*From:* "REV C FORDE" <spiritsouth@gmail.com> *Subject:* [COATES] Coats Lawsuit: Wilkes County, GA 1810 *Date:* Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:47:07 -0600 *References:* <305ccf6d0801231720n371cb908yf981caa6ad8d4037@mail.gmail.com> *In-Reply-To:* <305ccf6d0801231720n371cb908yf981caa6ad8d4037@mail.gmail.com> Does anyone have further information on this Coats lawsuit? There is no record that the sale occurred; no record in the Court of Ordinary Minutes only the following newspaper notice: Published in the Monitor: (Wilkes County newspaper) 6 January 1810. The abstract reads: Sheriff's Sale, Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in June next, at the Court-house in Wilkes County... the following property viz, third para: Also, 80 acres of land in Wilkes County, on the waters of Rocky creek, adjoining Thomas Terrell, William Jones and others, the same tract whereon Asa Hoxey now lives, with the improvements thereon. The above levied on by virtue of an execution, Joseph Clay & Co. against William Coats, Nathaniel Coats, Zachariah Lamar, Howel Jarrett and John Bankston - the property pointed out by Reuben Hill, esq. Citation: Wilkes County (Washington), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1810-1815, Vol. II, p. 25, p. 28. FYI: Howell Jarrett was married to Jane Smiley Coats/Coates; he was also a distributee and administrator along with Nicholas Jarrett (his brother) on the estate settlement of William Coats. He was an administrator of Lesley Coats estate. (I can furnish those records as soon as I get them transcribed). John Bankston was married to Henrietta Coats (Coates) and lived near the Coats, Howell Jarrett, and Lawrence Bankston (likely his brother). John Bankston and Henrietta Coats named some of their children: Howell Bankston, Lesley Bankston, Peter Young Bankston, John Young Bankston, Henry Harrison Bankston, Levi H. Bankston, JJohn Jacque Bankston, Cecelia Bankston. My goal is to learn the relationships of those Coats members in Wilkes County, GA and their parentage. -- The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde 13506 Northshore Drive Montgomery, Texas 77356 713.503.0836 phone cynthiaforde@gmail.com spiritsouth@gmail.com