People, I'm getting better and better reason to believe that John Coate (of Newtown, PA) and Elizabeth Humphries had a daughter named Anne, b 1673. Here's my reasoning. Feedback would be appreciated. Professor Dornan theorized that Ann's niece through brother James named Ann was married to Roger Fort. Thanks to info from Bobbie Earle, I theorize that John and Elizabeth had a daughter Ann who was married to Roger Fort instead. Bobbie has quite a bit of data on Ann and Roger and their dates fit perfectly if Ann is the daughter of this John and Elizabeth. Here are the facts that support my theory that Ann Coate is the daughter of John and Elizabeth Coate. 1) Her supposed birthyear, 1673, fits into this family correctly and would not have been recorded because the Quakers stopped keeping records in that period in the Kingsbury Episcopi meeting. 2) Both she and her husband were from the same Parish of Curry Rivel, co. Somerset, ENG. 3) Their first child's name was John (after her father) 4) Her 4th child's name was Marmaduke and her 5th child's name was Edith after his wife. If she was the youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth, b. about 1673, she would have been about 14/15 when her mother went to live with sister-in-law, Edith Coate who was widowed in 1687. She would have lived in her uncle Marmaduke's home possibly looking at Edith as a second mother from that time on. That is a logical reason why two of her children were named after this favorite Aunt and Uncle. 5) An unknown source at this point in time, listed Ann as one of the children of John and Elizabeth Coate. 6) Ann Coate and her husband Roger Fort raised their family in Burlington Co., NJ where related Coate cousins lived. 7) The other Ann Coate b. in 1669 to Marmaduke and Ann Coate was verified as married to William Masters. 8) John had a son James who named a daughter Ann (after his sister?) 9) Jame's daughter Ann, just mentioned, was born after 1691. If she was the wife of Roger Fort, b. 1669, she would have been a full generation younger than her husband. Even Professor Dornan who had obviously come across a couple named Ann Coate and Roger Fort put a question by whether this Ann Coate could be the wife of Roger Fort. There are two other possibilities that need ruled out to positively feel that the above theory is correct. 1) Mentioned above -- could the Ann Coate married to the William Masters have married a 2nd time to Roger Fort. In that case there should be some mention of her married named Masters also in the records connected with Roger Fort. 2) Could Henry not be the Henry Coate that shows up constantly in the Quaker records in England from 1702 to 1723. If he is not that Henry and he died before 1805, then his wife, Ann Cary could be the Ann who married Roger Fort. In this case, the marriage record between Roger and Ann would state she was Ann Coate, widow. Obviously, I prefer the first theory above.