Suckey Coates (b. circa 1813 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-50841
War of 1812 Refugee, Calvert County, Maryland
Biography:
Suckey Coates was an enslaved child who was owned by Elizabeth
Ballard of Calvert County, Maryland. Suckey was born to a free man by
the name of Jesse Coates alias Jesse Roberts and an enslaved woman
Betty Coates who was also owned by Elizabeth Ballard. In 1814, at the
age of one Suckey's mother Betty carried her off to British barges
lying in the Patuxent River. Suckey's grandparents Charles and Sarah
Stewart, an uncle Adam Green, and her aunts Eliza, Juliet, Jane,
and Rebecca also escaped from Mrs. Ballard who was up in age. Suckey's
father did not leave with them when they escaped to the British.
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