http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Detail.asp?Accession=IN0020%5F%5F%2E063&Index=22&QryID=66133%2E3&DetailTab=2 I found Sampson Coats in Lawrence County IN...anyone have any info on him...it's dated 1824...this could very well be Sampson Coats son of John Coats and Rachel of SC.... Lawrence County IN is in the mid-southern portion of IN.... http://www.ingenweb.org/ingen_county2.htm He could very well give us some clues... Char