Genealogy Report: Descendants of Marmaduke Coate
Descendants of Marmaduke Coate
1.MARMADUKE1 COATE was born June 13, 1733 in Hunterdon, NJ, and died September 25, 1822 in Newton Twp, Miami Co, Ohio.He married MARY JANE COPPOCK 1754 in South Carolina, daughter of MOSES COPPOCK and MARTHA SCARR.She was born 1742, and died June 10, 1833.
Notes for MARMADUKE COATE:
As provided by Linda (Coate) Dudick
Marmaduke immigrated to Miami Co, Ohio 1804.He made a will 2 Oct 1817 in Miami Co, Ohio.Marmaduke's will was probated 8 Apr 1823 in Miami Co, Oh.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 birhtdate as June 13, 1738.Rose Amelia Coate(b.1866) submitted the birthdate of June 13, 1733 to Mrs A E Krell in the early 1900's.The oldest record found was from Laura Douglas Coate, b. June 15, 1856.She states that her grandfather Marmaduke was born June 13, 1738.Another of unknown authority list it as Sunday, 5 January 1738 in Newberry District, South Carolina.A family tree sent to A E Krell by Charles Rufus Coate, b., 1877 lists his birthdate as May 9, 1738 in Philadelphia, PA
In 1763 Marmaduke left New Garden monthly meeting withou a letter of transfer and was dimissed from membership for such.Marmaduke Coate purchased 200 acres of land from John Thorpe in Berkley Co, (Now Newberry), SC on Dec 1, 1767 and 200 more on April 10, 1771 in Berkley.He 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.
"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 beome members of National Societies of Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution and if his specific gave 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 say he was in the militia.It gives his birhtdate as c. June 13, 1738 and his wife as Mary Jane Coppock.It sources Audited Account # 1316, y1039 in Columbia records.
There is only one Marmaduke Coate living in the Niety-Sixth District, Newberry Co, South Carolina in the 1790 census.It lists 5 males over age 16, 4 males under age 16 and 3 females.This fits Marmadukes children and he and his wife except 1 extra male over age 16.In the 1800 South Carolina census there is one Marmaduke Cote living in Newberry that fits our Marmaduke perfectyl.His household consisted of 1 male between 10-16, 2 between 16-26 and 1 male over age 45.One female age 10-16 was listed and one over 45.
This Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land from Simon and Lucynda Reeder of Randolph Co, in Newberry on Aug 28, 1798.He is the Marmaduke that purchased land from Joseph Caldwell on Sep 6, 1798 as son Moses and Daughter-in-law, Elizabeth witnessed it.He is probably the Marmaduke who purchased 160 acres from George Abernathy on July 26, 1802 also in Newberry.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.He bought 160 acres of land there on Nov 5, 1804 in section 32, Range 5, Twp. 7, Southeast Quarter, Newton Twp.He paid $1.04 in tax on his property in the 1810 tax records.He 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; daughter: Sarah Hall.He mentions the meeting house lot.His executors were sons Samuel and James Cote.Signed:Marmaduke (mark) Cote, Witnesses:Samuel Teague, Isaac Embree and William Ellemon.He is buried in Old Union Cemetery northeast of Ludlow Falls, which was part of his farm that he donated for a cemetery."No marker currently stands for him.
The evidence that supports that Marmaduke is the son of Henry and Esther is as follows: 1. Marmaduke had a daughter named Esther and a son was named Henry.2.Henry had a son named Marmaduke as verified in Quakers recordsHe would have been of an appropriate age to rescue Mary in 1755.3.There is only one Marmaduke of his age in any census records, and we know from Quakers records that Henry had a son named Marmaduke.4.Lastly, Mary Pearson Greenlee had records on Marmaduke and Mary's children.Her descendants believe that she descended from Henry and Esther Willson Coate which would explain why she had knowledge of our Marmaduke and Mary's children.She was the family historian for her branch of the Coate's (Note:Mary Greenlee was Mary Mendenhall Pearson, d. of John F. Pearson and Mary Pugh.Her grandfather is Samuel Pearson who married Mary Coate.Mary Coate was the daughter of (Big) John Coate, blacksmith, Dist. 96, SC. (Witnesses at their wedding were John and Rachel Coat as well as Susannah Coat). Big John's parentage is uncertain, but her family members believe he was the son of henry and Esther Coate.(History and Genealogy by Emma Odesa Coats Collins, pg 13]
The second theory is that Marmaduke is the child of William and Rachel Ann Budd Coate.This tradition was collected on paper beginning in 1915 for a court case.It was Mrs A>E> Pemberton Krell, of Whitestone, Long Island, who kept track of all the family lineages sent to her.She was "prevailed upon...in 1915 to inlist in the research work for proper evidence to establish our rights "to the Coate/Coppock 99 year lease.
The bulk of Mrs Krell's collection is made up of her transcriptions of eac family member's submitted three to five generation charts.No description of their sources were required or entered by Mrs Krell.However, when I was reading other loose items in the file, Mrs Krell mentioned some other sources she had viewed.Sources I found referred to were:Mary Pearson Greenlee's family tree, marriages of Quaker records, Ohio County death records, Judge O'Neils "Annales of Newberry Co, SC", Congressional Library in DC, her mother, Wills of William Coate, d. 1728 and William Coate, who died 1749, Bessies Sufferings, and John Whittings Persecutions Exposed.
In her files was a hand written history of the Coate Family.It had multiple lines that were scratched out nd replaced with Amanda E. Pemberton Krell's writing.It is transcribed below VERBATIM.
"Marmaduke Coate born 1733 in Philadelphia Pa. Died 1822, Son of William and Rachel. (Note this last phrase was written on top of the scratched out line;Was the son of William and Rebecca French Sharp Allen Cote)Just when William Coate, Marmaduke's father went to Sout Carolina has not been able (be) learn.
Mary Coppock Coate was the wife of Marmaduke Coate and the Daughter of Moses and Martha Scarr Coppock who came from England.Mary Coppock was a captive of the Indians, Corn Planter Tribe of PAfor some 18-20 years.Marmaduke Coate bought her from them in the year of 1764 (or 1754?) for the price of a horse, saddle and bridle.I could not find this white child as a captive in the Indian Department at the Congressional Library, Washington, DC (Signes A.E. Krell)
Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coates children are as follows:Esther b. in SC 9/3/1766 , d. 1802 in SC, Moses Coate b 9/5/1768, Henry b. 8/18/1770, Srah b. 12/11/1774, Samuel b. 8/28/1772, William b. 1/2/1779, James b. 6/23/1777, John b. 7/19/1785, Jerre b. 1/3/1788.
Marmaduke Coate was the second white settler in (?) Union Township, was born in Penn. 1733.He came here in this 68th year.He had 7 sons, two daughters.Moses, his second child and Samuel the 4th child came to Miami Valley on a Propsecting tour in 1804 being well pleased with the appearance of things they determined to take permanent home here and were latter joined by the remainig, members the fall of 1805M. Coate died in 1822 the advanced age of 84 years.In his will dated Oct 22, 1817 and probated Apr 8, 1822 he lists wife Mary, sons Moses, Henry, Samuel, Kames, John Jesse, William, dau Sarah Hall.
His wife died some years later in Ohio.If her life could be written it would make a large interestig book.She had been captured by the indians at the age of 6 years.
Thomas Coppock was the 4th white man to settle in Union Township, Miami Co., Ohio came from SC 6 boys 3 girls,.He also lived in Warren county Ohio a short time.The head of these families were all brother in laws, s far as families his went they formed a large settlement.Samuel Teague the older located on Section 28, Benjamin Pearson on South Section 33, William Furnas took the north quarter section 33, Jocab Embrell was a native of Tennessee.He was the second husband of Ann Coppock (Hawartt) widow of James Hawartt and the father of Pheba Coate the wife of Benjamin Coate.
And in 1917, 4 other children of Marmaduke & Mary Coppock Coate were located in the South namely:Stephen Marmaduke, Sus(annah), Emily Estela, (Petter) J. Coate.
Many of these records (could) I believe to be incorrect in dates of birth-marriages do not seem to date correct.But copies is found to be in records in homes of relatives (and) Friends Records and as take to be mistakes of different recrod keepers appointed.
As many like my self uneducated which our great mistake if one has the advantage of an Education in Early Life.Can say for my self I was among the western indians until a girl of between 10-11 years and miles from any school.My father moved from the western country angain into Iowa, Keokuk Iowa, (Lee) Co.and that was mostly settled at that time with half Breeds and collard People.I was some of an independent nature and wanted to learn something of the world in which we lived so got my schooling by out side.Experience has been my own teacher and (trainer), married young, (with) my husband had 3 children, was compelled to take up work in order to live and educate my children was my one great life then in life and thanks be to Good I still have my 3 children.Mrs AE Pemberton Townsend Krell.
Evidence supporting Mrs Krell's lineage that Marmaduke was the son of William and Rachel is as follows.1.Marmaduke and Mary named one of their youngest sons William.2.The longstanding tradition thatMarmaduke rescued Mary with payment of a horse, bridle and saddle, best supports this lineage, as his possible father, William moved to North Carolina about the year 1754, the same year of the raid where Mary Coppock was captured.One letter from a gr.gr. grandaughter of Marmaduke and Mary states that it took Marmaduke and Mary 5 days of hard travel to get back home from the release.That would probably mean that she was released within 150 miles of where Marmaduke was living at the time.This is in contrast to the fact that Henry's son Marmaduke did not move south until 1757 on certificae and he was still likley single at the time.3.Mrs Krell and a descendent of Stephen Marmaduke Coate have listed their ancestors as William and Rachel Anne Budd Coate.4.The "Old Coates Genealogy"that is highly inaccurate, lists a Marmaduke as the son of William and Rachel Ann Budd.
The last interesting chapter of Marmaduke Coate's life occured years after his death."In 1914 between three and four hundred descendants of Marmaduke Coate (and Moses Coppock) met at the Friends Church in Ludlow Falls, to lay plans for a lega battle for a supposed vast estate in Pennsylvania to whichthey had been informed they were etitled.The land was valued between forty and two hundred million at the time.Family members, in sincerity, believed the claim to be true.The claim was not proven in court, and one of the promoters was brought to trial by the US Government.
According to one researcher's grandparents, the land partly in Philadelphia was under a 99 year lease placed in a Quaker Church.The Quaker Church had burned with no trace of the original.The land was supposedly originally negotiated for purchase in 1816 by Marmaduke Coate and Moses Coppock with their sons, Moses Coate and Benjamin Coppock with the Cherokees.When the deal was negotiated, they were joined by Daniel Boone and Henderson on the Watange to conclude the bargain.Over peace pipe, they paid in merchandise and purchase money for land in what is now Cheste Co, PA (where Coatsville now stands), Philadelphia Co, (around Copperstown, Oil City and Cranberry, PA) and Venango Co, PA.They supposedly received a deed for the property on buckskin from the Indians.Marmaduke and Moses had intended to start a Quaker settlement o this land.They then leased it out to Daniel Boone and William Mendenhall for a 99 year period. (Park 1960, pp217-218)This particular pattern was a part of early PA history.ccording to a Quaker web site, "Although William Penn was granted all the land in Pennsylvania by the King, he and his heirs chose not to grant or settle any part of it without first buying the claims of Indians who lived there.In this manner, all of Pennsylvania except the northwestern third was purchased by 1768."Knowing this, the Coate land claim, would only have been true if the Coates and Coppocks purchased it from the Indians previous to 1768.They then could have leased it out in 1816.Still possible, but this is obviously a new stretch to the story.There is also another version of this story that says the Coates and Coppocks reveived this land for their service in the Revolutionary War.The only service we definitely know of, is Marmaduke Coate's supplying provisions in the war.
Research had disclosed that several of the persons supposedly signing the lease in 1816 had been dead for several years.Some persons gave as much as $500.00 for which they received nothing.It seems that many Coate and Coppock families had partial copies of this lease in their possession even back in the 1800's.According to Corinee H. Diller via Mary Helen Pemberton, some heirs visited thwir land holdings in 1849 and were amazed at the developments on their property.From 1850-1870 many of these Quakers relatives destroyed thwir copies because they wee afraid of the corruption that greed would bring into thier lives.Others apparently hid their copies in safe place.
In 1908, Mrs Amanda Krell revisited her birthplace, Ludlow Falls, Ohio for the first time in 50 years.She visited and talked with her mother's sisters and apparently learned about the lease from them.By 1914 she had organized the heirs to claim their land.Each family was required that they prove their descent from the signers of the lease, Marmaduke Coate and or Moses Coppock, and Contribute money to get a share of the profits for the land which they supposedly ownedThey formed the Coate-Coppock News.
A couple off-branch organizatins also developed, all working to get what they felft entitled to legally.
Before the court case was decided, The Coate-Coppock organizations switched to two different lawyers. Newly hred Attorney Colonel Abbot produced a map in 1920 that placed the land in Philadelphia at it's heart, Broad and Market Streets.The description of the original land was so nebulous, that it was very difficult to pinpoint most of it on current maps of the day.
In 1927 they were brought up on Fraud charges by the US Post Office.As they were collecting money through the mail to help with thwir legal process, the Post Office charged them with obtaining money via the mail by false pretenses.This charge seems to have been the main defeat of their claims.That and the fact that the original deed and lease had never been found, took the dreams of many.
The following document is from Steven Taylor.It was a transcription of an old hadwritten copy in possession of his grandmother.
"State of Pennsylvania, Chester County, Philadelphia County and Venango County.To all whom it may concern:We, Marmaduke Coate and Mary Coppock and Moses Coate and Moses W. Coppock and James Coate and Martha Coppock, wife of Moses Coppock to Wm. Penn Fannazy and Rachel his wife, Caleb Mendanhall and wife Alice and Wm. Tomlinson and Rebecca Teague, Elizh Furnace, Joseph Mendanhall, ( the last two men are nephews of Daniel Boone), they are the original owners of the 99 year lease.We leased this land for the price of one ($1.00) dollars per acre, 1889 acres in Chester Co, PA, 2056 acres in Venango Co, PA and 796 acres in Philadelphia.This contract was entered into by us and them in the year of our Lord, 1816, July 22nd, and all improvements from time to time to remain therein by said hoolders and at our death to descent to our heirs wherever found, the heirs of Marmaduke and Mary Coppock and of Moses and Elizabeth Coppock Coate, Moses Coppock and Martha his wife and James his son and Benj. Coppock.Be it also understood that the holders of the 99 year lease have the privilege of a release for another 99 years at the expiration to the lease if so desired by them and in agreement to our heirs at law.We do hereby bind ourselves and relatives.Administrators to warrant, prove and defend us in all these rights at the end of lease and deliver same into the hands of all or any of our hiers living at that time.We, this 22nd day of July, 1816, appear before one James Wade Haworth, one of the Justice to keep the peace in and for the County of said Chester, personally came Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary, Moses Coates and wife Elizabeth, Wm. Moses Coppock and his wife Martha, James son of Moses, Benj. son of Moses.The within grantors of the lease after examined agreeable to the act in such case made and reveived acknowledge act, the above intentions to be their Voluntary act ond purpose which therein consist the presence of those present we the 23rd day of July, 1816, we set our hand and n__thus to.
Marmaduke Coate Mary Coppock Coate Moses Coate Elizabeth Coppock Coate Moses Wm Coppock Martha Coppock James, son of Moses Coppock
Witnesses:Abiathan Davis, William Miles, John Furnace
There will possibly always be a mystery surrounding this document.The original was never found.These Coates and Coppocks had not lived in Pennsylvania for many, many years when they signed the lease in 1816.Then, a couple people who supposedly signed it were dead at the time.Even though all these facts make it seem fictitious, the fact that many heirs had copies of the lease in the 1800's and that some of them went to check on their land in 1849, does lead to the supposition that it could be based in truth.
One very interesting note comes from a couple dozen family letters between Coate members from 1917 to 1921 transcribed by John Ammel.Several patterns are evident in this one group of Coate descendants.Thes people ranging froh age 21 to 65 did not know exatly how they were related to Marmaduke Coate.The first tried to get tht information from their elders recrods, but the elders were suspicious of the court case and had hidden or destroyed their recrods.They ten seemed to have gotten that information from Mrs Krell so that their lineage was consistent with other Coate relatives.These people were hardworking, conservative families that honestly felf they had a rightful claim to be Coate/
Coppock estate settlement.Mrs Krell worked very hard and travelled the country to various Coate/Coppock meetings to make this case successful.She and other officers were probably the source of some of the information that famil members contributed.Also note that when one of thise family members reveived information of import, they copied it in a letter and sent it on to a cousin or Aunt.Lastly note that none of John Ammel's ancestors had a copy of the deed.
Hachat Research:
P798 Hinshaw ol V, Rec Warren Co Ohio MM, 8 Dec 1804 to Miami Co Ohio, 1806 West Branch MM, P 50 Quaker Records, Ireton Records, P 759 Beers Miami Co History, P 31 Hoover Geene, p 73 Miami Valley Pioneers of Ohio, p 42 MHP WB Rec
Miami Valley Genealogical Index
Coate, Marmaduke GI 1776 Army
Coate, Marmaduke tx 1816 Tax Mi
Coate, Marmaduke W 1822 Will AB 031 Mi
Coate, Marmaduke es 1822 ProbCt Case 00311 Estate Mi
Coate, Marmdduke Xt 1811 DeedNewton Twp Mi
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Marmaduke Coate
Mary Coate
Ch: Esther b. 9- 3-1766.
Moses b. 9- 5-1768.
Henry b. 8-18-1770.
Samuel b. 8-28-1772.
Sarah b. 12-11-1774.
James b. 6-23-1777.
William b. 1- 2-1779.
John b. 7-19-1785.
Jesse b. 1- 3-1788.
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1804, 8, 25. Marmaduke & fam gct Miami MM, Ohio.
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1804, 11, 8. Marmaduke & wife, Mary, & child, John & Jesse, received on certificate from Bush River monthly meeting, dtd 1804, 8, 25
For the Centennial Anniversary of West Branch, held in 1907, Eli Jay of Richmond, Ind., prepared and read a paper giving the early ancestry of many of the first members and to this we are indebted for the record of the Coate family.He said in part; Marmaduke Coate and his seven sons, who settled in Miami County about 1804, are descended from one Marmaduke Coate, who lived in Somersetshire, England, where he died in 1689.He was one of the early Friends, who suffered imprisonment for his religious views.Most of the years from 1670 to 1685 were spent in prison.His wife Edith and son Marmaduke were also imprisoned.
"The son Marmaduke Coate, Jr., born in 1631, married in England, Ann Pole; emigrating to America, they settled near Burlington, N.J.According to the Minutes of the Burlington Meeting, he arrived in 1715.
The marriages of four of his children are recorded there, three daughters and one son, from 1719 to 1727.The last of these to marry was William Coate to Rebecca Sharp, Feb 6, 1727.Marmaduke Coate, Jr. died Dec 16, 1728; his wife Ann (Pole) Coate died Nov 4, 1729."
"It is not known when William Coate and wife Rebecca removed to South Carolina.Judge O'Neale in his "Annals of Newberry County", says he was living there as early as 1762.His son Marmaduke, born 1738, married in South Carolina, about 1764, Mary Coppock.They had a family of nine children, given in Bush River Registry, born from 1766 to 1788.Five of their sons married in South Carolina; two of them married daughters of Joseph and Jane Copppock; one a daughter of Isaac and Lydia Haskett, and two married daughters of William and Jane Miles."
"The removal certificate of Marmaduke and Mary Coate and their younger sons, John and Jesse, is dated Aug 25, 1804, and was received at Miami MM, Ohio, Dec 8, 1804.The certificates for the three older sons are dated earlier in theyear 1804, and those for William and James in 1805"
"The late Richard Brandon of Pleasant Hill, who went to South Carolina to search for Coatre-Coppock records, found a well defined tradition, that during the absence of the father, Moses Coppock, the Indians raided and burned the home, killed the mother and captured the children, one of whom was named Mary, who was held captive for several years.In 1764, Marmaduke Coate went to the Indian Camp and gave them a horse, bridle and saddle as a ransom for Mary.Her parents, Moses and Martha (Scarr) Coppock, are said to have come directly to South Caroline from England.
Marmaduke Coate died Sept 2, 1822, in Miami County, aged 84 yeas and was buried in old Union Graveyard at Ludlow Falls.The date of death of Mary (Coppock) Coate is not known, but she survived her husband several years.
More About MARMADUKE COATE:
Burial: Abt. September 28, 1822, Miami Co, Ohio
Notes for MARY JANE COPPOCK:
As provided by Linda (Coate) Dudick
Tradition states Mary Jane Coppock was captured by the Indians as a child and was supposedly rescued and purchased back by her childhood friend, and future husband, Marmaduke Coate.In the "History of South Carolina", Dr David Ramsey, a physician of Charleston, relates that there was a Mary J. Coppock who was released by the Indians in Oct 1755.When she was caputred by the Choctaw Indians, the year before, all the men were killed and several children taken.
Dr David Ramsey's account of what occured as relayed by Percy Pemberton Brown in Park's 1960 version of " The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio" is copied here.It was from Percy's notes taken from "The History of South Carolina" "This history was first published in 1809.It was the work of Dr David Ramsay, a physician of Charleston, SC and a native of that city.He was for half a century one of its leading citizens, a close friend of its Governors, and on intimate acquaintance of most of the important people, from early in the century before.When, for instance he describes the fire which destroyed half of the city on November 13, 1740, he was telling what he saw himself.His knowledge of Indian affairs, etc, came from his association with those incharge.But he was on the advisory staff of Governor Lyttleton, and probably some others, and was present when Chief Attakullakulla was examined, near F. Prince George.
Before SC became a royal colony, there had been misunderstandings as clashes with some of the nearby tribes, by some of the proprietors, and private individuals.The last serious and general quarrel, was the war with the Yamausees in 1715.The two most important tribes, however, both in numbers and in influence, were the Cherokees and Creeks, both o whom had been fairly friendly.Some white traders and trappers had lived among them.It was felt among SC leaders, and received as a good suggestion in London, that closer ties be made with these two tribes, for the protection of the colony.When Francis Michelson, the frist royal governor arrived in 1621, he contacted the various Indian settlements, arranging treaties, and a plan of cooperation.The next governor, Sir Alexander Comming arranged a great formal treaty at Nequasee (an Indian town), in April of 1730, not long after his arrival.All the chiefs agreed that Chief moytoy was to act for all, in affairs with the whitesSeven Indian Chiefs went back to England to fonfirm this treaty before the King.Ramsey writes, "The Cherokees in consequence of this treaty, for many years remained i a state of perfect friendship and peace with the colonist, who followed their various employments in the neighborhood of thise Indians without the least terror or abomination."Early in 1731, Robert Johnson came as governor, returning with the Indian Chiefs.
1740 was remembered not only for the great fire, but for a negro insurrection, stirred up by the Spanish (20 whites killed) and an expedition against St Augustine in reprisal.A local man, Gov. Bull, was acting governor during this time.In 1752 a few Creek Indians, who had been given presents and liquor by the Spanish agents, attacked three or four families near Charleston, but were quickly rounded up and dealt with.In 1754 and 1755 the war between France and England caused both to covet the friendship of the Indians.Governor Glen of South Carolina held a treaty with the Cherokees in October 1755, ostensibly to brighten the chain of friendship, but really to obtain a corner of their lands and a liberty to erect forts on the western froonties, as a barrier against the French on the southwest.Both were granted.This was the meeting at which a white child was turned over to the governor's party, who had been recovered by the Cherokees from "French Indians".In 1758, true to their treaty with the English, a large band of Cherokees helped in the advance against Fort Duquesne by Colonel Bradock.Losing some of their horses at the time of ambush, the Indians stole some more as they returned through western Virginia, and settlers trying to recover the animals, surprised and killed 12 or 14 of the Cherokees.Returning homeward the rest of the braves were furious and stirred up several attacks along the western frontier the next spring.Governor Littleton, arriving at that time, ordered a Congress with the Cherokees, which was held Dec 17, 1759 in on of the Indian's town.He held severa chiefs virtual prisoner while he addressed Attakullakulla, then the head chief, and long a good friend of the whites.In his demand, which Dr Ramsay gives verbatim, there was no claim of captives; only 24 murdered for which the governor wanted the murderers, or 24 hostages until the culprits came forward.Chief Attakullakulla began his reply by stating, "that he remembered some years ago several white people belonging to Carolina were killed by Choctaws, for which no satisfaction had either been demanded or given:There is a later edition of this history, which I have found twice.It is in the Indiana State Library.In the later work there is additional material.At his point is entered in fine print, an excerpt from the report of Governor Lyttleton to the royal Commissioners upon his return to Charleston.The governor was trying, it would seem, to explain why the Choctaws had not been called to account: thier idenity was not known, and the civtims were not Carolinians.I once copied part of thier report, abbreviating slightly in my haste.I shall try to give the exact wording."In 1754 there was a massacre of Cuttery of Buffalo Creek, near where it enters Broad River, in the north-west corner of York County, SC.The women of the party were away at the time, having gone to a squires with a young couple wishing to marry.,The men were asleep or lounging about, and the children were playing when the savages struck.Sixteen were killed including all the men of the party, and 5 children were taken captive.Some were soon released, but one child recovered in October the following year, was supposed to have been of this party.The tense situation which the governor left to go to Charleston, exploded soon afterward, indian hostages killed, and the soldiers of Ft Prince George massacred.Civilians removed from the area.brithish troops in 1760 and 1761 invaded Cherokee country, causing their suit for peace.Formal treaty 1763.One Mary J. Coppock, was the girl taken by the Choctaws at Mr Cuttery's.
Hachat Source: Brier, Friends Families, Miami Valley Geneologies:
It is said that Mary parents came directely from England to South Carolina, her Mother Martha was killed by Indians and she was taken prisoner.
Children of MARMADUKE COATE and MARY COPPOCK are:
i. | STEPHEN2 COATE, b. 1756, South Carolina. | ||
ii. | SUSANNA COATE, b. 1758, South Carolina. | ||
iii. | ESTELLA COATE, b. 1762, South Carolina. | ||
2. | iv. | ESTHER COATE, b. September 03, 1766; d. Bet. 1809 - 1810, Miami Co, Ohio. | |
3. | v. | MOSES COATE, b. September 05, 1768, Bush River, Newberry Co, SC. | |
4. | vi. | HENRY COATE, b. August 18, 1770, South Carolina; d. November 24, 1848, Miami Co, Ohio. | |
5. | vii. | SAMUEL COATE, b. August 28, 1772, Bush River MM, Newberry Co, SC; d. January 26, 1867, Union Twp., Miami Co, Ohio. | |
6. | viii. | SARAH ANN COATE, b. December 11, 1774, Bush River MM, Newberry Co, SC; d. November 16, 1849, Bush River MM, Miami Co, Ohio. | |
7. | ix. | JAMES COATE, b. June 23, 1777, South Carolina; d. December 05, 1839, Miami Co, Ohio. | |
8. | x. | WILLIAM COATE, b. January 02, 1779, BushRiver MM, Newberry Co, SC; d. September 24, 1847, Bloomfield MM, Parke Co, IN. | |
9. | xi. | JOHN COATE, b. July 19, 1785, South Carolina; d. August 07, 1837. | |
10. | xii. | JESSE COATE, b. January 03, 1788, Newberry Co, SC; d. August 07, 1837, Miami Co, Ohio. |