This info is from PA Archive microfilm # 1.16 - this is an index to PA land records all the way back to the 1600s...these records are all in alpha order all Cs together, then by date...this is just the Cs and out of that the Coates, Coate, Coats, listed in the Patentee column - some patents were taken in different names like in SC..... info: PA Historical Land Reocrds - Patent Index A & AA page 43 in the index: Book A-No. 8-date of patent, Dec. 30, 1737, page 407, patentee: Samuel Coates, et al, 14 acres, 80 poles (I think this is poles...I'm going to scan these pages as well...then I can blow them up...<g>...); Warrantee: Proprietaries (lease) warrant date, July 21, 1737, county: Phila (several Cole names in here and a Coontz and Coots as well...) page 52 in the index: Book AA-No. 11-date of patent April 19, 1769, page 164, Patentee: Jonathan Coats (Island), 2 acres, 40 poles, Warrantee: proprietaries, name of tract: Buckwalter's Island, date of warrant: October 13, 1760, county Phila page 53 in the index: Book AA-No. 12- patent date, Dec 10, 1779, page 3, Patentee: Jonathan Coates, et al, 192 acres, Warrantee: Joseph Garretson, name of tract: orphan's partion, warrant date: Nov 14, 1741, county: York Book AA-No. 12-patent date, May 20, 1762, page 59, Patentee: Thomas Coats, a lot, Warrantee: Christopher Davison, Warrant date: June 9, 1685, county: Phila page 55 in the index: Book AA-No.14-patent date, Feb 7, 1774, page 227 Patentee: Coates Lindsay, 318 acres and 40 poles, Warrantee: Lindsay Coates, name of tract: Yorkshire, date of warrant: June 8, 1773, county: North'b'ld (not sure what county that is) page 58 in the index: Commission Book A-No. 3-date of patent, March 25, 1746, page 347 and second one on page 349 (two records here), lots, probably two lots, Patentee: William Coats, Warrantee: Deed to Peter Aldermast or Aldermost, warrant date on both, March 25, 1746, county: Phila (this appears to be two lots and thus two entries but all the same info except the page numbers of 347 and 349) *********** Not sure if there are more records on this film, the film is a full reel, this is just the first group of Cs I found to copy....I have not scanned the warrantee column to see if there are any Coate, Coates, Coats there or checked to see if there is an alpha list on the film for the Warrantees, wouldn't that be nice...<g>...Char___________________________________________________________ Get a sneak preview of the new MSN: http://preview.msn.com/