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1671 Samuel Coate, son of John and Elizabeth Coate, was born on 10 of month 11 [January], 1670/71, at South Somerset, England. [1] [2]

1681 Mary Sanders arrived in the Delaware River on the ship called the Factor of Bristol. Mary Sanders and John Roberts (relationship, if any, unknown) were servants of Andrew Ellet ... of the parish of Fifeds (Fivehead?), in the County of Summerset (Somerset?). [3] [4] The ship Bristol Factor arrived in the Delaware on December 11 with Andrew Ellet and others. [5]

1683 The "Middletown Friends' Meeting Middletown Friends meetings were first established at Middletown in 1683, and held at the houses of Nicholas Walne, John Otter, and Robert Hall. The first meeting-house was built in 1690, near Neshaminy creek, a mile west of Langhorne, whither it was removed in 1734, the present house in the town being the third. It was first called the Neshamina Meeting because of its location near the Neshaminy Creek. In 1692 that area was designated as Middletown Township, and what is now Langhorne was part of Middletown Township. By 1702 the Neshamina Meeting had changed its name to Middletown Meeting to adapt its name to its locality. … Names of other Quaker families mentioned in the Meeting's records during the remaining years of the 17th century included those of … Coats …"


Neshamina or Middleton Meeting House, Bucks County, Pennsylvania [6]

1685 Andrew Ellet, "Above the Falls", was appointed fence-viewer. [7]

c 1685 John Coate came to America from county Somerset, England with sons Samuel Coate and James Coate, sometime after 1682, and settled near the Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (inferred from prior events in Somerset and subsequent events in Pennsylvania).

1687 Samuell Coate, and many others, signed a recommendation, on 7 of month 7, not to sell rum or strong liquor to Indians. [8] [9]

1687 Samuel Coate, John Chapman, John Palmer, and others, witnessed the marriage on November 25, of Jeffrey Hawkins and Ellen Pierson at the Middletown meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [10]

1688 Samuel Coate, and others, witnessed the marriage of Shadrah Walley and Mary Sharp on March 12, at the Middletown meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [11] Samuel subsequently sold land to Shadrack Walley in 1703.

1690 Samuel Coate, John Chapman, John Palmer, and others, witnessed the marriage, on November 20, of William Smith and Mary Croasdell in the house of John Chapman, Wrightstown, Bucks County. [12]

1692 Samuel's brother, James Coate, carpenter of Philadelphia, and Mary Watson were married on 8 February (month 12), 1691/92, in Philadelphia. Samuel Coate witnessed the marriage. [13]

1693 The grand jury at a courthouse near ye falls (Trenton) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania attested several persons including Sa: Coatts, on September 13. [14]

1693 Samuel Coate was a road juror ordered by the court to help lay out a cart road from Newtown to the ferry house at a session dated 12/1693, the second Wednesday of the month. [15] It is plausible that this was the road from Newtown to either Yarley's Ferry to the East or to McKonky's Ferry to the Northeast, later used by General Washington for the famous crossing of the Delaware. [16]

1695 "Samuel Coate hath signified his intention before this meeting, of taking Mary Saunders to wife, it being the first time, this meeting doth appoint Stephen Wilson and Jo'n Croasdill to inquire into his clearness." Dated 3 of month 11 [January], 1694/95 at the Neshamina Creek Monthly Meeting. [17] On 6 of month 12, 1694/95, Samuel Coate declared his intention to marry to the Falls monthly meeting. [18] [19]

1695 "Samuel Coate havein signified his intention of marriage with Mary Saunders, it being the second time, & inquirie being made nothing is found but it be clear, so this meeting doth leave him to his liberty to accomplish his intention when he may find opportunity." Dated 7 of month 12 [February], 1694/95 at the Neshamina Creek Monthly Meeting. [20] [21] [22] On 6 of month 1 [March], 1695, at the monthly meeting at the house of Joshua Hoop, Samuel Coate presented a certificate of clearness from Nishamina to the Falls monthly meeting. [23] [24] [25]

1696 Samuel Coate, son of Samuel and Mary Coate, was born on March 3, 1695/96 . [26] [27]

1696 Samuel Coates was on a petit jury in Bucks county, Pennsylvania on December 9 [9 of 10th month]. [28]

1697 Sa'm Coate and Mary Coate, and others, witnessed the marriage of John Croasdill and Marah Chapman on April 28, at the Middletown meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [29]

1698 Samuel Coate was on a Grand Jury in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 7/14/1698. [30]

1699 Samuel Coate was on a Grand Jury in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on month 1, day 8, 1698/99. [31]

1699 Samuel Coate's father, John, gave him 200 acres of land in Newtown, Bucks County, that John had purchased on Mar 13, 1689 from Israel Taylor. Samuel, himself, had purchased 23 more acres from this same Israel Taylor on Nov. 16, 1696. After his father's death, in late 1699 or early 1700, Samuel sold the land he inherited from his father John and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey. "At a session of the commissioners at Philadelphia the 5th of the 8th'ber, "The property by L. and Rel., dated x, granted 5000 acres to Chris. Taylor, &c, who by deed of sale dated 7, 11 mo, '83, convey'd a certain parcel thereof to his son Israel Taylor, &c, who by deed poll dated 13, 1 mon, '89, granted a certain part thereof, lying in New Town in the county of Bucks, then reputed to contain 200 acres, to Jno. Coat, &c, who by an instrument in writing, dated some time in August 1699, assigned the said reputed 200 acres to his son Sam'll, &c, W.M.R.T. and J.G. by a certain patent dat. 18 February '92, granted 250 acres lying in the said county to said Israel, & c, who sold the same by deed dated 14 April '93 to James Yeats, &c, who by deed dated 16th 9br '96, granted 23 acres thereof to the said Sam'll Coat … [32] [33]

1700 Samuel Coate was listed as one of the men who helped survey and lay out a by-road leading into the Kings Road in Springfield and Northampton Twps. [34]

1701 On 7 April, "This meeting taking into consideration ye late riott of braken up ye prison dores in ye doing of which were severall that goes under ye denomination of Quakers whereby a scandal is brought upon our Holy Profession thereto ye meeting orders ye friends appointed by ye perticular meetings to inspect into disorders if they speak to every offender they know of that belongs to their meeting in order that they give satisfaction to ye governor & friends [continued below]" [35]

1701 On 7 of month 5, "This meeting taking into further considerations the misdeameanors of ye persons who appeared in a riotous manner amongst them to break open ye prison ...[several persons named]". "The friends appointed to speak to disorderly persons to give satisfaction to next meeting are John Shinn & John Day who are also desired to speak to Sam'l Coat to same purpose" [36] Samuel Coate was not named among the defendants at the Burlington court [37].

1702 "Samuel Coates and Samuel Beard in open [Burlington] court acknowledge themselves indebted to our Soveraigne Lord the King in the summe of forty pounds to be levied upon there or either goods and chattles lands and tenements on condition that the said Samuell Coates be of good abearing and keep his Majesties Peace as well towards all his majesties Liedge people as perticularly towards Elizabeth White and Elizabeth Brown till the Next Court of Sessions acknowledged by them in court. [Evidence] Elizabeth White and Elizabeth Brown attested say they are afraid that Samuell Coates will abuse them or ravish them and are afraid of their lives ... The court order Samuel Coates to find security accordingly." [38]

1702 At the November Court in Burlington, Samuel Coate was charged with four others of neglecting service on the road (to King's highway?). [39]

1702 Samuel Coate was named as one of the new Constables from Burlington. [40]

1703 "John Day making his complaint to ths meeting against Richard Ridgway Junier, John Scholy, Samuel Coats, Daneill Hall & Jesper Moone as being persons that frequent our meetings going contrary to our Christian sosiety were aiding & assisting Tho Branson in ye night Seson in stealling of John Days daughter and clandestinely marrying her unknown to ye said John Day her father ..." Dated 1 of 1st month, 1702/03. [41] [42]. At the next meeting they admitted their guilt and apologized [43] [44] [45]. The activity was described in public, but Samuel Coat refused except the meeting will promis not to publish it [46] [47].

1703 Samuel Coate submitted, on 1/10, 1702/3, the purchase of a deed for 3 acres of land in Newtown, with the deed dated 9/16/1696. He appears to have sold that land plus 19 other acres to Shadrack Walley on that same day, 1/10/1702/3 and then submitted it to the courts on 7/8/1703. "Sam'll Coat, & c, who by deed dated 10th, 1 mo, 1702, granted the said 2 parcels of 200 acres and 23 of land to Shad'k Walley, of New Town aforesaid, Yeoman, & c, who requests a resurvey of the said tracts, containing together in all by the above Min's 723 acres and a patent." [48] [49]


1681 map (extract) of Bucks County showing land of Israel Taylor and Shad. Walle next to Newton [50]

1703 Samuel Coate purchased land on May 8, in Burlington County, New Jersey, from Joseph English. [51]

1704 "To all captains & other military officer concerned" ... Samuel Coats was listed as a Quaker excused from military duties in Springfield, Burlington County. [52] [53]

1705 Samuel Coate [Couts] was named as a Grand Juror in Burlington County. [54]

1713 Zachariah Jess and Rachel Horner were married on March 11, in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Marmaduke and Samuel Coate (first cousins) and Ann and Mary Coate (their wives), and others. [55]

1717/18 On 3 of 1st month, "Whereas ye oversears of ye meeting of Springfield was desired to speak to Samuel Coat and to acquaint him that ye meeting expects that he should appear at our next meeting to see if he could clear himself of ye scandalous reports that is gon out against him. One of the overseers brought his answer in writing wherein he owns himself implicitly to be gilty of matters of fact. Therefore it is the sence of this meeting that he take the shame and reproch to himself by publishing his evils to ye world and send itt in to ye next meeting. Otherwise ye meeting will be under the necessity of disowning him by publishing against him to the world" Samuel Coat was disowned at the next meeting. [56] [57]

1721 Samuel Coate [58] and Thomas Page [59] were on the Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County tax list of English assessments, value 5 and 6 pounds. They did not appear on lists in previous or subsequent years.

1722 Samuel Coate operated the New Jersey side of the ferry crossing the Delaware River to John Wells, on the Pennsylvania side. The ferry, later known as Coryell's Ferry, was in Lambertville, the old York road from New York to Philadelphia.

1722 A history of the tract of the ferry reports [60]: "The first is for a survey of 400 acres for Benjamin Field [61]. Benjamin Field purchased his right from John Hutchinson, Feb. 14, 1701. Field sold to Robert Eaton, and Eaton sold to Samuel Coate in 1722. Coate was the first to reside on this tract and operated the ferry over the Old York Road in conjunction with John Wells, who had operated the ferry on the Pennsylvania side since 1718. Upon the death of Samuel Coate, in 1723, the ferry tract passed to one of his sons, John Coate, who obtained a license for his ferry from Governor Burnet in 1726, and later the ferry tract was purchased by John Purcel, who also operated the ferry. Purcel sold the tract to Emanuel Coryell in 1732, and by the name of this family the ferry was known until the beginning of the Nineteenth century."

"In the meantime there had settled upon the Jersey side of the river one Samuel Coate the land he settled is described in the deed to John Holcombe as then 1705 belonging to Robert Eaton, formerly Hugh Howells. Coate seems to have bought the land from Robert Eaton and here he established a ferry which became known as Coates ferry. No clear brief of the title of this land seems to exist. It was originally a 400 acre tract surveyed to Benjamin Field. in 1700 It is alluded to as a Henry Clarks, and as Hugh Howells. On Oct 15 1728 John Coate sold to John Purcell 200 acres of this tract, and on August 4 1732 John Coate then of Bethlehem NJ sold of John Holcombe 30 acres of this tract This deed refers to a post in William Coates and a post in Henry Coates land." [62]

1722 Samuel Coate, the settler on the Field, purchased four hundred acres from Robert Eaton adjoining John Holcombe's land on April 16 and 17. Samuel was at the time of the purchase, in April 1722, a resident of Springfield, Burlington county. They moved to the land in Amwell Twp, Hunterdon County, in 1723. Samuel also purchased an additional adjoining 100 acres, according to the deed where his son William sells 150 acres of the land in 1728. [63] [64] [65]

1722 "... one Samuel Coate purchased the landing on the New Jersey side opposite to Wells ferry. Samuel Coate does not appear to have ever applied to the West Jersey Assembly for a license. He died in 1723 and his son, John Coate, applied for and obtained a license to operate a ferry, which is dated April 30, 1726. About the time John Wells came to Solebury a small settlement of Quakers had located on the New Jersey side of the river opposite to what is now the ferry tract. The earliest settler was John Holcombe, a brother of the Jacob Holcombe who purchased the Mill tract in 1712. John Holcombe had settled on the West New Jersey shore in 1705 ; other quakers who settled there later, were John Comfort, who lived on a part of the Holcombe tract, and Samuel Coate, who located on the river bank just below Holcombe Island." [66]

1723 A history of The Old Heath mill and its early owners reported [67]:

This takes us through the first half century of the mill and its owners, during which it served the inhabitants of the neighborhood with no other near competitor. Many of the Quakers from across the river on the New Jersey side, like John Comfort, Samuel Coate, John Holcombe and others, sent their corn to this mill. It had a great influence in turning the course of the York road from Readings landing, to what the Pennsylvanians call Wells Ferry.

Samuel Coate up to the time of his death, operated a ferry from the New Jersey side. His will dated Nov. 22, 1723, mentions one of his fields, now within the limits of Lambertville, as lying along the "Yoark Road." I found among the unpublished manuscripts at Harrisburg a petition from the inhabitants of Solebury, dated 15th 3 mo., 1730, which stated that the York road had been laid out toward Readings ferry, on a promise from the inhabitants of New Jersey that a road to New York would be built by them to meet it. But instead of building the road to Reading's landing, at what is now Stockton, N. J., the New Jersey inhabitants had built their road to the landing against John Wells ferry, at what is now Lambertville, N. J., and also a ferry had been authorized (Wells Ferry) which made the upper road useless. And so they petitioned that the council cancel its' authority for a road to John Reading's landing and authorize in its place the road to Wells ferry. Heath's mill probably had its share in diverting the crossing to this point.

Samuel Coate owned land in Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey and ran a ferry service known as Coate's Ferry on the Delaware River. [68]

1723 Samuel Coat sent in a paper, on April 1, into this meeting in order to condemn his outgoings. The Burlington monthly meeting accepted the paper. [69] [70]

1723 Samuel Coate and his family took a certificate to Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania from Burlington, New Jersey.

1723 On 6 of month 3, "Samuel Coate made application to the meeting for a certificate for himself & family to ye monthly meeting at Buckingham [Bucks County] in Pensalvania within ye the vearg of which meeting he and his family is removed therefore this meeting appoints John Scholey and Thomas Antrum to make enquire unto their clearness what is neadfull both as on ye account of Marriage and Conversation and report to the next meeting." [71]

1723 On 1st of month 5, John Scholy & Thomas Antrum ... "declared they had made enquire into ye conversation and clearness of ye two sons of Samuel Coate, John & Henry and find nothing to obstruct or hinder the granting of them a certificate for which the meeting orders the clerk to draw & bring it to the next meeting." [72] [73]

1723 Mary Coate and daughter Elizabeth requested a certificate to Buckingham from Burlington on 6 of month 3. [74] [75] Mary Coate and daughter Elizabeth produced a certificate to Buckingham from Burlington on 3 of month 7. [76]

1723 John Bainbridge, Samuel Coate, Thomas Curtis, Joshua Anderson, Andrew Smith, and Nathaniel Leonard, freeholders, received tax money from Capt. Ralph Hunt for the running of the government in Maidenhead, Hopewell, Amwell and Trenton Townships, New Jersey. Dated August 24, 1723.

1723 The will of Samuel Coate, a gentleman, was dated on November 22, 1723 at Amwell, Hunterdon County, West Jersey. Sons John and Henry were appointed as executors. John was given 200 acres next the River Delaware. Henry was given 200 acres on the hill, where the new ? is now running. Son William Coate received 100 acres on the hill next to york road. Marmaduke got 20 pounds, Samuel got 5 pounds, and wife Mary got 3 pounds a year, all to be paid by son John. Daughter Elizabeth Coate got a feather bed, a cow, a mare, and too yewes (two ewes?), to be delivered when she changed her condition (got married?). Witnesses: Jon Holcombe, John Wells, Beniamen Willcoks. Proved January 8, 1723-4. His son John, who received the ferry tract, made application for and received from Governor Burnet a license to operate a ferry in Amwell township, Hunterdon County, from the landing commonly called Coates Landing across the River Delaware to the Province of Pennsylvania. All of the Coate heirs appear to have sold their holdings in 1728. [77] [78] [List, Documents about Samuel Coate estate, 1723.] [79]

1723 The inventory, dated December 23, of the personal estate of Samuel Coate recorded value £215.11, incl. a clock, £5, a Bible and other books, £1, a negro woman, "Desparat" debts, £25, "things Left and forgotten," 5 s.; made by George Green and John Holcombe. [80]

1723 Roger Fort surveyed land on March 27, bought from Samuel Coate. Bordering lands of Ananiah Gaunt [Warrant Date: August 13, 1722]. 197 Acres. Springfield Township, Burlington County. [81]

1728 Samuel Coate's son, John, sold 200 acres of the tract of land he was given by his father, to John Purcell. In 1732, John Coate, of Bethlehem, New Jersey sold 30 acres more of this land to John Holcombe. It is a home built by this John Holcombe that Washington stayed in twice during the Revolutionary War. The 1732 deed mentions adjoining posts belonging to William and Henry Coate's lands.

1729 William Coate, of Amwell, Hunterdon County, sold land to William Cornwell on February 20, 1728/29. William Coate had inherited the land from his father, Samuel Coate, deceased. Samuel Coate, of Springfield,Burlington County, had purchased the land from Robert Eaton on April 16, 1722. Samuel Coate bequeathed, in his last will and testament, the land to his three sons John, Henery, and William Coate; that is to say two hundred to John Coate, two hundred to Henery Coate and the remainder to William Coate. [82]

1732 "In 1732 he [John Emanuel] removed to this place and bought of John Purcell a tract of 200 acres which Purcell had purchased of John Coates, to whom the tract was deeded by his father, Samuel Coates. This was doubtless the ferry lot, as Coryell obtained a patent for the ferry on Jan 7, 1733, in which patent it is mentioned as being formerly known as Coates' Ferry. The northern boundary of this tract was a line running from the river nearly due east through what is now Church Street." [83]

1733 "The ferry rights on the New Jersey side of the river were granted in 1733 by King George the Second, to Emanuel Coryell, of Amwell, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and were to operate a ferry, at a place called Coates Ferry, New Jersey, opposite Wells' Ferry on the Pennsylvania side, and excluding any other person or persons from operating a ferry at this point." [84] [85] [86]


Coryell's Ferry, painting by William Pickett, WikimediaCommons


1733 Mary Coate requested, on 6 of month 9, a certificate of removal from the Buckingham meeting to the Chesterfield Meeting. Approved on 4 of month 10. [87] [88]

Research Notes:

1687 Stephen Sander, and many others, signed, on 7 of month 7, a recommendation not to sell rum or strong liquor to Indians. [89] 1682 Stephen Sandes had a certificate from Lancaster Pennsylvania and consent of his mother and sisters [90]. 1685 Stephen Sands married Jane Cowgill [91].

Son Marmaduke was named in Quaker records when he married Sarah Mathis in Little Egg Harbor, 1747.

Son William is possibly the William that married Rachel Ann Budd. He sold to William Cornwell the land, 150 acres, that he inherited from his father, Samuel, on May 21, 1729. His name was mentioned in a deed of sale by his brother in 1732.

The relationship of Mary Saunders, if any, to Christopher Saunders, who was a passenger on the ship Kent, is unknown.

"In New Jersey Emanuel Coryell applied for a license for John Coates to keep a ferry opposite Wells Ferry. Coates sold that ferry to John Purcell, who in 1732, sold it to Emanuel Coryell. Emanuel died in 1748 and his son, John, obtained a New Jersey license. The ferry and lands formerly owned by Coryell were seized as the property of George Ely and sold by the sheriff of Hunterdon county. ... Coryell's Ferry on the Jersey side became Lambertville when U.S. Senator John Lambert secured a post office there." [Newsletter of the New Hope Historical Society (Feb 2004)]

Several men named Coate settled around Philadelphia:

1683 William Coates warranted a city lot in Philadelphia. [92]

1683 Richard Coates warranted 250 acres in Philadelphia county. [93]

1719 John Coats warranted a brick yard in Philadelphia county. [94]

21719 John Coates warranted a piece of ground in Philadelphia county. [95]


Footnotes:

[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] Bristol, England, Non-Conformist Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1644-1981, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] J. H. Battle, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania (1887), 673, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive (page approximate)].

[4] William W. H. Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Doylestown, PA: 1876), 80, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive (page approximate)].

[5] J. H. Battle, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania (1887), 176, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive (page approximate)].

[6] Geni website for Middletown Meeting, [URL].

[7] J. H. Battle, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania (1887), 195, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive (page approximate)].

[8] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Record of Commery, 1683, 17, left column, 4th from bottom, [AncestryImage].

[9] "Some Account of the Early Meetings of Friends in Bucks County, Penna.," The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 67 (1860), 181, center column regarding the Falls Meeting, [GoogleBooks].

[10] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Minutes, etc., 1682-1807, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[11] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Minutes, etc., 1682-1807, 14, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[12] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, Marriage Certificates, 1683, 146, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[13] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Arch Street, Abstract of Record of Births, Deaths and Burials, 1688-1826, 11, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[14] Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1943), 278, [Hathi_Catalog], [GoogleBooks].

[15] Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1943), 280, [Hathi_Catalog], [GoogleBooks].

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[17] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Record of Commery, 1683, 43, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[18] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, 34, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[19] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Record of Commery, 1683, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[20] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Record of Commery, 1683, 43, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[21] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, 34, top left, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[22] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1664-1807, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[23] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, 34, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[24] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 58, reports date 6 January [sic], 1695, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].

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[28] Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1943), 307, [Hathi_Catalog], [GoogleBooks].

[29] Quaker Meeting Records, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Minutes, etc., 1682-1807, 20, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[30] Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1943), 349, [Hathi_Catalog], [GoogleBooks].

[31] Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Printed by the Tribune Pub. Co., 1943), 370, [Hathi_Catalog], [GoogleBooks].

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[34] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 232.

[35] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, left, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[36] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, image 106, right, [AncestryImage].

[37] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 252-253.

[38] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 266, of 266-67.

[39] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 271.

[40] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 281.

[41] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, right, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[42] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 188, [AncestryImage].

[43] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, left, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[44] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 189, [AncestryImage].

[45] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1636-1737, 191, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[46] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, left, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[47] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1636-1737, 192, twice, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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