAMES TILLY in Hamburg in the prish of Corivial in Summersetshire which said land housing and other appurses I give and bequeath unto my said wife ANN COATE and her heirs and assignes - giving and granting my said wife as free and to all intents and purposes whatsoever to give, grant, bargain or sell to any person or persons whatsoever as if I personally perform to do it myself. ITEM-I, give and bequeath unto my daughter MARY RAPER now wife of Caleb Raper-aforesaid the just and full sum of three hundred pounds of good currant money of New Jersey within valid months after my death. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto my daughter EDITH NEWBOLD, now wife of Thomas Newbold, all that my farm and plantation situated in the Township of Springfield and County of Burlington afore said now adjoining to John Sholy's plantation, said daughter and her heirs and assignes forever. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto my daughter HANNAH COOPER, now wife of Isaac Cooper all that my five hundred acres of land lying into be near to a place called White Marsh to bequest to her my said daughter and her heirs and assigns for each. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto each of my grandchildren vis - MICHALL NEWBOLD and ANN COOPER ten pounds to each of them to be paid by my executrix as soon as each of them shall attain the age twenty one years. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto my friend Abraham Harnington of Chesterfield the sum of five pounds currant money of New Jersey. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto my friend Peter Aaron the sum of five pounds currant money aforesaid. ITEM-I give and bequeath unto Friends of the Monthly Meeting of Burlington the sum of five pounds in order to be distributed among the most needy widows there unto belonging. All the rest and remaining of my estate both real and personal not here in willed and bequeathed, I give unto and bequeath unto aforesaid Dear and beloved wife Ann Coate whom I make, ordain and appoint my only sole executrix of this my last will and testament, making null and void all former and where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight. Marmaduke Coate Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said testator presence of us vis-Sam Seattergood, Samuel Cox, Thomas Seattergood Original Will of Marmaduke Coate - wife Ann Pole - November 2, 1728, Burlington County, Township Willinborough, New Jersey Superior Court of New Jersey Office of the Clerk - Trenton, New Jersey page 1653-1652 (C-336) An "Apostle Spoon" given to Marmaduke Coate by his godfather when he was baptized with his initials on it was still in existence in 1894 according to a letter by Mrs. W. R. Newbold to a Miss Mortoin. (C-536) His burial record states that he was age 48 when he passed in Curry Rivel Parish. | COATE, Marmaduke (I16215)
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| 2803 | Marmaduke is listed as such in his grandfather, William Coate's will: I doe give to my grandchild Marmaduke Coate sonne of my sonne Marmaduke Twenty Poundes of the said money and to be put to increase[?] for him after the age of Twelve yeatil the age of one and twenty yeares and his father to be overseer for him. He is therefore younger than age 12 at the writing of his grandfather's will and was born between 1647-1658. He cannot be the son of Marmaduke who is married to Joan Woodborne as their son Marmaduke wasn't born till 1663 as per baptismal records nor can he be the one married to Edith as their son Marmaduke was not born till 1674 as per baptismal records. Marmaduke could have been buried at any of these dates in Curry Rivel records: Jan. 30, 1664, July 30, 1700, Mar 8 1705, or April 20, 1705. Because he is not in his sister, Elizabeth's will, I believe he is the one whom died young and was not around to give her any goods which she passed along in her will dated 1713. | COATE, Marmaduke (I2050)
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| 2804 | Marmaduke is the correct name of Joan's husband as a Johanna Podger, wife of Marmduke Podger, was buried in Curry Rivel Parish on 3 MAY 1672. There first-born son was also named Marmaduke. To top off the cake and prove this relationshiral of their children are listed under both parents names in the Curry Rivel Parish records which are as follows for the Podger surname transcribed by David Beare at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~davidbeare/CurryRivel/crall01.html: MARRIAGE 14 JUN 1642 Elizabetha Podger Ricus Jenerton BAPTISM 12 DEC 1642 Laurencius Podger filius Marmaduci Joannae BURIAL 11 JAN 1642/3 BAPTISM 20 JUL * Marmaducus Podger filius Marmaduci Joannae? BURIAL 20 SEP 1654 Elizabeth Podger dau of Marmaduke MARRIAGE 19 OCT 1654 John Podger Elizabeth Coate BIRTH 17 FEB 1655/6 Elizabeth Podger dau of John BURIAL * AUG 1655 Elizabeth Podger dau of Henry MARRIAGE 21 JUL 1657 Samuell Podger Elizabeth Witherall BURIAL 6 JUN 1657 Marmaduke Podger BURIAL 19 AUG 1657 Adria? Podger BIRTH 20 SEP 1657 Lawrance Podger son of Samuell BURIAL 17 JUL 1658 Adine? Podger dau of Marmaduke BURIAL 18 FEB 1658/9 John Podger BURIAL 11 NOV 1662 John Podger BAPTISM 3 OCT 1664 Samuel Podger filius Samuel Catherine BURIAL 13 JUL 1665 Suzan Podger BAPTISM 26 SEP 1666 Dorothy Podger filia Samuell Chatherine BAPTISM 28 JUN 1667 Laurence Podger son of Lauce BAPTISM 12 JUL 1667 Susanna Podger filia Thom BAPTISM 8 JAN 1668/9 Rebecka Podger filia Laurence Rebecka BAPTISM 9 FEB 1668/9 Jane Podger filia Samuell Catherine BAPTISM 22 JUN 1669 Robertus Podger filius Thomae BAPTISM 8 JUL 1670 Sara Podger filia Laurencii BURIAL 26 JUL 1670 Thomas Podger MARRIAGE 4 FEB 1670/1 Robertus Podger Elizabetha Podger MARRIAGE 4 FEB 1670/1 Elizabetha Podger Robertus Podger BAPTISM 9 JAN 1671/2 Elizabeth Podger filia Laurence BAPTISM 22 JAN 1671/2 Jacobi Podger filius Samuel BURIAL 3 MAY 1672 Johanna Podger uxor Marmaduci BURIAL 8 MAY 1672 Catharine Podger uxor Samueluii BURIAL 9 MAR 1672/3 Elizabetha Podger filia Laurencii BAPTISM 21 JUL 1673 Robertus Podger filius Laurencis BAPTISM 17 FEB 1673/4 Johanna Podger filia Laurencii BAPTISM 28 DEC 1676 Elizabetha Podger filia Laurencii BURIAL 3 NOV 1677 Johannus Podger filius Marmaduci BAPTISM 26 APR 1678 1675 Elizabetha Podger filia Laurenciae BURIAL 17 NOV 1678 Robert Podger BURIAL 26 DEC 1678 Joana Podger uxor Laurencii BURIAL 3 AUG 1679 Robertus Podger filius Laurencii BAPTISM * AUG 1683 Elizabetha Podger filia Laurencii Susannae MARRIAGE 11 FEB 1683/4 Henry Podger Ann Baker BAPTISM 17 JUN 1688 John Podger son of Henry An BAPTISM 27 DEC 1688 An Podger dau of Lawrance Susana BAPTISM 22 JAN 1690/1 Robartt Podger son of Lawrance Susanah MARRIAGE 26 MAY 1692 Lawrance Podger Mary Nash BURIAL 24 JUL 1692 Henery Podger BAPTISM 16 MAR 1692/3 Robertt Podger son of Henery Ann BURIAL 1 OCT 1693 Robert Podger BURIAL 16 SEP 1694 Lawrence Podger son of Henry BURIAL 25 AUG 1695 Robert Podger son of Henry BAPTISM 26 SEP 1695 Thomas Podger son of Robert BAPTISM 3 MAR 1696/7 John Podger son of John BURIAL 19 MAR 1696/7 Marmaduke Podger BAPTISM 13 NOV 1698 Robertus Podger son of Lawrence BURIAL 20 NOV 1698 James? Podger BAPTISM 25 MAR 1700 James Podger son of John BAPTISM 1 JUL 1702 John Podger son of Lawrence Mary BAPTISM 3 APR 1703 Lawrence Podger son of John BURIAL 30 APR 1703 Lawrence Podger BURIAL 21 JUL 1703 Lawrence Podger MARRIAGE 28 DEC 1703 Elizabeth Podger John Pittard BAPTISM 19 JUL 1704 Robert Podger son of John Elizabeth BAPTISM 13 MAY 1706 Henry Podger son of John BURIAL 10 JUN 1706 He_y? Podger BAPTISM 29 OCT 1707 Edith Podger dau of John Edith BAPTISM 12 MAY 1708 Lawrence Podger son of Lawrence Mar_ BAPTISM 24 JUL 1709 Mary Podger dau of John Edith | PODGER, Marmaduke (I6182)
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| 2805 | Marmaduke lived in Newberry from 1812 to 1828. In 1814, he made 2 land purchases. The first is was on Jan. 29, 1814. "Hardy Fluker (Edgefield Dist) to Marmeduke Coate (Newberry Dist); for $90 sold 200 ac; border: Venable's Crossroads,urnet, Cart Road Br, George Rowlan, School House Br, and Leonard Cardin; part of 890 ac survey Jan. 21, 1793 for Leonard Cardin. Witness Henry Coate and Joel Bell. Signed Hardy Fluker. Wit. oath Jun. 17, 1815 (Newberry Dist) Joel Bell to Y. J. Harrington JQ. Rec. Jul. 2, 1819." (now a part of Spartanburg Co., SC) (Pruitt's book.) He purchased land from Henry and Mary Coate in Newberry Village on Oct. 1, 1814. (C-912) He married, Mary Coate, d. of James and Elizabeth Scott Coate abt. 1816 according to the Annals of Newberry. Collins lists them as cousins, but this is not known to be true if she is the daughter of James and Elizabeth Scott Coates as verified in James Coate's will dated 1817. He was an adjoining land owner in the followin Jan 20, 1819 deed. "William Eastland to Jonathan Davenport, both of Newberry County, for $2500, Quarter Lots Nos. 3 and 4 in Town of Newberry, adjoining Robert Boyce, Marmaduke Coate, Isaac Jones, and the Public Grounds.. /s/ William Eastland. Wit Stephen Shell, Jr., Barzilla Peterson. (Newberry County, SC, Deeds, M315)" By the year 1820, he and Mary had had two children, a boy and a girl. In that year he lived in Newberry Co., SC in the U.S. census records. He was listed at age 26 to 45 and Mary was listed at age 16-26. (C-1570) He was an administrator of a will for William Coate in 1823 in Newberry. This William's relationship to Marmaduke has not been ascertained but could be quite significant. William had two children of adult age, so he was probably married before 1800 and born before 1780. William's wife, Mary, was his executor. This is likely the William that lived right next to Marmaduke in the 1820 census in Newberry Co., South Carolina. He was older than Marmaduke, as he and his wife were above age 45 at the time, but his youngest children were between the ages of 10 and 16. (C-598b, 1570) Marmaduke was a surveyor. His detailed surveys of Newberry, Lexington, and Richland in 1820 are in Mill's Atlas. He was hired to survey the state of Alabama which is where he and his family moved to live about 1829. Nicknamed Duke, he was a very personable, humorous man. This led him to make friends with many an idle companion and drink too much. The Annals of Newberry state "No more honest and good-hearted man ever (was) an inhabitant of Newberry." (C-1074) In the 1850 census, he was listed at age 60 and Nancy was listed as age 68, b. South Carolina. He was living alone in the 1860 U.S. Census for Clarke Co, Alabama. He is missing from futher census records. (C-1438, ) His name is sometimes listed as Livingston Marmaduke Coate. (C-1618) According to Pope's histories, Marmaduke was a Dunker. The Dunker MM was somewhere between Bush River and the town of Newberry on Palmetto Creek. | COATE, Marmaduke (I13768)
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| 2806 | Marmaduke, apparently previous to his marriage, witnessed the marriage of Jacob Garwood, son of John Garwood, to Elloner Oustlon, late servant maid to himself in 1732 along with his brother William. He is listed of Springfield in the cof Burlington at the time. It should be noted that this 1732 date nullifies the possibility that he is the Marmaduke who was the husband of Ann Pole as that Marmaduke died in 1729. (C-2280) This Marmaduke had two children, John and Mary (C-1p.60,543f) He was the administrator for Samuel Coate's estate when he died in 1735 and is in the records from Jan. 31, 1735 through Feb. 7, 1738 as administrator. This Samuel is his likely brother, although another unaccounted for Samuel of Hunterdon Co., NJ is an administrator for their sister-in-law's Esther's will in 1742. Marmaduke is listed as Yeoman of Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ in his 1738 accounting. (C-1) His main residence in 1734 was in the bounds of the Chesterfield MM. His will listed him of Mansfield, Burlington, Co., (NJ) and also listed his Kingwood, Bethlehem Twp. Hunterdon Co. land as property up the mountains. (C-1p.60, 1076) He died before his second child was born. (C-1078) His will and estate inventory follows as provided on Charlotte Coats Sierck's "Coates Family Archives Site". Will of Marmaduke Coate In the Name of God Amen, this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty nine. I Marmaduke Coates of the Township of Mansfield in the County of Burlington the (either West York division or western division) of New Jersey. House Carpenter being at the time weak of body but thanks be to God I am of sound and perfect disposing mind and memory I do hereby and by those present make ordain and list in writing this my Last Will and Testiment in manner and form as follow. The first and principally of all I give and commend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to definitely buried at the discretion of my Ex. Hereafter named and in touching the disposing of my worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in manner and form as followth. I give and bequeath unto Sarah my well beloved wife all that tract of land purchased of John Gibbs in the twoneship of Mansfield whereon I now sell with all my personal estate thereon (?) also in like manner I give unto Sarah my wife all that tract of land up at the mountain lying in Kingswood in the township of Bethlehem all in the Western Division of New Jersey all which to be possessed and enjoyed by Sarah my wife until my children come to lawful age hereby to enable her to bring up my children. Item I give and bequeath unto my son John Coats (there are two different copies of this will one the actual copy and the other the clerks...John's name is spelled Coats in the will but as Coates in the clerks copy) all this land in the township of Mansfield when at age to be his part and portion all of that tract of land also that tract of up at the mountains aforementioned I give and bequeath unto my other child not now born to be possessed when at age if either child should die before at age or without issue Sarah my wife shall possess its part during her life and after her decease to return to my heirs and for the true performance of every part hereof I do hereby constitute make and ordain my brother John Coats and Sarah my wife to be my sole executors of this my Last Will and Testament utterly disallowing, revoking disallowing all and every other former testaments wills sequoias and executors by me in my will before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to being my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto sat my hand and seal the day and year above written. Marmaduke Coate (seal) ____________________________ Sealed & delivered in the presence of us John Buffin Ann Buffin Joseph Pope_____ John Buffin one of the witnesses to the within written will being duly affirmed according to saw and declares that he was present and saw Marmaduke Coate the testator within named sing and seal the same and heard him publish pronounce and declare the within instrument to be his last will and testament and that at the doing thereof the testator was of sound and perfect mind and memory as far as he knows and as he truly believes and that Anne Buffin and Joseph Pope the other subscribing witnesses were present and subscribed there name and witnesses those to in the presence of the testator. John Buffin affirmed at Burlington this 31st day of May 1749. John Buffin Before Scattergood, Surrogate.... Be it remembered that the Last Will and Testament of Marmaduke Coate as being duly proved as above said probate and Letters Testamentary were granted by this Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq. Governor of the Province of New Jersey unto Sarah Coate one of the Exe in the said will named spe being duly affirmed well and truly to perform the said will and exhibit a true and perfect inventory and render a just accounting when there unto lawfully required. Given under the Prerogative seal of the said province at Burlington this 31st day of May anno Dom. 1749. Sarah Coate Scattergood, Surrogate Estate of Marmaduke Coate Inventory on the Estate of Marmaduke Coate Burlington Co. 1750 Thomas Levetz and Michael Newbold the appraisers of the within inventory (?) according to law did declare that the good chattels and credits in the said inventory set down and in satisfied wore by therein appraised according to this just and (?) and value after they in their judgment and understanding of that they appraised all things that were brought to their view for appraisement. Before: Scattergood, Surrogate, 2th of December 1750 (could be January) Rebecca Coate the administratrix of the goods chattels rightes and credits of the within name dMarmaduke Coate deceased being duly affirmed and according to law did delcare that the within accointing contains (?) perfect (?) of all and sigular the goods chattels and credits of the said decased (the rest of the next two lines are blurred and bad copy) Affirmed at Burlington on the 5th December 1750 before me, Scattergood, Surrogate A true and perfect inventory of the (?). The goods chattels (?) and credits of Marmaduke Coate of the township Newhanover in the county of Burlington deceased taken and appraised by us the Luberlins (?) this 31 day of December Anno 1750 To purse and apparel................29# 19S To a horse, Sdel and bridel..............20# To a sliver (?) and a watch............................... 9# 10S To eleven horse Kine..........................111# To eight cattle............................. 16# To Forty seven sheep........................ 19# To swine................................... 3# 15S To hay Swon corn on the ground and corn in the creb.................. 22# 15S To Sears plows and harrs........................... To a apple mill (?) chess press and chvon.............. 2# 4S To livery tools and old iron.......................... 15S To (?) on account amounts to 26# 19S To (?) ............ 2# 5S ______________ 269# 8S 6P signed by Ths. Sarl and Michael Newbold in the year 1750 ________________________ | COATE, Marmaduke (I11907)
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| 2807 | Marpurg in Hesse was built by Marcomer IV. (C-1346) | KING OF FRANKS, Marcomer IV (I14078)
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| 2808 | Marshall was named after a Baptist minister. He and Hannah (his likely mother) were in Newberry Co., SC in 1823. They had moved to Cowetta Co., GA by 1840 in the census along with Elizabeth Coats and her son Wilson. (C-1921, 1949)e is a seond Marshall Coats in Coweta Co., GA who marries Sarah Endley Nov. 13, 1833. (C-1968) | COATS, Marshall (I7918)
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| 2809 | Martha is sometimes listed as the older and sometimes younger sister of Mary Coppock. Both were supposedly captured by Indians. One account that seems to be closest to Quaker records, says Mary was 6 and Martha was 6 months at the time.a is said to have stayed with the Indians and be the wife of half breed Chief John Roose of the Cherokees. An account from "I Have Called You Friends, the Story of Quakerism in NC" by Francis Charles Ancombe listed this account in Archdale, Randolph Co., NC: "Wm. Tomlinson and wife Martha Coppock came to this section while the Indians were still inhabiting the forests. As a girl she had been kidnapped by Indians, lived among them for a while, but was eventually rescued and restored to her family." This town was near Guilford Co., NC and the New Garden MM. Martha was probably rescued by 1767 when she likely accounts for one of the individuals living with her mother when Martha Sr. applied for 300 acres of land in Newberry/Berkeley Co., SC in 1767. This amount of acreage means that Martha had 5 persons including herself, living in her household. (C-2289) The only factual information we have on Martha is that she did marry in Quaker Records, William Tomlinson on Dec. 30, 1771. (C-701) Her birth date of 1755 is possibly incorrect. It was recorded in Springfield Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., NC Quaker records after she had died. It is included with a list of her husband and children's birth and death dates which means it was information relayed after the most recent death date which was daughter Martha who died in 1843. Her mother Martha's birth date of 1755 could easily be miscalculated. If the date of 1754 is correct for her capture, her birth date is likely to be previous to that. (C-1019) Her birth place is sometimes listed as Newberry, SC, but is more likely Granville Co., NC where a Moses Coppock is paying taxes in 1755. | COPPOCK, Martha (I12032)
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| 2810 | Martha Underwood attended the marriage of her brother, Nehemiah to Rachel Yarnal in 1773. She was still single at the time. (C-2418b) | UNDERWOOD, Martha (I14537)
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| 2811 | Martha was a Quaker Minister for 62 years. Her son John Mendenhall III followed in her footsteps and became a minister also. (C-624,759) | WRIGHT, Martha (I16011)
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| 2812 | Martha was born the 2d 11m 1716/17. | COPPOCK, Martha (I274)
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| 2813 | Martha was probably married to another gentleman before she married Benjamin Dykes as it appears she brought children to her marriage with Mr. Dykes. She and her husband moved to Mississippi about the same time as Elijah, Austin and Pollaed there. Her and Benjamin's eldest daughter was named Eleanor Jane (after Elijah's wife's name, Eleanor Hickman?). Eleanor Hickman was Martha's likely Aunt through marriage. | COATS, Martha Elizabeth (I10439)
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| 2814 | Martha was the sister of one of the masons that helped construct Samuel Willson's large manison in Bethlehem Twp. (C-1509b) | LAING, Martha (I15977)
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| 2815 | Martha's birth date was listed in either F-75, or 77 as 1618. In Savage's recent publication she is listed as born in 1622. In a medical entry by Gov. John Winthrop, physician, on 23 Mar 1666 she is listed at age 45 making her birth dated 1621 like in CD 100. CD-100 also gives a different birth place, Kings Waldon, ENG. However, it is now accepted by genealogists that her age of 45 was a general estimate. Her baptismal record has been found in Watton, ENG as the daughter of John and Martha Hale dated 1618. In this medical record it states that she was the sister of Samuel Hale of Wethersfield and Thomas Hale of Charlestown, Mass. She is likely the Martha Peck in the court records in Mar 7 1699/1700 bringing suit against Paul and Samuel Peck for refusing to make payments to her as willed by her husband. These are probably her son, Paul, and his son Samuel. (C-466c) This was settled out of court. However, If Sheryl Gustafson's death date for her of June 25, 1695 is accurate, than this court case does not apply to our Martha. (F-495) This family supposedly came from "Woten-on-the-Edge", Glouchester, England. This could be another name for "Walden" which is a part of the place names for Martha's possible preceeding generations. (F-418) It should be noted that there is still some controversy on her parentage as written in TAG Vol 38, p. 237 by S. Allyn Peck, "Have we Found the Parents of Thomas, Samuel, and Martha Hale of Connecticut?" (C-1345) | HALE, Martha (I15669)
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| 2816 | Martha's birth record needs located as an unnamed infant to Martha's parents died 3 months after her funeral card said she was born. To me, this suggests that Martha's birth year is incorrect. If her birthdate proves to be true, then thet child of John Stevens, who died in 1898 belonged to a different John Stevens in the area. | STEVENS, Martha Jane (I11934)
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| 2817 | 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 simplyd 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 an d 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) | LESTER, Martha (I11931)
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| 2818 | Martha's will abstract is provided by Charlotte Coats Sierks as follows:"PA Will Book W page 420, Will of Martha Coats of Northern Liberties of City of Philadelphia, widow - signed 1789, husband, William Coats, deceased; daughter Sarah wifeter S. Glentworth; Sister Mary Chinoth of VA; niece Martha Prichet, daughter of Joseph Pricket of Burlington County, NJ; legatee Hannah Jones, daughter of Mary Jones - (no relationship stated); Niece Hannah Chinoth of KY in Commonweath of VA; mother Martha Pricket in KY; friends George Ingles and Thomas Fitzgerald of Philly; witnesses Thomas Barnes jr, Samuel Garrigues" | PRICKET, Martha (I8740)
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| 2819 | Martin drowned on the return trip according to one account or died of a fever according to "Beside the Stillwater" on his return trip to NC after checking out Miami Co., Ohio with his brother-in-law, John Mast Jr. in 1798. (C-2172) | DAVENPORT, Martin (I15830)
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| 2820 | Martin McGowan appears to be Isabel's last husband. According to Norman Forte, my husband's grandfather, Isabel was married three times, the last time to a McGowan. Martin was listed as age 40. He and his wife's ages are younger than othcords would indicate. He was fairly well to do in the 1870 Pennsylvania census. His occupation is unreadable, but he owned $4000.00 worth of property and $600.00 worth of personal property. Only his parents were foreign born and he was a citizen of the U.S. According to McGowan bible records, both his parents were from Ireland. He was married to Isabel age 34. She and her two children by Mr. Rauch were listed along with her two children by him. They probably were married around 1865 as their daughter, Isabel McGowan, was age 4. That means that the mother, Isabel's second husband would have died between 1860 and 1865. Only Marie C. Rauch attended school within the year at age 13. Harry Rauch at age 16 was listed as an errand boy by trade. None were listed as not able to read or write. All were born in Philadelphia. (F-246) No census entries could be found for Isabel McGowan, Martin McGowan or Harry Rauch in the Pennsylvania 1880 census. Marie C. Rauch was in the 1880 census, then married, at age 23 to Henry L. Forte. She was listed as Minnie Forte with both she and her parents being born in Pennsylvania. They had two children, Wilmer, age 3 and Edith, age 1 in that census. (F-257) | MCGOWAN, Martin Ignatius V (I11895)
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| 2821 | Mary and Harriett are likely to be the 2 daughters of Sampson's listed in the 1820 census as under age 5. | COATES, Mary Poss (I5129)
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| 2822 | Mary and her husband appear to have lived in the part of Augusta Co., Virginia that became Wythe Co., Virginia. | CALHOUN, Mary (I10679)
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| 2823 | Mary and her husband did not come to the colonies until receiving a certificate of removal dated 15th day, 7th month, 1686. Mary probably died in the Goshen MM region, Chester Co., PA where she had moved with her second husband in 1727.6) | HOLLINGSWORTH, Mary (I12042)
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| 2824 | Mary and William were twins. She died on the day of their birth. (C-1519c) | COATE, Mary (I513)
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| 2825 | Mary Ann was no longer living with her parents in the 1850 census for Howard Co., IN. | COATS, Mary Ann (I5524)
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| 2826 | Mary apparently never married as she is still listed as a Babcock in the execution of her father's will on Jan. 16, 1889. Her residence was unknown. | BABCOCK, Mary Samantha (I460)
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| 2827 | Mary Chinoth of Virginia is listed as the sister to William Coats of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia. | COATS, Mary (I8732)
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| 2828 | Mary Cole received her siblings share of her father's estate, $534.58. She was married to William Reeder who also received a full share of her father's estate. She and her husband were the only couple that both received shares though. Ss likely born circa 1765 or earlier if her son, James Reeder's birth date of 1778 is correct. I've also seen his birth date on the same day in the year 1788 so I'm not sure which is correct. (C-2024, 2067, E) | COLE, Mary (I7858)
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| 2829 | Mary died before her daughter Mary's marriage on the 10 month 8 day 1720. The first name on the relatives section of the list appears to be an unaccounted for John Coate. The second name looks like Abraham Carlyell/Cowgill?. It's ey possible that Mary Watson married Abraham Carlyell or Cowgill after her first husband's death, and that is why he is listed 2nd as the closest relative -- being a step dad. Of course, this is conjecture on my part till further evidence is found. There is an Abraham Carliell in the Quaker records of the time, but no Abraham Cowgill. However, there is no recorded marriage for Mary in Hinshaw either. She is still listed by the name Mary Coate when she sells a lot of her husband's land in a 1713 Philadelphia deed record. Currently I do not know how this Abraham Carliell is related to daughter Mary or her spouse. | WATSON, Mary (I13676)
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| 2830 | Mary died in New Hampshire in an unknown year. | WALTON, Mary (I10020)
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| 2831 | Mary gave her daughters 5 pounds each in her will with the remainder going to her sons. (C-804) | GREENAWAY, Mary (I15771)
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| 2832 | Mary is highly likely to be a descendant of Henry Norris who died in 1601 of Yattenden Castle who gained the property and title of Lord Norreys of Rycott in the late 1550's or 1560's. He was the last member of the Norreys family that we know used this castle as one of his homes. Yattendon is 7 miles from where Mary Norris states she is from (Newbury, Berkshire, England) when in married in Leiden, Holland in 1611. She is NOT the daughter of Edward Norreys, Gov. of Ostend by his wife as they had no children. (Visitation of Berkshire, 1602 and Wikipedia) It's possible that she is the illigitimate daughter of Henry or his one of his sons. It's the most likely theory because this is the Norris family that lived close to her. Of Henry's sons, only William is known to have one son and capable of having children. We know from many amazing triangulations on chromosme 15, that she is related to John Norris of England, Mass. and Suffolk Co., NY who said he was 18 when he emigrated in 1638. John's ancestry through his grandfather can be accounted for by baptismal records on Freereg.org.uk. His grandfather is this John Norrice who does not have a father listed for him on his baptismal record. This John is not the son of the Robert in Thruleigh as Robert did not marry for another 11 years and was not old enough to father him. Because of the many DNA triangulations only accounted for via a Norris line and many cousins, this is the theory that makes the most sense. | NORRICE, John (I17779)
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| 2833 | Mary is listed as the daughter of Warwick and Rebekka in her birth and baptismal record. However, since Warwick and Rebekka did not marry until 1745 and Warwick was married to a Mary in 1741, I find it much more likely that Mary was thf Warwick and Mary instead. Since she wasn't baptized till after Warwicks second marriage, I conjecture that his second wife was listed in both records because of that. (C-1685) In "Colonial and Revolutionary Familes of PA," Mary is listed as one of the most gifted and beautiful women of her day. Her husband died when her daughter was 11. A few years later, when she knew she was dying of an incurable disease, she arranged for her only daughter's marriage at the young age of 15 to Benjamin Hutton. She died just two weeks after their marriage when she knew her daughter was safely cared for. (E) | COATES, Mary (I7934)
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| 2834 | Mary is listed between the ages of 16 and 26 in the 1820 census records. (C-1570) If this is true, the earliest she could have been born was 1793. Cordon gives her birth date as 1795. Their first child was born in 1820, so their marriuld easily be from 1816-1819. (C-1599) She died about the time of her last child's birth, Burrell Johnson Coate. He was born on Aug. 12, 1827. (E.O.Collins Bk.) Mary was a cousin of her husband. | COATE, Mary (I13759)
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| 2835 | Mary is mentioned in will of Ann Coate, widow of Marmaduke, of Burlington Co., NJ. in January of 1729/30. (C-253c) I currently have found 7 triangulations on chromosomes 5 and 22 with descendants of John Sanders m. to Mary Farley via Mary Farley's father, George proving that she descends through the early Massachusetts Sanders and Farley families. They averaged 4.71 cM's and a 27Q value of certainty between all of them when compared to my Uncle's DNA. This is above the average in cM and Q value size for this distance in time because I was able to compare these cousin's DNA with my Uncles. I also found 3 triangulations through the John Sanders married Mary Clarke of less strength in average cM match size and in average Q values that highly suggest that both of these 2 early Sanders/Saunders families are related to each other. | SAUNDERS, Mary * (I11744)
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| 2836 | Mary is not listed in her father's will. (F-533) | WESTON, Mary (I13538)
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| 2837 | Mary is singled out in her mother's will as her beloved daughter who was chosen one of her mother's three executors. She and her husband were among the 70 families that started the Opequon Settlement in 1735. They were granted 500 acres ang the Hollingsworths near what is now Winchester. (C-696) She was about a decade younger than her husband and he died young. Braddock's army under the command of Co. Dunbar stayed at Widow Ballinger's on May 3, 1755. (C-1991) | WRIGHT, Mary (I16091)
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| 2838 | Mary is the grandmother to President Hoover. Mendenhall says that this Mary was named Mary Coate and was the daughter of Joseph Coate and Lydia (Embrea) Davis). Joseph was the son of Moses and grandson of Marmaduke according to this samee. (C-1430) | DAVIS, Mary (I11828)
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| 2839 | Mary Kacmar or Kutchmire came to America with her family as a small child, settling in Backus, Pennsylvania. According to the 1930 census for Bradford, she came to America in 1896. She attended Backus schools. She and her husband,h Onuffer had a very large family of 19 children. They lived in Lewis Run (1919- ), Custer City and Bradford, Pennsylvania. (D-37, 57) Family members in July 3, 1992 included Mary's children still living in Bradford: Pauline Weeter, Magdalene Orzetti, Betty Shembeda, Irene Pedine, James, Paul and Charles Onuffer. (F-DOC) | KACMAR, Mary (I11793)
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| 2840 | Mary left a diary of her amazing life in the 1800's. It was preserved in the family with a transcription being sent to me by Nigel Forte of New Zealand in March of 1999. I have retyped it below in it's entirety. (F-605) Grahamstown.h Africa. April 25th 1888 My 44th birthday! It has long been impressed on my mind in looking back over my past life & seeing the wonderful way that God has led me to put on paper some of the leading incidents of at lest my married life & I cannot do better than commence today. As my time is so very much broken in upon by domestic duties I fear the jottings will be of a very disconnected character, but at any rate they shall be faithfully written. On 2nd June 1869 I said my first farewell to my native land - I sailed in the good old R.M.S. Seine from Southampton bound to St. Thomas W.I. Of the parting from my dear mother whom I left in Dover I say nothing, those only who have gone thro' it know just what it is for an only child to say farewell to a widowed mother. I have wondered since how I did it. I had been engaged to Dr. Forte for nearly two years & when circumstances caused him to leave England and return to Demerara in Dec. 1868 I promised to follow him after a few months. After a prosperous & pleasant voyage we arrived at St.Thomas & transhipped for Barbados arriving there on Sunday the 19th June. I was met by some gentleman friends of Dr. Forte & taken on shore to Mrs. Jones' house in Penfold St. She most kindly received me as did Dr. Forte's cousins and Mrs. Abel Jones - I remained with Mrs. Jones (Dr. Forte's aunt) who was like a mother to me & the following Friday Dr. Forte came by steamer from Demerara & the following Monday we were married at the Cathedral, Bridgetown by the Revd. Clarke - June 28th, 1869. The Sunday following we left by R.M.S. [Royal Mail Steamer] for Demerara & the steamer arriving a day before she was due the servants who were left in charge of the house were away & locked up the house, so Dr. Forte had to get in thro' a window & open a door for me to get in. Such a coming home! I did feel rather miserable. Everything seemed so strange. However I soon got used to the West Indian life & we settled down very quickly and remained in Georgetown until April 1870 - [later addition. probably 1911] Sir John and Lady Scott the governor and his wife shewed us much kindness - when we went over to the West Coast to Stewartville House as my husband had agreed to act for Dr. Stevenson for some months during his absence from the Colony. On 11th May our son Claude Henry was born. & for many weeks I was very ill. In October Dr. Stevenson returned to his practise [sic] & we removed again to Georgetown but I continued so ill that in November I went to England with baby in the R.M.S. Elbe - we had a rather rough passage but I gained strength & arrived safely at Southampton & by train thro' to Dover where my dear mother met me. We took apartments on the M...D...Road & our dear good friends Mr. & Mrs. D. Pouter were so kind to me. I greatly improved in health & on March 2nd 1871 again sailed for the W.I. arriving safely in Georgetown where my good husband met me. The day following we went by steamer down to Essequibo to the extreme end of the coast where Dr. Forte had arranged to act for Dr. Gofing during his absence. We remained there for 8 months & then removed once more with all our goods and chattels to a house on the Essequibo coast but nearer the steamer stalling (or wharf) - as we were uncertain what course to pursue as Dr. Goring had resumed his own practice & we did not want to return to Georgetown if we could help it as we both preferred the country & it was not often that a country practice changed hands - Providence however interposed and a small practice was offered to Dr. Forte in Mahaica. We packed up our traps, sent our furniture by schooner & after a little time were quite comfortably settled in a funny little house named Tranquility Hall & this I hoped it would prove to us but such was not the case - we were very badly treated & Dr. Forte was advised to go to law with those who acted so unjustly toward him but he preferred leaving his case in a higher hand that of any earthly judge & once again - just six months after our going to Mahaica we were on the move. Once again we returned to Georgetown & to the same house to which I went as a bride. We were both in very bad health & thought perhaps we should do better to return to England. So in July 1872 we sailed from Demerara in the Directline steamer Alpha. We went first to Barbados where we styed for a week with the Dr's Aunt Mrs. Jones & received much kindness from her & other friends. After a very unpleasant passage we reached London 26 days from Barbados. I was very ill on board & the stewardess used to console me by telling me she did not think I could possibly live to reach home!! After a short stay in London we took a furnished house at Sydenham & my dear mother came up to stay with us there. However there was to be no rest for the soles of our feet, for about 6 weeks later something went wrong with the drains & we were obliged to clear. We returned to London early in November & took apartments in Trinity Street S.E. and there a fortnight after our little girl Lizzie was born Nov. 13th 1872. Meanwhile Dr. Forte was using every means to obtain by purchase a small general practice 7 advertised & answered numerous advertisements but nothing suitable could be met with & on 2nd Feb.y 1873 he returned to Demerara & I went with our two little children down to Dover to remain there for a time with my mother. On 1st July 1873 the new immigration scheme came into force 7 Dr. Forte was appointed to the Maishany district value L600 per an. In August I left England again with my mother and two children & after a safe voyage reached Demerara where my husband met us. We went up to Mahaica the same afternoon by train where our carriage me us & we then drove about 2 miles to our new home. On arriving there it was quite dark & I found that it was mosquito season & we dare not light a lamp in the house. So after some trouble we managed to feel our way about & get into our bed rooms where we then ventured to light our candles and take a peep at our new surroundings, which appeared cheerless & comfortless enough, & proved equally so the next morning. Nothing but a cottage of two rooms with small gallery or verandah back & front at end of which were two other apologies for rooms. One of these dear mother had as her room & the other I used as a dressing room. However, we soon made the shanty a little comfortable & even attempted a garden & as there was no other house to be had in the district we made the best of it. But we were destined not to rest there long. In January the Dr. of the Mahaica district got very ill & obliged to go on long leave - Government being very short of officers requested my husband to take over the Mahaica district in addition to his own which joined it & we had to move to Hahaica. We took the Drs. house there & purchased property & for 15 months Dr. Forte did the double work. No one can form any just idea of what the work was. The length of the practice ....ed was 19 miles 6 [overlays a 7-or vice versa] hospitals to be visited 3 times a week & all extra calls [sic] attended & to crown all the charge of a large Leper asylum containing 400 patients. Three times a week the Dr. used to leave home before day break taking some food with him to visit one Hospital 17 miles away & frequently on his return I would have to send fresh horses to meet him at the Mahaica Village about 2 miles away to take him to attend some special call in an opposite direction. Seventeen Sundays in succession extra calls from the Hospitals took him away nearly all day. After some months of this he began to get much broken down & I had a long & very dangerous illness which of course added to his anxiety & worry. What we should have done at the time without dear mother I do not know. The beginning of Feb.ry 1875 Dr. Allison returned to the Mahaica district & we went back to Maishany, but not to the same shanty of mosquitoes, centipedes & tarantulas. Fellowship House above the Maishany creek was vacant & we took it moving up all our household furniture & effects & 4 horses or their remains for the work had nearly killed them as well as their master. A fortnight after or rather less our precious little Edith Margaret was born. When she was a month old & we were just beginning to feel settled in our new home which was a very pleasant place, a telegram came requesting Dr. Forte to go immediately down the East Coast to take charge of the Buxton district for one month - Of course he had to go & after being there a week found the one month would be six - so we had to take Strathspey House furnished & move down there leaving a servant in charge of our new house at Mahaicony. This lasted for seven months & then instead of our returning to Mahaicony my husband was appointed to the west coast practice which was of greater value. We had to send all our belongings by sea from Mahalcony to Meten-Meer-Riorg - (Much & More Trouble Eng. -) & there again was no proper house. Only the upper part of an old house in the very heart of the nigger yard in full face of the awful lees trench of the next Estate. We went there in Sep 1875 & soon all were suffering from fever. We thought poor mother would have died & the Dr. got very ill. In Sep 1876 our son James was born & I nearly died of fever. We applied to be removed solely on account of health & after some delay & demur they offered us the Aurora district on the Essequibo coast. Meantime our darling little Edith was apparently dying of that fever, which eventually caused her death. [Following is a later addition - probably 1911] - as I then thought little knowing that she was being slowly murdered by an Indian nurse. In January 1877 we went to Aurora & for a little time all seemed to improve except Dr. Forte who was Gradually getting weaker & weaker. This was not a hard practice excepting having to visit the Hamburv Hospital which lack on the other side or rather in the middle of the Essequibo river being on tiger island. No proper boat was kept for the Doctor's use only a small open bottom & at all times of the day or night & all states & conditions of tide or weather. if a coolie's little finger ached he was sent for & expected to attend. Of course the coolie immigrants cost the Estate so much money to import them, while the Dr. cost them nothing & when he got sick -& could not work or as frequently the case died, another medical machine had to be found to take his vacant place. Only those who have lived in the tropics know what tropical weather is & to be exposed at all times in an open boat sick or well is not conducive to health or longevity. In June Dr. Forte applied to go on leave for six months but as he was not actually dying Government politely declined to allow him the chance of recruiting his broken down health. He dragged on until November when a day came that he was seized with terrible fever & in his debilitated condition there seemed little chance for him. However he rallied a little under treatment of poor Dr. Gordon & we were able to move him to Georgetown where he was three weeks before he was able to go on to Barbados - I engaged a nurse specially to go to England with me as I had then four children young children the eldest being only four & a half & dear little Edith quite a little invalid, having then entirely lost the one eye & being frail as possible. We left for Barbados early in December 1887 & remained there for one month. My baby boy who was quite paralyzed in his back & legs improved greatly by the lovely sea bathing - which is I think the finest in the world. Dr. Forte also improved in health & we left Barbados in January without my nurse who had been so ill on board going from Dem[erara] Barbados that she was afraid to go on to England. So I started alone & had a dreadful experience. We landed at Southampton & went at once to London where we took Edith to several Drs. but they said they could do nothing for her then & advised our going to the Isle of Wight. We had some friends there living at Newport & they engaged apartments for us. We did not care for Newport or rather it did not suit Dr. Forte as it lays low so after some weeks we went on to Sandown & while there my husband became much worse. He thought Shanklin would suit him better so we moved to Shanklin where we all greatly benefitted by its pure fresh air & lovely breezes. Dr. Forte's leave of absence was to expire in Aug. so he would have to leave Eng. in July. As it was decided that I should remain on in England for some time on account of little Edith we thought it would be better for me to return to Newport having friends there & arrangements were accordingly made for us to leave Shanklin in June. [The following has two large x's through it]. Just before the day fixed for our going our dear little one was taken fearfully ill & we scarcely expected her to rally. Ah me if I could have foreseen what she would have to go thro' instead of asking God to spare her life I would have entreated Him to take her to Himself. We went to Newport to Molina Cottage & were made very comfortable there. We took the child again to London but nothing in the way of operation could be done & she rallied up again as the fever left her & we hoped for the best. [End of x-ing out] In July Dr. Forte left us & returned to his work where my dear mother had remained taking care of the house. After a time I felt it was impossible that I could remain in apartments so I took a pleasant cottage & rented furniture & having my own plate, linen & many other comforts I managed to fit up a very snug little home: & well it was that I did so. for I never could have existed in one or two rooms with all I had to go thro'. After 6 months of untold sufferings our darling was mercifully released & on 9th April 1879 went to be forever with that Saviour who had learned to live on earth. I immediately made preparations for returning to my faraway home & sailed from Southampton on 2nd May following with the three remaining children & after a pleasant passage arrived in improved health & spirits in Georgetown. Dr. Forte met me there & the following day we went down to Essequibo by steamer & arrived safe at home much to our grateful satisfaction. Things went on fairly quietly until Feb. 1881 when after a long illness Helen Lucy was born From that time I suffered much from fever & the children began to get frequent attacks of fever [later addition] Claude having yellow fever which came after with its bacterial effects - & in June 1882 Dr. Forte applied to be removed to a more healthy district. Dr. Anderson of Plaisance was going away on leave & and the Governor - [later addition] Sir William Young - offered us to go there for a time. We were very glad of the change & remained there until the I Feb. 1883 - when we removed to Berbice to the district which had long been promised to Dr. Forte. By this time the Dr's health was very much impaired by constant low fever & instead of the change to Berbice proving beneficial to him it was quite the reverse & he became so rapidly worse that he had to obtain sick leave & we again with my dear mother sailed for old Eng. in May 5th. We thought it would be pleasant to go thro' the islands instead of taking the direct steamer from Barb'os. to Eng. We went from Demerara thro' the islands up to St. Thomas in the R.M.S. Solent - We had a very nice party being joined at Barbados by Sir Graham & Lady Briocis & party - [later addition] who were friends of ours - We were to tranship at St. Thomas into the "Don" the older steamer from Jamaica to Eng. but after waiting off St. Thomas for four days & she did not come in the Solent was equiped [sic] for the ocean voyage & we started for old Eng. under the command of Cap'n Hurst one of the best Captains & providentially we had a smooth passage & reached Plymouth 16 days out. We had seen nothing of the missing Don so imagine our Cap'n's disgust to learn that she had past [sic] us & got into Plymouth the day before us. We remained in Devonshire for some weeks visiting a few places of interest & then went to Cragdon where we had friends - remained there for a time went on to Dover for three months & in Dec. 1883 went to Ventnor for the winter. We had a quiet little home there & in March 1884 after a short attack of acute bronchitis my dear mother quietly passed away - her last words being "Dying is but going home." We left Eng. for Demerara in June. I remained a month at Barbados with the children & then joined my husband in Berbice where he was then appointed. In March 1885 our little boy Charles Stanley was born & daily my poor husbands health was again succumbing to the terrible malarial poisoning & in Nov. he was utterly prostrated & it seemed impossible for him to rally. We succeeded in getting him away to Barbados in Dec. where he rallied to a certain extent in May following we went to Eng. & made our home at-Ventnor I.W. All the doctors agreed in saying that Dr. Forte would never be able to return to Dem. & indeed his life if spared promised to be quite that of an invalid. However he gained ground considerably as the winter set in & tho' very far from strong felt so very anxious to return to Demerara if only for a short time as he had two houses & a little other property there which were left to an attorney to manage & who had been acting in a most unprincipaled way. & we were afraid we should safe [sic] but little from the.... if he was allowed to hold his power much longer - accordingly in Feb 7 1887 my husband & eldest son left England once more for Demerara leaving me & the children in our pretty home "Glenlyn" Ventnor. At the expiration of 24 weeks I was looking most anxiously for a letter to tell me of their safe arrival when of my surprise I received a Telegram from Southampton saying - "Arrived by 'Don' shall be home tomorrow." The next morning brought the travellers to Ventnor the Doctor looking oh, so ill having gone back 6 months in strength. Altho' in many respects the journey seemed useless so far as the attempt to ensure his appointment in the colony it had brought things to a climax & after being examined by the medical board in Georgetown he was pronounced as unfit for further work and allowed to retire on a small pension. We found on mature consideration that it would not be advisable for us to settle down England [sic] as everything seemed so shut up for the boys. We decided on going to S. Africa & I wrote to old friends of my mothers Mr. G.E.Fuller of Cape Town for advice & information. He wrote immediately & gave us valuable information. We decided on going to Grahamstown & left England in the Trojan from Southampton in August 1887. Touched at Maderia [sic] bought some chairs etc. Saw Teneriffe [sic] in the distance with its wonderful Peak appearing like a mountain above the clouds & after a fair voyage landed at Cape Town. Went on shore & dined with our friends Mr. & Mrs. Fuller at their pretty home at Mowbray. They took us for a most delightful drive thro' miles of pine avenues & entertained us most kindly. We went on board the Trojan about 10 P.M. & the next day started on to our destination Port Elizabeth. It is always a rough trip along the coast tho' we had not really a bad passage. We reached PE. in safety & took the train same night for Grahamstown which we reached next morning - at 6a.m. A charming little town with its scattered houses nestling in beautiful gardens & being first spring leaves everything looked its very best. Driving out one day about a week after our arrival we passed an old fashioned house standing in about 10 acres of land & having a large orchard. Dr. Forte has very much taken with the place & on enquiry found it was for sale & eventually we bought it. Everything had been much neglected & we had to have a great deal done to the house before we could live in it. We went to reside in it in Feb.7 1888 & in the course of six months had immensely improved the whole place. It was very prettily situated on the Korrie Road just a mile from the Cathedral. We soon made a few very nice friends - among them were Dean & Mrs.Crogan - the Atherstone family Rev'd Father Simson & Mr. & Mrs. Coleridge. The latter had a farm a few miles beyond us & often came in & spent part of the day with us. My own health gradually failed from the time of our going to Africa partly I believe owing to the dry heat & partly as the result of our fateful & [sic] My dear husband certainly improved & lived nearly in his orchard & the younger children did well. Claude soon got employment first with Mr. Blake & then with his brother in law Mr. Walter Atherstone of Eland Estate, a very large ostrich farm. He was with him for a year & left to make room for Mr. A's son to take his place on leaving school - & from there went to Mr. Douglas' at Heatherton Towers. As time went on I became so much worse that it soon became certain I must either undergo a severe surgical operation or most probably die - I therefore under my good husband's advice placed myself under the care of Dr. Greathead & went into the Hospital Grahamstown as a private patient. I went in there in Jan. 1889 & was able to be moved home at the end of Feb. but was unable to stand or walk for four months. It was a long weary time but many friends showed me great kindness & our good friend Rev. Father Simson frequently visited me & gave me much spiritual help & teaching & I can now look back & feel thankful in many respects. For the operation was a great success & I have now become fairly strong. We were members of the Cathedral in Grahamstown & my dear Lizzie was a boarder at the Diocesan School for girls in the town - A fine school & a splendid staff of teachers - We made many nice friends in Grahamstown. The summer was a terrible one. Hot winds blowing almost constantly from Xmas day 1888 to the end of May 1889. These affected both my husband & myself so injuriously being both invalids that Dr. Forte came to the decision that we could not remain in S. Africa & as we had thought much of Tasmania before ever going to Africa we decided on going there - & sold our pretty home (which was home with all the drawbacks of African vermin snakes & many pests) & we left Grahamstown en route to Tas. July 14th 1889 via Port Elizabeth to Cape Town on S.S. Hamerdon Castle. We had a frightful passage & on reaching Cape Town I was nearly dead. Our friends Mr. & Mrs. Fuller came & met us on the following morning - after having secured rooms for us at a boarding house & took Lizzie home with them. The S.S. "Aorangi" did not come in until the 20th on which day we went on board & bade farewell to Africa I suppose for ever. On account of my invalid state & the uncertainty of his father's health Claude decided to go with us altho' Mr Douglass [sic] was most anxious for him to remain with him. After a wet & dreary voyage we landed safely in Hobart on 8th of Aug'st 1889. We were warmly welcomed by Dr. & Mrs. Harvey whom we knew while living at Ventnor & after remaining in Hobart for a little time we took a cottage at Kingston Brown's River about 10 miles from Hobart by the sea. Meanwhile Claude had gone up to the north where he got temporary employment. We enjoyed the summer very much & I got much stronger indeed became quite my old self again, but we could not stay on for the winter as it was very damp & we could not get a house fit to live in. We did not know where to decide on & at length knowing there was need for a doctor in the Brighton district & there being a house vacant we moved to Brighton in June 1890. Claude was home for some time as it is most difficult for young men to get any suitable out door employment. In Oct.r he went with a surveyor in the Huion dis.ct & remained with him up to the time I am writing this. We found no society in Brighton & no school for James so sent him to Horton College the beginning of the present year 1891. Nellie has been to Miss Buller's School & cot on well with her - but the disadvantages are so many & great here that we do not feel justified in making a home in Tasmania as the policy of the government is to keep everything shut up & keep prices Etc of food & common necessaries very high. We are now making preparations to leave Tasmania for N.Z. early in October & hope D.V. soon to make a home & settle down quietly there as we know living is far less expensive in every way & it is impossible for us to remain in Brighton for a continuance as we are all in a state of social banishment & as we could not live either in Hobart or Launceston we do not think it would be any advantage to move to any other country place in Tasmania, but only a useless expense. I have now brought these jottings down to the present date & I shall try & continue to note any event that may occur as it happens. It is impossible for my husband to do night work or take any cases making much mental anxiety so we must try & make the most of what we have got left in other ways & be thankful that we are yet spared to each other our children to us. Brighton Tasmania AUG. 16, 1891 [Aug, 16, 1992 I have just transcribed this far] Sep. 2nd 1891 Claude came home last week for a short time & is helping me very much in preparing for the sale & in packing. We do not like the idea of leaving him behind. but feel it is the only thing to do under the circumstances. Had very nice letter last week from cousin Mary Jones in Barbados who wrote for Aunt Anna whose sight is now very bad. Also a very interesting letter from Mrs. Farrar Archdeacon F's wife - We have been friends for many years. It always pains me to receive letters from the W. Indies as really there seems the greater part of our friends & our interests. We are hoping to feel more at home in N.Z. than we have done in Tasmania. We can truly say "We have no abiding city here" & I trust thro' God's grace we may all say that we "seek one to come eternal. not made with hands" & this "little while" will soon be over.- [end of this entry] Went to N.Z. October 1891. As Claude went to Australia sam time & lived 3 yrs. In Tauranga & then in Auckland. After years of suffering borne without a murmur passed to his rest my dear & loving husband in Sydney N.S.W. where we were stopped as we were attempting to get to Eng. by his increased illness. Died on Nov 15/99 - at Sydney & buried in St Thomas Cemetery [sic]- North Shore - Claude & James here living in N.Z. & so I returned there with Nellie & Stanley & made my home in Auckland going to N. Plymouth in 1900 to be near to Claude & his wife - but they soon after leaving for Wellington we returned to Auckland. In Jan 1902 James went to S.A. in the 8th N.Z. contingent returning at the close of the war - but returning again to Africa - where he has been ever since. On July 6th 1906 my dear & faithful daughter Helen was married to A.E.Bouillon & on July 23/07 she died in giving birth to two little girls. [Celeste and Yvonne] These I cared for for some months & then their father went to be with his own people & I went on 6 Feb.y 1908 to Sydney to be with my youngest son Stanley. Later in the same year we went to Melbourne to be near my eldest daughter E.A.Hare & her two dear girls Eileen & Doris. The following Aug/09 they left for Eng, & in April 1910 I returned to N.Z. in very poor health & am now living very happily with my eldest son & his wife - both of whom are most good & kind to me. Albert Rd. Devonport N.Z., Feb-12/11 Notes - When first in Demerara the Governor Sir J. Scott who with his wife showed us much kindness While living at Aurora - Essequibo saw a good deal of Judge Kirk in whose book "Twenty-five years in British Guiana" he mentions a trip taken with us into the forest - up the Supenaam Creek off the Essequibo River to a mission station. While living on the E. Coast at Cummins Lodge near Georgetown Sir William Young was governor & I knew Lady Young & her daughter very well. They used to drive out to see us & I often sent in flowers etc. to them. The daughter is now the wife of Sir F. Hodgson. In Berbice we made many friends & were very happy but alas that dreadful fever soon laid my husband low & we had to leave. ---------------------- Continued by C.S.Forte ---------- In Dec. 1911 my mother found me in Sydnev N.S.W & on Jan 6th 1912 we sailed in the R.M.S. "Orama" for England where we landed on Feb,18th 1912. After a few weeks in London we went to Brighton & took a House at Hove where we furnished gradually with antiques, & were looking for an old House my mother was not at all well & was operated on in July. We went to Southwick for a short time & in Sept. 1913 we took "The Elms" Broadwater a lovely old house near Worthing. We still went on buying old furniture and had onlv been at "the Elms" a year when my dear mother died on Sept 26th 1914. I joined the army & was discharged in Set 1916 after being ill on & off for months. I went in to the military ward at Brighton Hospital & was operated on & was much better for the operation. I came out of hospital Sept 12th 1917 just a year to the very day I was discharged from Craighleith Military Hospital Edinburgh. In 1921 1 left the Elm & bought an old cottage on Broadwater Green. ------------------- Auckland Aug 7th 1968 This diary was passed on to my late wife Margaret Emily (nee Forte) grand daughter of Mary Emily Forte. My wife died Nov 3 1964. The little girl mentioned in the diary & who died 9th Apr.1879 was Edith. Some time during our married life we received word I think from Uncle Stanley Forte that an old native woman in B. Guiana had confessed on her death bed to having put poison in the child's eyes to remove a curse from her own child who had died and I believe whom Dr. Forte had attended but had not been able to save. ---------------------- Transcribed August/September 1992, by her great-granddaughter, B. Josephine Mewett, from the diary of Mary (Ellis) Forte, now in the possession of her great granddaughter, Frances (Wright) Nicholls Copies given to: Granddaughter - Barbara McDonald Great-granddaughters - Frances Nicholls, Shirley Ann Hooper, Winis McColl, Anna Hanvey Great-great-granddaughters - Maryjane Bell, Karyn Mewett Great-great-great-granddaughters - Heather Barter, Katherine Mewett, Rachel Sim | ELLIS, Mary Emily (I8039)
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| 2841 | Mary lists her birth year as 1867 in the 1900 U.S. Census for Elk Co., Pennsylvania. She is age 24 in 1892 when she emmigrated to this country in New York estimating her birth as 1867 or 1868. In her marriage licenses though, she lists hth date as 1865. She lists her parents as Mike Wolfe and her mother as Maria Bugdon in one of her marriage applications to her second husband, Mike Cesario. When her first husband died unexpectedly in 1907, it left her with young children whom were taken in by Father Baker's home while she found work. Their youngest daughter, Julia, was "adopted" out. Mary searched for this daughter for years but sadly passed before she found her. The year after her husband died was surely a very difficult one for Mary even beyond these terrible losses. Her house burnt down and she was accused of murder. She went to trial where the charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence. Even after this was over, she was still heartbroken and working to find a way to get her children back under her care. Her children, even in their old age, remembered how much they wanted to be back with her too. I can't imagine the pressures she was under. Mary appears to have married her second husband, Mike Cesario, twice. The first time occurred on 6/5/1909 in Limestone, Cattaraugus Co., NY. They lived in Newton, PA at the time. They married again in 1922. No divorce has been found in between the two marriages. According to her daughter Josephine, it was because Michael had a wife back in Italy. After he heard of his first wife's death, they married the second time. It is not known whether Mary knew of Michael's other wife, when she married him in 1909. In her 2nd marriage record, she lists her 1st husband's death date as Oct. 30, 1906. It turns out that he died in the night of Nov. 1st in 1907 according to the Johnsonburg Press where his name is misspelled as Dudek. (D-Doc) Mary was Catholic, but was not accepted by the Catholic Church at the end of her days. She still was a very strong Christian who read the bible daily according to her son Tony. She was remembered by her children and her nieces and nephews for her kindness, support and care. | VOVCSIK, Marie (I12641)
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| 2842 | Mary married Thomas Cook, a Quaker, when it appears Mary's family was not considered Quaker. The London Grove MM complained of marriage to Thomas Cook as out of unity. Thomas appeared with apologies which were accepted on the 10mo. 1730.7) Mary and her children removed to Cane Creek, NC after her first husband died on certificate dated 7-20-1754. She next married Joseph Wells of Cane Creek. (C-437) | UNDERWOOD, Mary * (I15826)
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| 2843 | Mary moved from Garland to Bradford as a child where she graduated from Bradford High School in 1940. She worked and retired from Corning Glass Works in 1981. She died at home, 54 Hawthorne Road on a Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2000 and was bue following Saturday. (D-195) | ENGLISH, Mary June (I11961)
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| 2844 | Mary never married. (F-499) | DOUDE, Mary (I67)
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| 2845 | Mary Preston is believed to be the wife of Peter Mallory for the following reasons. 1) He was married to a Mary when he came before the courts on Feb. 6, 1648/1649. 2) John Hunter signed the Oath of Allegiance immediately under Petery in 1644. In John Hunters will dated May 15, 1648, he bequeathed his small estate to 1) Sarah Meeker, wife of William Meeker, 2) Mary, wife of Peter Mallory and 3) Mary, widow of William Preston. Sarah is a daughter of William Preston. Mary is likely to be also. He had a daughter Mary, who no other marriage has been found for. It is believed that John Hunter and Peter Mallory lived with the Prestons before Peter got married. | PRESTON, Mary (I12097)
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| 2846 | Mary Vestal and William Jay married about 1743 in Frederick Co., VA. She likely lost her membership in the Quaker church for marrying out of unity. On 10/5/1772, Mary Vestal Jay sent an acknowledgement of marriage out of meeting to thwell Monthly Meeting. This was a few months before her husband's death. (Some researchers mistakenly claim this is because she married again.) (C-1338) It was accepted and Jesse Pugh was appointed to assist the women in preparing a certificate for her to remove to Bush River. (C-804) In Virginia, none of the Jays appear to have been Quakers, but shortly before and around the time she was reaccepted, all of her children appear to have become Quakers. She had two children married in the Quaker Meeting in the 3rd month of 1772. Vickie Leimback and Mike Southerland state that Mary's birth date was about 1723. Mike gives her death date as 1773 in New Burlington, Miami, OH and her full name as Mary Elizabeth Vestal. However, this death date cannot be correct, as Mary Ve stal Jay and her daughter Rachel Jay Arnold received a certificate to move to Ohio in 1804. They moved in 1805 probably to Miami Co., Ohio. She died near New Burlington, Ohio between 1818-1820 and is buried in Caesars Creek Quaker Burying Ground. | VESTAL, Mary Elizabeth * (I15787)
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| 2847 | Mary was baptized as an adult. | SPERRY, Mary (I12043)
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| 2848 | Mary was born in Virginia and was transported with them in 1653 when they moved to Maryland. One source estimates her birth date as 1637. Montgomery estimates it at 1644 and the seventh child of Richard. She is listed in her father's wilhe wife of Thomas Stockett and appears to have been in her father's favor. One source, Mrs. O. F. Weissgerber from Chula Vista Ca. lists a daughter, Elizabeth, by Mary's second husband, George Yates. (C-637) She had several more sons and daughters with her second husband. She was widowed a second time when he died in 1691. He was also of gentle birth with a Coat of Arms on his silver. (C-650) | WELLS, Mary (I12944)
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| 2849 | Mary was from Castle, C., England at the time of her marriage. (C-1349) | COXON, Mary (I13896)
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| 2850 | Mary was related to President Andrew Johnson. (C-1510) | JOHNSON, Mary (I11871)
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