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Dear Coats Cousins,
Could someone with more info on this Moses Coate that I posted the
newspaper article about please answer this? Thanks, Kay
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Subject: Moses Coate
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 05:39:24 -0600
From: Joe Lee <jlee(a)centex.net>
Organization: leco
To: mccary(a)jas.net
Which Moses was the inventor? Who were his parents? Where was he born ?
This is all very interesting. Thanks, Joe Lee
Oh...this is a heart tugger....
Charlotte
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:52:29 -0800
>From: "marc.oberholtzer" <marc.oberholtzer(a)MCIONE.com>
>Subject: Grandmother Search
>To: coats(a)lawyer4u.com
>Reply-to: marc.oberholtzer(a)MCIONE.com
>
>Hi Charlotte!
>My name is Hannah Lynn Rockel, I am 7 years old and I live in Eugene,
>Oregon with my parents. I am looking for my grandmother, Patricia
Claudette
>Coats. My Dad was adopted 3 days after his birth in Van nuys,
California.
>He was born April 1, 1966. Please let me know, have you heard of her?
My
>address:
>marc.oberholtzer(a)mcione.com
>have a beautiful day, sincerely, Hannah Lynn
>
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> The Quaker, Moses Coates, was an inventive genius who constructed an
>apple paring maching, a self setting saw for his mill and a horse rake
>which he demonstrated before President Jefferson.
I returned to Indiana just an hour ago from a research trip to Chester
County (I was in Coatesville yesterday!) The Chester Co. Historical
Society has a patent of Moses Coates on display. It is signed by
Jefferson. I did not have a chance to read it carefully. A docent was
busy telling me what to look at next. I will Email the museum for further
info.
Geoff
Geoffrey Barnard Davis
Noblesville, IN
gbd29(a)idt.net
Researching
Chester Co.,PA DAVIS,COOPER,BRINTON,BARNARD,COATES,PUSEY
Lancaster Co., PA DAVIS,COOPER,HUNSECKER
Berks Co., PA CHRIST,ROMIG,CHRISTIAN,DEEM,GOODHART
Philadelphia Co., PA KUNDERS
Addison Co, VT DAVIS,DAVIES
Franklin Co., VT ROOD
Chataqua Co., NY DAVIS,DAVIES,ROOD,THORNGATE
Valley and Greeley Cos., NE DAVIS,THORNGATE,ROOD
Fulton Co., IL PRICE,FACKLER
Coordinator Greeley County NEGenWeb Site
http://www.dsenter.com/ne/greeley/index.html
Noblesville MM, Western YM
Western YM
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6125
Here is the rest - Part 2
"Pittsburgh of the East" was Coatesville
(Continued From Page One)
John Warden in Caln. They are buried in St. John's Cemetery, Compass.
The first school in the vicinity, Hands Pass, was built just east of
Cross Keys Inn. This name was used because General Hand had camped
there with George Washington's soldiers during the revolution. The
early family names - Withrow, Cowan, Scott and Fleming - appear on the
deed, Dec. 22, 1800, for this school. Because they were early settlers,
all families received Penn Grants for their plantations.
On March 22, 1789 Moses Coates purchased 201 acres and 17 perches of
land from Peter Fleming, one of William Fleming's eight children, and
his wife, Margaret Hope. Coates immediately erected the water powered
saw mill to supply material for the many comtemplated buildings in this
area. When the Philadelphia Lancaster Turnpike was constructed,
1792-1795, the west branch of the Branydwine was spanned by a stone
bridge. The date stone can be seen on the north side of the present
bridge. The pike crossed Brandywine Manor Road east of the bridge and
John Way, Moses Coates' son-in-law, built a hotel, The Sign of the
Bridge, in 1798. The village which grew up around it was known as
Bridgetown.
Residents of Bridgetown received their mail for 14 years at the first
post office in Chester County run by Hunt Downing at the General
Washington Inn in Downingtown. Bridgetown changed to Coatesville in
honor of the new postmaster, Moses Coates, when the fourteenth in the
county was opened in his general store. His son, Isaac Coates,
succeeded his father and served for about five years.
The Quaker, Moses Coates, was an inventive genius who constructed an
apple paring maching, a self setting saw for his mill and a horse rake
which he demonstrated before President Jefferson. George Washington had
breadfast with him one morning and they discussed building a canal on
the Brandywine. Moses and Mary Coates sold their property to Jesse
Kersey, their son-in-law, July 2, 1810 for $3,000. Later his home was
known as the Brandywine Mansion when it was occupied by Rebecca Lukens,
the great lady of the Brandywine Iron Works, the forerunner of Lukens
Steel Co. Her father, Isaac Pennock, previously owned the Federal
Slitting Mill on the Buck Run at Rokeby before he started the iron mill
in Coatesville just south of the bridge.
Moses Coats built a large stone home on the hill opposite the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Coatesville. It was sold to Benjamin
I. Miller, proprietor of the Midway Hotel, who entertained everyone on
the first locomotive train to go through Coatesville in February, 1834,
on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad.
In 1867, the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad was purchased by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, giving the company exclusive ownership fo the
tracks between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The transaction marked the
truning point which changed the country village of Coatesville and
Midway into a thriving, modern, industrial community. During the same
year the village of Midway and the village of Coatesville became the
Borough of Coatsville. By the year 1906 Coatesville, was known as "The
Pittsburgh of the East" where the best and the largest steel plate in
the civilized world was made. Many steel furnaces had been erected and
more were planned. The borough contained a reservior, a pumping
station, two firehouses and a hospital. The postal service included a
letter carrier system as well as several rural delivery carriers each
day. Streets were macadamized and a sewer system installed in some
parts of town. A uniformed police force maintained law and order and an
ambulance service responded to emergencies. The population of
Coatesville doubled from 1900 to 1906 so it was difficult to provide all
the services needed.
In July 1910 on the 100th Anniversary of Lukens Steel Company, the
Chester County Historical Society put a marker on the site of the
original mill where the first boiler plate was rolled in the U.S. The
marker was unveiled by Charles Lukens Huston, Jr.
The adjacent settlements of Valley View and Drumpelier were annexed in
1909 and on May 3, 1915 Coatesville became a city.
End - Kay Parker McCary, Milam, Sabine County, Texas
Dear Coats Cousins,
Just this week I received this from a researcher that is not online.
It is a copy of: Chester County Tricentennial Salute! July 1983;
Supplement to The Record, TriCounty Shoppers News, Chester County
Courier and Southern Chester County Times - The article is called
"Coatesville's history tied to steel industry", by Marion Stoner
The City of Coatesville is situated in the Great Valley of Chester
County and divided by the West Branch of the Brandywine. Louis Holton,
a Coatesville historian, once pointed out that the history of
Coatesville should begin when Moses Coates became postmaster and the
village was named Coates Villa in his honor.
However, more than a hundred years before this, settlers were attracted
to this area by the stream we know as Brandywine. One deed, "Pelham",
dated 1703 in the reign of Queen Anne, is still in the possession of a
family descended from William Fleming, the first settler in 1714.
He was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1662 and sailed to the eastern
shore of Mayland in 1680 with his uncle who indentured him as a
servant. At age 20 he was among the settlers and Indians who saw
William Penn land at Chester in 1682. He secured a patent for 207
acres, May 29, 1714, on the east side of the Brandywine Creek's west
branch. The Fleming family lived in a log home on Kersey Street until
they moved to the homestead at 522 Harmony St.
John Fleming, William's grandson, was "an officer in the provincial
service, a memeber of the Constitutional Convention of 1776 to frame a
Constitution for Pennsylvania and in 1778 one of the Representatives
from Chester County in the General Assembly." The home has a date
stone, J. F. 1785, on the east gable. He and his wife, Abigal Cowan,
had six children. He was a wealthy miller, held in high regard because
he contributed so much to the growth of his town and state and served as
an elder in Upper Octorara Church for 52 years.
Squire Harry Wilson researched Indian sites within Chester County. His
map for Coatesville, dated June, 1905 shows seven Indian camps along
Fleming's Run which flowed west into the Brandywine south of Goose
Island. Pierre Bizallion, a French Canadian frontiersman, and licensed
trader traveled throughout the area setting up trading posts with the
Indians and sometimes acted as an Indian interpreter for the proprietary
government. In 1736 he and his wife, Martha Coombs, purchased 500 acres
from (Please turn to page two)
End of Part 1 Kay Parker McCary, Milam, Sabine County, Texas
Part 2 to follow...
Hmmmm....a little history here....
For those of you that have emailed me and I have not responded...do not
give up...I lost my connection yesterday until today...and suddenly the
office is swamped...so just been really busy...
Charlotte
>To: coats(a)lawyer4u.com
>From: Don Holden <DonHolden988(a)worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Moses Coates
>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:19:07 +0000
>
>>Subject: Moses Coates
>
>>On FX--the Antiques show yesterday morning I saw a collection of Apple
>>peelers. They said the first apple peeler was invented by MOSES
COATES in
>1803.
>>I didn't get where, but thought this was interesting. Wynelle Chaney
Holden
>>
>
>
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I believe they are 5th cousins, 3 times removed.
That is, your son is three generations removed from
the generation of the general, and the
> Progenitor
>son siblings son
>grandson cousins grandson
>g-grandson 2nd cousins g-grandson
>gg-grandson 3rd cousins gg-grandson
>ggg-grandson 4th cousins ggg-grandson
>gggg-grandson(the general) 5th cousins gggg-grandson
> +1 ggggg-grandson
> +2 gggggg-grandson
> +3 ggggggg-grandson(my son)
- Dorsey
From COATES-L-request(a)rootsweb.com Tue Oct 21 16:50:19 1997
From: "Charlotte Coats" <coats(a)hotmail.com>
To: COATES-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Fwd: relationship
Hi all...I don't mean to be rude...but how do you read this...
Charlotte
>Reply-To: <jack(a)tricon.net>
>From: "J. L. VandeVate" <jack(a)tricon.net>
>To: <coats(a)lawyer4u.com>
>Subject: relationship
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:38:32 -0400
>
>My son is interested in his relationship to a civil war general. They
both
>have common ancestry as follows:
>
> Progenitor
>son son
>grandson grandson
>g-grandson g-grandson
>gg-grandson gg-grandson
>ggg-grandson ggg-grandson
>gggg-grandson(the general) gggg-grandson
> ggggg-grandson
> gggggg-grandson
> ggggggg-grandson(my son)
>
>Question, what is the relation between my son and the general?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jack
>
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>From: "Richard & Beverly Hubbard" <richbev(a)earthlink.net>
>To: <coats(a)lawyer4u.com>
>Subject: Dawes
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:43:23 -0500
>
>Hello. My name is Shawn Hubbard. I stumbled across your page in
search
>for information on the Dawes Rolls. Demitrius Huff Coats was my
>great-great-grandmother's half brother. I am currently searching for
>information on William B. Foreman and family. Do you have any
information
>on him. Even if you do not have any information on him, I would like
to
>hear from you. My e-mail adress is Elephants(a)prodigy.net.
>
>Thank you.
>
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>From: LEELEE114(a)aol.com
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:39:49 -0400 (EDT)
>To: Coats(a)lawyer4u.com
>Subject: Coats family
>
>Hi: I ran into your listing of William and Nancy (Baker) Coats as MO
>pioneers. Their son, Hiram Coats is my ggggrandfather. My mother used
to
>entertain me as a young child with stories of her family traveling from
El
>Paso TX (where they lived) back to MO to see relatives. She always
mentioned
>that there was a "Coats' Prairie" that was named after our relatives.
>
>I would love to communicate with you about our mutual Coats relatives.
Do
>you have anything farther back on William and Nancy? I am looking
forward to
>hearing from you! Best Wishes, Linda Myers
>
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Wow...thanks for the response...you all answered the same...I thought
someone was making that up...hmmmmm....I sent the response on...thanks
again...what a great list...
Charlotte
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Hi all...I don't mean to be rude...but how do you read this...
Charlotte
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>From: "J. L. VandeVate" <jack(a)tricon.net>
>To: <coats(a)lawyer4u.com>
>Subject: relationship
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:38:32 -0400
>
>My son is interested in his relationship to a civil war general. They
both
>have common ancestry as follows:
>
> Progenitor
>son son
>grandson grandson
>g-grandson g-grandson
>gg-grandson gg-grandson
>ggg-grandson ggg-grandson
>gggg-grandson(the general) gggg-grandson
> ggggg-grandson
> gggggg-grandson
> ggggggg-grandson(my son)
>
>Question, what is the relation between my son and the general?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jack
>
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Hello,
Can anyone provide more information about the family listed here? I am a
descendant of this William Thomas Coats, son of Benjamin Coats (according
to family members, but I have no documentation of this. Also, I am not
sure if my Benjamin Coats matches either of the ones in Arkansas.
Thanks,
Clay Blankenship
cblanke(a)h2o.met.tamu.edu
FIRST GENERATION
1. Benjamin COATS was born between 1800 and 1810. He appeared on the
census in 1840 in Marshall Co, AL. 101001-1110101 He died in the early
1840's (Marshall Co AL?) according to family members.
He was a minister (Cumberland Presbyterian) acc. to family members.
He had 3 girls in addition to 4 children named here.
There is a Benjamin Coats (b 1799 NC) in Jefferson Co AR in 1850, listed
as a Methodist minister.
One Benjamin Coats was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, named 4 Feb
1849 at St. Paul Church, Union County, AR (Ouachita Presbytery), but he
was absent. He presented a letter there (from McGready Presbytery)
some time in 1850. He was still listed as a minister in 1851 but was
absent once again.
He was married to Annie DELANEY. Annie DELANEY was born about 1795.
She died about 1843. Benjamin COATS and Annie DELANEY had the
following children:
+2 i. William Thomas COATS.
3 ii. Abraham COATS was born in 1822. He appeared on
the census in 1850 in Franklin Co, AL.
4 iii. Sarah Jane COATS was born on 7 Nov 1831. She
died on 20 Aug 1899.
5 iv. Benjamin O. COATS was born in 1835. He appeared
on the census in 1860 in Franklin Co, AL.
SECOND GENERATION
2. William Thomas COATS was born between 1825 and 1830 in AL. He
appeared on the census in 1855 in Franklin Co, AL. William Coates p 37
also a Malon Coates p 22 He died in 1863 in AR. From children's
birthplaces, he must have been in AL from 1851 to 1855 and AR
from 1857 to 1863. The family was in Colbert Co AL in 1870.
What does 1860 AR census say?
He was married to Eliza Ann * PEAVYHOUSE Eliza Ann * PEAVYHOUSE was
born about
1829 in TN or SC. She appeared on the census in 1870 in Colbert Co, AL.
William Thomas COATS and Eliza Ann * PEAVEYHOUSE had the following children:
6 i. Felix Kenady 'Bud' COATS was born on 25 Dec 1851
in AL.
7 ii. Leigh Ann (Mary) COATS was born in 1852 in AL
8 iii. Elizabeth Jo COATS was born in 1854 in AL.
9 iv. Manda COATS was born in 1856 in AR.
+10 v. America Alabama COATS.
11 vi. Margaret COATS was born in 1860 in AR.
12 vii. William COATS was born in 1863 in AR.
Hello, my Coates is Sophia or Zerviah who married Gideon Aldrich in Guilford,
VT in 1799. She may have been born in 1773 in CT. Does anyone recognize
her? Gideon was born 1769 (or '78?) in RI or Richmond NH. You can see I
have conflicting information - and I know nothing about the Coates line.
Any leads on Coates in the area would be appreciated. Thanks
Susan Penrod
My Coates line goes back to Virginia to Henry Coates of Rchmond, Va. who
married Sarah Young. Their son, Nathaniel (b. 1807) m. Martha Lamar and
lived in Wilkes County, Ga. after they married. I don't know if my Henry or
Nathaniel could be related to your Henry.
susan
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:40:26 -0700
>From: "james r.titus" <"jt@midohio.net(a)jt"@midohio.net>
>Reply-To: "jt@midohio.net(a)jt"@midohio.net
>To: coats(a)lawyer4u.com
>CC: jt(a)midohio.net
>Subject: Camp Delaware Ohio
>
>I am studying the history of the 5th usct. It rondezvoused at camp
>Delaware,ohio. This was during the Civil War I am in need of a
>description of where the Camp was. If there is Anyone out there who
has
>diaries, maps or pictures of this encampment I would be indebted.this
>pertains to genealogy because this is story of people whose history is
>fading away. jt
>
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>From: "Kay Ashcroft" <ene(a)neto.com>
>To: <coats(a)lawyer4u.com>
>Subject: Coate family
>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:00:17 -0500
>
>I research a Coate family in Newberry Co, SC and hope that you will be
>interested in sharing information.
>
>My line of descent:
> John Coate b. 1750, m. Susannah Ennis
>
> Sarah Coate, b. 1780, m. Jesse Summers
>
> Eldridge Summers b. 1812, m. (1) Mary Ann Waite
>
> Jane A. Summers b. 1843, m. James J. McVay
>
> Annie McVay d. 1923, m. Crawford Davenport Smith
>
> Donnie Belle Smith, b. 1901, m. W. H. Miller
>
> Harold Woodrow Miller, b. 1915, m. Sue Ezell Miller
>
> Kay Miller b. 1941, m. E. L. Ashcroft III
>
>John Coate b. ca 1750 was probably the s/o Wm Coate who was the s/o Wm.
>Henry Coate b. 1702/Rebecca Sharp, who was the s/o Marmaduke Coate b.
>1652/Ann Pole, who was the s/o Marmaduke Coate, b. 1620/Edith____, who
was
>the s/o Henry C. Coate b. 1595, who was the s/o Marmaduke Coate d.
1624.
>These folks came originally from England to Burlington, NJ to SC. I'm
>still working on proving these generations. Any light you can shed
will be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Hope to hear from you soon.
>
>Kay Ashcroft
>Country Club Road
>Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
>ene(a)neto.com
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>
>
>
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Hi Georgia,
I have seen COATS spelt COOTS AND COUTS in the NC records. It is a bit
confusing as there are COOTS and COUTS families in NC that are not connected
to COATS. What part of NC William COOTS and mother Nancey come from? I am
copying this reply to COATES-L where someone there may be able to shed some
more light on the COATS and COOTS connections.
Good Luck
John Coates
17751 SE 173rd Place
Renton, WA 98058
jdcoates(a)aa.net
Davidson Co, NCGenWeb Site http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdavids/davidson.htm
Alexander County, NCGenWeb Site
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncalexan/alexander.htm
RowanRoots-L, Discussion List for "Old" Rowan Co., NC
http://www.aa.net/~jdcoates/list/rowanroots-l.htm
COATES/COATS/COATE Surname List,
http://www.aa.net/~jdcoates/list/coates-l.htm
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Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 2:06 PM
Subject: Coots
>Hi,
>
>I have a George Washington COOTS (Coats) b 12-1873 in GA mar 1898 in
Jackson
>Cty AL and died 1917 in Chattanooga. His wife was Annie Dialtha GILL.
>
>His father was William COOTS and mother Nancey b 1828 and 1819 in NC. I
>think they had 3 children Anny, George W. and John.
>
>I realize this name is spelled different ways. I have family that we
thought
>mispelled it COATS! Do you have any information on this line?
>
>This is all I have and George Washington is my ggrandfather, think I would
>have found more since it isn't so long ago.
>
>Thanks for sponsoring this page. I was looking for Wilsons and saw your
>name.
>
>Georgia Mathis Cummons
>
Georgia,
William Coats married to Nancy Baker in TN ...her family came from NC
and his name was spelled Couts in some of the TN Records...links to the
documents are below...William Coats had a brother named Wilson.....some
think this is the maiden name of his mother...William and Nancy Baker of
TN also had a son named William...Wilson's son William went to GA or
AL...
Take a look in the Coats Family Archive...not sure for you but worth a
check...
Links...way....below.........
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a George Washington COOTS (Coats) b 12-1873 in GA mar 1898 in
>Jackson
>>Cty AL and died 1917 in Chattanooga. His wife was Annie Dialtha GILL.
>>
>>His father was William COOTS and mother Nancey b 1828 and 1819 in NC.
I
>>think they had 3 children Anny, George W. and John.
>>
>>I realize this name is spelled different ways. I have family that we
>thought
>>mispelled it COATS! Do you have any information on this line?
>>
>>This is all I have and George Washington is my ggrandfather, think I
would
>>have found more since it isn't so long ago.
>>
>>Thanks for sponsoring this page. I was looking for Wilsons and saw
your
>>name.
>>
>>Georgia Mathis Cummons
>>
>
>
Best Regards,
Charlotte Coats
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