WILLSON, Esther ^{3 4 5 6 7 8}

  General Notes:

Her death date is usually listed as 5/6/1736. The information on her death date probably came from the book "The Willson Family, 1672-1959" by Richard Eugene Willson according to Ron Peterson. (C-2110) However, it has not been able to be verified and could just as easily apply to her mother, Esther instead. The reason why it should still be in question, is that her son, Marmaduke was most likely born in 1738 as he would still have been under the age of 21 when he was listed with his father on their move from NJ to NC in 1757.
In truth, we do not know if Esther was the wife of this Henry Coate. Members of the Newbold family believe that Michael Newbold, b. 1706 in Burlington Co., NJ was married secondly to Henry Coates' wife, Esther Wilson, after the Henry Coate she was married to in the Hunterdon Co., New Jersey area died sometime around 1755. Because no marriage record for Michael Newbold and Esther has been found even though Michael often witnessed marriages in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, I think it's possible that this Esther and Michael were never actually married. He was the richest man in the county. Henry moved to North Carolina with his sons in 1757 around the time that Michael and Esther were believed to be man and wife. It's a possible theory.

Esther married Henry COATE, son of Samuel COATE and Mary SAUNDERS, 04d 3mo 1731 in Chesterfield M.M., Burlington, NJ.^{1 2} (Henry COATE was born in 1700 of Kingwood M.M., Hunterdon, NJ, USA ⁴ and died about May 1784 in , 96 District (Now Abbeville), SC, USA.)

  Marriage Notes:

or Mar 6, 1730/31. (An exact transposition of dates if written in number order).