Notes: Our Family History

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Matches 601 to 650 of 7,197

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601	Called Hugh the Dignified; he died in battle.OrinedhaAodh Ordnigh	MAC NIALL, Aedh (I6561)
602	Called Neil of the Black Knee; killed fighting the Vikings in the Battle of Dublin. The O'Neills were the chiefs of the Cenel Eoghain tribe; their ancestral lands were sometimes called Tir Eoghain, roughly equivalent to the modern County Tyron. The surname is derived from Ui Niall, meaning descendant of Niall. The Ui Niall were the great royal dynasty of Northern Ireland; they separated from their kinsmen, the Connachta, after the famous accomplishments of the legendary King Niall of the Nine Hostages. The surname, however, did not exist until after Niall Glundubh. Niall captured and drowned a murderer in 907 who had violated the sanctuary of Armagh. He campaigned repeatedly against the Danes and Vikings, but was mortally wounded in combat in DublinOwner of Drinking cup at DunveganNeil Black-knee Glundubh	MAC AEDH, Niall (I6591)
603	Called Neil of the Showers; he abdicated in favor of Dunnchad Midi mac Domnall Frossach.	MAC FEARGHALL, Niall (I6570)
604	Called Niall of the River Caillen; he drowned in that river trying to save one of his men.	MAC AEDH, Niall (I6490)
605	Candee Varville proposes that this daughter Margaret as per John Ponder's will is the daughter known as Mary in an 1806 record of her step father when he says that his deceased wife, Mary, was the father of his son William and her daughty Ponder who was then 8 and a half years old.	PONDER, Margaret (I2559)
606	Capt. Moore Fauntleroy, the captain of the ship on which the Underwoods traveled, received 450 cares of land on the Rappahannock River on the N. side of Swan Bay on May 22, 1650, for transporting 9 individuals including, George Underwood,fe Mary and Anne Underwood. He relinquished the rights to this land to make good the patent on the other side of the river for 5350 acres of land. This info can be verified in Patent Bo., 2, p. 195. (C-2394) On this same day he reveived 1800 acres on the N. side of the river adjoining the land of William Underwood for transporting 36 persons which included Thomas Underwood.	FAUNTLEROY, Moore (I8144)
607	Captain Richard More was a bastard child according to many sources. He was the only More child who came on the Mayflower to survive. He is of ancient Royalty according to the Mayflower Society". "The passenger list of the Mayflower includes four children without parents; they were not orphans, however they may as well have been. The children, between the ages of four and eight, were placed with families making the voyage. The More children are the only passengers with known royal ancestry, with descent from King David I and King Edward I of England. The children were baptized at Shipton Parish, Shropshire, England as follows. The only child to survive the first winter was Richard. Elinor/Ellen [Ellinora] More, baptized, 24 May 1612; was placed with Edward and Rose Winslow; Jasper [Jasperus] More, baptized, 8 August 1613; was placed with John and Katharine Carver Richard [Richardus] More, baptized 13 November 1614; was placed with William and Mary Brewster. Maria More, baptized 16 April 1616; was placed with William and Mary Brewster; [Bradford mistakenly said she was a brother of Richard	MORE, Captain Richard (I11490)
608	Captain William Jameson does not appear to have had any black ancestry from cousin matches of Jameson's previous to the children of this couple. Sarah on the other hand has 10 out of the first 10 descendants who all have DNA from the Bantu people of Africa. They appear to have moved from Ireland to Pennsylvania abt. 1713 and from Philadelphia, PA to what was to become Augusta Co., Virginia in 1725/1726 if the birthdates are correct for their children. William and his wife Sarah married in the famous church in Philadelphia that many of our founding fathers attended. It had a 25% African membership and was very progressive in it's outreach to this community. They appear to have embraced a mixed race marriage. William Jameson and wife are the only common ancestral line I've found with a DNA cousin match named Morgan Barker. If I can verify matching DNA with other Jameson descendants, this will prove that my William D. Clark is correctly descended from Ferguson's and Jameson's/Jamison's as currently charted on ancestrees. However, it must be noted that his William Jameson's son John does not match the info I have on his son John at all or John's descendants so I'm not holding my breath that this William is the father of my John Jameson.	JAMISON, Captain William * R-BY8986 (Cameroon heritage) (I8901)
609	Carlisle, Cumberland, PA	Source (S3041)
610	Carson City Marriage Records. Carson City Recorder's Office, Carson City, Nevada.	Source (S168)
611	Carter Dukes and his wife were born well before the civil war and were likely slaves for much of their lives. A slave owner in the Edgefield District of SC that had slaves of the ages of most of this family is accounted for by J C Smyley who apparently owned a large plantation there. According to the 1860 Slave Schedule for the US, he owned male slaves of the age of 55 and 45 (Carter if his age was not estimated correctly or if he lived elsewhere), a female, age 45 (Caty), a male, age 12 (George), a male, age 6, (Adam) and a male age 2 (Thomas). He was of the Saluda District of Edgefield County, SC in 1860. In any case, if he is the son of Abraham, Araham's heirs received their father's bounty land grant after their father died in 1814. Because Abraham enlisted in 1812 and died in service in Illinois in 1814, his heirs would have recieved 160 acres in Illinois, Arkansas, Michigan or Missouri. His father's land was assigned in Arkansas. Since Carter still lived in South Carolina in 1870, I'm not sure if he ever moved to Arkansas.	DUKES, Carter (I757)
612	Cassander joined his military forces with King Hamecus of Thringia and King Arabius of Saxony. (C-1346)	CASSANDER, King Of Sicambri (I16586)
613	Catcott is only about 5 miles from Curry Rivel where his father grew up.	COTE, John (I2659)
614	Catherine also spelled her name Katherine. She gives her state of birth as Ohio in the 1880 Iowa census records. (Dist 199, Koszta, Iowa, IA Roll T9-345; Film: 1254345; P117b Image 22 as Catherine Coats) (C-482)	WYLAND, Katherine (I14717)
615	Catherine might also have maried Samuel Silknitter in 1836 and James Myers in 1848 in Montgomery Co., OH and James P. Hedges in Mercer Co., Ohio in 1850. (C-1025)	HERB, Catharina (I16142)
616	Catherine was a "zelous Quaker Minister". Her husband, known as Big George Robinson was not born a Quaker. This caused some concern when she married him. They first declared their intention of marriage on the 3rd day, 1st mo, 1687 at tark/Kennett Monthly Meeting in what was then Pennsylvania When they declared it a second time on the 7th day, 2 mo, 1688, friends asked them to wait to marry as they were still uncertain of it. This normally would have been the meeting where they would have been given consent. They again asked for consent on the 4th mo, 1688 and members were appointed to inquire of them on these intentions. The 5th mo, 1688, the meeting finally gave their consent. They finally married athe the monthly meeting held at Catherine's father's house on the 11th mo, 5th day, 1688. They had six children. Eli Jay has her listed as the d. of Valentine and Ann Calvert. That is because he has the marriage date of these two a decade earlier than most other sources. (C-1546, 2169E)	HOLLINGSWORTH, Catherine (I12028)
617	Catherine was a Quaker. (C-1817)	LESTER, Catherine (I12120)
618	CD-100 and 102 place this Elin in this order in the family tree. CD-100 appears to have an estimate error on her birth date. It states 1345 which would be after her daughter and 35+ years after her husband's birth date. CD-102 spells herlin Ferch Meredith.	FERCH MAREDUDD, Elinor (I12596)
619	CD-100 and Donovan give the mother of Herbert II's children as Leigarde, d. of Robert. Leigarde has a long and known lineage. However, the source I trust most which is Tompsett's Royal Site gives his spouse and mother of his children as. (C-1351)	COUNT DE VERMANDOIS AND TROYES, Herbert II * (I13169)
620	CD-100 estimates her birth date about 1540. She would be only 11 at the tie of her son William's estimated birth date.	LAMBERT, Mary (I12886)
621	CD-100 gives his father as Anarad ap Rhodri "Mawr" born 857 and grandfather as Rhodri "Mawr" ap Merfyn b. 788. As this timing is stretched and as CD-100 has not always been reliable, I've chosen the lineage in the Princes of Wales that giodri "Mawr" as his great grandfather. This Idwal "Foel" was the Prince of Wales. (C-788)	AP ANARAWD, Idwal "Foel" (I12706)
622	CD-100 gives his mother as Nest FERCH CADELL instead and a line that goes back into the 300's. His title was King of Powys. (C-788)	AP GWRIAD, Merfyn "Frych" (I12899)
623	CD-100 gives his wife's name as Nest FERCH CADELL of Wales. (C-788)	AP ELIDIR, Gwriad (I12876)
624	CD-100 lists this same Adela as the mother of Adelaide of Poitou. However, it gives her a different husband as the father of Adela. I chose to accept information from "Pedigrees of Some of Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol III," asg more authority. Adele's birth date is estimated at between 917 and 920 in sources I've seen for her. However, Rollo, her father, is married a second time to Gisela in 912, indicating that Adele was either illegitimate by his first wife Poppa or one of the dates is incorrect. (C-1351)	OF NORMANDY, Adela (Gerloc) (I13293)
625	CD-100 refers to her as Mallt Ferch Hugh.	AP IEVAN, Mallt D.Of Hugh (I12550)
626	CD-100 says that Rachel's mother is named Rachel. This apparently comes from a Quaker baptismal record dated 12 July 1721 at All Hallow's, listing her father as Joseph Wells and his wife Rachel. In the Southern Friend, V. XVI, 1994, Richard Kelly states that the entry in the All Hallow's book was in error and they simply repeated daughter Rachel's name by accident. He also finds error with the date of birth listed for her in Quaker records as occurring on 3(May)/27/1720. This would have been before Joseph and Margaret were married. (C-575) The Cane Creek Quaker record states she was the d. of Margaret Swanson and Joseph Wells, but this could be explained by the fact that she had only known Margaret as her mother, and gave her name without being concerned for the genealogy of it. This record was made sometime after 1758 which was 38 years after Rachel's birth. (C-1553, D.J. Rowe) In any case, Rachel was born while her father, Joseph Wells, was farming land in Anne Arundel Co. belonging to his brother's stepson. The Cane Creek Monthly Meeting record was also in error in stating that she was born in Prince George, Maryland. Rachel was a fairly well noted frontier Quaker minister before the American Revolution. She became a Quaker when she married. This is significant. Her parents moved into the faith several years after her marriage. She would not have been baptized Quaker and this where the controversy lies in Quaker Records. The Quaker Baptismal record would have been created after she was an adult and is therefore not first hand information. It is entirely possible that her mother was Margaret Swanson instead. She came from radical Puritan and Catholic stock who sought religious freedom in the tolerant Maryland under Lord Baltimore. Several of her ancestors were of armorial families in England. (C-575, p. 35) Rachel and her husband moved to Orange County, North Carolina from the Monacy Meeting, Prince George Co., Maryland about 1749. They helped found the Cane Creek Meeting in Orange Co., North Carolina. She with Abigail Overton Pike and several others rode on horseback to the Little River Quarterly Meeting in Peruimans in 1751 to seek permission for Cane Creek's Monthly Meeting status. This was granted by them on the sixth month, 31st day of 1751. Cane Creek held their first monthly meeting on the tenth month of 1751 wherein fifteen certificates of removal were submitted. (C-1663) She was the center of a major controversy in this region during the movement known as the Regulators. She committed the offense of defending her daughter, Charity, against false charges of "carnal knowledge" with Jehu Stuart". She later apologized and this was accepted by her Quaker Meeting until she applied to remove to Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1763. Some of the members doubted the sincerity of her apology and thought her certificate should not be granted. She was then disowned by the church. A principle, outspoken well known liberal Quaker of the time, Hermon Husband, was caught up in the feud defending her. Due to his violent reaction, he was disowned in 1763 and moved north back to Pennsylvania with his family after the decision was appealed to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings where only his disownment was not reversed in Feb. of 1764. Rachel was granted her removal at the 1764 yearly meeting. (C-575) The Cane Creek meeting back in North Carolina mentions her kindly at her death 23 12m 1771, aged about 52 years as "a friend of the Ministry, wife of John, one of the first beginners of a meeting at Bush River." (C-646, 966)	WELLS, Rachel Minister (I15897)
627	CD-102 lists his name just as Griffith Fynchan.	GRUFFUDD, Gruffudd Fychan (I12581)
628	CD-102 states that Owen is a first cousin to his wife Angharad. His name in that disk was spelled Owen ap Meredith.	AP MAREDYDD, Owen (I12599)
629	Ceawlin, King of Wessex, governed the West Saxons starting in 560 and reigned thirty winters. In 593 there was a great slaughter and he was driven from his kingdom, the year of his death. (C-437)	KING OF WESSEX, Ceawlin (I16392)
630	Celeste and Yvonne were twins. Their died giving birth to them. C	BOUILLON, Celeste Helene (I8014)
631	Census Publishing. State Census Records. West Jordan, Utah: Census Publishing, 2003-2009.	Source (S1923)
632	Cerdic was a Saon Earldorman. In 495 he founded a new settlement on the coast of Hampshire, England. He took the title of King of Wessex or King of the West Saxons in 519. In that year he and his son Cynric attacked the Britons with fivs, namely at Charford. The West Saxons have reigned England from that day. He is the ancestor of the English Royal line. In 530 they conquered the Isle of Wight. He died in 534 as the first King of the Wessex. (C-437)	Cerdic Cerdic King Of Wessex (I16426)
633	Chalkley's entry is as follows on this Jane Young and her husband: Page 109.--15th February, 1748. Jane Cook's bond as administratrix of Patrick Cook, with sureties Hugh Young, Robt. Young, John Spear. After her husband's death, Uncle Hung took guardianship of Patrick and Jane Cook's children. (E)	YOUNG, Jane (I9048)
634	Charlemagne's ancestry can be traced back through the beginning of recorded history to Adam and Eve. (See ancestrees.com)	Charlemagne (I1488)
635	Charles Coulson Rich, his parents and sister, Minerva joined the Mormon Church in 1832. He and his family moved to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Charles Coulson Rich was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles in the Mormon Church fr9 to 1883, being ordaned on Feb. 12, 1849. He was known for his brilliant talents, great stamina, and real goodness. He made many treacherous journeys over the mountains to attend sessions of the legislature and is famous for his leadership in the Mormon Church's early history. Brigham Young University's biography of him on the Internet lists him as "beloved by all who knew him." He had six wives and fiftyone children. (C-1344, 1345, 1563) His ancestry has supposedly been well researched by the Mormon Church and goes back through Charlemagne from 3 different angles.	RICH, Charles Coulson (I13947)
636	Charles County/Patuxent County	BEALL, Jane Margaret * (I11312)
637	Charles is in the deed records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in 1817 and 1823. (C-1025)	JAY, Charles (I12366)
638	Charles married his father's great niece, Juliana. He acceded to the throne in 790 being named King of Neustria. Charles was chosen to be the son who succeeded Charlemagne as emperor. He was crowned King the same day his father wasd Emperor of the West in the year 800. However, he died of a stroke a couple years before his father died keeping this dream from fruition. (E)	Charles (The Younger) Charles (The Younger) King Of France (I5219)
639	Charles probably helped establish a settlement known as the Little Miami around the year 1800 along with Samuel Kelly, Abijah O'Neal, James Mills and Thomas Horner. Charles's wife came with multiple Quaker families on certificate dated 9/2. (C-1297) Charles appears to me to be the likely brother of James Patty, b. bef 1758 of SC who had a son named James who's daughter Sarah married Thomas Coate.	PATTY, Charles (I15798)
640	Charles R. was in the 1900 census twice. On June 4, he was a boarder at Marguerite Patton's home in Tuscarawas Twp., Coshocton, Ohio and listed as a coal miner. On June 12, he was living with his parents in the 1900 census and is againd as a coal miner by trade, though his father was a farmer. He is likely to be the Charles Hall who enlisted in the infantry in Wheeling, West Virginia on Mar. 24, 1904. He said he was born in Coshocton, Choshocton Co., Ohio. He was a miner by trade. He was 5'8" tall with dark brown hair and a fair complextion. He was discharged on March 23, 1907 in Georgia.	HALL, Charles R. (I9501)
641	Charles was a partner in the Coate Floor Company with his brother Ben. He was a member of Eagles Lodge 2801 at Buckeye Lake. He was a former member of East Columbus Lions. Charles was married for about six months in 1940 to a woman whurname is not remembered. They lived 2 houses down from his parents house on John St. in Trenton, Ohio. (C-2108) In 1945, he married Jane, his wife of many years and mother of his children. He was a very caring husband to Jane in her last years after she suffered disabilities from a stroke. (C-72) His kindness was returned by his third wife, Wilma, and his sons and daughters-in-law when liver cancer brought the end to his life. It was the same affliction that had taken his father. Charles lived on Buckeye Lake in Ohio the last several years of his life. He loved to fish and boat. He spent many of his last days enjoying the view from his home. (C-1397) He had several children and grandchildren listed in his obituary that I can't place. Listed with his sons was a David Howell married to Jeri. Listed as stepsons were Carl Dittoe and Darl Dittoe married to Sally and Joanna respectively. The following lengthy letter to Charles from his brother, Richard, tells a great deal about this family's life. "Richard Coate Brooklyn, NY 11201July 12, 1997 Dear Brother Charles, You'll have to forgive me for the delay in writing this letter. I came down with a case of bronchitis which put me behind schedule. However, the antibiotic has knocked most of it out of my system so I'm doing my best to catch up. I'm sorry that neither Betty or I can be with Shirley when she visits you in Ohio. She's going to spend a couple days with us before she flies to Columbus. She'll get here on Wednesday evening, the 16th and leave on Saturday morning the 19th. She'll get a whirlwind tour of some of the highlights in the neighborhood and Manhattan on Thursday. Friday we'll make a trip up to Jennifer's in Dutchess County. As you know she lives way out in the country surrounded by farm land. The Shenandoah mountain is on the distant horizon - so Shirley will be able to see Jennifer and Joe, their beautiful 175 year old, nine room house and some of the scenic wonders of NY State while she's here. You have been much on our minds and in our prayers since we got the news of your illness. Betty and I began reflecting upon our childhood and our life in Trenton when our families were all together. Though the town has changed much in the ensuing years, I still retain the images of what it was way back in the '30s when the population was only 350 and we were kids. Remember taking baths in a wash tub in the kitchen? Norman Rockwell would have had a ball, Mom standing over one of us, with the next in line waiting turn. That was way back when the House of The Seven Smokes was still standing. I don't know about you, but Warren, Bill and I did a lot of foraging around in that abandoned and very spooky building. I'm glad Daddy had to the sense to get some of the flooring before it was completely demolished. The downstairs of 113 John Street had wide-planked highly-polished ash floors as a result of it. I still remember the Amish rigs on Hamilton Pike and the Model-T Fords, and little Wally Poplin climbing the water-tower, the whole town holding its breath until someone finally rescued him! Remember the short cut to school through Adam Gozie's corn field. One day he lay in wait, caught me just as I was about to climb the fence onto John Street. Talk about surprise! He booted me in the butt so hard that I peed in my pants. Once he hoisted me over the fence and released his grip I was off and running. Though he spewed out a string of invective I was so terrified couldn't understand a word of it. But I sure did get the gist of it! It was a long, long time before I got up enough nerve to take that short cut again. After growing up in a rural town like that way back before any of us ever heard of television, who could ever have imagined that in our lifetime there would be such technological wonders as Internet or American scientists landing on the moon, and exploring Mars or the moons of Jupiter! That was "Flash Gordon" or "Buck Rogers" funny paper stuff. And remember the fuss we made over who would be first to read the funnies and we'd all wind up sprawled on the floor with them spread out before us. Remember those hot summer days when everything seemed to be at a standstill and the long treks we made to the gravel pit to cool off - sometimes twice a day. We'd sometimes stop at the gas station by the railroad tracks opposite the old Scheibert house [where Betty lived before their house was moved up to John Street opposite ours] and if we could afford it we'd buy a coke in one of those glass bottles and pause long enough to drink it while the station attendants went about their business with their attention glued to the baseball game on the radio. And when the train passed through one could hear its whistle all over town. The gravel pit - now that was a swimming hole! Spring fed no less. If my memory serves me right, wasn't it also stocked with cat fish? I know we caught cat fish from somewhere around Trenton. I believe Mom used to make a batter of corn meal, dip them into it before she plopped them in that big black iron skillet full of lard atop the blue porcelain two oven Kalamazoo wood stove. If the smell of frying cat fish didn't make your mouth water, nothing would. Talk about kitchen smells. Monday was wash day. Soap suds and beans. One day was ironing day and Mom had stacks of clean smelling linen on the back porch. I'll never forget how it felt to climb into bed and sleep on a freshly washed, sun-dried and hand- ironed sheet. Whoever heard of ironing a sheet these days? One day was house cleaning day, and Mom would put those lace doilies on the sofa and we had to pay special care that we didn't muss them up. Since she raised nine of us, it's a measure of the respect we had for her that those doilies remained in place and unruffled. . Or baking days. Remember how the house smelled when we came home after school. Every surface in the kitchen was filled with baked goods. Golden crusted loaves of bread, big buns, sugar rolls with cinnamon and vanilla icing, doughnuts dipped in powdered sugar! Pies and cakes! Then there was canning season - the aroma of strawberry jam mixed with the melted wax. The smell of the dinner before we all sat down around the kitchen table. There was many a day when Bill and I would race across the field in time to tune in on an episode of Little Orphan Annie before we sat down to dinner. And on special days we'd have bread pudding for desert. To this day I have never tasted a bread pudding that can match Mom's! And I'll never forget the day that Mom put a big pan of it atop the buffet to cool. Only after Mom had accused everyone else in the house of eating the whole pan full did Daddy finally confess! When he came home there was no one around so he took one look at it and said, "For once in my life I'm going to get my full of bread pudding!" And he did! Then there were the times on those long summer nights when we played kick the can out under the street light, and in winter we made walnut fudge on top the blue Kalamazoo coal burning stove. Fudge has never tasted as good since! I remember the time that Daddy fell asleep in his living room rocking chair with his jaw agape. Bill and I decided we'd play a joke on him so we ran to the kitchen, got the pepper shaker and sprinkled it on his tongue. We were long gone when he awakened, sputtering and spitting. I don't know if we ever confessed, but this much I know, he never let on that anything unusual ever happened after we finally got nerve enough to go back into the house. Remember the day that you had that unfortunate encounter with the skunk in the fields to the rear of the house. The creature was concealed in the hedge row near the Seeman farm when you attempted a short cut - just waiting for some wayward kid to challenge his turf! Talk about stink! You called to Mom from the back yard and she made you change clothes and take a bath either outside or on the back porch before you were permitted to come in the house. After that day a Coate kid would make a wide and respectful circle around that hedge row. And on summer nights, the dazzling array of fireflies hovering over the cornfields; we were mesmerized at the wonder of it and even the distant sound of the train whistle of the Baltimore and Ohio passing through at the other end of town did not break the spell. .Though I doubt that I was born yet or if I was I was too little to remember, but the story was told me so many times it's as if I had witnessed the event myself. Ben and his buddy, George Crug were "camping out" in a pup tent in the alley to the rear of the house - below that wild cherry tree we used to climb. Ben and George had bedded down and settled in for the night - just this side of the fence separating them from the Holtzer cornfield. Awakened by a weird sound and some rustling - Wooooooo ..... Woooooooo! - not unlike the ones Mom used to make when she told us ghost stories - they peeped out of the pup tent flap to investigate when they saw this white figure prancing about between rows of corn, waving its arms about like it was about to take off. Bug-eyed, too paralyzed to move, they stared at the ghost until George finally gathered enough nerve to make a wild dash to his own home to retrieve his BB gun. Returning with a determination to send the phantom back to the place from whence it came, he peppered Dad with two BB shots and was about to fire the third when Dad began raising such a ruckus that George's hair must have stood straight up on his head. Sure that he had all but killed Ben's father, George dropped the gun and made a dash for the Crug home without so much as "I thought you were -" or "I didn't mean to shoot you, Mr. Coate, honest!" George was a stranger to the Coate household for quite some time after that. Fortunately a brass button on Dad's overalls right over his heart deflected one BB while the other was lodged in his chest where it remained until he died. [Note Given Charles' condition at the time I wrote the letter, I couldn't include this During the grave site ceremonies at Woodlawn Cemetery in Middletown, Ohio, just before Mom was laid to eternal rest beside Dad, the minister reminisced, reminding us all of the good times we had with Mom and Dad when we were all kids in our home on John Street in Trenton. The elderly gentleman at the fringe of the large crowd who was sobbing with grief at her passing was George Crug.] Remember how proud we all were when the Eagle Scout in the family, brother Bob was selected to go with a group all the way to Washington, D. C. to shake President Roosevelt's hand - and the disappointment we all felt when the trip was canceled due to a polio outbreak. Was Dad ever proud of his family! Though we were poor, our family was always rich in spirit. Though we didn't always have chicken we did have wild rabbit. I wasn't old enough to carry a gun but I'd sometimes tag along for the adventure of the hunt.. I remember we'd get up early, bundle up to brace the early morning chill. Puffing steam, we'd trek over the frosted, frozen turf in the fields to the rear of the house. But I had my share of skinning rabbits. In freezing weather they were sometimes strung up from the eaves of the garage. Most of all I remember our holidays. Holidays at the Coate house on John Street were always festive, and Mom always said that we had the most beautiful Christmas Tree in Trenton. And I still believe it! Remember the Billy goat that climbed atop the chicken house roof to butt us off if we didn't pay attention. And the time a bunch of us were gathered outside in the driveway in front of the garage cleaning and repairing bicycles. Shirley, a preschooler, gulped a glass of coal oil thinking it was water. "Look, Shirley's making bubbles" I exclaimed. When Albert realized what she had done, he grabbed her and carried her to the street, yelling at the driver in the passing car to stop! Stop! She was rushed to Dr. Dobbs and he got her to vomit it all up. Or the time that Shirley fainted on the roller coaster at Lesourdsville Lake and as they carried her around the lake to the aid station - a crowd followed believing she had drowned. As late as 1992 Shirley told me that when she awakened in the arms of the man who was carrying her she decided to faint all over again and fell limp in his arms. I suspect she kept fainting as long as she had an audience - or at least until she was safely inside the aid station. I remember the time that I was taking a bottle of Fuzzy Weir's root beer out of our coolerater. When it exploded in my hand and I thought for sure I'd lost a thumb. Off to Dr. Dobbs, this time the short cut through Adam Gozie's corn field. I still have the scar on my thumb. I'll never forget the bus trip that Mom and I took during WW II to Ashville, N. C. to visit Marahelen and Charles. The bus was so crowded that Mom sat on my lap. As we rounded those dangerous curves of the Smoky Mountain roads a mountaineer played his guitar and we all sang, "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes!" And we all remember our summer vacations with Marahelen and Charles and the wonderful times we had at family gatherings at Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret's deer hunting cabin in the mountains outside Ashville. What a retreat! And the time we went mountain hiking and Mom very coolly stepped over a rattle snake without so much as a blink. About a half mile below the cabin - diving off the rocks into the cold mountain stream - always on the outlook for water moccasin. And summer vacations on Aunt Mamie and Uncle Joe McKinley's farm in Piqua, Ohio or the Sunday afternoon visits when Aunt Mamie and Mom cooked up those big dinners of fresh farm produce and home baked bread in a brick oven. Ah, the aroma emanating from the kitchen! And in the depths of the depression, the Christmas we celebrated at Aunt Martha's in Dayton when Uncle Godfrey played Santa to us wide-eyed kids. What a joyous Christmas that was! And speaking of Aunt Martha, I'll never forget the time I sucke d in on a whistle when I was supposed to blow out and swallowed the darn thing. Poor Aunt Martha was beside herself with indecision when she grabbed me by the ankles, turned me upside down and bumped my head on the floor hoping I'd cough it up. Remember when Billy won the prize for best costume at the Halloween Carnival a couple years in a row. Especially the "Tin Man" from the "Wizard Of Oz " he made from flattened tin cans. Bill could also spin a yarn which would have impressed Will Rogers. Was he ever proud when he won him first prize in the Trenton High School Comedy Hour. Of course we all remember the story about Shirley's mishap when her prom date accidentally killed the stray mule which wandered in front of his car on the fog-bound country road somewhere outside Cincinnati. Despite the smashed windshield, neither were hurt. But imagine the shock on Mom's face when, near dawn the next morning, the terrified young boy escorted a disheveled Shirley to the front door, her beautiful yellow chiffon gown splattered with the blood of the poor creature. And remember the WW II years - when I led the 1943 Memorial Day parade carrying the American flag as we marched through the main streets of town ending up at the knoll overlooking the main intersection for the unveiling and dedication of the WW II Honor Board listing the names of the Trenton military personnel serving their country. And in 1944 when Mom got the dreaded telegram from the President of The United States informing her that Warren was Missing In Action after the D-Day landing. We waited and prayed and gathered around the radio hoping to hear of any news about the Army division with which he served. And finally our prayers were answered when we received a letter from Warren to let us know he was OK. Warren's future wife, Helen Schenck, living with us all through the war years, sharing our anxiety. Remember when Mom used to accompany your kid brother, Dick, on the piano with a resounding version of Turkey In The Straw when he danced black-face in the amateur "Major Bowles" contests as far away as Oxford or Dayton, Ohio. Who could have imagined that this amateur hour contestant would grow up to be Richard Coate, the actor who was among the pioneers of that new broadcast medium, Television, when, in 1948 he appeared on a series on WLW TV in Columbus, Ohio - during his years as a student at OSU - before he became the Korean War rifleman in silhouette in an AP photograph which was destined to attain iconic status, a symbol of American fighting forces in Korea, and a unique place in Cold War history. I remember that little house on Miami Street that you and Jane lived when some of your kids were born. It was built on a hill and as I recall you had to step down into the kitchen. I didn't think they could make them any smaller until Betty and I moved to New York. Our kitchen on Willow Street here in Brooklyn Heights was little more than a closet - but, like Jane and our mothers, Betty cooked up a storm. Betty and I recall stopping off at your house to watch television and have a beer - before I was inducted into the army and my tour of duty in Korea. By then we were in college and barring the three summers I spent at home before graduation, I never lived in Trenton again. I really enjoyed the 50th anniversary of our graduating class held at the Manchester Hotel. Class of '44! I hadn't seen most of them since then. We laughed so hard at the stories we had to tell on one another that the young newspaper reporter covering the event was amazed that so many "old folk" had so much life in 'em. Give our love to Wilma. I'm happy I was able to finally meet her in North Carolina at Marahelen's funeral. She fits right into the family. Betty sends her love too, Your brother, Richard"	COATE, Charles John (I11640)
642	Charlotte was a twin. She was listed 7th in her father's will. (C-864) Her husband apparently played around on her for which she was said to have left him often. She might have been the Charlotte who married a Samuel Thompson in 1817ami Co., Ohio. (C-1025, 1950)	JAY, Charlotte (I15769)
643	Children have not been able to be found for this couple. Collins book theorizes that he came to the U.S. and names children, Joseph, Walter, William, Sarah, Mary and Hannah in his 1775 will written in Hunterdon Co., NJ. If so, he moved to Tinicum, Bucks Co., PA by 1786 where he died in 1795. His son Joseph was first named as his executor. Joseph was of Knowlton Twp., Sussex Co., NJ at the time. It should be noted however, that a Quaker summary sheet in Hunterdon Co. prepared by an unknown researcher, believes the William who wrote his will in Hunterdon Co., NJ is the son of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. To date all Coates in Hunterdon Co., NJ have been the descendants of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. We have no evidence that William and Deborah's son William moved to Hunterdon Co., NJ as of this date 2019. However, most persons including myself believe that Samuel and Mary's son William is the one that moved to Newberry Co., SC in 1762 to follow his brother Marmaduke there. Again we have no proof that their son William is the one that moved south to SC. Either of these theories could be true as far as the William goes who wrote his will in 1775 in Hunterdon Co., NJ. There are a few records I've found in NJ that might apply to this William. A William Coate was the bondsman in the estate of Edw. Rockhill of Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ in 1748. A William is mentioned in the inventory of the estate of Robert Hartshorne of Burlington on Jun 27, 1752. A William Coates and Mary Marsh were administrators for David Marsh's estate of Hunterdon Co., NJ in 1770. (C-1, p.167) One of William's daughters was married to a John McFaron when his will was probated in 1795 as John was one of the administrators along with William's own son, Joseph. This William was not of the Quaker faith as he began his will with an oath: "In the Name of God, Amen." When he wrote his will in 1775, all of his children appeared to be of age. One of his daughters was married to his son-in-law, John McParson, (one of his executors) but she is not named in that context. I transcribed his will below: "In The name of God Amen the thirtyeth Day of May in the year of our Lord God Anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Five I William Cotes of Kingwood in the County of Hunterdon And province of New Jersey Yeoman Being Very Sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore calling to Mind the Mortallity of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say principally and ( ) of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it and for my body I Recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner at the (Decision) of my Executors Nothing Doubling but at the General (Resurrection) I Shall Receive the Same Gain by the Mighty power of God And as (leaving?) Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this Life I Give ( ) and ( ) of the ( ) in the following manner and form, ( ) it is my will in the first place that all my Movable Estate be Sold in a Convenient Time after my Decease Excepting two Beds and Beding by my Executors hereafter (Named) to pay my funeral Charges and Debts. Item it is my will that all my Lands that I Possess be (Sowing) two years from this date. Item it is my will that after all my Just Debts and Legeses hereafter Mentioned be paid that the Reminder of my Estate be Equally Divided Between my three well Beloved Sons Joseph Cotes and William Cotes and Walter Cotes Item it My will that if it Should Please the Lord to take any of my well Beloved Children out of this world Without Issue Then his or her Share so Deceased to be Equally Divided Amongst my Surviving Children. Item it is my will that My Executors Do pay to my well Beloved Daughter-Sarah her-heirs or Assigns the sum of thirty pounds Good and lawful money in (....) months after the Sale of the Lands Item it is my will that my Executors do pay to my well Beloved Daughter Mary the Sum of Twenty pounds Good And Lawful Money in twelve months after the Sales of My Lands Item it is my will that my Executers do pay to my well Beloved Daughter Hannah Her Heirs or Assigns the Sum of Thirty pounds Good and Lawful money in Eighteen Months After the Sale of my Lands Item it is my will that my Executors Do Deliver to my Daughter Mary one Bed and Beding Immediately After my Decease Item it is will that my Executors Do Deliver to my Daughter Hannah one Bed and Beding Immediately after My Decease Item it is my will that my Wearing Apperal at my Decease be Equally Divided Among my three Well Beloved Sons Viz: Joseph William and Walter And I do Hereby Appoint my well Beloved Son Joseph Cotes and My Beloved Son in Law John McParson Sole Executors of this my Last will and testament hereby Revoking Defannuling and Making Void all former wills Bequeathed by me made and Declaring this and no other to be my last will and testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Aff(idavid) my Seal this thirtyeth Day of May Anno Domini one thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Five Signed Sealed ( ) Pronounced and Declared by the Said William Cotes as his last will and testament in the Presence of us the (Subscribers) (Signed Marten Cogart, Levi Hatcham (or Katcham), John Vankirk and William Coats" From this will we can ascertain that all of his children appeared to be of age and he appeared to be elderly. He mentions no wife. With six children being born an average of two years apart and all being of age (the girls living elsewhere where beds would have to be delivered), would make his oldest child be at least 33 years of age and born 1742 or earlier. An added note in the index to the will says that he was "of Tinicum, Bucks Co." when his will was filed 22 years later in 1797. He was in the tax records for Tinacum starting in 1787.	COATS, William (I926)
644	Christian and Susanna had all of their children in Pennsylvania before moving to Holmes Co., Ohio in 1829. Some of their children remained behind. Some of them moved to Ohio, one onto Indiana and two to Iowa. He and his wife originalld in Hardy Twp., Holmes Co., Oh according to the 1830 census of the newly formed Holmes Co. There was also a Jacob Mast in Hardy Twp. in 1830 on the same census page as him whom I suspect was his son. He and his wife are buried on their family plot on their farm in Berlin Twp., Holmes Co., Ohio.	MAST, Christian (I9671)
645	Christian was a Rev. War Veteran, buried in the Baer Meeting House Cemetery in York Co, PA on the York/Hanover Rd. There is a Revolutionary War marker on his grave. (CL-526)	BAER, Christian (I8722)
646	Christine, a Tharp researcher who has been corresponding with Shirley Workman gives David's birth date as 1827, a year before his parents were born.	THARP, David (I5268)
647	Christopher Coates believes that his ancestor, Thomas Coates, who was born in 1783 is this Thomas. The 1850 Philadelphia census has a Richard L. and Jane Sanford living with a Thomas Coats (age 67), his wife Mary and children, William any Ann (a possible nickname for Margaret). Christopher Coates' ancestor, Thomas is therefore of the right age and from the right place to be the Thomas who is the son of William and Margaret Norris. Jane and Richard L. Sanford appeared to have been borders in Thomas's home and were possibly brother and sister to each other instead of a couple. In any case, Thomas's wife's name is Mary P. Linslay and his son's name is William Henry Harrison Coats/Coates, b. 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris feels that his daughter Marcy Ann, age 7 in the 1850 census was the Margaret who married Richard Sanford before 1860 census as Marcy is a nickname for Margaret.	COATS, Thomas (I1013)
648	Christopher died without having children. The estate he'd inherited from his father went to his brother William. (F-635)	MALLORY, Christopher (I14281)
649	Christopher Forte is the son of Samuel Forte and Jane Neblett because of the following connections. We know he is the son of Samuel Forte according to his grandson, Edward Forte's memoirs. There were two Samuels that married about the same time in Barbados. Our Samuel married Jane Neblett because they had daughter's Mary and Sarah (married John Millard on Oct. 5, 1830 in St. George's Parish, Barbados) who were both mentioned as Aunts in Edward Forte's memoirs. Daughter Sarah Millard is mentioned in her father Samuel Forte's will. The other Samuel Forte who married Susanna Carmichaell in St. Thomas Parish on 17 Mar 1791 is not our line because they had no sons named Christopher, only sons named Thomas Carmichaell and William Gibbes Alleyne Forte. "Christopher remarried after Anna died and had 4 more children by his second m(arriage) to Mary Yearwood who are Edward Cyrus I's half brothers and sisters." (F-318) This is information passed down to Libby Swenson from her grandfather and is probably slightly wrong in Edward's middle name and Mary's surname. Below is a transcript of Christopher Forte's original handwritten will is in the ARCHIVES on the island of Barbados. It was the policy of the Archives not to allow Xeroxing of original documents. Therefore, we filmed it with our video camera and will transcribe it here for future knowledge. Please note that it was Christopher's intention that all his children share equally in his estate. This was, however, not what actually occurred after his death. All money went to his oldest son, as was dictated by English Law at the time. This forced our ancestor, Edward, his 14 year old son, to make a way for himself at sea. Barbados: This is the last will and testament of me, Christopher Forte of the Parrish of Saint Thomas an island (above) and Practitioner of Physic, (Aforesaid) - That all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid and satisfied as soon as possible after my decease. After such debts and funeral expenses are paid and satisfied I give and devise to my beloved wife and children by this my present wife as well as those of my late departed wife all my (freehold) property in Saint Thomas and Saint James to be divided as under - To my wife, Mary Greaves Forte, one eighth part during her natural life or as long as she remains a widow or unmarried and in case she married or dies the said one eighth part to abe equally divided among the surviving child or children The remaining seven eighth to be equally divided amongst the named children, Samuel Simmons Forte, Christopher Forte, Edward Forte, Nathaniel Forte, Anna Forte, Jane Hinds Forte, John Millard Forte on their attaining the age of twenty one and in case of the death of one or more of the said named child or children before their arriving at the age of twenty one years I direct that the share and ( ) falling into the estate shall be equally divided between the survivors and if only one, the whole to the said survivor.-And I further direct that all other my estate real or personal shall be divided as above and I direct that if the (business) is carried on for the benefit of my wife Sarah Greaves and children by the said Sarah Greaves as well as those of my late departed wife to be in equal proportions for the benefit of the whole and for my wife Sarah Greaves as long as she remains unmarried.-In witness whereof I here unto put my hand and seal this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand and Eighteen Hundred Thirty Four. Christopher Forte (signed) Witness: Hugh Goodridge (Arabella) Millard Sarah Sophia Millard [These two females are his step-nieces as they were his sister Sarah's 2nd husband's children] I hereby appoint my beloved Father, Dr. Samuel Forte and John Millard, my brother-in-law my executors to this my last will and testament. Christopher Forte (signed) Witness: Hugh Goodridge (Maballa) (Cha ) Millard Sarah Sophia Millard Barbados By his Excellency the Governor Appealed personally before me this day Hugh Goodridge one of the subscribing witnesses to the forgoing written will and codicil and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he was present and did see Christopher Forte the testator therein named (since deceased) sign seal publish and declare the same as and for his last will and testament and codicil and that he was at the executing thereof respectively a sound and disposing mind and memory to the best of his the (Seponent) judgment and belief--Given at the government house this first day of December, 1834. (F-188:Record Book 4: Vol.64, p. 219) (It is interesting to note that the witness to Christopher's will, Hugh Goodridge, was a surgeon who worked with Christopher Forte, Physician, in the Militia of Barbados, St. Thomas Regiment in 1831. (F-189: v.17, p. 116) There is one record about a Christopher Forte that I have not yet matched to any C. Forte in Barbados at the time. It reads, "Thursday (last) (Oct. 31, 1844?) Philip T. Gooodridge, Esq. (married) to Elizabeth C.(or L), daughter of late Christopher Forte, Sen., Esq." Journal of the BMHS. This could still apply to this Christopher Forte. He possibly had another daughter Elizabeth that I did not know about. (F-187)	FORTE, Christopher (I15933)
650	Christopher named several key people in his will that support his relationship to the Searle (Sale) family. He bequeathed parts of his estate to many persons, usually sisters, brothers and cousins, but all probably his relatives. Namesded brother, Edward Searle (son of Edward Searle and Elizabeth Gifford), sisters Mansfield (Marie Searle m. to John Mansfield. Marie was a sister to his first wife, Sarah Sale, deSouth Carolina.), Preston (Elizabeth Searle m. to William Preston, Elizabeth was the oldest sister of his first wife, Sarah Sale), Ingraham (?), and (Hope) Foster (probable wife of William Foster also mentioned, unknown relationship to Sales), Ephraim Serle (to which he gave his house) (unknown relationship to Sales?), Alice Searle (unknown), Hannah Searle (unknown), Daniel Preston, Jr. (nephew-in-law through first wife's sister, Elizabeth); cousin, Joseph Alsop, Jr.(even though he calls him cousin, Joseph is actually his nephew-in-law through his first wife); brother, James Brett and cousin Samuel Brett; and Elizabeth and her sister Mercy (with unstated surnames and unknown relationship). The following records were provided by Sharon Metcalf from the book "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33" at www.ancestry.com. : "ORIGIN: Chesham, Buckinghamshire, MIGRATION: 1630, FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester, REMOVES: Boston, 1648, OCCUPATION: Chandler. Soapboiler. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Christopher Gibson and Marie Gibson were admitted to the second Dorchester church soon after the reorganization 23 August 1636 [DChR 2]. Admitted to the Second Church of Boston, 5 June 1650, where he was deacon [Boston Second 248, 299]. On 10 September 1653 the General Court answered the petition of Christopher Gibson and three others "in behalf of the rest of the new church in Boston," denying them the right to call Michael Powell as pastor or teacher [MBCR 41177]. FREEMAN Requested 19 October 1630 [MBCR 180]. EDUCATION Signed his deeds. His inventory included "one Great Bible & 1/3 part of the book of Martyrs, 1 small Bible & other divinity books" valued at	GIBSON, Christopher (I7567)

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Called Hugh the Dignified; he died in battle.OrinedhaAodh Ordnigh

602

Called Neil of the Black Knee; killed fighting the Vikings in the Battle of Dublin. The O'Neills were the chiefs of the Cenel Eoghain tribe; their ancestral lands were sometimes called Tir Eoghain, roughly equivalent to the modern County Tyron. The surname is derived from Ui Niall, meaning descendant of Niall. The Ui Niall were the great royal dynasty of Northern Ireland; they separated from their kinsmen, the Connachta, after the famous accomplishments of the legendary King Niall of the Nine Hostages. The surname, however, did not exist until after Niall Glundubh. Niall captured and drowned a murderer in 907 who had violated the sanctuary of Armagh. He campaigned repeatedly against the Danes and Vikings, but was mortally wounded in combat in DublinOwner of Drinking cup at DunveganNeil Black-knee Glundubh

MAC AEDH, Niall (I6591)

603

Called Neil of the Showers; he abdicated in favor of Dunnchad Midi mac Domnall Frossach.

MAC FEARGHALL, Niall (I6570)

604

Called Niall of the River Caillen; he drowned in that river trying to save one of his men.

MAC AEDH, Niall (I6490)

605

Candee Varville proposes that this daughter Margaret as per John Ponder's will is the daughter known as Mary in an 1806 record of her step father when he says that his deceased wife, Mary, was the father of his son William and her daughty Ponder who was then 8 and a half years old.

PONDER, Margaret (I2559)

606

Capt. Moore Fauntleroy, the captain of the ship on which the Underwoods traveled, received 450 cares of land on the Rappahannock River on the N. side of Swan Bay on May 22, 1650, for transporting 9 individuals including, George Underwood,fe Mary and Anne Underwood. He relinquished the rights to this land to make good the patent on the other side of the river for 5350 acres of land. This info can be verified in Patent Bo., 2, p. 195. (C-2394) On this same day he reveived 1800 acres on the N. side of the river adjoining the land of William Underwood for transporting 36 persons which included Thomas Underwood.

FAUNTLEROY, Moore (I8144)

607

Captain Richard More was a bastard child according to many sources. He was the only More child who came on the Mayflower to survive. He is of ancient Royalty according to the Mayflower Society".

"The passenger list of the Mayflower includes four children without parents; they were not orphans, however they may as well have been. The children, between the ages of four and eight, were placed with families making the voyage. The More children are the only passengers with known royal ancestry, with descent from King David I and King Edward I of England.

The children were baptized at Shipton Parish, Shropshire, England as follows. The only child to survive the first winter was Richard.

Elinor/Ellen [Ellinora] More, baptized, 24 May 1612; was placed with Edward and Rose Winslow;
Jasper [Jasperus] More, baptized, 8 August 1613; was placed with John and Katharine Carver
Richard [Richardus] More, baptized 13 November 1614; was placed with William and Mary Brewster.
Maria More, baptized 16 April 1616; was placed with William and Mary Brewster; [Bradford mistakenly said she was a brother of Richard

MORE, Captain Richard (I11490)

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Captain William Jameson does not appear to have had any black ancestry from cousin matches of Jameson's previous to the children of this couple. Sarah on the other hand has 10 out of the first 10 descendants who all have DNA from the Bantu people of Africa.

They appear to have moved from Ireland to Pennsylvania abt. 1713 and from Philadelphia, PA to what was to become Augusta Co., Virginia in 1725/1726 if the birthdates are correct for their children.

William and his wife Sarah married in the famous church in Philadelphia that many of our founding fathers attended. It had a 25% African membership and was very progressive in it's outreach to this community. They appear to have embraced a mixed race marriage.

William Jameson and wife are the only common ancestral line I've found with a DNA cousin match named Morgan Barker. If I can verify matching DNA with other Jameson descendants, this will prove that my William D. Clark is correctly descended from Ferguson's and Jameson's/Jamison's as currently charted on ancestrees. However, it must be noted that his William Jameson's son John does not match the info I have on his son John at all or John's descendants so I'm not holding my breath that this William is the father of my John Jameson.

JAMISON, Captain William * R-BY8986 (Cameroon heritage) (I8901)

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Carlisle, Cumberland, PA

Source (S3041)

610

Carson City Marriage Records. Carson City Recorder's Office, Carson City, Nevada.

Source (S168)

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Carter Dukes and his wife were born well before the civil war and were likely slaves for much of their lives. A slave owner in the Edgefield District of SC that had slaves of the ages of most of this family is accounted for by J C Smyley who apparently owned a large plantation there. According to the 1860 Slave Schedule for the US, he owned male slaves of the age of 55 and 45 (Carter if his age was not estimated correctly or if he lived elsewhere), a female, age 45 (Caty), a male, age 12 (George), a male, age 6, (Adam) and a male age 2 (Thomas). He was of the Saluda District of Edgefield County, SC in 1860.

In any case, if he is the son of Abraham, Araham's heirs received their father's bounty land grant after their father died in 1814. Because Abraham enlisted in 1812 and died in service in Illinois in 1814, his heirs would have recieved 160 acres in Illinois, Arkansas, Michigan or Missouri. His father's land was assigned in Arkansas. Since Carter still lived in South Carolina in 1870, I'm not sure if he ever moved to Arkansas.

DUKES, Carter (I757)

612

Cassander joined his military forces with King Hamecus of Thringia and King Arabius of Saxony. (C-1346)

CASSANDER, King Of Sicambri (I16586)

613

Catcott is only about 5 miles from Curry Rivel where his father grew up.

COTE, John (I2659)

614

Catherine also spelled her name Katherine. She gives her state of birth as Ohio in the 1880 Iowa census records. (Dist 199, Koszta, Iowa, IA Roll T9-345; Film: 1254345; P117b Image 22 as Catherine Coats) (C-482)

WYLAND, Katherine (I14717)

615

Catherine might also have maried Samuel Silknitter in 1836 and James Myers in 1848 in Montgomery Co., OH and James P. Hedges in Mercer Co., Ohio in 1850. (C-1025)

HERB, Catharina (I16142)

616

Catherine was a "zelous Quaker Minister". Her husband, known as Big George Robinson was not born a Quaker. This caused some concern when she married him. They first declared their intention of marriage on the 3rd day, 1st mo, 1687 at tark/Kennett Monthly Meeting in what was then Pennsylvania When they declared it a second time on the 7th day, 2 mo, 1688, friends asked them to wait to marry as they were still uncertain of it. This normally would have been the meeting where they would have been given consent. They again asked for consent on the 4th mo, 1688 and members were appointed to inquire of them on these intentions. The 5th mo, 1688, the meeting finally gave their consent. They finally married athe the monthly meeting held at Catherine's father's house on the 11th mo, 5th day, 1688. They had six children. Eli Jay has her listed as the d. of Valentine and Ann Calvert. That is because he has the marriage date of these two a decade earlier than most other sources. (C-1546, 2169E)

HOLLINGSWORTH, Catherine (I12028)

617

Catherine was a Quaker. (C-1817)

LESTER, Catherine (I12120)

618

CD-100 and 102 place this Elin in this order in the family tree. CD-100 appears to have an estimate error on her birth date. It states 1345 which would be after her daughter and 35+ years after her husband's birth date. CD-102 spells herlin Ferch Meredith.

FERCH MAREDUDD, Elinor (I12596)

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CD-100 and Donovan give the mother of Herbert II's children as Leigarde, d. of Robert. Leigarde has a long and known lineage. However, the source I trust most which is Tompsett's Royal Site gives his spouse and mother of his children as. (C-1351)

COUNT DE VERMANDOIS AND TROYES, Herbert II * (I13169)

620

CD-100 estimates her birth date about 1540. She would be only 11 at the tie of her son William's estimated birth date.

LAMBERT, Mary (I12886)

621

CD-100 gives his father as Anarad ap Rhodri "Mawr" born 857 and grandfather as Rhodri "Mawr" ap Merfyn b. 788. As this timing is stretched and as CD-100 has not always been reliable, I've chosen the lineage in the Princes of Wales that giodri "Mawr" as his great grandfather. This Idwal "Foel" was the Prince of Wales. (C-788)

AP ANARAWD, Idwal "Foel" (I12706)

622

CD-100 gives his mother as Nest FERCH CADELL instead and a line that goes back into the 300's. His title was King of Powys. (C-788)

AP GWRIAD, Merfyn "Frych" (I12899)

623

CD-100 gives his wife's name as Nest FERCH CADELL of Wales. (C-788)

AP ELIDIR, Gwriad (I12876)

624

CD-100 lists this same Adela as the mother of Adelaide of Poitou. However, it gives her a different husband as the father of Adela. I chose to accept information from "Pedigrees of Some of Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol III," asg more authority.

Adele's birth date is estimated at between 917 and 920 in sources I've seen for her. However, Rollo, her father, is married a second time to Gisela in 912, indicating that Adele was either illegitimate by his first wife Poppa or one of the dates is incorrect. (C-1351)

OF NORMANDY, Adela (Gerloc) (I13293)

625

CD-100 refers to her as Mallt Ferch Hugh.

AP IEVAN, Mallt D.Of Hugh (I12550)

626

CD-100 says that Rachel's mother is named Rachel. This apparently comes from a Quaker baptismal record dated 12 July 1721 at All Hallow's, listing her father as Joseph Wells and his wife Rachel. In the Southern Friend, V. XVI, 1994, Richard Kelly states that the entry in the All Hallow's book was in error and they simply repeated daughter Rachel's name by accident. He also finds error with the date of birth listed for her in Quaker records as occurring on 3(May)/27/1720. This would have been before Joseph and Margaret were married. (C-575)

The Cane Creek Quaker record states she was the d. of Margaret Swanson and Joseph Wells, but this could be explained by the fact that she had only known Margaret as her mother, and gave her name without being concerned for the genealogy of it. This record was made sometime after 1758 which was 38 years after Rachel's birth. (C-1553, D.J. Rowe)

In any case, Rachel was born while her father, Joseph Wells, was farming land in Anne Arundel Co. belonging to his brother's stepson. The Cane Creek Monthly Meeting record was also in error in stating that she was born in Prince George, Maryland.

Rachel was a fairly well noted frontier Quaker minister before the American Revolution. She became a Quaker when she married. This is significant. Her parents moved into the faith several years after her marriage. She would not have been baptized Quaker and this where the controversy lies in Quaker Records. The Quaker Baptismal record would have been created after she was an adult and is therefore not first hand information. It is entirely possible that her mother was Margaret Swanson instead. She came from radical Puritan and Catholic stock who sought religious freedom in the tolerant Maryland under Lord Baltimore. Several of her ancestors were of armorial families in England. (C-575, p. 35)

Rachel and her husband moved to Orange County, North Carolina from the Monacy Meeting, Prince George Co., Maryland about 1749. They helped found the Cane Creek Meeting in Orange Co., North Carolina. She with Abigail Overton Pike and several others rode on horseback to the Little River Quarterly Meeting in Peruimans in 1751 to seek permission for Cane Creek's Monthly Meeting status. This was granted by them on the sixth month, 31st day of 1751. Cane Creek held their first monthly meeting on the tenth month of 1751 wherein fifteen certificates of removal were submitted. (C-1663)

She was the center of a major controversy in this region during the movement known as the Regulators. She committed the offense of defending her daughter, Charity, against false charges of "carnal knowledge" with Jehu Stuart". She later apologized and this was accepted by her Quaker Meeting until she applied to remove to Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1763. Some of the members doubted the sincerity of her apology and thought her certificate should not be granted. She was then disowned by the church. A principle, outspoken well known liberal Quaker of the time, Hermon Husband, was caught up in the feud defending her. Due to his violent reaction, he was disowned in 1763 and moved north back to Pennsylvania with his family after the decision was appealed to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings where only his disownment was not reversed in Feb. of 1764. Rachel was granted her removal at the 1764 yearly meeting. (C-575)

The Cane Creek meeting back in North Carolina mentions her kindly at her death 23 12m 1771, aged about 52 years as "a friend of the Ministry, wife of John, one of the first beginners of a meeting at Bush River." (C-646, 966)

WELLS, Rachel Minister (I15897)

627

CD-102 lists his name just as Griffith Fynchan.

GRUFFUDD, Gruffudd Fychan (I12581)

628

CD-102 states that Owen is a first cousin to his wife Angharad. His name in that disk was spelled Owen ap Meredith.

AP MAREDYDD, Owen (I12599)

629

Ceawlin, King of Wessex, governed the West Saxons starting in 560 and reigned thirty winters. In 593 there was a great slaughter and he was driven from his kingdom, the year of his death. (C-437)

KING OF WESSEX, Ceawlin (I16392)

630

Celeste and Yvonne were twins. Their died giving birth to them. C

BOUILLON, Celeste Helene (I8014)

631

Census Publishing. State Census Records. West Jordan, Utah: Census Publishing, 2003-2009.

Source (S1923)

632

Cerdic was a Saon Earldorman. In 495 he founded a new settlement on the coast of Hampshire, England. He took the title of King of Wessex or King of the West Saxons in 519. In that year he and his son Cynric attacked the Britons with fivs, namely at Charford. The West Saxons have reigned England from that day. He is the ancestor of the English Royal line. In 530 they conquered the Isle of Wight. He died in 534 as the first King of the Wessex. (C-437)

Cerdic Cerdic King Of Wessex (I16426)

633

Chalkley's entry is as follows on this Jane Young and her husband: Page 109.--15th February, 1748. Jane Cook's bond as administratrix of Patrick Cook, with sureties Hugh Young, Robt. Young, John Spear. After her husband's death, Uncle Hung took guardianship of Patrick and Jane Cook's children. (E)

YOUNG, Jane (I9048)

634

Charlemagne's ancestry can be traced back through the beginning of recorded history to Adam and Eve. (See ancestrees.com)

Charlemagne (I1488)

635

Charles Coulson Rich, his parents and sister, Minerva joined the Mormon Church in 1832. He and his family moved to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Charles Coulson Rich was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles in the Mormon Church fr9 to 1883, being ordaned on Feb. 12, 1849. He was known for his brilliant talents, great stamina, and real goodness. He made many treacherous journeys over the mountains to attend sessions of the legislature and is famous for his leadership in the Mormon Church's early history. Brigham Young University's biography of him on the Internet lists him as "beloved by all who knew him." He had six wives and fiftyone children. (C-1344, 1345, 1563) His ancestry has supposedly been well researched by the Mormon Church and goes back through Charlemagne from 3 different angles.

RICH, Charles Coulson (I13947)

636

Charles County/Patuxent County

BEALL, Jane Margaret * (I11312)

637

Charles is in the deed records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in 1817 and 1823. (C-1025)

JAY, Charles (I12366)

638

Charles married his father's great niece, Juliana. He acceded to the throne in 790 being named King of Neustria. Charles was chosen to be the son who succeeded Charlemagne as emperor. He was crowned King the same day his father wasd Emperor of the West in the year 800. However, he died of a stroke a couple years before his father died keeping this dream from fruition. (E)

Charles (The Younger) Charles (The Younger) King Of France (I5219)

639

Charles probably helped establish a settlement known as the Little Miami around the year 1800 along with Samuel Kelly, Abijah O'Neal, James Mills and Thomas Horner. Charles's wife came with multiple Quaker families on certificate dated 9/2. (C-1297) Charles appears to me to be the likely brother of James Patty, b. bef 1758 of SC who had a son named James who's daughter Sarah married Thomas Coate.

PATTY, Charles (I15798)

640

Charles R. was in the 1900 census twice. On June 4, he was a boarder at Marguerite Patton's home in Tuscarawas Twp., Coshocton, Ohio and listed as a coal miner. On June 12, he was living with his parents in the 1900 census and is againd as a coal miner by trade, though his father was a farmer. He is likely to be the Charles Hall who enlisted in the infantry in Wheeling, West Virginia on Mar. 24, 1904. He said he was born in Coshocton, Choshocton Co., Ohio. He was a miner by trade. He was 5'8" tall with dark brown hair and a fair complextion. He was discharged on March 23, 1907 in Georgia.

HALL, Charles R. (I9501)

641

Charles was a partner in the Coate Floor Company with his brother Ben. He was a member of Eagles Lodge 2801 at Buckeye Lake. He was a former member of East Columbus Lions. Charles was married for about six months in 1940 to a woman whurname is not remembered. They lived 2 houses down from his parents house on John St. in Trenton, Ohio. (C-2108) In 1945, he married Jane, his wife of many years and mother of his children. He was a very caring husband to Jane in her last years after she suffered disabilities from a stroke. (C-72) His kindness was returned by his third wife, Wilma, and his sons and daughters-in-law when liver cancer brought the end to his life. It was the same affliction that had taken his father.

Charles lived on Buckeye Lake in Ohio the last several years of his life. He loved to fish and boat. He spent many of his last days enjoying the view from his home. (C-1397) He had several children and grandchildren listed in his obituary that I can't place. Listed with his sons was a David Howell married to Jeri. Listed as stepsons were Carl Dittoe and Darl Dittoe married to Sally and Joanna respectively.

The following lengthy letter to Charles from his brother, Richard, tells a great deal about this family's life. "Richard Coate Brooklyn, NY 11201July 12, 1997

Dear Brother Charles, You'll have to forgive me for the delay in writing this letter. I came down with a case of bronchitis which put me behind schedule. However, the antibiotic has knocked most of it out of my system so I'm doing my best to catch up. I'm sorry that neither Betty or I can be with Shirley when she visits you in Ohio. She's going to spend a couple days with us before she flies to Columbus. She'll get here on Wednesday evening, the 16th and leave on Saturday morning the 19th. She'll get a whirlwind tour of some of the highlights in the neighborhood and Manhattan on Thursday. Friday we'll make a trip up to Jennifer's in Dutchess County. As you know she lives way out in the country surrounded by farm land. The Shenandoah mountain is on the distant horizon - so Shirley will be able to see Jennifer and Joe, their beautiful 175 year old, nine room house and some of the scenic wonders of NY State while she's here.

You have been much on our minds and in our prayers since we got the news of your illness. Betty and I began reflecting upon our childhood and our life in Trenton when our families were all together.

Though the town has changed much in the ensuing years, I still retain the images of what it was way back in the '30s when the population was only 350 and we were kids. Remember taking baths in a wash tub in the kitchen? Norman Rockwell would have had a ball, Mom standing over one of us, with the next in line waiting turn. That was way back when the House of The Seven Smokes was still standing. I don't know about you, but Warren, Bill and I did a lot of foraging around in that abandoned and very spooky building.

I'm glad Daddy had to the sense to get some of the flooring before it was completely demolished. The downstairs of 113 John Street had wide-planked highly-polished ash floors as a result of it. I still remember the Amish rigs on Hamilton Pike and the Model-T Fords, and little Wally Poplin climbing the water-tower, the whole town holding its breath until someone finally rescued him!

Remember the short cut to school through Adam Gozie's corn field. One day he lay in wait, caught me just as I was about to climb the fence onto John Street. Talk about surprise! He booted me in the butt so hard that I peed in my pants. Once he hoisted me over the fence and released his grip I was off and running. Though he spewed out a string of invective I was so terrified couldn't understand a word of it. But I sure did get the gist of it! It was a long, long time before I got up enough nerve to take that short cut again.

After growing up in a rural town like that way back before any of us ever heard of television, who could ever have imagined that in our lifetime there would be such technological wonders as Internet or American scientists landing on the moon, and exploring Mars or the moons of Jupiter! That was "Flash Gordon" or "Buck Rogers" funny paper stuff. And remember the fuss we made over who would be first to read the funnies and we'd all wind up sprawled on the floor with them spread out before us.

Remember those hot summer days when everything seemed to be at a standstill and the long treks we made to the gravel pit to cool off - sometimes twice a day. We'd sometimes stop at the gas station by the railroad tracks opposite the old Scheibert house [where Betty lived before their house was moved up to John Street opposite ours] and if we could afford it we'd buy a coke in one of those glass bottles and pause long enough to drink it while the station attendants went about their business with their attention glued to the baseball game on the radio. And when the train passed through one could hear its whistle all over town.

The gravel pit - now that was a swimming hole! Spring fed no less. If my memory serves me right, wasn't it also stocked with cat fish? I know we caught cat fish from somewhere around Trenton. I believe Mom used to make a batter of corn meal, dip them into it before she plopped them in that big black iron skillet full of lard atop the blue porcelain two oven Kalamazoo wood stove. If the smell of frying cat fish didn't make your mouth water, nothing would.

Talk about kitchen smells. Monday was wash day. Soap suds and beans. One day was ironing day and Mom had stacks of clean smelling linen on the back porch. I'll never forget how it felt to climb into bed and sleep on a freshly washed, sun-dried and hand- ironed sheet. Whoever heard of ironing a sheet these days? One day was house cleaning day, and Mom would put those lace doilies on the sofa and we had to pay special care that we didn't muss them up. Since she raised nine of us, it's a measure of the respect we had for her that those doilies remained in place and unruffled. . Or baking days. Remember how the house smelled when we came home after school. Every surface in the kitchen was filled with baked goods. Golden crusted loaves of bread, big buns, sugar rolls with cinnamon and vanilla icing, doughnuts dipped in powdered sugar! Pies and cakes!

Then there was canning season - the aroma of strawberry jam mixed with the melted wax. The smell of the dinner before we all sat down around the kitchen table. There was many a day when Bill and I would race across the field in time to tune in on an episode of Little Orphan Annie before we sat down to dinner. And on special days we'd have bread pudding for desert. To this day I have never tasted a bread pudding that can match Mom's! And I'll never forget the day that Mom put a big pan of it atop the buffet to cool. Only after Mom had accused everyone else in the house of eating the whole pan full did Daddy finally confess! When he came home there was no one around so he took one look at it and said, "For once in my life I'm going to get my full of bread pudding!" And he did!

Then there were the times on those long summer nights when we played kick the can out under the street light, and in winter we made walnut fudge on top the blue Kalamazoo coal burning stove. Fudge has never tasted as good since! I remember the time that Daddy fell asleep in his living room rocking chair with his jaw agape. Bill and I decided we'd play a joke on him so we ran to the kitchen, got the pepper shaker and sprinkled it on his tongue. We were long gone when he awakened, sputtering and spitting. I don't know if we ever confessed, but this much I know, he never let on that anything unusual ever happened after we finally got nerve enough to go back into the house.

Remember the day that you had that unfortunate encounter with the skunk in the fields to the rear of the house. The creature was concealed in the hedge row near the Seeman farm when you attempted a short cut - just waiting for some wayward kid to challenge his turf! Talk about stink! You called to Mom from the back yard and she made you change clothes and take a bath either outside or on the back porch before you were permitted to come in the house. After that day a Coate kid would make a wide and respectful circle around that hedge row.

And on summer nights, the dazzling array of fireflies hovering over the cornfields; we were mesmerized at the wonder of it and even the distant sound of the train whistle of the Baltimore and Ohio passing through at the other end of town did not break the spell. .Though I doubt that I was born yet or if I was I was too little to remember, but the story was told me so many times it's as if I had witnessed the event myself. Ben and his buddy, George Crug were "camping out" in a pup tent in the alley to the rear of the house - below that wild cherry tree we used to climb. Ben and George had bedded down and settled in for the night - just this side of the fence separating them from the Holtzer cornfield. Awakened by a weird sound and some rustling - Wooooooo ..... Woooooooo! - not unlike the ones Mom used to make when she told us ghost stories - they peeped out of the pup tent flap to investigate when they saw this white figure prancing about between rows of corn, waving its arms about like it was about to take off. Bug-eyed, too paralyzed to move, they stared at the ghost until George finally gathered enough nerve to make a wild dash to his own home to retrieve his BB gun. Returning with a determination to send the phantom back to the place from whence it came, he peppered Dad with two BB shots and was about to fire the third when Dad began raising such a ruckus that George's hair must have stood straight up on his head. Sure that he had all but killed Ben's father, George dropped the gun and made a dash for the Crug home without so much as "I thought you were -" or "I didn't mean to shoot you, Mr. Coate, honest!" George was a stranger to the Coate household for quite some time after that. Fortunately a brass button on Dad's overalls right over his heart deflected one BB while the other was lodged in his chest where it remained until he died. [Note Given Charles' condition at the time I wrote the letter, I couldn't include this During the grave site ceremonies at Woodlawn Cemetery in Middletown, Ohio, just before Mom was laid to eternal rest beside Dad, the minister reminisced, reminding us all of the good times we had with Mom and Dad when we were all kids in our home on John Street in Trenton. The elderly gentleman at the fringe of the large crowd who was sobbing with grief at her passing was George Crug.]

Remember how proud we all were when the Eagle Scout in the family, brother Bob was selected to go with a group all the way to Washington, D. C. to shake President Roosevelt's hand - and the disappointment we all felt when the trip was canceled due to a polio outbreak. Was Dad ever proud of his family!

Though we were poor, our family was always rich in spirit. Though we didn't always have chicken we did have wild rabbit. I wasn't old enough to carry a gun but I'd sometimes tag along for the adventure of the hunt.. I remember we'd get up early, bundle up to brace the early morning chill. Puffing steam, we'd trek over the frosted, frozen turf in the fields to the rear of the house. But I had my share of skinning rabbits. In freezing weather they were sometimes strung up from the eaves of the garage.

Most of all I remember our holidays. Holidays at the Coate house on John Street were always festive, and Mom always said that we had the most beautiful Christmas Tree in Trenton. And I still believe it!

Remember the Billy goat that climbed atop the chicken house roof to butt us off if we didn't pay attention. And the time a bunch of us were gathered outside in the driveway in front of the garage cleaning and repairing bicycles. Shirley, a preschooler, gulped a glass of coal oil thinking it was water. "Look, Shirley's making bubbles" I exclaimed. When Albert realized what she had done, he grabbed her and carried her to the street, yelling at the driver in the passing car to stop! Stop! She was rushed to Dr. Dobbs and he got her to vomit it all up.

Or the time that Shirley fainted on the roller coaster at Lesourdsville Lake and as they carried her around the lake to the aid station - a crowd followed believing she had drowned. As late as 1992 Shirley told me that when she awakened in the arms of the man who was carrying her she decided to faint all over again and fell limp in his arms. I suspect she kept fainting as long as she had an audience - or at least until she was safely inside the aid station.

I remember the time that I was taking a bottle of Fuzzy Weir's root beer out of our coolerater. When it exploded in my hand and I thought for sure I'd lost a thumb. Off to Dr. Dobbs, this time the short cut through Adam Gozie's corn field. I still have the scar on my thumb. I'll never forget the bus trip that Mom and I took during WW II to Ashville, N. C. to visit Marahelen and Charles. The bus was so crowded that Mom sat on my lap. As we rounded those dangerous curves of the Smoky Mountain roads a mountaineer played his guitar and we all sang, "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes!"

And we all remember our summer vacations with Marahelen and Charles and the wonderful times we had at family gatherings at Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret's deer hunting cabin in the mountains outside Ashville. What a retreat! And the time we went mountain hiking and Mom very coolly stepped over a rattle snake without so much as a blink. About a half mile below the cabin - diving off the rocks into the cold mountain stream - always on the outlook for water moccasin. And summer vacations on Aunt Mamie and Uncle Joe McKinley's farm in Piqua, Ohio or the Sunday afternoon visits when Aunt Mamie and Mom cooked up those big dinners of fresh farm produce and home baked bread in a brick oven. Ah, the aroma emanating from the kitchen!

And in the depths of the depression, the Christmas we celebrated at Aunt Martha's in Dayton when Uncle Godfrey played Santa to us wide-eyed kids. What a joyous Christmas that was! And speaking of Aunt Martha, I'll never forget the time I sucke
d in on a whistle when I was supposed to blow out and swallowed the darn thing. Poor Aunt Martha was beside herself with indecision when she grabbed me by the ankles, turned me upside down and bumped my head on the floor hoping I'd cough it up.

Remember when Billy won the prize for best costume at the Halloween Carnival a couple years in a row. Especially the "Tin Man" from the "Wizard Of Oz " he made from flattened tin cans. Bill could also spin a yarn which would have impressed Will Rogers. Was he ever proud when he won him first prize in the Trenton High School Comedy Hour. Of course we all remember the story about Shirley's mishap when her prom date accidentally killed the stray mule which wandered in front of his car on the fog-bound country road somewhere outside Cincinnati. Despite the smashed windshield, neither were hurt. But imagine the shock on Mom's face when, near dawn the next morning, the terrified young boy escorted a disheveled Shirley to the front door, her beautiful yellow chiffon gown splattered with the blood of the poor creature.

And remember the WW II years - when I led the 1943 Memorial Day parade carrying the American flag as we marched through the main streets of town ending up at the knoll overlooking the main intersection for the unveiling and dedication of the WW II Honor Board listing the names of the Trenton military personnel serving their country. And in 1944 when Mom got the dreaded telegram from the President of The United States informing her that Warren was Missing In Action after the D-Day landing. We waited and prayed and gathered around the radio hoping to hear of any news about the Army division with which he served. And finally our prayers were answered when we received a letter from Warren to let us know he was OK. Warren's future wife, Helen Schenck, living with us all through the war years, sharing our anxiety. Remember when Mom used to accompany your kid brother, Dick, on the piano with a resounding version of Turkey In The Straw when he danced black-face in the amateur "Major Bowles" contests as far away as Oxford or Dayton, Ohio. Who could have imagined that this amateur hour contestant would grow up to be Richard Coate, the actor who was among the pioneers of that new broadcast medium, Television, when, in 1948 he appeared on a series on WLW TV in Columbus, Ohio - during his years as a student at OSU - before he became the Korean War rifleman in silhouette in an AP photograph which was destined to attain iconic status, a symbol of American fighting forces in Korea, and a unique place in Cold War history.

I remember that little house on Miami Street that you and Jane lived when some of your kids were born. It was built on a hill and as I recall you had to step down into the kitchen. I didn't think they could make them any smaller until Betty and I moved to New York. Our kitchen on Willow Street here in Brooklyn Heights was little more than a closet - but, like Jane and our mothers, Betty cooked up a storm.

Betty and I recall stopping off at your house to watch television and have a beer - before I was inducted into the army and my tour of duty in Korea. By then we were in college and barring the three summers I spent at home before graduation, I never lived in Trenton again. I really enjoyed the 50th anniversary of our graduating class held at the Manchester Hotel. Class of '44! I hadn't seen most of them since then. We laughed so hard at the stories we had to tell on one another that the young newspaper reporter covering the event was amazed that so many "old folk" had so much life in 'em.

Give our love to Wilma. I'm happy I was able to finally meet her in North Carolina at Marahelen's funeral. She fits right into the family.

Betty sends her love too,
Your brother, Richard"

COATE, Charles John (I11640)

642

Charlotte was a twin. She was listed 7th in her father's will. (C-864) Her husband apparently played around on her for which she was said to have left him often. She might have been the Charlotte who married a Samuel Thompson in 1817ami Co., Ohio. (C-1025, 1950)

JAY, Charlotte (I15769)

643

Children have not been able to be found for this couple.

Collins book theorizes that he came to the U.S. and names children, Joseph, Walter, William, Sarah, Mary and Hannah in his 1775 will written in Hunterdon Co., NJ. If so, he moved to Tinicum, Bucks Co., PA by 1786 where he died in 1795. His son Joseph was first named as his executor. Joseph was of Knowlton Twp., Sussex Co., NJ at the time.

It should be noted however, that a Quaker summary sheet in Hunterdon Co. prepared by an unknown researcher, believes the William who wrote his will in Hunterdon Co., NJ is the son of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. To date all Coates in Hunterdon Co., NJ have been the descendants of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. We have no evidence that William and Deborah's son William moved to Hunterdon Co., NJ as of this date 2019. However, most persons including myself believe that Samuel and Mary's son William is the one that moved to Newberry Co., SC in 1762 to follow his brother Marmaduke there. Again we have no proof that their son William is the one that moved south to SC. Either of these theories could be true as far as the William goes who wrote his will in 1775 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.

There are a few records I've found in NJ that might apply to this William. A William Coate was the bondsman in the estate of Edw. Rockhill of Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ in 1748. A William is mentioned in the inventory of the estate of Robert Hartshorne of Burlington on Jun 27, 1752. A William Coates and Mary Marsh were administrators for David Marsh's estate of Hunterdon Co., NJ in 1770. (C-1, p.167) One of William's daughters was married to a John McFaron when his will was probated in 1795 as John was one of the administrators along with William's own son, Joseph.

This William was not of the Quaker faith as he began his will with an oath: "In the Name of God, Amen." When he wrote his will in 1775, all of his children appeared to be of age. One of his daughters was married to his son-in-law, John McParson, (one of his executors) but she is not named in that context. I transcribed his will below: "In The name of God Amen the thirtyeth Day of May in the year of our Lord God Anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Five I William Cotes of Kingwood in the County of Hunterdon And province of New Jersey Yeoman Being Very Sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore calling to Mind the Mortallity of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say principally and ( ) of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it and for my body I Recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner at the (Decision) of my Executors Nothing Doubling but at the General (Resurrection) I Shall Receive the Same Gain by the Mighty power of God And as (leaving?) Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this Life I Give ( ) and ( ) of the ( ) in the following manner and form, ( ) it is my will in the first place that all my Movable Estate be Sold in a Convenient Time after my Decease Excepting two Beds and Beding by my Executors hereafter (Named) to pay my funeral Charges and Debts. Item it is my will that all my Lands that I Possess be (Sowing) two years from this date. Item it is my will that after all my Just Debts and Legeses hereafter Mentioned be paid that the Reminder of my Estate be Equally Divided Between my three well Beloved Sons Joseph Cotes and William Cotes and Walter Cotes Item it My will that if it Should Please the Lord to take any of my well Beloved Children out of this world Without Issue Then his or her Share so Deceased to be Equally Divided Amongst my Surviving Children. Item it is my will that My Executors Do pay to my well Beloved Daughter-Sarah her-heirs or Assigns the sum of thirty pounds Good and lawful money in (....) months after the Sale of the Lands Item it is my will that my Executors do pay to my well Beloved Daughter Mary the Sum of Twenty pounds Good And Lawful Money in twelve months after the Sales of My Lands Item it is my will that my Executers do pay to my well Beloved Daughter Hannah Her Heirs or Assigns the Sum of Thirty pounds Good and Lawful money in Eighteen Months After the Sale of my Lands Item it is my will that my Executors Do Deliver to my Daughter Mary one Bed and Beding Immediately After my Decease Item it is will that my Executors Do Deliver to my Daughter Hannah one Bed and Beding Immediately after My Decease Item it is my will that my Wearing Apperal at my Decease be Equally Divided Among my three Well Beloved Sons Viz: Joseph William and Walter And I do Hereby Appoint my well Beloved Son Joseph Cotes and My Beloved Son in Law John McParson Sole Executors of this my Last will and testament hereby Revoking Defannuling and Making Void all former wills Bequeathed by me made and Declaring this and no other to be my last will and testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Aff(idavid) my Seal this thirtyeth Day of May Anno Domini one thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Five Signed Sealed ( ) Pronounced and Declared by the Said William Cotes as his last will and testament in the Presence of us the (Subscribers) (Signed Marten Cogart, Levi Hatcham (or Katcham), John Vankirk and William Coats" From this will we can ascertain that all of his children appeared to be of age and he appeared to be elderly. He mentions no wife. With six children being born an average of two years apart and all being of age (the girls living elsewhere where beds would have to be delivered), would make his oldest child be at least 33 years of age and born 1742 or earlier. An added note in the index to the will says that he was "of Tinicum, Bucks Co." when his will was filed 22 years later in 1797. He was in the tax records for Tinacum starting in 1787.

COATS, William (I926)

644

Christian and Susanna had all of their children in Pennsylvania before moving to Holmes Co., Ohio in 1829. Some of their children remained behind. Some of them moved to Ohio, one onto Indiana and two to Iowa. He and his wife originalld in Hardy Twp., Holmes Co., Oh according to the 1830 census of the newly formed Holmes Co. There was also a Jacob Mast in Hardy Twp. in 1830 on the same census page as him whom I suspect was his son. He and his wife are buried on their family plot on their farm in Berlin Twp., Holmes Co., Ohio.

MAST, Christian (I9671)

645

Christian was a Rev. War Veteran, buried in the Baer Meeting House Cemetery in York Co, PA on the York/Hanover Rd. There is a Revolutionary War marker on his grave. (CL-526)

BAER, Christian (I8722)

646

Christine, a Tharp researcher who has been corresponding with Shirley Workman gives David's birth date as 1827, a year before his parents were born.

THARP, David (I5268)

647

Christopher Coates believes that his ancestor, Thomas Coates, who was born in 1783 is this Thomas. The 1850 Philadelphia census has a Richard L. and Jane Sanford living with a Thomas Coats (age 67), his wife Mary and children, William any Ann (a possible nickname for Margaret). Christopher Coates' ancestor, Thomas is therefore of the right age and from the right place to be the Thomas who is the son of William and Margaret Norris. Jane and Richard L. Sanford appeared to have been borders in Thomas's home and were possibly brother and sister to each other instead of a couple. In any case, Thomas's wife's name is Mary P. Linslay and his son's name is William Henry Harrison Coats/Coates, b. 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris feels that his daughter Marcy Ann, age 7 in the 1850 census was the Margaret who married Richard Sanford before 1860 census as Marcy is a nickname for Margaret.

COATS, Thomas (I1013)

648

Christopher died without having children. The estate he'd inherited from his father went to his brother William. (F-635)

MALLORY, Christopher (I14281)

649

Christopher Forte is the son of Samuel Forte and Jane Neblett because of the following connections. We know he is the son of Samuel Forte according to his grandson, Edward Forte's memoirs. There were two Samuels that married about the same time in Barbados. Our Samuel married Jane Neblett because they had daughter's Mary and Sarah (married John Millard on Oct. 5, 1830 in St. George's Parish, Barbados) who were both mentioned as Aunts in Edward Forte's memoirs. Daughter Sarah Millard is mentioned in her father Samuel Forte's will. The other Samuel Forte who married Susanna Carmichaell in St. Thomas Parish on 17 Mar 1791 is not our line because they had no sons named Christopher, only sons named Thomas Carmichaell and William Gibbes Alleyne Forte.

"Christopher remarried after Anna died and had 4 more children by his second m(arriage) to Mary Yearwood who are Edward Cyrus I's half brothers and sisters." (F-318) This is information passed down to Libby Swenson from her grandfather and is probably slightly wrong in Edward's middle name and Mary's surname.

Below is a transcript of Christopher Forte's original handwritten will is in the ARCHIVES on the island of Barbados. It was the policy of the Archives not to allow Xeroxing of original documents. Therefore, we filmed it with our video camera and will transcribe it here for future knowledge. Please note that it was Christopher's intention that all his children share equally in his estate. This was, however, not what actually occurred after his death. All money went to his oldest son, as was dictated by English Law at the time. This forced our ancestor, Edward, his 14 year old son, to make a way for himself at sea. Barbados: This is the last will and testament of me, Christopher Forte of the Parrish of Saint Thomas an island (above) and Practitioner of Physic, (Aforesaid) - That all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid and satisfied as soon as possible after my decease. After such debts and funeral expenses are paid and satisfied I give and devise to my beloved wife and children by this my present wife as well as those of my late departed wife all my (freehold) property in Saint Thomas and Saint James to be divided as under - To my wife, Mary Greaves Forte, one eighth part during her natural life or as long as she remains a widow or unmarried and in case she married or dies the said one eighth part to abe equally divided among the surviving child or children The remaining seven eighth to be equally divided amongst the named children, Samuel Simmons Forte, Christopher Forte, Edward Forte, Nathaniel Forte, Anna Forte, Jane Hinds Forte, John Millard Forte on their attaining the age of twenty one and in case of the death of one or more of the said named child or children before their arriving at the age of twenty one years I direct that the share and ( ) falling into the estate shall be equally divided between the survivors and if only one, the whole to the said survivor.-And I further direct that all other my estate real or personal shall be divided as above and I direct that if the (business) is carried on for the benefit of my wife Sarah Greaves and children by the said Sarah Greaves as well as those of my late departed wife to be in equal proportions for the benefit of the whole and for my wife Sarah Greaves as long as she remains unmarried.-In witness whereof I here unto put my hand and seal this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand and Eighteen Hundred Thirty Four. Christopher Forte (signed)
Witness: Hugh Goodridge (Arabella) Millard Sarah Sophia Millard [These two females are his step-nieces as they were his sister Sarah's 2nd husband's children] I hereby appoint my beloved Father, Dr. Samuel Forte and John Millard, my brother-in-law my executors to this my last will and testament. Christopher Forte (signed) Witness: Hugh Goodridge (Maballa) (Cha ) Millard

Sarah Sophia Millard Barbados By his Excellency the Governor Appealed personally before me this day Hugh Goodridge one of the subscribing witnesses to the forgoing written will and codicil and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he was present and did see Christopher Forte the testator therein named (since deceased) sign seal publish and declare the same as and for his last will and testament and codicil and that he was at the executing thereof respectively a sound and disposing mind and memory to the best of his the (Seponent) judgment and belief--Given at the government house this first day of December, 1834. (F-188:Record Book 4: Vol.64, p. 219)

(It is interesting to note that the witness to Christopher's will, Hugh Goodridge, was a surgeon who worked with Christopher Forte, Physician, in the Militia of Barbados, St. Thomas Regiment in 1831. (F-189: v.17, p. 116) There is one record about a Christopher Forte that I have not yet matched to any C. Forte in Barbados at the time. It reads, "Thursday (last) (Oct. 31, 1844?) Philip T. Gooodridge, Esq. (married) to Elizabeth C.(or L), daughter of late Christopher Forte, Sen., Esq." Journal of the BMHS. This could still apply to this Christopher Forte. He possibly had another daughter Elizabeth that I did not know about. (F-187)

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Christopher named several key people in his will that support his relationship to the Searle (Sale) family. He bequeathed parts of his estate to many persons, usually sisters, brothers and cousins, but all probably his relatives. Namesded brother, Edward Searle (son of Edward Searle and Elizabeth Gifford), sisters Mansfield (Marie Searle m. to John Mansfield. Marie was a sister to his first wife, Sarah Sale, deSouth Carolina.), Preston (Elizabeth Searle m. to William Preston, Elizabeth was the oldest sister of his first wife, Sarah Sale), Ingraham (?), and (Hope) Foster (probable wife of William Foster also mentioned, unknown relationship to Sales), Ephraim Serle (to which he gave his house) (unknown relationship to Sales?), Alice Searle (unknown), Hannah Searle (unknown), Daniel Preston, Jr. (nephew-in-law through first wife's sister, Elizabeth); cousin, Joseph Alsop, Jr.(even though he calls him cousin, Joseph is actually his nephew-in-law through his first wife); brother, James Brett and cousin Samuel Brett; and Elizabeth and her sister Mercy (with unstated surnames and unknown relationship). The following records were provided by Sharon Metcalf from the book "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33" at www.ancestry.com. : "ORIGIN: Chesham, Buckinghamshire, MIGRATION: 1630, FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester, REMOVES: Boston, 1648, OCCUPATION: Chandler. Soapboiler. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Christopher Gibson and Marie Gibson were admitted to the second Dorchester church soon after the reorganization 23 August 1636 [DChR 2]. Admitted to the Second Church of Boston, 5 June 1650, where he was deacon [Boston Second 248, 299]. On 10 September 1653 the General Court answered the petition of Christopher Gibson and three others "in behalf of the rest of the new church in Boston," denying them the right to call Michael Powell as pastor or teacher [MBCR 41177]. FREEMAN Requested 19 October 1630 [MBCR 180]. EDUCATION Signed his deeds. His inventory included "one Great Bible & 1/3 part of the book of Martyrs, 1 small Bible & other divinity books" valued at

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