Note: Anything before Marmaduke Coate and Mary Skinner of England comes from the Old Coates Genealogy. This was a genealogy that was done by a hired researcher in the early 1900's. It takes lines back before any first-hand records are available to support any of it. It has no sources whatsover, not the sign of a professional genealogist. Although widely published (because it was the one used in the Coate Coppock Estate battle in the early 1900's) it in no way has the support of truth and is demonstrably at fault when any records can be found to check against it. Note: Source: Vol. 14 Tree 0604 of the FTM's World Family Tree. The submitter in turn refers to "Ancestors and Descendents of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina" by Ernest S. Park, a well written book.