Moses COATES

1746 - 1816  (69 years)

• Name	Moses COATES  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  Birth	4 Dec 1746	Caln Twp., Chester, PA, USA   [15]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Aug 1816	, Chester, PA
  Burial	Abt 6 Aug 1816	East Caln, Chester, PA
  Person ID	I14790	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel COATES, (named after mother's father),   b. 5 Jun 1718   d. 1754, Caln Station, Chester, PA (Age 35 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth MENDENHALL,   b. 25 Oct 1723, East Caln, Chester, PA d. 31 Jul 1785, East Caln, Chester, PA (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Mar 1743	East Caln, Chester, PA
  Family ID	F4932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Knight VICKERS,   b. 27 Nov 1750, Of Plumstead, Bucks, PA d. 12 Oct 1824, Marlborough, Stark, OH, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	6 May 1777	Buckingham M.M., Bucks, PA   [1, 12]
  Children	1. Mary COATES,   b. 21 May 1788, , Chester, PA d. 8 Sep 1788 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Sarah COATES,   b. 29 Jul 1786, , Chester, PA d. 7 Mar 1861 (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Esther COATES,   b. 25 Feb 1783, , Chester, PA d. 28 Aug 1859 (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elisha COATES,   b. 20 Sep 1784, , Chester, PA d. 5 Feb 1797 (Age 12 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Isaac COATES,   b. 7 Mar 1778, , Chester, PA d. 1 Jun 1853, Deer Creek, Stark, OH (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Ann Eliza COATES,   b. 14 Sep 1779, , Chester, PA d. 3 Apr 1845, Sandy Springs, Adams, Ohio, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Caleb COATES,   b. 30 Apr 1781, , Chester, PA d. 9 Jun 1869 (Age 88 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Moses COATES,   b. 30 Aug 1789, , Chester, PA d. 29 Jun 1844 (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Dr. Jesse COATES,   b. 4 Mar 1796, Coatesville, Chester, PA d. 2 Aug 1868, Coatsville, Chester, PA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Aquilla COATES,   b. 9 Oct 1791, , Chester, PA d. 6 Nov 1862, , Stark, OH (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Amos COATES,   b. 18 Jan 1794, , Chester, PA d. 25 Apr 1863, Sandy Hill, Stark, OH, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4930	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Hannah MUSGRAVE,   b. 12 Feb 1752   d. 5 Apr 1775 (Age 23 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1770
  Children	1. Elizabeth COATES,   b. 12 Mar 1771, , Chester, PA d. 9 Sep 1829, West Chester, Chester, PA, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Hannah COATES,   b. 13 Jun 1773, , Chester, PA d. 25 May 1801 (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  The "History of Chester Co., PA" states that "Moses Coates possessed considerable inventive genius, and towards the close of the last century he contrived and constructed a curious apple-paring machine, which was at once simple, convenied highly useful in domestic economy. With some slight modifications the instrument is still in popular use. He also invented a self-setting saw-mill, which attracted much notice at the time, but of its practical importance at the present day we are unable to speak. He likewise claimed the invention of a horse-rake (which he demonstrated to President Jefferson: C-1614), among other ingenious implements. That instrument, however, was afterwards greatly improved and brought nearly to perfection in the intellectual community of Kennet Square and vicinity, where agricultural machinery of various kinds is produced on an extensive scale; but as the inventors and machinists are yet living and flourishing, their memoirs must await the historic efforts of some future county Plutarch." (C-1601) He purchased a large tract of land that first was called Bridgetown (after his son-in-law, John Way's Hotel that had a sign of a Bridge) and then became Coatesville, PA when his son, Dr. Jesse Coates, named it in his father's honor in 1867. He built a sawmill, and a general store as parts of it's earliest constructions. He was not the original inhabitant of Bridgetown, but one of it's early white settlers. It had been an Indian village previous to William Fleming first building a home there. Moses later bought this home from William Fleming's son. The 14th post office in the county was opened in his store. He was the postmaster there and the town was named after him because of it. (C-1613, 1615) His sawmill was purchased by Isaac Pennock in 1810 who turned it into an Iron Mill run by his son-in-law, Dr. Lukens. It was called Brandywine Mills and then Lukens Rolling Mills. (C-1777) It was Moses' son-in-law, Jesse Kersey, that got the idea of partitioning and selling their land off that bordered on the new Lancaster Turnpike, the first road through that territory. (Wikipedia article, c 2011) He entertained many an officer during the Revolutionary War, with General Washington often being one of his guests. (C-1615) According to the DAR index in 1966, p.140, he was also a Private in the Revolutionary War from the Pennsyvania Province. He was married either in the Quakertown MM or in the Buckingham Monthly Meeting. A book on Philadelphia marriages lists it as Buckingham and my other second hand source lists it as Quakertown. He is bequeathed $50.00 in his brother in law's will, Abraham Musgrove, brother to Moses's wife, Hannah. It was probated Mar 24, 1775. (C-2149)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1500] Coats, Joe, Email dated 2001+ from hunkahoe@isp.com. [S412] The History of Chester County, PA with Genealogical & Bibliographical Sketches. [S408] G.B.Davis to Coates Discussion Group E-mail letter dated July 29, 1997 at gbd29@pop3.idt.net (C-1612). [S413] Ed Rucker to Coates List Email letter dated Apr 22, 1998 in response to info from Gary W. Coats at edcrucker@ruraltel.net. [S1553] Felicia Ziomek to Coates-L@rootsweb.com Email letter dated Jan 3, 1999 at fziomek@home.net (C-2043). [S414] Jordan, Wilfred, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, Inc., c1932). [S424] Ettie Tidwell McCall, Tidwell and Allied Families. [S411] Edward Coates Sinker to Coates Discussion Group Email letters dated Apr 1997 at sinker@globalnet.co.uk (C-1616). [S418] Myers, Albert Cook, Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania (Swarthmore, PA: c1902). [S1492] Catherine Paystrup to Charlotte Coats-Siercks as forwarded by Charlotte to Coats-L Discussion Group Email letter dated Oct 25, 1998 at paystrup@xmission.com (C-1741). [S2751] Sue, Email dated 2002 from Sue12632@aol.com. [S1495] Record of Pennsylvania Marriages, Prior to 1810, Volume I (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S556] Martin, Jacob, Abstract of Wills of Chester Co., PA, Vol. II, 1758-1777 (Marshallton, PA, c1900). [S455] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [S415] John T. Humphrey, Pennsylvania Births, Delaware Co, 1682-1800 (Washington D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1994).