Research Notes:
We have assumed that Marmaduke, son of William Coate and Rebecca Sharp, is the same as Marmaduke, married to Sarah Matthis. We seek evidence to support or refute this assumption. [1]
1747 Marmaduck Coate and Sarah Mathis declared their intention to marry. Dated May 14. [2]
1747 Marmaduck Coate and Sarah Mathis declared their intention to marry. Dated June 11. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
1749 Marmaduke Coate of Mansfield, Burlington County, house carpenter, dated his will on May 7. Wife, Sarah, tract in the mountains at Kingwood, Bethlehem Township, to enable her to bring up child John and expected child. Plantation in Mansfield I bought of John Gibbs. Executors wife, and brother John Coats. Witnesses John Buflin, Ann Buffin, Joseph Pope. Proved May 31, 1749. [9]
1750 Intestate Administration granted to Rebecca Coates, widow for the estate of Marmaduke Coates, of Burlington County, perhaps this one. Robert Hartshorne, atty,-at-law, fellow bondsman. Dated January 5. [10]
1750 Inventory of personal estate, £269.8.6; made by Thos. Earl and Michael Newbold. Dated May 7. [11]
1750-51 "While travelling in Burlington after his first wife's death, John [Leeds] met and married Sarah Mathis Coate, 1751, daughter ol John and Alice Mathis and widow of Marmaduke Coate, a noted Friend of Mansfield, N. J." [12] [13]
1751 Sarah Coat and John Leeds published their intentions to marry. Dated on 12 month 7. [14]
1751 Sarah Coat and John Leeds published their intentions to marry a second time. Dated on 10 of month 8. [15]
Research Notes:
Several documents for Marmaduke Coate, son of Samuel, have been found. [http://www.ancestrees.com/pedigree/293.htm, Linda Coate, Coate research website]
[1] George Norwood Comly, Comly family in America, descendants of Henry and Joan Comly (1939), 801, [HathiTrust].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 57, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 58, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Women's Minutes, 1715-1762, 43, second time, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1730-1884, 58, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 340, [HathiTrust].
[7] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 203, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[8] H. Stanley Craig, Burlington County New Jersey Marriages (1937), 48, [GoogleBooks].
[9] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 101, citing Lib. 6, p. 300, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[10] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 101, citing Lib. 7, p. 102, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 101, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[12] John F. Hall, The Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey. Containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County, [HathiTrust].
[13] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 340, [HathiTrust].
[14] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Women's Minutes, 1715-1762, 50, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[15] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 69, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].