"Ancestrees"

Enoch COATES ^{2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

He is the Enoch who married Rose Tidmarsh on 2/26/1723 in Philadelphia. He owned land in Southern Philadelphia on Tidmarsh St. Though a Quaker, he was disowned on May 28, 1731. (C-1006, 1679)

According to Cresson Osborn, he was the "black sheep" of the family. " He received a large inheritance and wasted it away. (Jordan, 1911) When he was 19 he was named prominantly in his father's will. By the time he was 39 he was almost entirely cut out of his mother's will. He died five years later at the age of 44. No family members were mentioned in his will. He married Rose Tidmarsh without permission of his Quaker Meeting on 2/26/23. This was reported in their minutes on 3/31/1723. Their son Thomas died on 10/21/1728, and their son William died on 7/2/1729. The only surviving child of whom there is any record is Beulah who married William Clark in 1745-6. She was remembered in the will of Rose's father, William Tidmarsh, but not in that of Enoch's mother, Beulah Jacques Coates. Enoch was disowned by the Quakers on 3/28/1731. Rose and Enoch must have retained some contact with the Meeting died because their deaths were recorded. Rose Tidmarsh Clark died (or was buried) on 10/27/1766 at the age of 69 (according to Hinshaw). Her will was recently described on the internet although it lacked a date. By the time the will was signed Beulah Coates Clark was a widow and had four children Joseph, Beulah, Elizabeth, and Sarah Clark. Rose was on good enough terms with Enoch's family to appoint as executors Enoch's brother in law John Reynell (who also had been one of Beulah Jacques Coates' executors) and his nephew, Isaac Paschall."

Enoch left a will in 1744 in Philadelphia, PA in book G, p. 140. The only child listed in his will is Bulah, because two of his other sons had died. [UL:Thomas Coates, Who Removed from England to the Province of PA, 1683:UL] by Henry T. Coates, 1897. His will is transcribed here by Charlotte Coats Siercks: Enoch Coates - PA Will Book G p. 146/#117, city and county of Philadelphia, he's a carpenter, daughter Bulah Coates friend Robert Adams jr, wife Rose, executor his wife, signed Aug 10, 1744, witnesses Samuel Hastings and Joseph Rakstraw, probated October 2, 1744.

There is widespread belief that Henry Coate of Wilkes Co., GA was a descendant of Thomas and Buelah Jacques Coate. He not being in Enoch's will could simply indicate that he had already been provided for by his father, although in that case, why wouldn't he have helped execute the will. It seems probable to me that Enoch would have to be the son (due to age) that had a son named Henry born in the 1720s. To help support this theory, Henry had a son named Lesley who married Druscella, who had a daughter named Henrietta who married a John Bankston. They named one of their children John Jaques Bankston. Family tradition in that line of descendants says they were related to this Thomas and Beulah Jacques Coates. (C-1783) ⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

• Will, 8/10/1744, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• Probate, 10/2/1744, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Enoch married Rose TIDMARSH, daughter of William TIDMARSH and Unknown, on 2/26/1723 in Philadelphia MM, Philadelphia, PA, USA.¹ (Rose TIDMARSH was born about 1697 ⁵ and died on 10/27/1766 in Philadelphia M.M., Philadelphia, PA ⁵.)