1732 John Coate was born on 16 of month 2, recorded in a Coate family bible. [1]
1761 It was reported that John Coate had married contrary to good order. Dated on 7 of month 6, at the Chesterfield meeting. [2]
1775 John Coates was named to be a member of the committee of observation for Burlington, which soon voted to raise money for the defense of West Jersey, which was recently made in dependent. [3] [4]
1786 Will of John Coate (transcribed by Charlotte Coats Siercks) [5]:
Be it remembered that I John Coate of the township of Springfield, County of Burlington and State of New Jersey. Being sick and weak of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, yet calling to mind the uncertainty of all sublunary enjoyments and that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my last will and testament. I give my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it to me as in the disposal of a being infinitely good and as to the worldly estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me my will is that it be disposed of in the following manner. First I give and bequeath unto my well beloved niece Hester Earle, wife of Caleb Earle my brown mare. Second I give and bequeath unto my beloved nephew Caleb Earle all the residue and remainder of my Estate both real and personal what ever and where ever the same may be, unto him the said Caleb Earle his heirs and assignees for ever, excepting only a certain Bond of obligation that I have against my Brother Daniel Coate which I hereby give him. Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my nephew Caleb Earle sole Executor of this my last will and testament. Sealed with my seal and dated this 25 day of April 1786. Affirmed 12 June 1786. Inventory of John Coate late of the Township of Springfield, County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. Purse and Apparel £6.4.6. Notes of Hand and Book accounts £66.10.4. Household goods £14.10.3. One Brown Mare £20.0.0.
Research Notes:
Doctor John Coates, a different person, was alive in 1795.
1776 Doctor John Coates, and others, were appointed to be "Captains in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, in the Continental Service, Commanded by Col. Richard Humpton." [6]
c1776 Doctor John Coates, November 13, 1776; wounded by a ball in his right hand at Piscataway; resigned in October, 1777; resided in Talbot county, Maryland, in 1795. [7]
1779 Doctor John Coates was to answer "in the sum of one thousand pounds", regarding the detention of David Solebury Franks, one of the persons who were in a riot in the House of James Wilson on the 4th instant (October 1779). [8]
[1] Albert L. Stokes, "Bible Records - Coate, Gardiner, and Wright Families," The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 32 (1957), 1-4, at 2.
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage].
[3] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 22, left column, [HathiTrust].
[4] Minutes of the Provincial Congress and the Council of Safety of the State of New Jersey [1775-1776](Trenton: 1879), 52, [InternetArchive].
[5] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 36. (Wills and Administrations 7, 1786-1790) (1939), 46, [InternetArchive].
[6] Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 11 (1852), 2, [InternetArchive].
[7] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 10. (Battalions and Line, Volume 1) (1880), 745, [HathiTrust].
[8] Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 12 (1853), 142, of 141-42, [GoogleBooks], [GoogleBooks].