1701 On 8 of month 7, the birth of Mary Coate to parents Marmaduke and Ann Coate was listed at Kingsbury Meeting, Somerset, England. [1]
1719 On 3 of month 6, Caleb Raper and Mary Coate declared their intention to marry at Burlington meeting. [2] [3]
1719 On 10 September, Caleb Raper and Mary Coate, daughter of Marmaduke Coate, were married. Witnessed by Marmaduke and Ann Coate, and others. [4] [5] [6]
1720 On 8 December, Edmund Sands and Mary Coate, daughter of James Coate, late of Philadelphia, were married. Witnessed by Caleb and Mary Rapier, and others. [7]
1745 On 5 of month 6, Caleb Raper died. [8] [9] [10]
1747 Widow Mary Coate Raper married Joseph Noble. [11]
1764 Mary Coate died 22nd day, 9th month of 1764. [12]
A biosketch of Caleb Raper reports [13] [14] [15]:
Of this Friend, the son of Thomas aud Abigail Raper, who was born at Burlington, Twelfth mo. 1st, 1693, and who, in the year 1719, married Mary, a daughter of Marmaduke and Ann Coate, both useful and worthy Friends of Springfield, West Jersey, I shall add in addition to the account formerly given of him, John Smith's brief testimony. "He was for some years a careful overseer and elder in tho church, and of remarkable plainness and integrity in all his conduct. Beside the journeys he went with Robert Jordan, he frequently accompanied public Friends in their visits to neighbouring meetings, and as he was tender towards those who were rightly concerned in that weighty service, he showed it, by free and kind remarks, either verbally or in writing, upon any mistakes which such happened to make, either as to matter or manner; and was sharp in reproof to those, who were forward therein, or attempted to impose upon Friends without proper call or qualification. His last illness was the dropsy, of which he died on the 5th of Sixth month, 1745. Some of his last sensible expressions were a repetition of those beautiful words, in Isaiah. 'Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned,for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.' "
Mary, the wife and widow of Caleb, and daughter of Marmaduke Coate, was for many years an esteemed elder of Burlington Monthly Meeting. She was married, in the year 1747, to Joseph Noble, of Philadelphia, who removed to reside with her at Burlington. " She was a pious woman, of a neighbourly and kind disposition, and died in good esteem." Ninth mo. 22d, 1764.
[1] England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Piece RG6/1439: Monthly Meeting of South Somerset (to 1783), and Mid-Somerset (1657-1748), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, right, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 251, [HathiTrust].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 412, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 412, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[10] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 30 (1857), 229, [InternetArchive].
[11] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 412, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[12] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 412, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[13] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 412, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[14] Willard C. Heiss, Quaker biographical sketches of ministers and elders and other concerned members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, 1682-1800 (1972), 262, [FHLBook].
[15] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 30 (1857), 229, A different biosketch, [InternetArchive].