We do have a DNA kit in the Marmaduke Group that is from Henry Coats and Mary Pitts but we don't have a Georgia Coats DNA grouping test yet that I can remember to see if they are related. Thanks for the document below by the way. Linda Coats Family History wrote: > I think there might be some new info in here on this group or am I mistaken? > > I know someone on the list is or has researched this Nathaniel Coats > in GA...and I mean no disrespect when I spell it Coats/Coates/Coate - > I just forget how each is spelled when typing off the cuff here....:) > > Anyway...Linda, did you take a look at this? > > Char > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:20 PM, REV C FORDE <spiritsouth@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for replying to my query about the Coats/Coates families in Wilkes >> GA. It is possible that the Henry Coats who married Mary Pitts is a son of >> the older Henry Coats who was in NE GA (Wilkes County) right after the RW. >> Reportedly, the elder Henry married Sarah Young. He is listed in the tax >> /land records of early Wilkes County only once about 1785. >> >> A lawsuit in 1810 was filed against a well-known Zachariah Coates (much >> older man who left a will - and stated that he had no children) and the >> following people: Nathaniel Coates, Lesley Coates (both proven to be >> brothers), William Coates, James Coates, Howell Jarrett (who was married to >> Jane Smiley Coates) and John Bankston (who was married to Henrietta Coates) >> - but the lawsuit was dismissed and no records remain apart from the filing >> and names as listed. This appears to be a suit against a family of >> brothers, two sisters via their spouses and possibly an uncle (Zachariah). >> And almost all of the same names appear at Lesley and William Bankston's >> estate settlement receiving property. All of the Coates (except Zachariah >> and Henry) are close enough in age to be siblings (2 years apart). >> >> >> >> Leslie Coates/Coats: >> >> >> >> 1785K 026&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) Capt. McCain's Dist., p. 51 >> >> 1786K 050&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) Capt. Cummin's Dist., p. 117 >> >> 1787K 029, A&B (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1790K 043&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) Capt. Spencer Branham's >> Dist., p. 200 >> >> 1791K 018A&B (Lesley Coats p. 1327 Capt. Aaron Lipham's Dist., p. >> 199 >> >> 1792L 023&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1793K 033 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1793K 053&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1794K 097 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1794K 101&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1795K 053&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1795K 053 (L Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1796K 028&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1796K 028&A (L Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1797K 077, A&B (Leslie Coates, p. 1327) >> >> 1798K 078 (L Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1798K 016 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1799K 020&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1801K 013 (L Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1801K 129 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1801K 143 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1801K 059&A (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1802J 059 (L Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1802K 022 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1802K 110 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 059 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 079 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> 1805K 033 (Lesley Coats p. 1327) >> >> >> >> Nathaniel Coates/Coats >> >> 1785K 025&A (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) Capt. McCain's Dist., p. >> 51 >> >> 1787K 028 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) Capt. >> Cummin's Dist., p. 117 >> >> 1790K 037 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) Capt. >> Aaron Lipham's Dist., p. 199 >> >> 1791J 051 (Nathaniel Coatz, p. 1328) >> >> 1792K 044 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1793K 033&A (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1793K 089 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1793K 102 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1794K 069A&B (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1795CL 024 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1795K 039 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 17951 016 (Nath'l Coates, p. 1327) >> >> 1795K 077 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1797K 042B (Nath'l Coates, p. 1327) >> >> 1797K 108 (Nath'l Coates, p. 1327) >> >> 1797J 041 (Coats and Garrott, p. 1327) >> >> 1797I 031 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1798J 090 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1798J 091&A (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1798SS 027 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1799K 075C (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1799K 076 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1799SS 014 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1801J 071 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1801K 009 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1801SS 029 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1802SS 001 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1802K 035A (Coats and Garrott, p. 1327) >> >> 1802K 086 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1802SS 001 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 006 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 096 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 150 (Nathaniel Coats, Sr. p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 006 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1804K 096 (N Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1804J 014 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> 1805J 054 (Nathanil Coats, p. 1327) >> >> Utah LDS# 222012, pages 201 and 202. >> This indenture made the twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord One >> Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five between John Bankson and his wife of >> the State of Georgia and County of Wilkes. It is bound on the East by >> Ogeechee River, on the South by Lawrance Banksons land, on the west by Peter >> Haglers land and on the North by Thompsons land. It is witnessed by Henry >> Mounger, P, Will Terrell, J. P. and Howell Jarrett. John and Henna Ritter >> Bankston make there marks. On 5-23-l786, Howell Jarrett says he saw >> Henneritter Bankston, sign, seal and deliver the above. This was not >> recorded until 2-26-l802 or 1803, on my copy the last number is in the >> middle of the book and the recording was done in Hancock County. (Pat Bezet >> – 12-23-2007) >> >> >> >> Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Coats Family History >> <coats.genealogy@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Not sure you've heard from anyone yet but this is the family I think >>> you're looking for: >>> >>> http://ancestrees.com/dna/henrycoatemarypitts7417.html >>> >>> Kit # 7417 Henry Coats (d. 1817 SC) m Mary Pitts; in the other large >>> DNA group on Linda's pages....:) >>> >>> http://ancestrees.com/dna/family.html >>> >>> Char >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:19 AM, REV C FORDE <> wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone found DNA links ... or ... documentation for the Coates >>>> families >>>> in early Wilkes County, GA? >>>> >>>> Henry, Nathaniel, William, Lesley, James, John, Jane Smiley Coates, >>>> Henrietta Coates Bankston, or Zachariah? >>>> -- >>>> The Rev. 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