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Notes for John COATES

John Coates, was a native of Gloucester or Lincolnshire, England, born in 1684, died Philadelphia, March 16, 1760. With his brothers, William, Thomas and George, he was sent for to England by their maternal uncle, Thomas Sisom, then of Philadelphia, later of Bristol, Bucks county, soon after the marriage of Sisom to Priscilla Smith in 1693. They were the sons of his sister, Jeane Coates, and were members of the Society of Friends. John settled in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, where a street was named for him, and married at Christ Church, June 16, 1711, Mary, daughter of Warwick and Dorothy Hale (who had settled in the "Lower Counties"), and became a member of the Episcopal church. He set apart a lot for the erection of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. His son Warwick, born November 3, 1715, died February 12, 1782; married (first) Mary ---, who died October 1, 1744, leaving an only child, Mary, above mentioned, who married Thomas Plumstead.
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