Aaron married to Rachel Eastburn is the son of Moses and Susannah Weldon Coates of Chester Co., PA. At 07:29 PM 4/1/2001 -0400, you wrote: >As you know, it also helps to keep in mind the religious affiliations of >the different lines. Thomas-Beulah's and Moses-Susannah's were >Quaker. What about the others? > >For instance in sorting out the Benjamin Coateses, since the children >Isaac and Elizabeth were buried by Quakers it would help to know if the >Thomas and Joan Sisom Coats family were Quaker, or the Aaron and Rachel >Eastburn Coates family. > >And who does Aaron Coates belong to, anyway? Not Thomas and >Beulah. Eventually I'll be web literate enough to answer a question like >that myself. Still working on that. > >Os > >On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:29:32 -0500 "Linda J. Dudick" ><<mailto:LDudick@Ancestrees.com>LDudick@Ancestrees.com> writes: >>As for the first Benjamin... the fact that he was a brickmaker ties him >>in with the Thomas and Joan Sisom Coates line... I just haven't found the >>proof yet. There are two different families he's likely to go in. The >>most likely fit for him is as the son of Thomas Coats who was the son of >>Thomas Coats and Joan Sisom. I say this because Thomas's son John >>listed his brother Benjamin in his will when he wrote it in 1771. As >>for the Benjamin who had the two children die in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia >>it could be this Benjamin or it could be the Benjamin who is the son of >>Aaron Coates and Rachel Eastburn. I happen to believe this latter one is >>more correct, because that Benjamin's children would have postively been >>underage and had their father listed in the death records. The Benjamin >>who was in the brickmaker family would have been old to be having >>children under age. > > > LINDA COATE DUDICK, >P.O. Box 30871, Columbus, Ohio 43230: >LDudick@ancestrees.com >www.ancestrees.com >