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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