Sarah Coates Levy

Sarah Coates was born in Philadelphia in 1776, the daughter of William Coates and Margaret Norris. At age twenty-three she married Samson Levy, Jr., the Episcopalian grandson of famed New York Merchant Moses Raphael Levy. The couple participated in the highest reaches of Philadelphia society, and her husband, a lawyer, was known for his ardent and affecting eloquence before a jury. They had two children—Sophia and Margaret.

Sarah Coates Levy

1808