----- Original Message ----- From: osborn cresson Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:55 PM To: coats@hotmail.com Subject: Coates/Coats/Coate families in 18th century Philadelphia I had a free couple of hours on Saturday and went to the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and looked up Coates in their card catalogue. There are many files listed under "Coates Family Notes" but you can only order three at a time and you can not do your own photocopying so that becomes very slow and expensive. One of the files had a few typed pages, without references, that listed the different Coates/Coats/Coate families in early Philadelphia ("Coates Family of Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties," from the Haber G. Gearhart Collection, call # FC Co). Here they are: (1) Coates Family of Coatesville: descended from Moses Coates (b. c. 1690) m. Susanna. (2) Coates Family of Philadelphia: descended from Thomas Coates (1659-1719) m. Beulah Jacques (1659-1741). (3) Coates Family of Montgomery County: descended from Lindsay Coates (1743-1798) m.1 Ruth Hughes, m.2 Rachel Holstein. (4) Coats Family of New Jersey: descended from Joan Sisom Coats (b. c. 1661), mother of William, Thomas, John, and George Coats. (5) Coates Family: descended from John Coates (b. c. 1725), father of Septimus Coates who m. Mary Holstein. (6) Coats Family: descended from John Coats (b. c. 1740). (7) Coates Family: descended from Dr. John Coates (1751-1810) m. Susanna Murray. One other family was mentioned in another file: (8) Coate family of NJ: descended from John and Elizabeth Coate of Kingsbury Monthly Meeting (Quaker), Somersetshire, England, parents of John, Samuel, Henry, and James. They came to Burlington County, NJ in 1715. They were cousins or nephews of Marmaduke Coate who died in Burlington in 1728/29. Samuel, mentioned above, married Mary in 1723 and they had John, Henry, William, Marmaduke, Samuel Jr., and Elizabeth. Henry went to New Garden Monthly Meeting in NC and William is said to have gone south, too. Further details is in the file, "Coates Families of England, Burlington County, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania," from the Enders Collection in the Coates Family Notes (call #FC Co). Very few additional details were given in the file from the Gearhart Collection that listed seven of the eight families, above. Apparently the unnamed author had found no evidence of relationships between the seven families. All I can add is that according to the records I have seen, the family of Thomas and Beulah Coates, (2), of Sproxton England, is not related to any of the other families. It would help to hear from representatives of the other lines. Charlotte had asked about Warwick Coats, so I took some notes on him and will put them in a separate message. He was a member of the Coats family of NJ, (4). Unfortunately, I rarely have time for this sort of research. When I can get away to a library my time should go to ongoing projects on the Berry, Ramsay, Osborne, Wetherill, and Guier families. One Coates project I have helped a bit with a study of the Philadelphia abolitionist, Benjamin Coates (1808-1887). A book on him is due to be published later this year. Good luck to any of you interested in straightening out the 18th century Philadelphia Coates genealogies. Os Cresson<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>