Date: 9/28/98 5:47 PM RE: COE, Isaac b.c. 1765 Gordon, Nice to hear from you. Which Gordon Coe are you? I've been working on this since 1979, determined to pry Coes from whatever rocks they may have hidden under. I've been somewhat successful. But not without a lot of effort. I have traveled the country forcing information from county courthouses, dusty records and long-forgotten attick trunks. Isaac Coe is one of the most intriguing characters I've encountered in the last 19 years of research. He first shows up on the 1802 tax list of Columbia County, GA, just across the Savannah River from Edgefield County, SC. From there he published a runaway slave ad in Nov. 9, 1814, issue of the Milledgeville "Journal," stating that he then lived in Wilkinson County, in central Georgia. He may be the Isaac Coe found in the 1823 and 1824 vital records of Lawarence County, MS. In 1830 he was living in Gadsden County, FL. The following December he and others, including his son William A. Coe, petitioned Congress to have the Ochlockonee and Little Rivers in Florida widened to expidite the shipment of local sugar crops to market. In 1834 he bought land in Stewart County, GA. And so on. >From the 1830 census it is obvious that he had a large family, possibly seven sons and several daughters. Not all of the family has been positively identified. According to contracts offered to his son William A. Coe, who was born Jan. 27, 1803, in Georgia, Isaac Coe was a son of George W. Coe. The contracts were offered in August and October 1895 by Captain Henry Blackburn, via his attorney Samuel Blair of St. Louis, MO. Details of the agreements state that George W. Coe had been in possession of land known as the "King George Patent of 1714." The documents go on to state that partial title to the land had passed from George Coe to Isaac Coe, and then to his son William A. Coe. Blackburn offered the Coes $108,000,000 for their interest in the patent. To date, this is the only known document referring to this George W. Coe. Tremendous efforts have failed to reveal further information on him. Blackburn's source was reportedly a grant deeding the patent to persons named Coe, Blackburn, Hopkins, Miller, and Starky. I would be happy to share additional information with you. From which branch of the Coe family do you descend? I will be anxious to hear from you. Carl Robert Coe