Marmaduke Coate IV ²⁸²

  General Notes:

Marmaduke traveled from South Carolina, when he was nearly 70 years old, with his wife of 42 years and most family members to Newton Township in 1804. He owned land in Berkley County, VA (now W. VA).

From Miami County Ohio Soldiers who Fought in America's War of Independence
1776:

Marmaduke Coate 1738-1822
He was born in South Carolina. He married Mary Coppock, who he ransomed from the Indians following the capture of Mary and her siblings there. He and his wife Mary came to Ohio in 1805 and settled in Newton Township of Miami County.
Marmaduke and wife were Quakers. As such his religion prevented him from fighting in the war, but he furnished supplies to the American Revolutionary Army for that war.
Marmaduke died in 1822 and is buried in the Union-Joint Cemetery located in southern Newton Township.

Source: SC Memorials: Abstract of land titles Vol. 1774-1776 by Motes, Southern Historical Press - p. 207:
Samuel Teague, 6 Jan. 1775: 100 acres in 96 District on waters of Bush Creek. Bounded N & NW on vacant land and land laid out for Herman Huffman & one Davies; W & SW on Joshua Teague & Elijah Teague; SE on Marmaduke Coats & Clement Davis. Survey certified 10 Mar. 1773; granted 26 July 1774. Quit rent in 2
years. Joseph Wright, D.S. Delivered 1 May 1775 to John Armstrong. (13-223:4)


NEWTON TOWNSHIP, From the 1880 History of Miami County Ohio:

Marmaduke Coate, the second white settler in the township, was born in the year 1738, in South Carolina, from which place he emigrated in his sixty-eighth year. He was the father of seven sons and two daughters, each of whom reared a large family of children. Moses, Marmaduke's second child, and Samuel, the fourth, came to the Miami Valley on a prospecting tour in 1804. Being well pleased with the appearance of things in this locality, they determined to take permanent homes here, and, consequently, were joined by the remaining members of their families in the fall of 1805. They immediately established themselves upon the southeast quarter of Section 32, in this township. They made themselves as comfortable as circumstances would permit in their new quarters, and proceed at once to remove the forest prepatory to planting in the spring, knowing well, that unless they sowed they would not reap. They plied their axes vigorously, the effects of which soon made themselves apparent in more ways than one. Not only was a spot of ground laid open to the genial influence of the sun, but, one particularly clear morning, when the sounds created by their vigorous strokes sent the echoes rebounding merrily through the surrounding forest, the woodmen were surprised by the appearance upon the scene of Michael Williams, who had been roused from "the even tenor of his way " by the sounds which bespoke the onward move of civilization. Having previously considered himself the only settler in the vicinity, he proceeded at once to investigate matters, and, in company with one of his sons, pushed his boat up the Stillwater to the place from where the sounds proceeded, and was not a little surprised at the sight which greeted his eyes. The emotions of gladness which thrilled him at the prospect of establishing friendly relations with one of his own kind can better be imagined than described. His desire being fully reciprocated by Mr. Coate, for, in those primeval days, a neighbor was an article not to be lightly estimated, they at once became. fast friends, and, probably, the first highway in the township was the simple footpath that spanned the distance between their dwellings, and which was indicated by the blazed trees that marked its course. Mr. Coate died in the year 1822, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, having been a resident of this township some eighteen years. He lived to see much of the land occupied by the enterprising white settlers who immigrated here between the war of 1812 and his death, and to see his sons, the most prominent men in the vicinity, happily situated on, homes of their own, free from any encumbrance, save the trees, the spontaneous, products of the soil.

The wife of Mr. Coate died some time previous to the death of her husband. The life of the lady, could it be written, would make a large and interesting book. She had been captured by the Indians at the age of seven, and, after enduring hardships that but few of her sex could have outlived, finally escaped from her captors after having been in their custody for five long, wearisome years, during which time she became conversant with their customs and language, which accomplishments, if so we may term them, proved very beneficial to the whites during the time of hostilities.

From MEMOIRS OF THE MIAMI VALLEY Published in 1920

Newton Township, page 514 - Moses and Samuel Coate came from South Carolina on a prospecting tour and were subsequently joined by their father, Marmaduke Coate, and the rest of the family. Marmaduke Coate entered land in Section 32 in 1804.

From Miami County Ohio Soldiers who Fought in America's War of Independence 1776:

Marmaduke Coate 1738-1822

He was born in South Carolina. He married Mary Coppock, who he ransomed from the Indians following the capture of Mary and her siblings there. He and his wife Mary came to Ohio in 1805 and settled in Newton Township of Miami County.
Marmaduke and wife were Quakers. As such his religion prevented him from fighting in the war, but he furnished supplies to the American Revolutionary Army for that war.

Marmaduke died in 1822 and is buried in the Union-Joint Cemetery located in southern Newton Township.

Marmaduke married Mary Jane Coppock in 1762.²⁸¹ (Mary Jane Coppock was born in 1743, died in 1809 and was buried in Union-Joint Cemetery, Newton Twnshp, Miami Co., OH.)

Marmaduke next married Esther Wilson.