Susan, you are right! He was not shown in the index on p 116, only page 10! I manually added page 116 to my index! Do you have the article that was on page 10? If not, I can send that (or did I before?) And did you ever find the school you were looking for? Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan McIntyre" <[email protected]> To: "DIANA QUINONES" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [PAMONTGO-L] William Elliott & Ruth Coates/Elliott - m. 1792 > Wow - thank you Diana for coming to my rescue again! Yes this article > will prove very useful in tracking William Elliot - (the Lindsay Coats > mentioned in the 1818 newspaper would have been his brother in law). > This discovery of the Lindsay Coates search does bring up another > question - I have a copy of what I was told was the index page from > "Advertisements and Notices of Interest from Norristown, PA Newspapers > 1799-1821" which includes Coates (Coats) family. I am not seeing a > Lindsay Coats pg. 116 listed - is it only found by looking for William > Elliot? Would you be kind enough to take a quick look at the > Coates/Coats index page in your copy of the book and let me know if it > shows Lindsay Coats pg. 116 or not.

Thanks Diana, I was beginning to panic that there were two versions of the Norristown Newspaper book. You had been so thorough when you helped me with the other articles (including Lindsay Coats pg. 10) that I was sure you would not have missed such an interesting subject. There must have been an error when compiling the index - wonder if there are any other omissions. Unfortunately I have had no luck in discovering further information on the "Norristown Boarding School for Young Gentlemen and Ladies" run by N/Nathan/Nathaniel SMITH. But thanks to your lookup I am even more convinced that it the correct connection since the 1813 article listed Mathias COATES (Nathaniel Smith's brother in law) of Norristown as a contact for application. At this point the school is the only lead I have to find any details on Smith. Again thanks to your lookup I can find him associated with Jared BROOKE, Francis MURPHY & Morris JONES. I know that Morris JONES was also connected to the Norristown Academy - but have yet to find any tie between the proposed boarding school & the academy. Not sure what I did to deserve an elusive SMITH to search for - but little by little I am collecting bits and pieces that hopefully will one day add to a colorful N/Nathan/Nathaniel SMITH family history. Thanks for checking the index and all your help, Susan DIANA QUINONES wrote: >Susan, you are right! He was not shown in the index on p 116, only page 10! >I manually added page 116 to my index! >Do you have the article that was on page 10? If not, I can send that (or >did I before?) > >And did you ever find the school you were looking for? > >Diana > > > >