Falk Relations: Coates Family

compiled by Steve Wilson, last updated May 21, 2016.
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Descendants

Outline

Robert Coates♦ (b. c. 1626, England, d. 28 Feb. 1707, Lynn MA), m. c. 1658 to Jane Sumner (b. c. 1638, Rowley MA, d. 1719, Lynn MA)

Robert Coates (b. c. 1659, Lynn MA, d. 2 May 1724, Stonington CT), m. 29 Dec. 1682 to Mary Hodgkins (b. 6 Apr. 1661)
John Coates (b. c. 1661, Lynn MA)
Abigail Coates (b. 10 Apr. 1663, Lynn MA, d. 21 July 1743, Lynn MA), m. 16 Jan. 1682 at Lynn MA to Samuel Rhodes (b. 2 Feb. 1643, Lynn MA, d. 1718, Lynn MA)
Thomas Coates (b. c. 1665, Lynn MA), m. 29 Dec. 1685 at Lynn MA to Martha Gay
Eleazar Coates (b. c. 1667, Lynn MA, d. 7 Sep. 1676)

Our Descent

Robert Coates (c1626-1707), m. c1658 to Jane Sumner (c1638-1719)

Abigail Coates (1663-1743), m. 1684 to Samuel Rhodes (1643-1718)

Obadiah Rhodes (1693-1781), m. 1717 to Abigail Stanborough (c1700-1789)

Abigail Rhodes (1719--), m. 1737 to Joseph Button (1702-1750)

Mary Button (1750-1826), m. by 1782 to Abraham Jackson (1751-1833)

Jerusha Steele Jackson (1790-1863), m. 1812 to Benjamin Felch (1790-1864)

Mary Jane Felch (1820-1898), m. 1837 to Horatio Higgins (1812-1890)

Harvey Alva Higgins (1864-1928), m. 1889 to Lillian Belle Agee (1868-1947)

Elsie Laura Higgins (1895-1959), m. 1915 to George Washington Falk (1895-1969)

Documentation ♦

Robert Coates (c1626-1707): m. Jane Sumner (c1638-1719)

Broderick, Carlfred B., "The Coates Family of Essex County, Mass., 1645-1845", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 111, 1957. Also reprinted in Genealogies of Connecticut Families, 1983, p. 464-466. "Robert Coates of Lynn was born about 1626 (he was 36 or 37 years of age in 1663). He married, about 1658, Jane Sumner, born about 1638, the daughter of George Sumner of Rowley. The following entry appears in the Essex County Court files: 'The humble petition of Robert Coates, Sr. of Lynn and Jane, his wife and daughter of George Sumner who died by Small Pox some forty years since in Rowley, for administration of the Estate of Thomas Sumner, her brother who married and died without issue, his wife is also dead, she having married twice [m. second, Thomas Elithorp] and said Jane is only heir living, she being about ten years old when her father died. To the court to be held first Tuesday November 1691.'"
Lewis, Alonzo, & James R. Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1865. On p. 240-241, "1657. Having purchased Nahant of the Indian Sagamore, for a suit of clothes, Thomas Dexter was not disposed to sit down in unconcern, when the town made known their intention of dividing it into lots for the benefit of all the people. At a town meeting, held 24 February, 1657, the following order was taken ... On the passing of this order, Mr. Dexter commenced a suit against the town for occupying it. The people held a town meeting, in which they appointed Thomas Laighton, George Keysar, Robert Coats, and Joseph Armitage, a committee to defend their right."