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Descendants of John Mathis

Generation No. 2

2. MICAJAH² MATHIS (JOHN¹) was born November 19, 1717 in Oak Island, Burlington County, New Jersey ⁵, and died November 11, 1804 in Tuckerton, New Jersey⁵. He married MERCY SHREVE March 07, 1746/47 in Burlington County, New Jersey ⁶, daughter of JOSHUA SHREVE and JANE ???. She was born September 08, 1725 in Upper Springfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, and died 1804 ⁷.

Notes for MICAJAH MATHIS:
Micajah, eldest son of John Mathis was an enterprising man, and besides his father's liberal bequests, he accumulated a handsome property, but the depreciation of the continental paper was a heavy blow to his financial affairs, yet not withstanding of his losses at his death his personal property amounted to many thousand dollars, and he also owned the Francis French farm and a farm at Chestnut Neck now called the Shreve Mathis farm. On the Francis French farm was a noted shipyard, where several large sloops were built. A brig called Argo was built at Micajah Mathis Sr.'s landing, on what was called the "Francis French farm" and for many years this was a noted shipyard. The Argo was commanded by Captain John Somers, a son-in-law of Captain John Leaks Sr. of Bass river. Soon after the building of the Argo, Micajah Mathis built a large sloop called Hope, of Bass River, at the same place. She was designed for the purpose of carrying lumber from Egg Harbor to New York City, and was commanded by Barzilla Mathis, son of the owner of the vessel. After Micajah's death, his sons Job and Barzilla were the proprietors of the Hope. All of these old-time crafts used the old inlet to the Atlantic. He also owned many hundred acres of heavily timbered land and cedar swamp. There was considerable ship building done at Bass river, the principle ship owners were the Mathis, Cranmers, Adams, Frenchs, Lovelands, Allens and others. The principal ship yards at Bass river were the Francis French place and the Caleb Cranmer place. He settled on the Francis French place where he resided till the end of his life.

More About MICAJAH MATHIS:
Burial: Unknown, Tuckerton Friends Meeting, Tuckerton, NJ
Occupation: owned shipyard
Residence: East side of Bass River at Rt. 9 & Chestnut Neck Farm

Notes for MERCY SHREVE:
Mercy was a member of the Society of Friends and in 1759 she was appointed as a delegate to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Burlington City.

More About MICAJAH MATHIS and MERCY SHREVE:
Marriage: March 07, 1746/47, Burlington County, New Jersey ⁸

Children of MICAJAH MATHIS and MERCY SHREVE are:

MARTHA³ MATHIS, b. May 25, 1748, Tuckerton, New Jersey ⁹; d. April 08, 1759, Tuckerton, New Jersey, at age 11⁹.

More About MARTHA MATHIS:
Personality/Intrst: never married
Residence: East side of Bass River at Rt. 9 & Chestnut Neck Farm

9.	ii.	JOB MATHIS, b. April 17, 1750; d. Unknown.
10.	iii.	JOHN MATHIS, b. December 23, 1753, Chestnut Neck, Burlington County, New Jersey; d. October 20, 1824, Chestnut Neck, Burlington County, New Jersey.
11.	iv.	BARZILLA MATHIS, b. December 13, 1755; d. 1811.
12.	v.	BENJAMIN MATHIS, SR., b. July 15, 1760; d. 1824.
	vi.	MERCY MATHIS, b. August 21, 1762⁹; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM MERRITT; d. Unknown.

Notes for MERCY MATHIS:
Nothing is known of her posterity.

More About MERCY MATHIS:
Residence: New York State after marriage

Notes for WILLIAM MERRITT:
Of the upper section of Burlington Co., NJ. Nothing is known of his posterity.

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SARAH MATHIS, b. August 29, 1764; d. Unknown.

3. JOB² MATHIS (JOHN¹) was born May 13, 1719 in Oak Island, Tuckerton, New Jersey ¹⁰, and died August 1771 in New Jersey ¹¹. He married PHOEBE LEEK May 15, 1760¹¹, daughter of JOHN LEEK and PHOEBE DEVINNEY. She was born 1723 in England, and died Unknown.

More About JOB MATHIS:
Burial: Unknown, Tuckerton Friends Meeting, Tuckerton, New Jersey with no stone
Residence: Dan's Island
Will: December 08, 1770, Little Egg Harbor

More About JOB MATHIS and PHOEBE LEEK:
Marriage: May 15, 1760¹¹

Children of JOB MATHIS and PHOEBE LEEK are:

14.	i.	PHOEBE³ MATHIS, d. Unknown.
	ii.	MARY MATHIS, d. Unknown.
15.	iii.	DANIEL MATHIS, SR., b. July 21, 1761; d. March 10, 1836, Tuckerton, New Jersey.
16.	iv.	ENOCH MATHIS, b. March 03, 1763, New Jersey; d. June 02, 1818, New Jersey.

4. SARAH² MATHIS (JOHN¹) was born July 19, 1721 in Oak Island, Burlington County, New Jersey ^12,¹³, and died April 17, 1799 in Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey ¹⁴. She married (1) MARMADUKE COATE 1747 in Burlington County, New Jersey ¹⁵. He was born 1717 in New Jersey, and died 1749 in New Jersey. She married (2) JOHN LEEDS, SR. 1751 in Little Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, New Jersey ^16,¹⁷, son of JAPHET LEEDS and DEBORAH SMITH. He was born 1708 in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey ¹⁸, and died 1785 ^19,²⁰.

Notes for SARAH MATHIS:
After the death of Marmaduke she resided at his father's, and after she had been a widow two or three years, she married John Leeds in 1751, third child, second son of Japheth & Deborah (Smith) Leeds, born 1708, this was also his second wife, a Quaker preacher, John was the brother to Robert Leeds who married her half sister, Abigail Higbee.

More About SARAH MATHIS:
Burial: Unknown, beside Friends Meeting in Tuckerton, New Jersey

Notes for MARMADUKE COATE:
Of Mansfield Twp., NJ. Owned property in Mansfield on which he resided, and he had large possessions at Kingwood, in Bethlehem Twp, the county of Hunterdon, NJ. In his will he denominates those possessions his "lands up in the mountains."

New Jersey Colonial Documents Calendar of Wills 1730-1750 -- 1749 p 101, May 7. Coats, Marmaduke, of Mansfield, Burlington Co., house carpenter; will of. Wife, Sarah, tract in the mountains at Kingwood, Bethlehem Township, to enable her to bring up child John and expected child. Plantation in Mansfield I bought of John Gibbs. Executors -- wife, and brother John Coats. Witnesses -- John Buffin, Ann Buffin, Joseph Pope. Proved May 31, 1749. Lib. 6, p. 300. 1750, May 7. Inventory of personal estate L269.8.6; made by Thos. Earl and Michael Newbold.

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Will of Marmaduke Coate

In the Name of God Amen, this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and forty nine. I Marmaduke Coates of the Township of
Mansfield in the County of Burlington the (either Wes York division or western
division) of New Jersey. House Carpenter being at the time weak of body but
thanks be to God I am of sound and perfect disposing mind and memory I do hereby
and by those present make ordain and list in writing this my Last Will and
Testiment in manner and form as follow.

The first and principally of all I give and commend my soul unto the hands of
God that gave it and my body to the earth to definitely buried at the discretion
of my Ex. Hereafter named and in touching the disposing of my worldly estate
wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and
dispose of the same in manner and form as followth. I give and bequeath unto
Sarah my well beloved wife all that tract of land purchased of John Gibbs in the
twoneship of Mansfield whereon I now sell with all my personal estate thereon
(?) also in like manner I give unto Sarah my wife all that tract of land up at
the mountain lying in Kingswood in the township of Bethlehem all in the Western
Division of New Jersey all which to be possessed and enjoyed by Sarah my wife
until my children come to lawful age hereby to enable her to bring up my
children.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son John Coats (there are two different copies
of this will one the actual copy and the other the clerks...John's name is
spelled Coats in the will but as Coates in the clerks copy) all this land in the
township of Mansfield when at age to be his part and portion all of that tract
of land also that tract of up at the mountains aforementioned I give and
bequeath unto my other child not now born to be possessed when at age if either
child should die before at age or without issue Sarah my wife shall possess its
part during her life and after her decease to return to my heirs and for the
true performance of every part hereof I do hereby constitute make and ordain my
brother John Coats and Sarah my wife to be my sole executors of this my Last
Will and Testament utterly disallowing, revoking disallowing all and every other
former testaments wills sequoias and executors by me in my will before this time
named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to being
my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto sat my hand and
seal the day and year above written.

Marmaduke Coate (seal)

____________________________

Sealed & delivered in the presence of us John Buffin Ann Buffin Joseph Pope_____
John Buffin one of the witnesses to the within written will being duly affirmed
according to saw and declares that he was present and saw Marmaduke Coate the
testator within named sing and seal the same and heard him publish pronounce and
declare the within instrument to be his last will and testament and that at the
doing thereof the testator was of sound and perfect mind and memory as far as he
knows and as he truly believes and that Anne Buffin and Joseph Pope the other
subscribing witnesses were present and subscribed there name and witnesses those
to in the presence of the testator. John Buffin affirmed at Burlington this
31st day of May 1749.

John Buffin

Before Scattergood, Surrogate....

_________________________________

Be it remembered that the Last Will and Testament of Marmaduke Coate as being
duly proved as above said probate and Letters Testamentary were granted by this
Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq. Governor of the Province of New Jersey unto
Sarah Coate on of hte Exe in the said will named spe being duly affirmed well
and truly to perform the said will and exhibit a true and perfect inventory and
render a just accounting when there unto lawfully required. Given under the
Prerogative seal of the said province at Burlington this 31st day of May anno
Dom. 1759.

Sarah Coate

Scattergood, Surrogate

Marmaduke Coate Estate Inventory, Burlington Co, NJ 1750

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Estate of Marmaduke Coate

Inventory on the Estate of Marmaduke Coate Burlington Co. 1750

Thomas Levetz and Michael Newbold the appraisers of the within inventory (?)
according to law did declare that the good chattels and credits in the said
inventory set down and in satisfied wore by therein appraised according to this
just and (?) and value after they in their judgment and understanding of that
they appraised all things that were brought to their view for appraisement.

Before: Scattergood, Surrogate, 2th of December 1750 (could be January)

Rebecca Coate the administratrix of the goods chattels rightes and crdits of the
within name dMarmaduke Coate deceased being duly affimred and according to law
did delcare that the within accointing contains (?) perfect (?) of all and
sigular the goods chattels and credits of the said decased (the rest of the next
two lines are blurred and bad copy)

Affirmed at Burlington on the 5th December 1750 before me, Scattergood,
Surrogate

_______________________________

A true and perfect inventory of the (?). The goods chattels (?) and credits of
Marmaduke Coate of the township Newhanover in the county of Burlington deceased
taken and appraised by us the Luberlins (?) this 31 day of December Anno 1750

To purse and apparel 29# 19S
To a horse, Sdel and Bridel 20#
To a sliver (?) and a watch 9# 10S
To eleven horse Kine 111#
To eight cattle 16#
To Forty seven sheep 19#
To swine 3# 15S
To hay Swon corn on the ground and corn
in the creb 22# 15S
To Sears plows and harrs 3# 17S 6P
To a apple mill (?) chess press and chvon 2# 4S
To livery tools and old iron 15S
To (?) on account amounts to 26# 19S
To (?) 2# 5S
______________
269# 8S 6P

signed by Ths. Sarl and Michael Newbold in the year 1750

________________________

More About MARMADUKE COATE and SARAH MATHIS:
Marriage: 1747, Burlington County, New Jersey ²¹

Notes for JOHN LEEDS, SR.:
John Leeds, while traveling in Burlington after his first wife's death, met and married Sarah Mathis-Coate, daughter of John and Alice (Andrews-Higbee) Mathis, and widow of Marmaduke Coate, a noted Friend of Mansfield, New Jersey. John Leeds was one of the pioneer farmers of this county and receiving by his fathers will the homestead at Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey where he condseted (sic) thrifth and prosperous farm. He was a minister of the Society of Friends and travelled extensively on ministerial journeys through what are now Cape May, Atlantic and Burlington Counties, New Jersey. [Copied from family records, in possession of Benjamin F. Leeds, now of Ohio. Source: Bible and Family Records of the Atlantic County Historical Society, Vol. IX, Atlantic County, New Jersey, Compiled, Indexed and Typed by Agnes F. Leeds Risley, February 1929, p. 51.]

More About JOHN LEEDS, SR.:
Date born 2: Abt. 1708 ²²

More About JOHN LEEDS and SARAH MATHIS:
Marriage: 1751, Little Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, New Jersey^22,²³

Children of SARAH MATHIS and MARMADUKE COATE are:

	i.		JOHN³ COATE, b. January 02, 1747/48 ²⁴; d. Bef. 1847.
	ii.		MARY COATE, b. August 26, 1749²⁴; d. Bef. 1849.

Children of SARAH MATHIS and JOHN LEEDS are:

17.	iii.	DANIEL³ LEEDS, b. July 25, 1752; d. Unknown.
18.	iv.	JEREMIAH LEEDS, b. March 04, 1754; d. October 1838.
19.	v.	VINCENT LEEDS, b. July 30, 1756; d. December 28, 1841.
	vi.	DOROTHY LEEDS, b. July 30, 1756 ²⁵; d. Abt. 1823²⁵; m. ROBERT SMITH; d. Unknown.

Notes for DOROTHY LEEDS:
Twin sister of Vincent.

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