Samuel Coate was a Methodist minister. "Samuel Coate was born near Lumberton, New Jersey, about the year 1774. He came of Quaker stock, but the family had become ardent Methodists. Indeed, a younger brother, Azail, nursed Bishop Asbury back to health in the spring of 1814." [1]
Samuel Coate was "evidently a very extraordinary person for such a day and country. He swept like a meteor over the land, and spellbound the astonished gaze of the wondering new settlers...". [2]
1794 Methodist preacher Samuel Coate was stationed at Flanders under Elder Thomas Ware. [3]
1795 Methodist preacher Samuel Coate was still on trial. [4] He was stationed at Albany. [5]
1796 Methodist preacher Samuel Coate was admitted into full connexion. [6] He was a Deacon. [7] He was stationed in Columbia under Elder Sylvester Hutchinson. [8]
1800 Daniel Coate and wife Sarah, of Oesham [Evesham] Twp, Burlington County, sold land to Samuel Coate, their son, for 6 cents, on December 4, 1800. The two contiguous tracts were on the south five of the fourth and main Branch of the Rancocas Creek, joining the town of Lumberton, adjoining land formerly of Sarah Mills, Paul Custer, the road from Lumberton to F?oster town. The second tract was "part of the estate formerly belonging to the said Sarah Mills being mother to the now wife of the said Daniel Coate". [9]
1800 Methodist Elder Samuel Coate was stationed at Burlington. [10]
1801 Samuel Coate was admitted as a member at Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [11]
1801 Samuel Coate was an elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. [12] [13]
1802 Ann Coate and Elisabeth Page were members of a Preacher's Class at Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [14]
1804 Samuel Coate was an elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Upper and lower Canada district. [15]
1804 Samuel Coate was named as admitting members at Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Ann Coate was admitted on August 5. [16]
1805 Samuel Coate was Presiding Elder in charge of the Upper Canada District of Methodist preachers. [17]
1806 Samuel Coate was Presiding Elder in charge of the Lower Canada District of Methodist preachers. [18]
1806 There were great camp meetings in the Dover circuit. "Sabbath was a high day in Zion. There were about ten thousand people on the ground. In the morning Samuel Coate preached on John iii, 17 ... Samuel Coate preached again on being instant in season and out of season He was there to raise money for a church in Montreal, Canada, and was very successful. ... During the meeting there were reported one thousand three hundred and twenty conversions ... Shall this aged heart ever feel such shocks of divine power as I felt on that consecrated ground?" [19]
1810 Samuel Coate located in the New York Conference. [20]
In subsequent years, Samuel Coate left Methodism for the Church of England and finally led a secular life with financial difficulties. [21]
1813 On 20 December, Samuel Coate died at age 38 and was buried at John Wesley's House. [22] "Died - December 20th, 1813, in the city of London, aged thirty-seven years, the Reverend Samuel Coate, one of the Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He has left a wife and child in lower Canada, and in the state of New Jersey an aged mother, with many other relations to lament his loss. After suffering much and long, with great patience and resignation, he died in peace. His remains were interred at New Chapel City Road." [23]
1822 On 28 June, letters of administration for Samuel Coate of Burlington County, who died intestate, were issued to Asahel Coate. [24]
1822 At the August term of the Orphans' Court of Burlington County, New Jersey Asahel Coate, administrator of Samuel Coate, deceased, requested permission to sell the land of Samuel Coate. [25]
1822 In November, the Orphans' Court of Burlington County, New Jersey ordered Asahel Coate, administrator, to sell the house and lot of Samuel Coate, deceased, in the village of Lumberton next October (1823). "By virtue a decree of the Orphans' Court of the County of Burlington, in November Term, 1822--will be sold at Public Vendue, on Monday the 13th day of October next, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock of said day, on the premises, the real estate of Samuel Coate, Dec'd lying in the village of Lumberton, in the township of Evesham, bounded west by the main street or road, on the north by lands of Paul Custer, east by Shinn Oliphant, & south by Sarah Coate, containing nine acres, having thereon a two story frame tenement, hay-house and stabling. Conditions made known at the sale by Asahel Coate, Administrator. September 2, 1823. 1 4W." [26] "Proceeds of the sale of the said house and lot of land to be appropriated to the payment of the debts of the said Samuel Coate, deceased, which remain unpaid." [27]
[1] United Church of Canada, The Bulletin - Committee on Archives of the United Church of Canada - Issues 23-28 (1974), 38.
[2] George Frederick Playter, The History of Methodism in Canada (Toronto: 1862), 55, biosketch of early career, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 144, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 149, Google Books: Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813):149, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 161, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 166, Google Books: Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813):166, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 167, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 180, Google Books: Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813):180, [GoogleBooks].
[9] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), I-470, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[10] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 246, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the years 1773-1828, Vol. 1 (1840), 100, left column, [HathiTrust].
[13] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the years 1773-1828, Vol. 1 (1840), 96, right column, [HathiTrust].
[14] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[15] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the years 1773-1828, Vol. 1 (1840), 121, right column, [HathiTrust].
[16] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[17] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 353, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 375, [GoogleBooks].
[19] Henry Boehm, Joseph B Wakeley, ed., Reminiscences, Historical and Biographical, of sixty-four years in the Ministry (1865), 150, [GoogleBooks].
[20] Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1773-1813 (1813), 472, [GoogleBooks].
[21] George Frederick Playter, The History of Methodism in Canada (Toronto: 1862), 100, biosketch of later career, [GoogleBooks].
[22] J William Lamb. Fallen Meteor: Rev. Samuel Coate (2010):25, [URL].
[23] Find A Grave Memorial 108328072, [FindAGrave].
[24] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Administration and Guardian Record A-229, [FamilySearchImage].
[25] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Orphans Court Minutes 5-215, [FamilySearchImage].
[26] Burlington Mirror Newspaper, Mount Holly, (Burlington County Library, online abstracts), "oliphant coate", 3 September, 1823, page 3, column 5, [NJMirrorSearch].
[27] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Orphans Court Minutes 5-238, [FamilySearchImage].