Well, finally finished the last two rolls of Rowan County NC deeds...nothing...not one Coats on them...I did find a bunch of stuff on a William Cole...I think other than or might be the William Temple Cole there...his land was located on Lick Creek...there is a Job Cole there but didn't find his state grant...but the dates are much too late I think...1789 if I recall, I got the records and will scan them and put them in the Archive.... Also got the South Carolina Equity records in...the case of Catharine Coats and John Coats, sen is among this group...haven't made copies of it yet...but it doesn't tell us any more than what we already know...although I have not read the entire complaint yet...but there is no answer to it and it is a small file...not sure if it names any of his kids...but does show Samuel Coats as Catharine's next friend for the suit... Also found an interesting mortage among these documents...this was in an estate and I've forgotten which one...not a name I recall seeing...but it is a mortgage from a William Baker to a Goodman and the witnesses for it are none other than Henry Coates and Amelia Coates...if I recall correctly Amelia was Henry's daughter by wife Priscilla Long Turner...at any rate this is the first connection in SC between the name Baker and Coats....I'm wondering if this could be Amelia and a half brother Henry??? Didn't her father have children by his second wife Betsy? I've ordered the next two microfilm for the SC equity records for Newberry and I've skipped a few in the NC deed records to see if I can locate Thomas Coats and Wiley Coats land records in those records...so I've ordered the two where I think Thomas' land record might be... Char ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com