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Marmaduke Coate

Marmaduke Coate[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]

Male 1738 - 1822  (84 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Marmaduke Coate 
    Birth 13 Jun 1738  Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Sep 1822  Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 13
    Burial Abt 28 Sep 1822  Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Person ID I188230  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 28 Aug 2009 

    Father Henry Coate,   b. 1700, Kingwood Mm, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt May 1784, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Esther Willson,   b. Aug 1711, Chesterfield, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1757 (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage Mar 1731  Chesterfield Mm, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F82818  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Jane Coppock,   b. Bef 1749   d. 10 Jul 1833, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1763  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Esther Coate,   b. 28 Apr 1764   d. Abt 1764
    +2. Esther Coate,   b. 3 Sep 1766, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Nov 1810, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
    +3. Moses Coate,   b. 5 Sep 1768, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1847, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +4. Henry Coate,   b. 18 Aug 1770, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Nov 1848, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +5. Samuel Coate,   b. 28 Aug 1772, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1867, Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)
    +6. Sarah Ann Coate,   b. 11 Dec 1774, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1849, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    +7. James Coate,   b. 23 Jun 1777, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1839, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    +8. William Coate,   b. 2 Jan 1779, Bush River Mm, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Sep 1847, Bloomfield, Green, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    +9. John Coate,   b. 19 Jul 1785, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Aug 1837 (Age 52 years)
    +10. Jesse Coate,   b. 3 Jan 1788, Newberry Co., South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Aug 1837, Miami County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F76389  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Mar 2001 

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  • Notes 
    • Little is known of Marmaduke Coate's earliest life. His birthdate has been stated to be 1733 or 1738 in various biographical descriptions of him. Ancestors of American Presidents, by G.B. Roberts gives his birthdate and place to be 6/13/1738 in Guilford Co., North Carolina and his parents to be William Jr. and Rachel Ann Budd Coate.
      A Roster of South Carolinian Pensions in the American Revolution gives his birthdate as June 13, 1738.
      Marmaduke and Ann Pole Coate's children and grandchildren died in a Indian raid.

      The parentage of Marmaduke Coate has also been in controversy for much of this century. Note that of the half dozen records I found from early 20th century family members listing their lineage, all but two said that Marmaduke Coate was the son of William and Rebecca Sharp Coate. The oldest of these was by a gr.gr. grand niece to Mary Coppock, wife of Marmaduke Coate. She, Earnist E. Dearmond b. Feb. 17, 1865, listed Marmaduke Coate as a son of William and Rebecca Sharp French Coate. William was the son of Marmaduke and Ann Pole Coate who was the son of Marmaduke and Edith Saitharwait Coate of England. (C-152,390e) This is the same family tradition passed down to my father from my great Aunt Mamie and Aunt Grace, and my great grandmother, Ida Jane Harb. WE NOW KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT THIS IS INCORRECT. OUR MARMADUKE IS NOT THE SON or GRANDSON OF WILLIAM AND REBECCA SHARP COATE. The fact that William and Rebecca's sons Marmaduke and William died without children is verified many years later in a deed dispute over land that son Barzilla inherited. This indenture (located by Gary W. Coats and Pat Moran) dated May 3, 1783 states that William and Rebecca's son's Marmaduke, William, and Israel successively died without issue," leaving son Barzilla in control of the land. His sisters and their husbands made claim to their fair share of their father's land in this document. Once and for all, we

      Family tradition says that when he was a youth his friend's family was captured by Indians. Several were rescued, but not their daughter, Mary Coppock. When of age, he traveled through various Indian tribes until he found her. He bought her back for a horse, bridle and saddle and married her.

      In 1763 or 4/29/1769, Marmaduke left New Garden monthly meeting without a letter of transfer and was dismissed from membership for such. Marmaduke Coate had a plat drawn for 200 acres of land from John Thorpe in Berkley Co. (now Newberry), SC on Dec. 1, 1767 on the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers on Bush Creek called Reedy Branch. This was granted to him on (Apr. 10, 1771). (
      Reedy Branch flows into Big Beaverdam Creek about a mile north of the Town of Newberry. (Note: This Big Beaverdam Creek is different than the Beaver Dam Creek that Big John Coate lived on.) His adjoining neighbors were Clement Davis, Elijah Teague, and Thad Pearson. This property is near and possibly on the land where the current Newberry airport is.

      father Henry and then possible brother "Little" John Coate owned property within a few miles of Marmaduke in Berkeley Co., SC; possible brother James is a witness to two different deeds in that county. It should be noted that William also purchased land on the same creek as Henry's and was a witness to Henry's purchase indicating that this whole group of people were related to each other.

      "Quaker Families of South Carolina and Georgia", states that Marmaduke moved to South Carolina in 1769. However, son, Henry's children in the 1850 census records believed that their father was born in North Carolina in 1770. In any case, Marmaduke made condemnation in 1770 to the Fredericksburg MM, SC. He was accepted back into the Quaker church by the Newberry Monthly Meeting at which time they gave his wife, Mary a transfer also. In this same year on Oct. 16, 1770, a Thomas Pearson purchased land on "Roudy" Branch of Bush Creek in the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers, Berkley Co. that was bordered by land owned by Marmaduke Coate and Elijah Teague. Both Pearsons and Teagues married into the Coate family

      "During the Revolutionary War, ... (the Marmaduke who lived in South Carolina), many times gave food to the soldiers and fed and kept overnight as many as 80 men and horses. For this he was paid by the government which entitled his descendents to become members of National Societies of Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution and if his specific grave can be located, to be marked with the official marker." A c.1995/6 book on Revolutionary War Veterans of South Carolina, and in that volume it says he was in the militia. It gives his birthdate as c. June 13, 1738 and his wife as Mary Jane Coppock. It sources Audited Account #1316, y1039 in Columbia records. I have Audited Account 1316 and it lists many bills of payment to Marmaduke for forage for horses and soldiers in 1781, 1782 and 1787. It does not however, list his birthdate or his wife's name, so I suspect I did not receive the entire document.

      He is in the 1779 census for the 96th District of SC.
      Marmaduke was listed in the Petit Jury Records for June, 1786 and Feb. 1793 in Newberry Co., SC.
      He is listed as an early businessman in the area in Summer's "Newberry Co., SC" book.

      Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land from Simon and Lucynda Reeder of Randolph Co. in Newberry on Aug. 28, 1798.
      He purchased land from Joseph Caldwell on Sept. 6, 1798 as son Moses and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth witnessed it.
      He purchased 160 acres from George Abernathy on July 26, 1802 also in Newberry.
      Witnesses to the deed of sale were Samuel Miles and William Miles.
      Marmaduke and Mary sold 160 out of 200 acres of their land on the Broad and Saluda Rivers to (son) James Coate on Sept. 1, 1804.

      Marmaduke, wife Mary, sons John and Jesse removed from Bush River MM, SC to Miami MM, Warren Co., Oh. on a certificate dated Aug. 25, 1804.
      Marmaduke's family actually settled two counties north of there in Miami Co., OH where he bought 160 acres of land on Nov. 5, 1804 in section 32, Range 5, Twp. 7, Southeast Quarter, Newton Twp.
      He paid $1.04 in tax on this property in the 1810 tax records.
      He was listed at age 68 in Beers at the point of this move.
      He was the second white settler to build a home in Newton Twp. When the first settler and first minister, Michael Williams and his large family heard the construction work, they discovered their whereabouts via his boat. The first trail in the township was established between their two cabins.

      Marmaduke purchased land in section 32, township 7, range 5 in Miami Co, OH on Feb 1, 1809 from President Thomas Jefferson, with both Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State, James Madison signing the original deed. He was listed as of Darke Co., OH at the time.
      Marmaduke was in the deed records for Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH in 1811 and the tax records for same in 1816.
      Marmaduke died in 1822 in Miami Co., Ohio. His will is dated Oct. 2, 1817. He names his wife Mary, sons: Moses, Henry, Samuel, James, William, John and Jesse; and daughter: Sarah Hall. He mentions the meeting house lot. His executors were sons Samuel and James Coate. Signed: Marmaduke (mark) Coate, Witnesses: Samuel Teague, Isaac Embree and William Ellemon. He is buried in Old Union Cemetery northeast of Ludlow Falls, which was a part of his farm that he donated for a cemetery." No marker currently stands for him. In "Annals of Newberry" it states that all of his sons died (some at an advanced age) in good standing with the Quaker church. "They are an honor to Miami County".

      David Hackett Fischer in "Albion's Seed" includes a section on them in which he states that Quakers named their first born after the children's grandparents, ex: The first born son was named after the mother's father, the first born daughter was named after the father's mother, the second son was named after the father's father, the 2nd born daughter was named after the mother's mother. This fits Marmaduke and Mary's parents for the first three children named if Marmaduke was the son of Henry and Esther Willson Coate. The only one exception is Mary's mother did not have a daughter named after her. Sarah Ann was the name of the 2nd daughter and this was a very common girls name in the Quaker religion according to this same author. [14]

  • Sources 
    1. [S565] William Medlin, Medlin, William, Quaker Families/ SC, (Ben Franklin Press).

    2. [S554] Ernest S. Park, Park, Ernest S., Anc..of Marmaduke Coate, (unpub, c1950, 1960).

    3. [S643] Society of Friends, History of W.Branch.

    4. [S562] Beers, W.H., History of Miami Co., OH, (W.H. Beers & Co., 1880).

    5. [S556] William Wade Hinshaw, Hinshaw, William W., Ency of Am Quaker Gen.

    6. [S557] Eileen Davis and Judith Ireton, comps, Davis, Eileen, Quaker Rec/Miami, OH, (McDowell Publications, 1980).

    7. [S671] Hulda Hoover McLean, McLean, Hulda H., Herbert Hoover Fam., (Stanford University: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1967).

    8. [S672] Krell Collection, Old Coates Gen.

    9. [S673] Pemberton, Mary Helen, Historian, Pemberton, Mary Helen, West Milton Sesquicential, (West Milton, OH: c1957).

    10. [S674] John A. Chapman, Chapman, John A., Annals of Newberry II, (Southern Historical Press).

    11. [S675] Krell, Amanda Helen Pemberton, Krell Collection.

    12. [S668] Mrs. Eldred Martin Yochim, Yochim, Mrs. E.M., DAR Patriot Index, (DAR).

    13. [S676] Sharp to Coats, Coates Discussion Group.

    14. [S677] Newberry Co. SC Council Minutes.



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