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At the time of the Revolutionary War, the farmhouse on the Meadow Brook Golf Club was occupied by the family of Moses Coates, Jr. He lived on this 350 acre farm with his wife the former Elizabeth Avery Evans and their eight children plus two children from his first marriage to Priscilla Hutchinson. It is assumed that Moses Jr. built the house soon after his father Moses partitioned the property in 1754. Coates Sr. was one of the first settlers in the Manavon Tract, now known as Phoenixville and Schuylkill Township. His name first appears in the tax rolls in 1729 in Charlestown Township of which this land was a part until 1826. The land was passed down through the Coates family until 1867 when Henry Dyer bought it. It was later sold to Hettie Hallowell and has passed on to other family members from 1896 until the present time.

Through the Revolution, Meadow Brook Farm was visited by both the British and American armies. When the British and Hessians passed through the area the Coates house was raided of potatoes, fowl, hay and all that could be put to use including a flock of geese.

During the encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Colonels Davis and Ballard and Generals Gates and Mifflin stayed at the Coates home. General Benedict Arnold was also a resident for a brief time before moving to Philadelphia as military commander for the city. To celebrate his appointment he held a feast in the cherry grove next to the farmhouse with all the important officers of the army. General George Washington chose to stay at Valley Forge where his men were suffering. Noted artist Charles Willson Peale came to the Coates house and painted a miniature portrait of Arnold.

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