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- Mary's Quaker marriage record is available at Charlotte Coats Siercks site. Under her and her husbands married name, her closest relatives are listed as (in order): Marmaduke Coate (father) , Ann Coate (mother), Abigail Raper (mother of husband???), Joshua Rapor (brother of husband???), Mary Smith (There is a Mary Smith married to a William Cotes at this point in time of Philadelphia), Abigail Rapor (sister of husband???), William Coate (brother), Elizabeth (J.....), Solomon Smith, Edith Coate (sister), Hannah Coate (sister), Martha Raper, Joan Humphrey, Elizabeth Coate (her 2nd cousin, d.of Samuel and Mary Saunders Coate), and Deborah (Powell) (There is a Deborah Powell married to William Coate, uncle of this Mary at this point in time). The next column to the left of slightly more distant relatives or friends includes a John Budd. I'm wondering if Quaker put the ladies by their maiden names as witnesses, even after they married to show clearly who they were. (E) Mary and her husband are listed in the closest relatives column for Mary Coate, d. of James Coate and Mary Watson. That would make them 2nd cousins to Mary Coate who married Edmund Sands. It's evidence that the Marmaduke Coate Branch was 1st cousins or kinsman to the John Coate also in NJ as also mentioned in Ann Pole Coate's will.
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