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651	CD-100 lists this same Adela as the mother of Adelaide of Poitou. However, it identifies a different husband as Adela’s father. I chose to accept the information in Pedigrees of Some of Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants, Vol. III, which I consider a more authoritative source. Adela’s birth date is estimated to have been between 917 and 920 in the sources I have seen. However, her father, Rollo, married his second wife, Gisela, in 912. This suggests that Adela was either born outside his marriage to his first wife, Poppa, or that one of the dates is incorrect. (C-1351)	OF NORMANDY, Adela (Gerloc) * (I12098)
652	CD-100 refers to her as Mallt Ferch Hugh.	VERCH HUGH AP IEVAN, Mallt * (I11645)
653	CD-102 lists his name just as Griffith Fynchan.	GRUFFUDD, Gruffudd Fychan (I11472)
654	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 (I11459)
655	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 * (I15063)
656	Celeste and Yvonne were twins. Their mother died giving birth to them.	BOUILLON, Celeste Helene (I7309)
657	Census Publishing. State Census Records. West Jordan, Utah: Census Publishing, 2003-2009.	Source (S574)
658	Cerdic was a Saxon ealdorman. 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. That year, he and his son Cynric attacked the Britons with five ships at Charford. The West Saxons are said to have ruled England from that time onward. Cerdic is considered an ancestor of the English royal line. In 530, he and Cynric conquered the Isle of Wight. Cerdic died in 534 as the first King of Wessex. (C-437)	Cerdic Cerdic * King Of Wessex (I15138)
659	Chalkley’s entry concerning Jane Young and her husband reads as follows: “Page 109.—15th February, 1748. Jane Cook’s bond as administratrix of Patrick Cook, with sureties Hugh Young, Robt. Young, John Spear.” After Patrick Cook’s death, Uncle Hugh took guardianship of Patrick and Jane Cook’s children. (E)	YOUNG, Jane (Husband named in Brother John's will) (I9017)
660	Charlemagne's ancestry can be traced back through the beginning of recorded history to Adam and Eve. Take that part of history as you will.	Charlemagne (I1488)
661	Charles Coulson Rich, his parents, and his sister Minerva joined the Mormon Church in 1832. He and his family moved to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Charles was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles in the Mormon Church from 1849 to 1883, having been ordained on February 12, 1849. He was known for his brilliant talents, great stamina, and genuine goodness. He made many treacherous journeys over the mountains to attend sessions of the legislature and is remembered for his leadership in the early history of the Mormon Church. Brigham Young University’s online biography describes him as “beloved by all who knew him.” He had six wives and 51 children. (C-1344, 1345, 1563) His ancestry has reportedly been extensively researched by the Mormon Church and traced back to Charlemagne through three different lines.	RICH, Charles Coulson (I12735)
662	Charles County/Patuxent County	BEALL, Jane Margaret * (I10912)
663	Charles is in the deed records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in 1817 and 1823. (C-1025)	JAY, Charles (I11358)
664	Charles married Juliana, his father’s great-niece. He acceded to the throne in 790 and was named King of Neustria. Charles was chosen to succeed his father, Charlemagne, as emperor. He was crowned king on the same day his father was crowned Emperor of the West in 800. However, Charles died of a stroke a few years before his father, preventing him from succeeding Charlemagne as emperor. (E)	Charles (The Younger) King Of France (I5225)
665	Charles probably helped establish a settlement known as Little Miami around 1800, along with Samuel Kelly, Abijah O’Neal, James Mills, and Thomas Horner. Charles’s wife came with several Quaker families on a certificate dated 9/2. (C-1297) Charles appears to me to be a likely brother of James Patty, born before 1758 in South Carolina. James had a son named James, whose daughter Sarah married Thomas Coate..	PATTY, Charles (I14290)
666	Charles R. was recorded twice in the 1900 census. On June 4, he was a boarder in Marguerite Patton’s home in Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, and was listed as a coal miner. On June 12, he was living with his parents and was again listed as a coal miner, although his father was a farmer. He is likely the Charles Hall who enlisted in the infantry in Wheeling, West Virginia, on March 24, 1904. He stated that he was born in Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, and was a miner by trade. He was 5 feet 8 inches tall, with dark brown hair and a fair complexion. He was discharged in Georgia on March 23, 1907.	HALL, Charles R. (I9196)
667	Charles was a partner in the Coate Floor Company with his brother Ben. He was a member of Eagles Lodge 2801 at Buckeye Lake and a former member of the East Columbus Lions Club. Charles was married for about six months in 1940 to a woman whose name is not remembered. They lived two houses down from his parents’ home on John Street in Trenton, Ohio. (C-2108) In 1945, he married Jane, his wife of many years and the mother of his children. He was a very caring husband to Jane in her later 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 his life to an end. It was the same illness that had taken his father. Charles lived on Buckeye Lake in Ohio during the last several years of his life. He loved to fish and boat and spent many of his last days enjoying the view from his home. (C-1397) His obituary listed several children and grandchildren whom I cannot place. Listed with his sons was David Howell, who was married to Jeri. Listed as stepsons were Carl Dittoe and Darl Dittoe, who were 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 11201 July 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 nor I can be with Shirley when she visits you in Ohio. She’s going to spend a couple of 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 farmland. 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 New York 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 washtub in the kitchen? Norman Rockwell would have had a ball: Mom standing over one of us, with the next in line waiting his 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 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 shortcut to school through Adam Gozie’s cornfield? One day he lay in wait and 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 I 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 shortcut 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 the 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? 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 catfish? I know we caught catfish from somewhere around Trenton. I believe Mom used to make a batter of cornmeal, 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 catfish 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 housecleaning day, and Mom would put those lace doilies on the sofa, and we had to take 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 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 to an episode of Little Orphan Annie before we sat down to dinner. And on special days, we’d have bread pudding for dessert. 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 panful 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 fill 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 streetlight, and in winter we made walnut fudge on top of 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 had 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 hedgerow near the Seeman farm when you attempted a shortcut—just waiting for some wayward kid to challenge his turf! Talk about stink! You called to Mom from the backyard, and she made you change clothes and take a bath either outside or on the back porch before you were permitted to come into the house. After that day, a Coate kid would make a wide and respectful circle around that hedgerow. 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, the story was told to 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 sounds Mom used to make when she told us ghost stories, they peeped out of the pup tent flap to investigate. 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’s condition at the time I wrote the letter, I couldn’t include this. During the graveside 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 and bundle up to brace against 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 a 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 coolerator when it exploded in my hand, and I thought for sure I’d lost a thumb. Off to Dr. Dobbs, this time the shortcut through Adam Gozie’s cornfield. I still have the scar on my thumb. I’ll never forget the bus trip that Mom and I took during World War II to Asheville, North Carolina, 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 Asheville. What a retreat! And the time we went mountain hiking, and Mom very coolly stepped over a rattlesnake 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 lookout for water moccasins. 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 sucked 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 of 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 that would have impressed Will Rogers. Was he ever proud when he won himself 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 that wandered in front of his car on the fog-bound country road somewhere outside Cincinnati. Despite the smashed windshield, neither was 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 World War 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 World War 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 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, was 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 in blackface 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 that 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 in 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 (I10499)
668	Charlotte was a twin. She was listed seventh in her father’s will. (C-864) Her husband apparently was unfaithful to her, and she was said to have left him often. She might have been the Charlotte who married Samuel Thompson in 1817 in Miami County, Ohio. (C-1025, 1950)	JAY, Charlotte (I14889)
669	Charter Activity 1549: Witnessed a charter involving the Colgrain lands. 1558: Entered into a marriage contract with Christian Campbell. 1568: Was infeft in Easter Tullychewen. 1581: Served as tutor to Alexander Colquhoun of Luss. 1587: Entered into a land contract near Colgrain. 1588: Received an annual rent from the Barris lands. Sources: Chiefs of Colquhoun and ChatGPT.	COLQUHOUN, Patrick (Natural son who was legitimized 31 Dec. 1577) (I20877)
670	Children have not been identified for this couple. Collins’s book theorizes that William came to the United States and identifies Joseph, Walter, William, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah as children named in his 1775 will, written in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. If this identification is correct, he moved to Tinicum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by 1786 and died there in 1795. His son Joseph was named first as an executor. Joseph was living in Knowlton Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, at the time. It should be noted, however, that an undated Quaker summary sheet for Hunterdon County, prepared by an unknown researcher, identifies the William who wrote the Hunterdon County will as a son of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. To date, all Coates I have identified in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, have been descendants of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. As of 2019, we have no evidence that William and Deborah’s son William moved to Hunterdon County. However, most researchers, including myself, believe that Samuel and Mary’s son William was the one who moved to Newberry County, South Carolina, in 1762 to follow his brother Marmaduke there. Again, we have no proof that their son William was the one who moved south to South Carolina. Either identification could be correct for the William who wrote his will in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1775. I have found a few records in New Jersey that might apply to this William. A William Coate was the bondsman for the estate of Edward Rockhill of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1748. A William is mentioned in the inventory of the estate of Robert Hartshorne of Burlington on June 27, 1752. William Coates and Mary Marsh were administrators of David Marsh’s estate in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1770. (C-1, p. 167) One of William’s daughters was married to John McFaron when his will was probated in 1795, as John was one of the administrators, along with William’s son Joseph. This William may not have been of the Quaker faith, as he began his will with the words “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, who was named as one of his executors, but she is not identified by name 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 that he appeared to be elderly. He mentions no wife. Assuming that his six children were born an average of two years apart and were all of age, his oldest child would have been at least 33 years old and born in 1742 or earlier. The daughters’ beds were to be delivered to them, suggesting that they lived elsewhere. An added note in the index to the will states that he was “of Tinicum, Bucks Co.” when his will was filed 22 years later, in 1797. He appears in the tax records for Tinicum beginning in 1787.	COATS, William (I1766)
671	Christian and Susanna had all of their children in Pennsylvania before moving to Holmes County, Ohio, in 1829. Some of their children remained in Pennsylvania, while others moved to Ohio, one went on to Indiana, and two moved to Iowa. According to the 1830 census of the newly formed Holmes County, Christian and Susanna initially lived in Hardy Township. A Jacob Mast was listed on the same census page, and I suspect he was their son. Christian and Susanna are buried in their family burial plot on their farm in Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio.	MAST, Christian (I8392)
672	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 (I7752)
673	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 (I4911)
674	Christopher Coates believes that his ancestor, Thomas Coates, born in 1783, is this Thomas. The 1850 Philadelphia census lists Richard L. and Jane Sanford living with Thomas Coats, age 67, his wife Mary, and their children William and Ann (possibly a nickname for Margaret). Christopher’s ancestor Thomas is therefore of the right age and from the right place to be the son of William and Margaret Norris. Richard L. and Jane Sanford appear to have been boarders in Thomas’s home and may have been brother and sister rather than a married couple. Thomas’s wife was Mary P. Linslay, and his son was William Henry Harrison Coats/Coates, born in 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christopher believes that Thomas’s daughter Marcy Ann, age seven in the 1850 census, was the Margaret who married Richard Sanford before the 1860 census, as he considers Marcy a possible nickname for Margaret.	COATS, Thomas (I1943)
675	Christopher died without having children. The estate he'd inherited from his father went to his brother William. (F-635)	MALLORY, Christopher (I13081)
676	Christopher Forte is believed to be the son of Samuel Forte and Jane Neblett because of the following connections. We know that Christopher was the son of Samuel Forte from the memoirs of Christopher’s grandson, Edward Forte. Two men named Samuel Forte married around the same time in Barbados. Our Samuel married Jane Neblett. Their daughters Mary and Sarah were both mentioned as aunts in Edward Forte’s memoirs. Sarah married John Millard on October 5, 1830, in St. George’s Parish, Barbados, and is mentioned in her father Samuel Forte’s will. The other Samuel Forte married Susanna Carmichaell in St. Thomas Parish on March 17, 1791. He does not appear to be our ancestor because his known sons were Thomas Carmichaell Forte and William Gibbes Alleyne Forte, with no son named Christopher. “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 information was passed down to Libby Swenson from her grandfather and is probably slightly incorrect regarding Edward’s middle name and Mary’s surname. Below is my transcription of Christopher Forte’s original handwritten will, held in the Archives on the island of Barbados. It was the policy of the Archives not to allow photocopying of original documents. Therefore, we filmed the will with our video camera and transcribed it here for future reference. Please note that Christopher intended for all his children to share equally in his estate. According to the family account, however, this was not what occurred after his death. All the money went to his oldest son, reportedly under English law at the time. This forced our ancestor Edward, Christopher’s 14-year-old son, to make his own way 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 female witnesses were his step-nieces, as they were children of his sister Sarah’s second husband.] “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 Hugh Goodridge, a witness to Christopher’s will, was a surgeon who worked with Christopher Forte, a physician, in the St. Thomas Regiment of the Barbados Militia in 1831. (F-189: Vol. 17, p. 116) There is one record concerning a Christopher Forte that I have not yet been able to match to any Christopher Forte living 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 record could still apply to this Christopher Forte. He may have had another daughter, Elizabeth, whom I did not previously know about. (F-187)	FORTE, Christopher ** (I15224)
677	Christopher named several key people in his will whose relationships support a connection to the Searle (Sale) family. He bequeathed parts of his estate to numerous people, including those he called brothers, sisters, and cousins, many of whom were probably relatives. Those named included his brother Edward Searle (son of Edward Searle and Elizabeth Gifford); his sisters Mansfield (Marie Searle, who married John Mansfield and was a sister of Christopher’s first wife, Sarah Sale), Preston (Elizabeth Searle, who married William Preston and was the oldest sister of Sarah Sale), Ingraham (relationship unknown), and (Hope) Foster (probably the wife of William Foster, who was also mentioned; their relationship to the Sale family is unknown). Others named were Ephraim Serle, to whom Christopher gave his house (relationship to the Sale family unknown); Alice Searle (relationship unknown); Hannah Searle (relationship unknown); Daniel Preston Jr. (a nephew-in-law through Christopher’s first wife’s sister Elizabeth); and his cousin Joseph Alsop Jr. (whom Christopher called a cousin, although Joseph was actually his nephew-in-law through his first wife). Christopher also named his brother James Brett; his cousin Samuel Brett; and Elizabeth and her sister Mercy, whose surnames and relationships were not stated. The following records were provided by Sharon Metcalf from the book “Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–33,” available 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 (I7114)
678	Christopher probably died young as there was a second brother named Christopher, probably born after 1576. (F-511)	MALLORY, Charles (I841)
679	Christopher was murdered in 1598. (F-511)	MALLORY, Christopher (I846)
680	Christopher’s will was probated on March 23, 1830, by a person named Christopher. He did not appear to have a wife or children. He divided his estate among his friend Elizabeth Leslie, wife of John Hart Leslie; their daughter Elizabeth; and the children of his brother Nathaniel: Nathaniel Forte, Caroline Leslie Forte, Anna Christopher Forte, and Amelia Nathan Forte. The witnesses to his will were S. Forte Jr. and Saml. Forte King. His brother Nathaniel served as executor. (F-458)	FORTE, Christopher (I229)
681	Church of England Parish Registers. London Metropolitan Archives, London. Images produced by permission of the City of London Corporation. The City of London gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB. Email - ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.	Source (S3579)
682	Church of England Parish Registers. Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England.	Source (S2270)
683	Church Registers. Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.	Source (S1286)
684	Clan McFarlane Website 1. “Duncan was serving as a retainer of his distant cousin Patrick, 3rd Lord Drummond, in December 1578, when he was arrested at Miln of Nab, Drymen Parish, Stirlingshire, whilst in the company of his second cousin twice removed, another Duncan MacFarlane, Esq., who was charged with murder.” Source: The Barons of Arrochar and Their Cadets, a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, Chapter 1, 14b. 2. “Duncan, 13th Chief, who besides Andrew, his successor, had one other son, Duncan. All we know of the younger Duncan is given in the account of the Mill of Nab affair of 1578.” Source: History of Clan Macfarlane, Vol. II, manuscript by James Macfarlane, Chapter 34. 3. In 1578, the Privy Council Register indicates that the clan was accused of considerable bloodshed, as shown by the following account, dated Stirling Castle, December 26, 1578: “Complaint by Patrick, Lord Drummond, against the Earl of Montrose:— ‘Upon the 21st day of December, John, Earl of Montrose, with his servants and accomplices, to the number of forty persons or thereby, in warlike manner, came, under silence of night, to the dwelling house of Wm. Drummond at the Mill of Nab, and surrounded the same for the apprehension of Duncan MacFarlane, brother-german to Andrew MacFarlane of Arrochar, and Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane in Drummond of Lennox, the said Patrick, Lord Drummond’s servants being lying in their beds within the said house; for putting of his devised purpose into execution, entered within the said house, and put violent hands upon the persons aforesaid, took them out of their beds, and perforce has transported them to his place of Kincardine; where he as yet detains them as captives and prisoners.’ Both parties now appearing personally, and the Earl of Montrose having alleged and produced in his justification a commission, dated 2nd December, given him by the King, ‘for taking of the said Duncan M’Coull MacFarlane and others, his accomplices, committers of the cruel murder of the late Ra, like as he by vertew thereof took and apprehended him and the said umquhile Duncan MacFarlane,’ the Lords do two things. They ordain that the Earl of Montrose shall, under pain of horning, ‘exhibit the aforesaid persons before them upon the 29th December,’ then to hear the cause decided; but, at the same time, they acquit him from all pain and danger for what he has already done in the matter.” The continuation of the narrative is found under the date Stirling Castle, December 29, 1578: “The Earl of Montrose, now appearing and presenting his two prisoners, according to the order recorded above, argued that one of them, Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane, having been ‘taken by virtue of our Sovereign Lord’s commission, for art and part of the cruel murder of the late Ra,’ ought not to be set at liberty till he is tried. Lord Drummond, as patron of the prisoners, contended, on the other hand, that the said Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane ought to be released on surety for his appearance to be tried. The case having been considered, the Lords ordained Colin, Earl of Argyll, justice principal, to whom the said Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane was delivered, to retain and cause him to be kept ‘in sure firmance that he escape not,’ and direct the said Duncan to be ‘put to the knowledge of an assize within the tolbooth of Stirling upon the 13th day of January next to come.’” There is some confusion between the two men named Duncan. From the reference to the “umquhile Duncan MacFarlane,” it would appear that the brother-german of Andrew of Arrochar had died and that the two prisoners produced by the Earl of Montrose were the men referred to in the following entry: “Caution by Wm. Drummond of Myllynab in 500 merks, for Duncan MacFarlane and in 100 pounds for Malcolm MacGillevoray, his servant, that they will appear to be tried for art and part in the slaughter of Ra, and will keep the peace meanwhile.” Source: History of Clan Macfarlane, by James Macfarlane, published in 1922.	MCFARLAND, Robert * (I10198)
685	Clifford and Beuchamp were both old powerful families. (F-520)	CLIFFORD, Baron Roger (I12247)
686	Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.	Source (S3759)
687	Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.	Source (S3742)
688	Clodius built Orleans in the year 275 A.D. (C-1346)	KING OF FRANKS, Clodius III * (I15301)
689	Clodius had to withstand many Roman Attacks. (C-1346)	CLODIUS II * - King of West Franks (I15199)
690	Clodomir drove out Nero's legions from Metz and Trier. (C-1346)	Clodomir III * KING OF West FRANKS (I15194)
691	Clodomir repelled the incursions of the Gauls when they broke the treaty they had made with Clodomir's father. (C-1346)	Clodomir II * King Of Sicambri (I15153)
692	Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks, (a kinsman) had Sigebert's son kill Sigebert. (C-1440)	KING OF COLOGNE, Sigebert The Lame (I15534)
693	Clovis was a Frankish King of Cologne. He was the elder relative of Clovis I and should not be confused with him. (C-1044)	KING OF COLOGNE, Clovis The Riparian (I15503)
694	Clovis, also called Louis, was the first king of all the Franks. He succeeded his father in 481 at the age of 15. His capital was initially at Rheims, but he later moved it to Paris. He was responsible for having Salic Law written down around the year 500. His wife, Clothilde, introduced him to Christianity. He and 3,000 of his followers were baptized at Rheims on Christmas Day in 496. When Clovis first heard the story of Christ’s Crucifixion, he is said to have declared, “If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would have avenged Him.” (C-336, p. I)	KING OF FRANKS, Clovis I * (I11849)
695	Coldius withstood continued invasions from the Romans and Gauls. (C-1346)	CLODIUS I * King Of Sicambri (I15310)
696	Colin never married.	MCKENZIE, Colin (I15029)
697	Collins states that she believes this Rebekah married James Coate, the son of Big John. However, Big John’s son James is the James believed to have married Mary West instead. I personally believe that this Rebekah was not the one who married James Coate. There was a James Coates married to a Rebekah in Newberry, South Carolina. However, James’s birth date can be estimated to have been in the 1730s, as he was likely a son of Henry and Esther Coate. He would therefore have been much too old for this Rebekah to have been his wife. James and Rebekah had purchased land in Newberry County by 1768.	COATE, Rebekah (I302)
698	Colonial Families in the Southern States states: “MAJOR GENERAL JOHN HAMMOND, son of John of Anne Arundel Co., Md., b. 1643, on the Isle of Wight; d. 1707, in Maryland; was the first of the name to remain in Maryland. He was one of the most distinguished of all the early Colonial officials, filling the important post of Judge of the Vice Admiralty, in addition to his high military office of Major General of the Western Shore, member of the House of Burgesses, Justice of the Provincial Court and member of his Majesty’s Council, 1698–1707. He was buried on Nov. 29, 1707, in St. Anne’s Churchyard, Annapolis, Md., where his tomb is yet to be seen, also the Hammond Bible. He was a member of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, and a Vestryman. In 1695 he gave a deed for a church site upon Severn Heights; and the Hammond Bible was purchased by the Vestry, in 1707, from the legacy of 10 pounds left to the Church for that purpose. He m. Mary Howard, dau. of Matthew Howard.” I believe that Colonial Families in the Southern States identified John’s father as John based on a christening record dated January 26, 1643/44, at St. Mary’s, Battersea, Surrey, England. If this record refers to our John, he would have been about seven weeks old at his christening, which seems a bit late to me. I also doubt that our John was the son of the John named in that christening record because the child baptized in 1644 apparently died. I say this because a John Hammond had another son named John christened at the same church in 1647. As a child, our John was raised a Quaker. According to The Hammond Families of Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Frederick Counties, Maryland, c. 1880, he was born on the Isle of Wight, England, and was a son of Thomas Hammond. He was in his twenties when he came to America and was still a Quaker at that time. In 1682, he was convicted of refusing to defend the Province because of his faith. It is surprising, then, that he renounced his faith, took up arms in the militia to defend his neighborhood against Indians, and was condemned by the Quaker community for bearing arms in 1683. He became a well-known member of the Church of England and went on to become Major General of the Militia after the age of 40. Near the end of his life, he left money to purchase a large Bible for his church, St. Anne’s Parish Church in Annapolis, Maryland, which still exists today. In 1669, he appeared on a freeholders’ list for Anne Arundel County. The record stated that he was to be paid tobacco for his public service. He married into the prominent Howard family. The Howards were his neighbors in Middle Neck Hundred, nine miles west of Annapolis, Maryland, a town he helped lay out in 1684. In that year, John was one of the persons commissioned to lay out the town of Annapolis. In 1685, he was commissioned as a justice for Anne Arundel County. He was a member of the Quorum in 1689. In 1691, when he traveled to England on behalf of Maryland, he held the rank of captain. There, he presented John Povey, Esq., at the Plantation Office in Whitehall, London, with a list of “good honest substantial Protestants” in Maryland. He returned to his home in Maryland before the end of the year, where he signed a proclamation thanking Providence for placing a Protestant king and queen on the throne. In 1695, he donated land to his friends in Westminster Parish upon Severn Heights for the building of a church. He held the following appointments during his lifetime: 1692: Commissioner of the Peace, Gentleman of the Quorum, and delegate to the Lower House of the General Assembly from Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 1693: Member of the House of Burgesses. 1694: Captain of a Troop of Horse, where he was promoted to major. 1694: Justice of the Provincial Court, the highest court authority of the day. 1698: Held a seat on the Council until his death. 1704: Listed as a colonel. 1704: Member of a commission to lay out towns and ports in Providence, Maryland. July 6, 1707: Governor Seymour commissioned him as Major General of the Western Shore, overseeing six companies. An obituary for John, found in the archives of St. Anne’s Parish, states: “November 29, 1709 Then was Buried by the Reverend Mr. James Wolton Rector of St. Ann’s Parish The Honorable John Hammond Esq., Major Genll of the Western Shore of This Her Majesty’s Province of Maryland, and one of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Councell, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in the said Province.” His gravestone allows us to estimate his birth year. It states that he was 64 years old when he died on November 24, 1707. A transcription of his will reads: “I leave my home plantation to my wife, Mary, Mt. Airy Neck. My eldest son, Thomas, my plantation called ‘Mt. Airy Neck’ at the decease of my wife, ‘Heath’ in Patapscoe where he now lives and 100 acres called ‘WheatleyNeck’ and 75 lbs. to be invested in land. To son, John, the plantation on the N. side of Severn River where he lives, and that part of ‘Swan Neck’; also 100 acres ‘Horners’ bought from Thomas Reynolds, 50 acres called ‘The Adventurer’, and 50 acres called ‘Forked Neck’. To son William, the other part of ‘Swan Neck’, 100 acres, ‘Strawberry Plain’, 400 acres ‘The Addition’ and 50 acres ‘Brushy Neck’. To son Charles, 100 acres ‘Flushing’, 50 acres ‘Deer Creek Point’, 284 acres, ‘Rich Neck’ at Patuxent R. and 362 acres ‘Hammond’s Forest’. To my first three sons, my houses and lots in Annapolis. To St. Ann’s Church, Annapolis, 10 lbs. My four sons to be my executors.”	HAMMOND, Major General John Sr. * (I5254)
699	Comfort is possibly the child of John Duvall if his daughter married a Griffith first and then died before Apr. 1711.	DUVAL, Comfort (I5755)
700	Conanicus married a maiden of the Narragansett tribe.	NARRAGANSETT, Canonicus Canochet "the Cautious" Miantenomi (grandson of Tashtassuck) Grand Sachem 1643-1647 of Alg (I7418)

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CD-100 lists this same Adela as the mother of Adelaide of Poitou. However, it identifies a different husband as Adela’s father. I chose to accept the information in *Pedigrees of Some of Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants, Vol. III*, which I consider a more authoritative source.

Adela’s birth date is estimated to have been between 917 and 920 in the sources I have seen. However, her father, Rollo, married his second wife, Gisela, in 912. This suggests that Adela was either born outside his marriage to his first wife, Poppa, or that one of the dates is incorrect. (C-1351)

OF NORMANDY, Adela (Gerloc) * (I12098)

652

CD-100 refers to her as Mallt Ferch Hugh.

VERCH HUGH AP IEVAN, Mallt * (I11645)

653

CD-102 lists his name just as Griffith Fynchan.

GRUFFUDD, Gruffudd Fychan (I11472)

654

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 (I11459)

655

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 * (I15063)

656

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

BOUILLON, Celeste Helene (I7309)

657

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

Source (S574)

658

Cerdic was a Saxon ealdorman. 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. That year, he and his son Cynric attacked the Britons with five ships at Charford. The West Saxons are said to have ruled England from that time onward. Cerdic is considered an ancestor of the English royal line. In 530, he and Cynric conquered the Isle of Wight. Cerdic died in 534 as the first King of Wessex. (C-437)

Cerdic Cerdic * King Of Wessex (I15138)

659

Chalkley’s entry concerning Jane Young and her husband reads as follows: “Page 109.—15th February, 1748. Jane Cook’s bond as administratrix of Patrick Cook, with sureties Hugh Young, Robt. Young, John Spear.”

After Patrick Cook’s death, Uncle Hugh took guardianship of Patrick and Jane Cook’s children. (E)

YOUNG, Jane (Husband named in Brother John's will) (I9017)

660

Charlemagne's ancestry can be traced back through the beginning of recorded history to Adam and Eve. Take that part of history as you will.

Charlemagne (I1488)

661

Charles Coulson Rich, his parents, and his sister Minerva joined the Mormon Church in 1832. He and his family moved to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Charles was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles in the Mormon Church from 1849 to 1883, having been ordained on February 12, 1849.

He was known for his brilliant talents, great stamina, and genuine goodness. He made many treacherous journeys over the mountains to attend sessions of the legislature and is remembered for his leadership in the early history of the Mormon Church. Brigham Young University’s online biography describes him as “beloved by all who knew him.” He had six wives and 51 children. (C-1344, 1345, 1563)

His ancestry has reportedly been extensively researched by the Mormon Church and traced back to Charlemagne through three different lines.

RICH, Charles Coulson (I12735)

662

Charles County/Patuxent County

BEALL, Jane Margaret * (I10912)

663

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

JAY, Charles (I11358)

664

Charles married Juliana, his father’s great-niece. He acceded to the throne in 790 and was named King of Neustria. Charles was chosen to succeed his father, Charlemagne, as emperor. He was crowned king on the same day his father was crowned Emperor of the West in 800. However, Charles died of a stroke a few years before his father, preventing him from succeeding Charlemagne as emperor. (E)

Charles (The Younger) King Of France (I5225)

665

Charles probably helped establish a settlement known as Little Miami around 1800, along with Samuel Kelly, Abijah O’Neal, James Mills, and Thomas Horner. Charles’s wife came with several Quaker families on a certificate dated 9/2. (C-1297)

Charles appears to me to be a likely brother of James Patty, born before 1758 in South Carolina. James had a son named James, whose daughter Sarah married Thomas Coate..

PATTY, Charles (I14290)

666

Charles R. was recorded twice in the 1900 census. On June 4, he was a boarder in Marguerite Patton’s home in Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, and was listed as a coal miner. On June 12, he was living with his parents and was again listed as a coal miner, although his father was a farmer.

He is likely the Charles Hall who enlisted in the infantry in Wheeling, West Virginia, on March 24, 1904. He stated that he was born in Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, and was a miner by trade. He was 5 feet 8 inches tall, with dark brown hair and a fair complexion. He was discharged in Georgia on March 23, 1907.

HALL, Charles R. (I9196)

667

Charles was a partner in the Coate Floor Company with his brother Ben. He was a member of Eagles Lodge 2801 at Buckeye Lake and a former member of the East Columbus Lions Club.

Charles was married for about six months in 1940 to a woman whose name is not remembered. They lived two houses down from his parents’ home on John Street in Trenton, Ohio. (C-2108) In 1945, he married Jane, his wife of many years and the mother of his children. He was a very caring husband to Jane in her later 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 his life to an end. It was the same illness that had taken his father.

Charles lived on Buckeye Lake in Ohio during the last several years of his life. He loved to fish and boat and spent many of his last days enjoying the view from his home. (C-1397)

His obituary listed several children and grandchildren whom I cannot place. Listed with his sons was David Howell, who was married to Jeri. Listed as stepsons were Carl Dittoe and Darl Dittoe, who were 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 11201
July 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 nor I can be with Shirley when she visits you in Ohio. She’s going to spend a couple of 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 farmland. 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 New York 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 washtub in the kitchen? Norman Rockwell would have had a ball: Mom standing over one of us, with the next in line waiting his 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 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 shortcut to school through Adam Gozie’s cornfield? One day he lay in wait and 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 I 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 shortcut 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 the 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? 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 catfish? I know we caught catfish from somewhere around Trenton. I believe Mom used to make a batter of cornmeal, 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 catfish 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 housecleaning day, and Mom would put those lace doilies on the sofa, and we had to take 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 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 to an episode of Little Orphan Annie before we sat down to dinner. And on special days, we’d have bread pudding for dessert. 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 panful 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 fill 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 streetlight, and in winter we made walnut fudge on top of 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 had 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 hedgerow near the Seeman farm when you attempted a shortcut—just waiting for some wayward kid to challenge his turf! Talk about stink! You called to Mom from the backyard, and she made you change clothes and take a bath either outside or on the back porch before you were permitted to come into the house. After that day, a Coate kid would make a wide and respectful circle around that hedgerow.

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, the story was told to 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 sounds Mom used to make when she told us ghost stories, they peeped out of the pup tent flap to investigate. 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’s condition at the time I wrote the letter, I couldn’t include this. During the graveside 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 and bundle up to brace against 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 a 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 coolerator when it exploded in my hand, and I thought for sure I’d lost a thumb. Off to Dr. Dobbs, this time the shortcut through Adam Gozie’s cornfield. I still have the scar on my thumb.

I’ll never forget the bus trip that Mom and I took during World War II to Asheville, North Carolina, 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 Asheville. What a retreat! And the time we went mountain hiking, and Mom very coolly stepped over a rattlesnake 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 lookout for water moccasins.

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 sucked 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 of 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 that would have impressed Will Rogers. Was he ever proud when he won himself 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 that wandered in front of his car on the fog-bound country road somewhere outside Cincinnati. Despite the smashed windshield, neither was 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 World War 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 World War 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 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, was 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 in blackface 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 that 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 in 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 (I10499)

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Charlotte was a twin. She was listed seventh in her father’s will. (C-864) Her husband apparently was unfaithful to her, and she was said to have left him often.

She might have been the Charlotte who married Samuel Thompson in 1817 in Miami County, Ohio. (C-1025, 1950)

JAY, Charlotte (I14889)

669

Charter Activity

1549: Witnessed a charter involving the Colgrain lands.

1558: Entered into a marriage contract with Christian Campbell.

1568: Was infeft in Easter Tullychewen.

1581: Served as tutor to Alexander Colquhoun of Luss.

1587: Entered into a land contract near Colgrain.

1588: Received an annual rent from the Barris lands.

Sources: Chiefs of Colquhoun and ChatGPT.

COLQUHOUN, Patrick (Natural son who was legitimized 31 Dec. 1577) (I20877)

670

Children have not been identified for this couple.

Collins’s book theorizes that William came to the United States and identifies Joseph, Walter, William, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah as children named in his 1775 will, written in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. If this identification is correct, he moved to Tinicum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by 1786 and died there in 1795. His son Joseph was named first as an executor. Joseph was living in Knowlton Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, at the time.

It should be noted, however, that an undated Quaker summary sheet for Hunterdon County, prepared by an unknown researcher, identifies the William who wrote the Hunterdon County will as a son of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. To date, all Coates I have identified in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, have been descendants of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate. As of 2019, we have no evidence that William and Deborah’s son William moved to Hunterdon County.

However, most researchers, including myself, believe that Samuel and Mary’s son William was the one who moved to Newberry County, South Carolina, in 1762 to follow his brother Marmaduke there. Again, we have no proof that their son William was the one who moved south to South Carolina. Either identification could be correct for the William who wrote his will in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1775.

I have found a few records in New Jersey that might apply to this William. A William Coate was the bondsman for the estate of Edward Rockhill of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1748. A William is mentioned in the inventory of the estate of Robert Hartshorne of Burlington on June 27, 1752. William Coates and Mary Marsh were administrators of David Marsh’s estate in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1770. (C-1, p. 167)

One of William’s daughters was married to John McFaron when his will was probated in 1795, as John was one of the administrators, along with William’s son Joseph.

This William may not have been of the Quaker faith, as he began his will with the words “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, who was named as one of his executors, but she is not identified by name 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 that he appeared to be elderly. He mentions no wife. Assuming that his six children were born an average of two years apart and were all of age, his oldest child would have been at least 33 years old and born in 1742 or earlier. The daughters’ beds were to be delivered to them, suggesting that they lived elsewhere.

An added note in the index to the will states that he was “of Tinicum, Bucks Co.” when his will was filed 22 years later, in 1797. He appears in the tax records for Tinicum beginning in 1787.

COATS, William (I1766)

671

Christian and Susanna had all of their children in Pennsylvania before moving to Holmes County, Ohio, in 1829. Some of their children remained in Pennsylvania, while others moved to Ohio, one went on to Indiana, and two moved to Iowa.

According to the 1830 census of the newly formed Holmes County, Christian and Susanna initially lived in Hardy Township. A Jacob Mast was listed on the same census page, and I suspect he was their son.

Christian and Susanna are buried in their family burial plot on their farm in Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio.

MAST, Christian (I8392)

672

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 (I7752)

673

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 (I4911)

674

Christopher Coates believes that his ancestor, Thomas Coates, born in 1783, is this Thomas. The 1850 Philadelphia census lists Richard L. and Jane Sanford living with Thomas Coats, age 67, his wife Mary, and their children William and Ann (possibly a nickname for Margaret).

Christopher’s ancestor Thomas is therefore of the right age and from the right place to be the son of William and Margaret Norris. Richard L. and Jane Sanford appear to have been boarders in Thomas’s home and may have been brother and sister rather than a married couple.

Thomas’s wife was Mary P. Linslay, and his son was William Henry Harrison Coats/Coates, born in 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christopher believes that Thomas’s daughter Marcy Ann, age seven in the 1850 census, was the Margaret who married Richard Sanford before the 1860 census, as he considers Marcy a possible nickname for Margaret.

COATS, Thomas (I1943)

675

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

MALLORY, Christopher (I13081)

676

Christopher Forte is believed to be the son of Samuel Forte and Jane Neblett because of the following connections. We know that Christopher was the son of Samuel Forte from the memoirs of Christopher’s grandson, Edward Forte.

Two men named Samuel Forte married around the same time in Barbados. Our Samuel married Jane Neblett. Their daughters Mary and Sarah were both mentioned as aunts in Edward Forte’s memoirs. Sarah married John Millard on October 5, 1830, in St. George’s Parish, Barbados, and is mentioned in her father Samuel Forte’s will.

The other Samuel Forte married Susanna Carmichaell in St. Thomas Parish on March 17, 1791. He does not appear to be our ancestor because his known sons were Thomas Carmichaell Forte and William Gibbes Alleyne Forte, with no son named Christopher.

“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 information was passed down to Libby Swenson from her grandfather and is probably slightly incorrect regarding Edward’s middle name and Mary’s surname.

Below is my transcription of Christopher Forte’s original handwritten will, held in the Archives on the island of Barbados. It was the policy of the Archives not to allow photocopying of original documents. Therefore, we filmed the will with our video camera and transcribed it here for future reference.

Please note that Christopher intended for all his children to share equally in his estate. According to the family account, however, this was not what occurred after his death. All the money went to his oldest son, reportedly under English law at the time. This forced our ancestor Edward, Christopher’s 14-year-old son, to make his own way 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 female witnesses were his step-nieces, as they were children of his sister Sarah’s second husband.]

“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 Hugh Goodridge, a witness to Christopher’s will, was a surgeon who worked with Christopher Forte, a physician, in the St. Thomas Regiment of the Barbados Militia in 1831. (F-189: Vol. 17, p. 116)

There is one record concerning a Christopher Forte that I have not yet been able to match to any Christopher Forte living 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 record could still apply to this Christopher Forte. He may have had another daughter, Elizabeth, whom I did not previously know about. (F-187)

FORTE, Christopher ** (I15224)

677

Christopher named several key people in his will whose relationships support a connection to the Searle (Sale) family. He bequeathed parts of his estate to numerous people, including those he called brothers, sisters, and cousins, many of whom were probably relatives.

Those named included his brother Edward Searle (son of Edward Searle and Elizabeth Gifford); his sisters Mansfield (Marie Searle, who married John Mansfield and was a sister of Christopher’s first wife, Sarah Sale), Preston (Elizabeth Searle, who married William Preston and was the oldest sister of Sarah Sale), Ingraham (relationship unknown), and (Hope) Foster (probably the wife of William Foster, who was also mentioned; their relationship to the Sale family is unknown).

Others named were Ephraim Serle, to whom Christopher gave his house (relationship to the Sale family unknown); Alice Searle (relationship unknown); Hannah Searle (relationship unknown); Daniel Preston Jr. (a nephew-in-law through Christopher’s first wife’s sister Elizabeth); and his cousin Joseph Alsop Jr. (whom Christopher called a cousin, although Joseph was actually his nephew-in-law through his first wife). Christopher also named his brother James Brett; his cousin Samuel Brett; and Elizabeth and her sister Mercy, whose surnames and relationships were not stated.

The following records were provided by Sharon Metcalf from the book “Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–33,” available 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 (I7114)

678

Christopher probably died young as there was a second brother named Christopher, probably born after 1576. (F-511)

MALLORY, Charles (I841)

679

Christopher was murdered in 1598. (F-511)

MALLORY, Christopher (I846)

680

Christopher’s will was probated on March 23, 1830, by a person named Christopher. He did not appear to have a wife or children. He divided his estate among his friend Elizabeth Leslie, wife of John Hart Leslie; their daughter Elizabeth; and the children of his brother Nathaniel: Nathaniel Forte, Caroline Leslie Forte, Anna Christopher Forte, and Amelia Nathan Forte.

The witnesses to his will were S. Forte Jr. and Saml. Forte King. His brother Nathaniel served as executor. (F-458)

FORTE, Christopher (I229)

681

Church of England Parish Registers. London Metropolitan Archives, London.

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Source (S3579)

682

Church of England Parish Registers. Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Source (S2270)

683

Church Registers. Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Source (S1286)

684

Clan McFarlane Website

1. “Duncan was serving as a retainer of his distant cousin Patrick, 3rd Lord Drummond, in December 1578, when he was arrested at Miln of Nab, Drymen Parish, Stirlingshire, whilst in the company of his second cousin twice removed, another Duncan MacFarlane, Esq., who was charged with murder.”

Source: The Barons of Arrochar and Their Cadets, a manuscript by Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, Chapter 1, 14b.

2. “Duncan, 13th Chief, who besides Andrew, his successor, had one other son, Duncan. All we know of the younger Duncan is given in the account of the Mill of Nab affair of 1578.”

Source: History of Clan Macfarlane, Vol. II, manuscript by James Macfarlane, Chapter 34.

3. In 1578, the Privy Council Register indicates that the clan was accused of considerable bloodshed, as shown by the following account, dated Stirling Castle, December 26, 1578:

“Complaint by Patrick, Lord Drummond, against the Earl of Montrose:—

‘Upon the 21st day of December, John, Earl of Montrose, with his servants and accomplices, to the number of forty persons or thereby, in warlike manner, came, under silence of night, to the dwelling house of Wm. Drummond at the Mill of Nab, and surrounded the same for the apprehension of Duncan MacFarlane, brother-german to Andrew MacFarlane of Arrochar, and Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane in Drummond of Lennox, the said Patrick, Lord Drummond’s servants being lying in their beds within the said house; for putting of his devised purpose into execution, entered within the said house, and put violent hands upon the persons aforesaid, took them out of their beds, and perforce has transported them to his place of Kincardine; where he as yet detains them as captives and prisoners.’

Both parties now appearing personally, and the Earl of Montrose having alleged and produced in his justification a commission, dated 2nd December, given him by the King, ‘for taking of the said Duncan M’Coull MacFarlane and others, his accomplices, committers of the cruel murder of the late Ra, like as he by vertew thereof took and apprehended him and the said umquhile Duncan MacFarlane,’ the Lords do two things. They ordain that the Earl of Montrose shall, under pain of horning, ‘exhibit the aforesaid persons before them upon the 29th December,’ then to hear the cause decided; but, at the same time, they acquit him from all pain and danger for what he has already done in the matter.”

The continuation of the narrative is found under the date Stirling Castle, December 29, 1578:

“The Earl of Montrose, now appearing and presenting his two prisoners, according to the order recorded above, argued that one of them, Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane, having been ‘taken by virtue of our Sovereign Lord’s commission, for art and part of the cruel murder of the late Ra,’ ought not to be set at liberty till he is tried.

Lord Drummond, as patron of the prisoners, contended, on the other hand, that the said Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane ought to be released on surety for his appearance to be tried. The case having been considered, the Lords ordained Colin, Earl of Argyll, justice principal, to whom the said Duncan MacCoull MacFarlane was delivered, to retain and cause him to be kept ‘in sure firmance that he escape not,’ and direct the said Duncan to be ‘put to the knowledge of an assize within the tolbooth of Stirling upon the 13th day of January next to come.’”

There is some confusion between the two men named Duncan. From the reference to the “umquhile Duncan MacFarlane,” it would appear that the brother-german of Andrew of Arrochar had died and that the two prisoners produced by the Earl of Montrose were the men referred to in the following entry:

“Caution by Wm. Drummond of Myllynab in 500 merks, for Duncan MacFarlane and in 100 pounds for Malcolm MacGillevoray, his servant, that they will appear to be tried for art and part in the slaughter of Ra, and will keep the peace meanwhile.”

Source: History of Clan Macfarlane, by James Macfarlane, published in 1922.

MCFARLAND, Robert * (I10198)

685

Clifford and Beuchamp were both old powerful families. (F-520)

CLIFFORD, Baron Roger (I12247)

686

Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.

Source (S3759)

687

Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.

Source (S3742)

688

Clodius built Orleans in the year 275 A.D. (C-1346)

KING OF FRANKS, Clodius III * (I15301)

689

Clodius had to withstand many Roman Attacks. (C-1346)

CLODIUS II * - King of West Franks (I15199)

690

Clodomir drove out Nero's legions from Metz and Trier. (C-1346)

Clodomir III * KING OF West FRANKS (I15194)

691

Clodomir repelled the incursions of the Gauls when they broke the treaty they had made with Clodomir's father. (C-1346)

Clodomir II * King Of Sicambri (I15153)

692

Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks, (a kinsman) had Sigebert's son kill Sigebert. (C-1440)

KING OF COLOGNE, Sigebert The Lame (I15534)

693

Clovis was a Frankish King of Cologne. He was the elder relative of Clovis I and should not be confused with him. (C-1044)

KING OF COLOGNE, Clovis The Riparian (I15503)

694

Clovis, also called Louis, was the first king of all the Franks. He succeeded his father in 481 at the age of 15. His capital was initially at Rheims, but he later moved it to Paris. He was responsible for having Salic Law written down around the year 500.

His wife, Clothilde, introduced him to Christianity. He and 3,000 of his followers were baptized at Rheims on Christmas Day in 496. When Clovis first heard the story of Christ’s Crucifixion, he is said to have declared, “If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would have avenged Him.” (C-336, p. I)

KING OF FRANKS, Clovis I * (I11849)

695

Coldius withstood continued invasions from the Romans and Gauls. (C-1346)

CLODIUS I * King Of Sicambri (I15310)

696

Colin never married.

MCKENZIE, Colin (I15029)

697

Collins states that she believes this Rebekah married James Coate, the son of Big John. However, Big John’s son James is the James believed to have married Mary West instead.

I personally believe that this Rebekah was not the one who married James Coate. There was a James Coates married to a Rebekah in Newberry, South Carolina. However, James’s birth date can be estimated to have been in the 1730s, as he was likely a son of Henry and Esther Coate. He would therefore have been much too old for this Rebekah to have been his wife. James and Rebekah had purchased land in Newberry County by 1768.

COATE, Rebekah (I302)

698

Colonial Families in the Southern States states:

“MAJOR GENERAL JOHN HAMMOND, son of John of Anne Arundel Co., Md., b. 1643, on the Isle of Wight; d. 1707, in Maryland; was the first of the name to remain in Maryland. He was one of the most distinguished of all the early Colonial officials, filling the important post of Judge of the Vice Admiralty, in addition to his high military office of Major General of the Western Shore, member of the House of Burgesses, Justice of the Provincial Court and member of his Majesty’s Council, 1698–1707. He was buried on Nov. 29, 1707, in St. Anne’s Churchyard, Annapolis, Md., where his tomb is yet to be seen, also the Hammond Bible. He was a member of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, and a Vestryman. In 1695 he gave a deed for a church site upon Severn Heights; and the Hammond Bible was purchased by the Vestry, in 1707, from the legacy of 10 pounds left to the Church for that purpose. He m. Mary Howard, dau. of Matthew Howard.”

I believe that Colonial Families in the Southern States identified John’s father as John based on a christening record dated January 26, 1643/44, at St. Mary’s, Battersea, Surrey, England. If this record refers to our John, he would have been about seven weeks old at his christening, which seems a bit late to me.

I also doubt that our John was the son of the John named in that christening record because the child baptized in 1644 apparently died. I say this because a John Hammond had another son named John christened at the same church in 1647.

As a child, our John was raised a Quaker. According to The Hammond Families of Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Frederick Counties, Maryland, c. 1880, he was born on the Isle of Wight, England, and was a son of Thomas Hammond. He was in his twenties when he came to America and was still a Quaker at that time. In 1682, he was convicted of refusing to defend the Province because of his faith.

It is surprising, then, that he renounced his faith, took up arms in the militia to defend his neighborhood against Indians, and was condemned by the Quaker community for bearing arms in 1683. He became a well-known member of the Church of England and went on to become Major General of the Militia after the age of 40. Near the end of his life, he left money to purchase a large Bible for his church, St. Anne’s Parish Church in Annapolis, Maryland, which still exists today.

In 1669, he appeared on a freeholders’ list for Anne Arundel County. The record stated that he was to be paid tobacco for his public service. He married into the prominent Howard family. The Howards were his neighbors in Middle Neck Hundred, nine miles west of Annapolis, Maryland, a town he helped lay out in 1684.

In that year, John was one of the persons commissioned to lay out the town of Annapolis. In 1685, he was commissioned as a justice for Anne Arundel County. He was a member of the Quorum in 1689.

In 1691, when he traveled to England on behalf of Maryland, he held the rank of captain. There, he presented John Povey, Esq., at the Plantation Office in Whitehall, London, with a list of “good honest substantial Protestants” in Maryland. He returned to his home in Maryland before the end of the year, where he signed a proclamation thanking Providence for placing a Protestant king and queen on the throne.

In 1695, he donated land to his friends in Westminster Parish upon Severn Heights for the building of a church.

He held the following appointments during his lifetime:

1692: Commissioner of the Peace, Gentleman of the Quorum, and delegate to the Lower House of the General Assembly from Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

1693: Member of the House of Burgesses.

1694: Captain of a Troop of Horse, where he was promoted to major.

1694: Justice of the Provincial Court, the highest court authority of the day.

1698: Held a seat on the Council until his death.

1704: Listed as a colonel.

1704: Member of a commission to lay out towns and ports in Providence, Maryland.

July 6, 1707: Governor Seymour commissioned him as Major General of the Western Shore, overseeing six companies.

An obituary for John, found in the archives of St. Anne’s Parish, states:

“November 29, 1709 Then was Buried by the Reverend Mr. James Wolton Rector of St. Ann’s Parish The Honorable John Hammond Esq., Major Genll of the Western Shore of This Her Majesty’s Province of Maryland, and one of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Councell, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in the said Province.”

His gravestone allows us to estimate his birth year. It states that he was 64 years old when he died on November 24, 1707.

A transcription of his will reads:

“I leave my home plantation to my wife, Mary, Mt. Airy Neck.

My eldest son, Thomas, my plantation called ‘Mt. Airy Neck’ at the decease of my wife, ‘Heath’ in Patapscoe where he now lives and 100 acres called ‘WheatleyNeck’ and 75 lbs. to be invested in land.

To son, John, the plantation on the N. side of Severn River where he lives, and that part of ‘Swan Neck’; also 100 acres ‘Horners’ bought from Thomas Reynolds, 50 acres called ‘The Adventurer’, and 50 acres called ‘Forked Neck’.

To son William, the other part of ‘Swan Neck’, 100 acres, ‘Strawberry Plain’, 400 acres ‘The Addition’ and 50 acres ‘Brushy Neck’.

To son Charles, 100 acres ‘Flushing’, 50 acres ‘Deer Creek Point’, 284 acres, ‘Rich Neck’ at Patuxent R. and 362 acres ‘Hammond’s Forest’.

To my first three sons, my houses and lots in Annapolis.

To St. Ann’s Church, Annapolis, 10 lbs.

My four sons to be my executors.”

HAMMOND, Major General John Sr. * (I5254)

699

Comfort is possibly the child of John Duvall if his daughter married a Griffith first and then died before Apr. 1711.

DUVAL, Comfort (I5755)

700

Conanicus married a maiden of the Narragansett tribe.

NARRAGANSETT, Canonicus Canochet "the Cautious" Miantenomi (grandson of Tashtassuck) Grand Sachem 1643-1647 of Alg (I7418)

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