William COATT^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1671 - 1748  (77 years)

• Name	William COATT  [6]
  Born	6 Jan 1671	Hambridge, Curry Rivel Parish, Somersetshire, ENG   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Mar 1748	Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG   [2, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I4120	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Marmaduke COATE,   b. 8 Sep 1634, Hambridge, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 22 Jun 1686, Hambridge, Somersetshire, ENG  (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Edith GILLING,   b. Bef 1642, Of Somerset, England ,   d. 24 Dec 1718, Hambridge, Somersetshire, ENG  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Married	13 Sep 1658	Mark Parish, Curry Rivel, Somerset, ENG   [9, 10]
  Family ID	F6610	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah POWELL,   b. Bef 1685, Of Greinton, Somerset, ENG ,   d. 5 Jun 1744, Kingsbury M.M., Somerset, ENG  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	8 May 1702	Middle Division M.M., Somerset, ENG   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Thomas COATE,   b. 11 Sep 1703, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. Dec 1734, Goathurst, Somerset, England  (Age 31 years)   2. Marmaduke COATE,   b. 3 Nov 1705, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 1705, Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG   3. John COATE,   b. 11 Sep 1707, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 10 Nov 1776, Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG  (Age 69 years)   4. William COATS,   b. 12 Sep 1708, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 1797, Kingwood, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA  (Age 88 years)   5. Marmaduke COATE,   b. 30 Sep 1711, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 1795, Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG  (Age 83 years)   6. Hannah COATE,   b. 16 Jan 1714, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. Aft 1735, Of Co. Somerset, ENG  (Age 21 years)   7. Rachell COATE,   b. 11 Apr 1715, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 9 Oct 1743, Greinton, Somerset, England  (Age 28 years)   8. Edith COATE,   b. 27 Nov 1720, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 12 Jul 1747, Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG  (Age 26 years)   9. Mary COATE,   b. 6 Mar 1722, Polden Hill Mm, Middle Division, Somersetshire, ENG ,   d. 20 Oct 1722, Greinton, Kingsbury, Somerset, ENG  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F4551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  He is the William Coate of Greinton who died on Jan. 21, 1747/8 as stated in Parker's Papers. (Collins BK.) and in Park's book on Marmaduke Coate. He is listed as William Peter Coate in Odessa Collins book the same way he is listed in the "Old Coats Genealogy." He is one of the persons in that genealogy that is verified in the first hand documents I've found. (C-1665, 1670) After his marriage to Deborah, he moved to her hometown of Greinton which was about ten miles from where he grew up in Hambridge. He was an active Quaker and was persecuted for not paying tythes in 1702, 1703, 1704, 1712 and 1717. This involved imprisonment in the years 1702, 1705 and 1713. (Besse's Sufferings) His children were all born in the Middle Division of Quaker Somerset Quarterly Meeting records. At least one of his children is believed to have moved to the American colonies, William. Most of his other children are mentioned in the following will in 1733 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England."58/1/ 6/1734 Probate of will (1733) of William Blackmore of Glastonbury, yeoman, devising two commons allotted in Common Moor, Glastonbury to kinsman Samuel Blackmore of Glastonbury, 2a at Edmunds Hill, Glastonbury to sister-in-law Hester Blackmore of Glastonbury for life then to Sarah Newman and 5a at West Backwere, messuage in High St., messuage in Butt Town and other estate to son-in-law John Clothier, his executor. Cash legacies to the children of his brother James decd., by his last wife and son William by a former wife, to his sister Susannah Cockram and her children, to his sister Jane White and her children, the four younger sons of his sister Ann Morse decd., the two daughters of his sister Elizabeth Hensle, the daughter of John Hensle the younger of Dulverton decd., to his sister Dorothy, Elizabeth daughter of John Witherill of Ilminster, Jane Walker and Ann Stowey of Glastonbury, servant Thomas Doble, Mary Hensle of Glastonbury, George Fulson, John Hucker and Henry Dyer of Glastonbury, John and Marmaduke sons of William Coate, silver spoons to Hannah, Rachel and Edith Coate, cash, furniture of parlour chamber and other furnishings to Joan Merriott of Glastonbury, cash, his bed and furnishings to maid Jane Scott and ? 20 to the Quakers for the poor of the county. Clothing to son-in-law John Clothier of Street. Proved 1734. (1 doc.)"http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/lists/ddlists/ddfs.txt

  
  

• Sources

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