John Coate, *

1641 - 1699

• Name	John Coate  [1, 2]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	1641
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1641  [3, 4]
  Residence	3 Feb 1686	Bucks, Pennsylvania   [1]
  Death	1699/00	Somerset, England
  Name	John Coate *  [3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
  Death	29 Feb 1699	Kingsbury, Somersetshire, ENG   [2, 4, 12, 16, 17]
  Person ID	I7126	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Henry Coate, * "The Elder" of Hambridge R-FT147933 YDNA haplogroup,   b. Abt 1595, Of Curry Rivel, Somerset, England d. Abt 1662, Hambridge, Curry Rivel Parish, Somersetshire, ENG (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Unknown   d. Bef 1662
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Aft 1616
  Family ID	F5191	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Humphreys, *,   b. 1647   d. Bef 1686, Kingsbury, Somerset, England (Age < 38 years)
  Marriage	29 Dec 1663	Kingsbury M.M., Somerset, ENG
  Children	1. John Coate,   b. 6th da 9th mo 1665, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG d. 4 Jun 1681, Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset, England (Age 16 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Samuel Coate, *,   b. 11 mo 10 day 1670, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG d. Bef 23 Dec 1723, Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ, USA (Age < 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Henry Coate,   b. 27 Sep 1667, Somerset, England d. Aft 1723 (Age > 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. James Coate,   b. 4th da 12th mo 1668, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG d. Bef 19 Apr 1705, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age < 37 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Elizabeth Coate,   b. 13th da 9th mo 1672, Lambrook, Somerset, ENG d. Aft 1696 (Age > 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Anne Coate,   b. Aft 1673, Of Curry Rivel Parish, Somerset, England d. 1762, Northhampton, Burlington, NJ (Age < 87 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Ann Wilkins,   b. Jan 1643, Shapwick, Somerset, England d. 11 Feb 1721, Hambridge, Somersetshire, ENG (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1685
  Family ID	F1152	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  We now have absolute proof that we descend through John's father Henry with two other YDNA testers in our Coats Surname Project at FTDNA. These cousins descend from a different son of Henry's that ends up being forced to migrate to Australia. Thank you, Australian cousins for helping to prove this line from 1595 to the present! We actually all meet up with our first common ancestor being the great-grandfather of this John at the very earliest in time via current Big Y evidence. I also triangulate with autosomal DNA cousins who descends through John and Elizabeth Coate's daughter, Ann Coate, on chromosome 7 in overlapping segments as our 1st common Coate ancestor, tentatively suggesting our descent from John and Elizabeth. Back in this distance of time, the cM's segment match length is small enough that it can't currently prove the descent. I expect that the fact that we triangulate improves the statistical proof, but we will have to wait till the mathematics in this field also improves to know for sure. I would guess that John's mother's name could be Elizabeth from his 2 daughter's names. Ann would have been named after his mother-in-law, JoAnn. Here are the facts that we do know about John Coate. He was the father of our Samuel Coate of Somerset Co., England; Newtown, PA and Hunterdon Co., NJ proven by the fact that Samuel was given 200 acres of his father, John Coate's land in Newtown, Pennsylvania via letter dated August, 1699 from Somerset, England one month before John Coate died in England. John was married to Elizabeth Humphreys in England and had the following children: John, Henry, James, Samuel, and Elizabeth. His children's births are registerd as being from the Kingsbury Episcopi M.M., Middle Divison of the Somerset Quarterly Meeting in England. Quaker records were only kept in their monthly meeting from 1665-1673. They list both John and Elizabeth as parents. They are listed right before his nephew Marmaduke married to Ann Pole's children are listed in this Middle Division of the Somerset Monthly Meeting records all in the same hand. They likely were transcribed from their Monthly Meeting records kept until 1673. It is known that they had four small children and one on the way in 1672 when it was recorded that his house had been burnt down and his wife was expecting. This matches well with the birth dates of his children. However, he could have had more children from 1673 onward that were not in the records. One source lists him with a daughter named Ann. This fits well with info on descendants of an Ann Coate (1673-1762) married to a Roger Fort (1669-1749) in the United States. (E) He lived in Lambrook, England, which adjoins the town of Curry Rivel on the east. He is often listed in the Illchester Monthly Meeting Minutes or Southern Division Monthly Meeting Minutes as it was known beginning in 1670. Other events in his lifetime are as follows. 1668 His wife, Elizabeth Coate, sister to John Humphries, was reprimanded for being married by a priest indicating that John was not a Quaker at the time of his marriage. Kingsbury MM, Somerset, England. 1670 8mo 27d In Somerset: "In this Year the following Persons were committed to Prison at Ilchester for refusing to pay Tithes, ... Impropriator: John Coate, at the suit of Samuel Tilley." http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3350x3351.htm 1671 2mo 27d In attendance at Illchester MM, Somerset, England (Park) 25d 7mo 1672 In the Southern Division MM minutes, a request was made to other area meetings to aid and assist John Coate, whose "afflicted condition" had resulted from his imprisonment, the burning of his home and property, his indebtedness, his responsibility for his 4 small children, "one of them having been scalded near to death and his wife also being near her time." 1672 12mo 29 In attendance at Illchester MM, Somerset, England (Park) 1676 12mo 24 In attendance at Illchester MM, Somerset, England (Park) 1678 On 28 of month 3 (May), John Coat of Lambrook was at the Bishop's Court on the same day that Quaker John Whiting was questioned for not paying tithes, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3350x3351.htm 1678 (4mo: Park) At Somerset, "Beside those already mentioned, there had been imprisoned for Tithes, some Years before John Whiting's Commitment, John Coate, John Smith, Thomas Ridiout of Mark, and Walter Hodges of Kingsbury. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3350x3351.htm 1679 5mo 31d In attendance at Illchester MM, Somerset, England (Park) 1680 2mo 29d "For a Meeting at Gregory-Stoke: John Cuffe, John Pinny, Francis Scott, and John Coate, were fined

  
  

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