Moses Coate

1768 - 1847  (79 years)

• Name	Moses Coate  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
  Birth	5 Sep 1768	Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA   [17]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Nov 1847	Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America   [17]
  Burial	Abt 11 Nov 1847	Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America   [17]
  Person ID	I10723	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Marmaduke Coate, * R-FT146901,   b. 13 Jun 1738, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States d. 22 Sep 1822, Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Jane Coppock, *,   b. Abt 1743, Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America d. 10 Jul 1833, Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA (Age 90 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1763	, , NC
  Family ID	F3118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Coppock,   b. 9 Nov 1776, Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA d. 26 Aug 1849, Miami, Ohio, USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1794	Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA
  Children	1. William Coate,   b. 6 May 1805, Miami, Ohio, USA d. 5 Mar 1856, , Grant, IN, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Margaret Coate,   b. 16 Jan 1807, Miami, Ohio, USA d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Esther Coate,   b. 13 Feb 1801, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Joseph Coppock Coate,   b. 22 Oct 1802, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 5 Jul 1857 (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Moses Marmaduke Coate,   b. 2 Dec 1815, Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA d. 24 Feb 1901, Franklin Twp., Darke, OH, USA (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Elizabeth Coate,   b. 18 Sep 1812   d. 24 Nov 1886 (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Benjamin Coate,   b. 23 Sep 1810, Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA d. 12 Jul 1886, Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Samuel Coate,   b. 29 Dec 1808, Miami, Ohio, USA d. Aft 1850, Of Miami, OH, USA (Age > 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Thomas Coate,   b. 1 May 1799, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. , Mercer, OH, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Jane Coate,   b. 19 Jul 1795, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 16 Feb 1868 (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Mary Coate,   b. 15 Nov 1797, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 17 Sep 1840, Miami, Ohio, USA (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Jessie Coppock Coate,   b. 1 Mar 1818, Miami, Ohio, USA d. Aft 1880, Bangor, Marshall, Iowa, USA (Age > 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. Ezra Coate,   b. Abt 1796   d. 1868 (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  Moses birth date is 9m 5d 1768 in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia. Moses purchased land in Newberry Co., SC on July 19, 1796 from John Perry. (C-908) He was in the 1800 Newberry Co. Census records listed as Mose Coates between the ages of 26 andis wife was between the ages of 16 and 26. He had one son and two daughters under age ten. Moses and brother, Samuel went on a prospecting tour of Newton Twp., Union County, Ohio before they moved and were joined by their father Marmaduke. (C-27e) Moses sold his land in Newberry on Jan. 20, 1804 to Moses Kelly. Moses Coate and family officially removed to the Miami MM, Waynesville in Ohio with letter dated 2/25/1804. They purchased 161.24 acres in Range 5, Township 6, Section 5 in the Southwest Quarter of Union Township on Sept. 25, 1804. (C-55, 100, 253k, 556) They paid $1.61 in taxes on this property according to the 1810 Tax Duplicates (C-61b). He is also in the 1827 and 1835 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., OH living next to his probable son, Joseph. (E) In the 1820 census, Moses and family are living in Union Twp., Miami County, Ohio with the following numbers of persons in their home: 4 Males under 10, 1 between 10-16, 1 between 16-18, 2 between 26-45, 1 over 45 and 1 female between 10-16, 1 between 16-26, 1 between 26-45 and 1 over 45. Moses is living next to his brother Samuel in this census. It appears that Moses left the Quaker Church, as there is a Moses and Betsy Coats and possible daughter-in-law, Margaret Coats (wife of son William Coate) who were charter members of the Greenville Creek Church of Christ on Aug. 9, 1843. If this record belongs to this Moses, he was disowned for immoral conduct by the Church of Christ at an unknown later date. Moses left a will dated the 16th day, 5th mo, 1842 in Miami County as transcribed herein. "In the name of the Benevolent Father of all..I Moses Coate of Union Township in the Count of Miami and State of Ohio do make and publish this my last will and Testament. First it is my will that my just debts and all charges be paid out of my Estate. I give and devise all the (residue) of my estate to Elizabeth Coate my wife both real and personal during her natural life except what is hereinafter devised. I give and devise to Sarah Jean Coate my grand Daughter one good bed & beding such as is common and also one Cow & calf when she shall arrive at the years of Eighteen. 4th I give and devise at the decease of my said wife all my real estate to my son Benjamin Coate..his heirs and assigns forever and that the said Benjamin Coate shall pay to my son Jesse Coate the sum of fifty dollars in a measurable time after the decease of my wife. 5th I give and devise all the reamining goods chattles & personal property whatsover there may be at the decease of my said wife to all of my children except Benjamin Coate, to be equally divided share & share alike... And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Samuel Coate executor of this my last will and testament hereby authorizing and empowering him to adjust release and .................?????..........do hereby revoke all former wills by me made in testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and seal this 16th Day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and forty two. Signed and acknowleged by said Moses Coate as his last will and testatment in our presence and signed by us in his presence. Wm Dulin, Davis W. Hayes, Henry Michael. (C-107, E) One of the Jay Family discussion groups suggested that he was killed by Indians. I think this story is mixed up with Moses Coppock who was killed by Indians but I have no verification at this point in time. Moses and his wife were the ancestors of Amanda Ellen Pemberton Townsend Krell, the head of the Coate Coppock Association trying to prove the validity of the land lease in the first quarter of the 20th century. (C-390q)

  
  

• Sources

  [S303] Brien, Lindsay M., Miami Valley Genealogies, Vol. 1 (It appears to have MANY dates that don't agree with other sources.). [S74] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. [S236] The History of Miami County, Ohio (W.H. Beers & Co., 1880). [S50] Collins, Emma Odesa, Coate, Coates, Coats Family History and Genealogy (Lovington, New Mexico: Desert Plains Stationers, c1989). [S52] Elizabeth Murphy Cann to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated May 1, 1985 at 2852 So. Webster, Denver, CO. 80227 In L. Dudick's files. [S1807] John Ammel to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Feb. 29, 1996 at R.R.1, Parker, KS 66072-9801 In L. Dudick's Files. [S1808] History of West Branch Quarterly Meeting of Society of Friends, West Milton, Ohio 1807-1957. [S2469] Texas Society of the DAR, DAR. [S72] William Medlin, Quaker Families of S.C. & Georgia (1983) (Ben Franklin Press). [S2470] Deed between Marmaduke Coate's Children And Moses Kelly (4/17/1826, Miami Co., Ohio). [S186] Eileen Davis and Judith Ireton, comps, Quaker Records of the Miami Valley of Ohio (McDowell Publications, 1980). [S2025] Old "Coates" Genealogy as it appeared in the Krell Collection in the Philadelphia Genealogical Society, preparer unknown. [S2513] Coate, Moses, Will written the 16th of the 5th mo of 1842 (Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio). [S2506] 1820 US Federal Population Census, Union Twp., Miami Co., OH (www.ancestry.com). [S1357] Greenville Creek Church of Christ Membership List. [S258] Ernest S. Park, Ancestors & Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (unpub, c1950, 1960). [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2012 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,60525::0.