Gates
and Related Families Bibliography
Compiled
with Annotations
by
William
A. Gates
[Last
Significant Revision: 18 January 2009]
Alphabetical
by surname, arranged by date within. Microfilms and WWW/online
sources listed separately. Cross-reference within and among sources
exists to some degree.
Bacon
[1907WisVital]
Index of Wisconsin Vital records. Births and Marriages prior to
1907 for Bacon surname.
Betts
[1875Stone][1890Stone]
? See Gates entry.
[1907Grose]
See Gates entry.
“In
the Ballston Centennial Book on Page # 81, In 1784 [not
quite right],
Thaddeus Betts was a member of the Christ Church of Ballston, New
York. Refer to F H L film # 1035633 - Item # 9 - "Betts Family
History, 1634 -1958" by Warren C. B. Robbins. Refer to Page #
84.” from
notes by Elmer A. Gates.
The source says the “as early
as the Revolution a small society of churchmen existed in the
Balls-Town settlement ... no defined ... pastor. ... in 1787 ...the
parish of Christ Church was orgnized.” Seven listed and 42 others
indicated. Sunday services were not held until 1792 in church
edifice begun in 1791. Thaddeus Betts was among those chosen as
wardens as was Joseph Bettys. Ammi Rogers was the first settled
pastor from 1792 until 1801- he returned to Branford CT.
Not indexed.
[1945Andrews]
William A. Andrews. Christ
Church, Ballston Spa NY, The Story of a Parish.
I make these notes in an effort
to record information about how Abigail Betts came to be married to
Noah Gates and how Ridgefield CT and Ballston NY are connected. A
Thaddeus Betts is believed to be her father.
This source adds some
information about Thaddeus Betts (p17,86) as vestryman at Christ
Church from 1793. It provides very interesting details of Mohawk
trails and transportation systems.
Sadly it also documents that
Pastor Ammi Rogers communicant records are lost except in summary:
1123 Baptisms, 66 marriages and 50 Buried (p104). It also includes a
note about financial support for this local church by the Trinity
Church of New York.
Rev. Eliphalet Ball came to
settle his land in 1770 (p6) – a Presbyterian minister from
Bedford, Weschester County, NY (p9).
[LC BX5980B18C5]
[1959Robbins] Warren C. B. Robbins. Betts Family
History 1634-1958. Hampton Publishing Co., Inc., Concord, New
Hampshire.
This source includes information
about Betts in Saratoga County NY and a Thaddeus Betts from
the 1790 Census (with 5 females in the household - p73).
It also makes reference to
Stones History of Saratoga County of (p42 and p402): Giles Fitch
married the daughter of Thaddeus Betts of Ballston [more details];
“Thaddeus Betts was among those that came from New England to
Ballston, very soon after, Rev. Eliphalet Ball had settled there.”
[LC – CS71B57 1959] Not
indexed.
[1982Chamberlain]
Marjorie D. Chamberlain. The ancestors and descendants of Annie
Rebecca Betts, 1850-1916, Wilton, Connecticut. Mountlake Terrace,
WA : The Kings Press, 1982. Wisconsin Historical Society Library
Pamphlet Collection Catalog: UW Madison: 83- 4969.
A resource usful in sorting out some Betts.
Comstock
[1912Olmsted] Henry King Olmsted, M.D. (revised,
completed Rev. Geo. Ward, A.M.) Genealogy Of The Olmsted Family
In America, Embracing The Descendants Of James Nnd Richard Olmsted
And Covering A Period Of Nearly Three Centuries 1632-1912.
Published New York, A. T. De La Mare, 1912.
See Gates entry.
See also - source p193,196.
Nathan first married Sarah Keeler. James Olmsted was a son of Nathan
Olmsted to (m2) Mercy Comstock, daughter of Christopher Comstock.
This James became deacon and his daughter Ruth married Samuel Gates.
The James Olmsted house was the first on built on Olmsted Hill Road
(Collinswood).
[1907Comstock]
Cyrus Ballou Comstock. A Comstock Genealogy:
Descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn., who Died After
1662: Ten Generations. Published by The Knickerbocker Press, 1907
Christopher Comstock gave an
affidavit about “good wife Knapp”. She was accused of being a
witch and was later executed. Did he give positive or negative
information? His daughter Mercy married (m2) Nathan Olmsted.
Nathan's father is thought to be William of New London.
[WSHS- LC - CS71.C74 1907]
from page 4 -
These
are the reasons for supposing that John Comstock of Weymouth Mass and
Lyme Ct Samuel Comstock of Providence, RI Daniel Comstock of
Providence RI, and New London Ct and Christopher Comstock of
Fairfield Ct and Norwalk Ct were sons of William[1] Comstock of New
London.
We
have then for his children:
2
John m Abigail Died 1680 Lyme Ct FAMILY a
3
Samuel m Ann Died about 1660 Providence RI FAMILY 3
4
Daniel m Paltiah Elderkin and d 1683 at New London Ct FAMILY 4
5
Christopher 2 m Hannah Platt and d 28 Dec 1702 FAMILY 5
6
Elizabeth 2 m Edward Shipton of Savbrook Jan 1651 and d July 1659
Gates
[1812WarPayrollNY] New York (State).
Adjutant General's Office. War of 1812 abstracts of payrolls for
New York State militia, 1812-1814. New York State Archives,
Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY.
“Payroll
data on militia men who were mustered into Federal service during the
war is available in Abstracts of Payrolls for New York State Militia
(B0810). Veterans' claims for reimbursement for clothing, arms, and
equipment furnished at their own expense are found in two series
(A0020,A3352); the claims are indexed in Index of Awards on Claims of
the Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Albany: 1860; repr. 1969). Local
system #: (N-Ar)B0810. Host item entry: (CstRLIN)NYSV86-a349.”
This source should be sufficient to determine NY War of 1812 service.
It has not been examined.
[1825RevWarBounty] New
York State. The Balloting Book and Other Documents Relating to
Military Bounty Lands, In The State Of New York. Published at
Albany - Printed By Packard & Van Benthuysen.
The
ballot books provides the names of the original assignee and who
actually got the parcel but not necessarily who first occupied it.
As a record it can certainly be used to judge who was in New York by
1776 and why certain others came to the region.
[1848Hall] Edwin Hall. (Pastor of the
Congregational Church) The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk,
Connecticut, with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement and of the Town in
1847. Published: Mallory & Co. New York: Baker &
Scribner, 1848.
This
source has one reference to Samuel Gates during the Revolutionary War
period (p134) but the reading provides context to the events and
people. His service on a committee “for providing for families of
soldiers in the army,” associates him with a James Olmsted and
others of interest. Records of Ridgefield [1927Rockwell] also record
a Samuel Gates with similar committee responsibilities. Which one is
which or are they one and the same. My guess is that this is the
Samuel of Samuel and Ruth (Olmsted) Gates. James Olmsted is the name
of his father-in-law. The Samuel in Ridgefield is most likely the
father of Samuel of Norwalk. There is no reason to be concerned
about the distinction.
Some
of the accounts provided in this source are first hand recollections
of the Revolutionary War period.
Starting
on page 181 art the Genealogical Registers described as taken almost
entirely from the Town Records, but some Bibles and other sources
have been used.
[p198]
Isaac Hayes marries Eliazbeth Sherwood (1701 July 10th )
...dau. Eunice and five siblings, including a son Issac. Also noted
that Isaac Hayes,sen., departed life Jan. 5, 1711-12 (the father).
[p202-203]
“...
James Hayes took to wife Mary Allen, the daughter of Mr. Thomas
Allen, desceased, late of Burlington, yee province of New Jersey,
Apr. 1, 1703.
Eunice
Hayes yee daugther of said James Hayes, born Jan 21, 1704-05.
Mary, born
June 1, 1706.
Nathaniell, born
Mar. 20, 1708.
James, born
June 25, 1710.
Rachell, born
Mar. 7, 1711. [Marries Samuel
Gates]
Elizabeth, born
Feb. 15 1712.
Thomas, born
Jan. 31 1714.
Samuell, born
Oct. 29, 1716.
Allen born
Aug. 5, 1718. [Daughter]”
[p205]
William Truesdell (b. 1722 July 21st ), son of Wm. And
Martha. He has five additional siblings, one sister, the last
brother born in 1744. This William is almost certainly the son of
Mary (Richards) (Fairbanks) (Truesdell) Gates.
[p207-208]
John Betts, son of John Betts, took to wife Damaris Lockwood ...
1722 April 17th . Four children the eldest is Thaddeus
Betts born 1724 May 3rd . A little too early but a
reasonable candidate as the father or grandfather of Abigail (Betts)
Gates (b. 1786).
[p226]
Thaddeus Betts married Mary Gould 1752 November 8th and
died November 20th . He is said to then marry Elizabeth
Maltby 1754 May 15th . There are three children ... none
by the name Abigail. By footnote he evidently has a third wife of
whom he is also her third husband.
[p283]
The Thaddeus Betts,jr. that married Deborah Mead is identifed
with eight children with no Abigail included (births from 1765 to
1784).
[p304]
“...
John St. John (son of the above Mathias), married Eunice Hayes.
John,
born April 2, 1735.
Abigail,
Timothy,
Rachel,
Eunice,
Sarah,
Hannah,
John
St. John (son of the above John), married Martha Northrup, ...”
[Appendix
C. Benedict Genealogy - p312] From 1768? “... On Sunday
morning, April 27th, 1777, the British under
Governor Tryon, burned Danbury – excepting the houses and the
property of the Tories. Nineteen dwelling-houses, besides other
buildings, were consumed with all their contnents. Among the
nineteen principal suffers were Thaddeus Benedict, Mathew Benedict,
junr., Jonah Benedict, and Zadock Benedict.”
See
Google Books.
[1847Hall ] Edwin Hall.
The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn. : with a plan of
the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847. Norwalk, J.
Mallory & Co. ; New York, Baker & Scribner, 1847.
A
very useful resource contains early birth, death, marriage records
along with town record. Some interesting entries regarding
Truesdell, Richards, Betts, Hayes and Allen. Dr. Thaddeus Betts
family and descendants are documented.
William
Truesdell seems to have somewhat shadowed his mother as she married
Saumuel Gates.
[1851Bouton] Nathaniel Bouton. An
historical discourse in commemoration of the two-hundredth
anniversary of the settlement of Norwalk, Ct., in 1651. S.W.
Benedict, New York 1851.
This source establishes some
more facts about a Thaddeus Betts, perhaps more than one. He
was evidently buying cannon for the town of Norwalk in 1766.
[1860War1812ClaimsNY] New York.
Adjutant-General’s Office. Index of awards of claims of the
soldiers of the War of 1812. Reprint of the 1860 ed. with
introd. by Francis J. Higgins and 3 p. errata added. Publisher
Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969.
Not
examined.
[See
WSHS: E359.5 N6 N48 ]
[1861NEHGRv15]
p25. Daniel Cushing's Record.
Records
immigrant from Norfolk to Hingham.
[1862NEHGR]
p143. Grantees of Narragansett Townships.
Jonathan
Gates for his father Simon.
[1865GatesEmmeline]
Civil Ward Widow's Pension.
Noah
Gates, son of Jared and husband of Emmeline Higgins. 1865 August 7th
App. 104835. Cert. 68459. Noah served 111th G NY
Infantry.
[1877NEHGR]
Benjamin A. G. Fuller, p401. The Gates Family.
English
origins.
[1878Teller]
Daniel Webster Teller. The History of Ridgefield, Conn: From Its
First Settlement to the Present Time. Published by T. Donovan,
1878 – 251pp.
Samuel
Gates references as in Rockwell. Very good colonial history.
[1879Williams]
W. W. Williams. History of the Fire Lands, comprising Huron
and Erie Counties, Ohio with illustrations and biographical sketches
of some of the prominent men and pioneers. Cleveland, Ohio: Press
of Leader Print. Co., 1879.
Not
examined but has information about Hannah (Gates) Haise per Elmer
Gates.
[1886DedhamV1_2]
Don Gleason Hill, Town Clerk. The Record of Births, Marriages, and
Deaths, and Intentions of Marriages in the Town of Dedham, Vol 1 &2,
1635-1845.
Copies
of a few pages – Mary Richards, Benjanim Fairbank, Richard Trusdell
– as related to Gates. See similar entry 1997.
[1888VanHoosear] David Van
Hoosear. The Fillow, Philo and Philleo Genealogy: A Record
of the Descendants of John Fillow, a Huguenot Refugee from France.
Published by J. Munsell's Sons. (274 pages)
This
author and source contains a few Gates entries of interest. Luther
Gates, son of Colman Gates, marries Jane Philo and in a footnote
returns to see relatives in Wilton after their marriage (see pages
90, 166, on file). From this source - Coleman bap. 1773 January 20th
in Wilton CT Parish records.
Many
of his original notes can be seen at the Wilton Historical Society
[See
WSHS: CS71 F322 1888]
[1890Stone]
William Leete Stone. Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston.
Published Worthington Co. , New York.
Perhaps the oldest source of Fitch, St. John migration
(1786) from Connecticut to Greenfield via Ballston, New York (p82).
Giles Fitch one of the party is married to Eunice Betts. They stop
at her fathers place in Ballston on the way to settling in Greenfield
Corners?!
Thaddeus Betts – early settler from New England –
good list of others (p.402).
Keyword:
glh17863722, 448pages, also in GoogleBooks.
Are there two versions or my
error ... the GoogleBooks version was published in 1875.
[1893Yawger]
Rose N. Yawger. The Indian and the pioneer: An Historical Study.
Publisher: C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse NY, 1893. Two Volumes.
The
first Volume is of special interest to those curious about the
Iroquois Nation including the Cayugas of Western New York and beyond.
The second volume tells much about the Colonial period and
post-Revolutionary times. It also contains some "German"
genealogical background of the author. The author is writing from
the perspective of being from Aurelius/Auburn.
[1894Chute] Wm. E. Chute. A
genealogy and history of the Chute family in America, with some
account of the family in Great Britain and Ireland; with an account
of forty allied families, gathered from the most authenic sources...
1894.
Includes
Gates family – have some pages. WSHS – [LC CS71.C564
1894 ].
[1897Fairbanks]
Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in
America, 1633-1897. Printed American printing and engraving
company.
See
Fairbanks surname. The primary interest here is the marriage of
widow Mary (Richards) (Fairbanks) Truesdell to Samuel Gates – p44.
The Truesdell marriage is not reported. If I have counted correctly
Mary has thirteen children by her three husbands. She dies 1732 in
Ridgefield (CT Ridgefield vital records).
Her
son Benjamin, survived, married, and remained in Dedham. This author
does not trace her daughter, Mary (b. September 12th,
1693). Her father dies the next year 1694. Daughter Mary would be
17 to 18 years old when her mother marries Samuel Gates (in
Mashamughet CT – aka Pomfret?).
She
and her first husband Benjamin Fairbanks inherited part of and lived
in his father's house for some period of time (1694+?), in Dedham,
MS, celebrated today as the oldest standing timber frame house
standing in North America.
[1898Gates] Charles Otis
Gates. Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster Massachusetts and
his Descendants. A Preliminary Work Subject to Addition and
Correction. Willis McDonald & Co., Publishers.
On
page 14, under the children of Simon Gates, Third Generation:
“34.
Samuel. b. August 11, 1685 ... Said to have settled somewhere in
Connecticut, but further record has not come to hand.”
Gates
identifies 2252 individuals.
[1899SaratogaNY]
The Saratogan. Our County and Its People: A Descriptive and
Biographical Record of Saratoga County. Published New York, 1899.
This
source can be used to understand the settlement and origins of the
towns of the Saratoga County, New York. It also contains several
indexes.
Although
perhaps ephemeral many parts of book are available online:
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/index.htm
.
[1900AmGen] Index to
American Genealogies ... Albany NY. Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers
1900.
Copies
of some pages. Supplement - 1908 version in GoogleBooks. Goog
source to explore family surnames. Gates has roughly 40 entries.
[1902StNY] State
Historian, New York. Military minutes of the Council of
Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821. Printer, State
of New York, 1901-02, 3042 pgs.
The index of New York Miltia
members contains over 40 entries for Gates. Other surnames such as
Dunning (John and Richard), Betts are even in the same context as
Noah Gates (566, 712, 869) and Coleman Gates (712, 869, 972, 1340,
1532, 1565, 1656, 2084, 2085, 2215) for Saratoga County. The
identification of both Noah and Coleman Gates in this context gives
credence to the Gates family having left or being in the process of
leaving Connecticut for New York. The 1801 August 20 entry includes
the promotion of Noah Gates to lieutenant (p566). Noah resigns his
captaincy in 1806 (p869) and is succeeded by his brother Coleman.
See GoogleBooks.
[1903Cook]
Aurilla J Cook. Letter to Mrs Watkins. [via Robert Gates,
Elmer Gates, Al Covell see included text ... Letter dated April 2,
1903 to Hannah M. (Gates) Watkins from Aurilla Jane (Gates) Cook.
Copied from the original by Florence (Burkema) Gates, wife of Fay
Roderick Gates.]
In
February 1999 Elmer A. Gates emailed to myself (William A. Gates) the
adjacent partial transcript of a letter from Aurilla J. Cook to Mrs.
Watkins. The complete letter or a transcript is evidently held by
Bob Gates.
As
I read the transcript I realized that it was an extremely important
document that linked many Gates to one another as much by geography
as by blood. Nonetheless some aspects of the letter are confusing.
The confusion may just be a artifact of Aurilla J. Cook's actual
knowledge or imperfect recollection. This short narrative attempts
to place details from the letter in the context of other information
and identify questions for the next generation to pursue.
April
2, 1903
Dear Mrs. Watkins:
I was surprised to get your very welcome letter to you which I received last evening. You being a cousin that I don’t know as I . . . . . quite interested in writing to you. I had seen your sister Rachel in Burr Oak, Mich. I used to see her in the Red Ribbon Lodge and sometimes met her on . . . . . .but did not know her to be a cousin nor did she me, but by some way I found out who she was. (The Hiram Gates daughter who lived near Centerville, Mich., and my father died at 78 years. His name was Elijah, son of Samuel Gates, Jr.. His father, Samuel Gates, Sr., was son of Noah Gates, Sr. My own grandfather, Samuel Gates, Jr. is said to have had two brothers, Noah, Sr. and Coleman and one sister Rachel Smith, and they lived 2 miles from Ballston Springs where Noah, Sr. died out of the Revolution war and left a wife and 8 children.
Noah Junior who lived in Canada, Ashbal, William, and Hiram, your father, who lived in Michigan. Their sisters were Hannah Hayes, who lived at Florence, Erie Co. Dolly Ennis and Angeline Patton, who lived in Birmingham, Erie Co. Uncle Colman Gates lived in Ballstown, N.Y. 8 children Harvey, Daniel, William, Delia who lived in (Lonalage), Aurilla Armington lived at Broadalbin, but moved to Tolymoa [Tonawanda?], N.Y. He was a blacksmith. Jane married Isiah Blood, tool manufacturer. One Olive, yet single at this time. Jane Blood had one girl, married Knickerbocker in New York City. I don’t know whether she is living or not. My grandfathers were both in the Revolution. I am not able to write much at a time.
The Hiram Gates daughter who lived near Centerville, Mich., and my father bought his farm and afterward bought a farm in Branch County near Coldwater and there he died, an honest man, a good father. He had a good boy Elmer by a second wife, a long lived good woman. The last I heard she was still living at 84 years. Father died at 78. I was there, the only first mother’s child who saw his last, and I knew him to be at heart a Christian and he and the first mother joined the Baptists and they were baptised under the ice in the Vermillion River. I will be glad to hear from you soon as convenient. Direct as before.
Yours truly,
Aurilla J. Cook
[1907Grose]
Edward Fabrique Grose. Centennial history of
the village of Ballston Spa :including the towns of Ballston and
Milton / by Edward F. Grose ; including an unpublished history by
John C. Booth.
An
interesting account espcially of place names and Reverand Ball and
thus Ballston. By the early 1800s the Ballston area was quite
settled with major hotels and visitors such as Washington and
LaFayette. For example Burnt Hills supposedly was an area frequently
burned over and thus more of a pasture used by deer ... and thus the
name of the current community ... we stayed here in summer 2008.
“In
the Ballston Centennial Book on Page # 81, In 1784, Thaddeus Betts
was a member of the Christ Church of Ballston, New York. Refer to F H
L film # 1035633 - Item # 9 - "Betts Family History, 1634 -1958"
by Warren C. B. Robbins. Refer to Page # 84.” from notes by Elmer
A. Gates. As in Abigail (Betts) (Gates) Rood - Notes By Elmer A.
Gates and Comments and Extensions by Wm. A. Gates.
Available
at WSHS [F129.B2 G8] also FHL
1035633 Item 9.
[1911Barbour]
Lucius Barnes Barbour. State Examiner of Public Records from
1911-1934. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records.
The
Connecticut State Library provides an excellent summary of how this
collection was produced at http://www.cslib.org/barbour.htm
. Suffice it to say that one should use this source, organized by
place, and validate against other sources when possible. The
organization of the records by place also illuminates when and where
to expect to find church records and land records up to 1850. (1911
has been used arbitrarily as the publication date. Any date up to
1939 might suffice ... has been republished.)
To provide focus a discussion of
the records as related to Gates and a few other surnames have been
included here. I think it is safe to conclude that Torrey
[1966Torrey] used this source.
Pomfret:
Ridgefield:
Earliest
Entry:
Mary wife of Samuel died 1732 March 26th
(LR1 p214). This Mary is almost certainly Mary (Richards)
(Fairbanks) (Truesdell) and the date establishes that Samuel and Mary
were established in Ridgefield sometime before this date. Torrey
records that Martha was their last child and born in Pomfret in 1722.
Most of the other entries are descendants of Samuel and Mary.
Samuel
evidently remarries although the marriage is not in this record. The
surname of the new wife, Sarah remains unknown (LR1 p218-9). Other
Connecticut Town records should be examined to find a marriage since
first, by tradition it most certainly took place and secondly, if it
had taken place in Ridgefield it would have been recorded. Samuel
and Sarah begin a family with a daughter Sarah born 1733 September
10th
(LR
p218-9). Assuming Julian dates they would have been married ~1733
January. This
Samuel (still in Ridgefield?) probably dies sometime after 1741 (~age
66, last recorded child with Sarah) so perhaps a will and/or other
land related transactions can provide further information.
Samuel,
the son, marries Rachel 1734 April 1st
(LR1
p222). Rachel's surname is not provided but has been attributed as
Hayes. Barbour, I believe, incorrectly records that this Samuel
(Ridgefield) died in 1793 at ae 84 years. From
LDSFHL5009FairfieldCTDeedsV19] Samuel Gates son of Samuel and Ruth
died 1793 July 25th
- identical to the Barbour Norwalk entry.
Norwalk:
[1912Olmsted]
Henry King Olmsted, M.D. (revised, completed Rev. Geo. Ward, A.M.)
Genealogy Of The Olmsted Family In America, Embracing The
Descendants Of James Nnd Richard Olmsted And Covering A Period Of
Nearly Three Centuries 1632-1912. Published New York, A. T. De
La Mare, 1912.
This
source has a wealth of information both of Olmsteds and other
families such as Betts, St. John, Gregory and Gates It frequently
substantiates facts with references to wills and land records which
are probably quite accessible but in many instances points are stated
without source.
On
p196, in following Descendants of Capt. Richard Olmsted - Ruth
Olmsted is identifed as 4057, Ruth; b. July 2, 1738; m. Nov. 24,
1758, Samuel Gates. She is the
daughter of (Deacon) JAMES OLMSTED, Olmsted Hill, Connecticut.
Olmsted Hill is a landmark (or was) in/near Wilton (referenced in
just such a way in Samuel 3986, etc.)
Ruth's
father (James) bought land in Ballston, Saratoga, NY in 1774 from
Adrian Rutger.
Deacon James died 1777 March 17th
and is buried in the Kent burial ground with a stone placed by his
great grandson, Hawley Olmsted (paraphraized p196). It also says
that James moved to Wilton in 1732, so the question remains (in my
mind) what this means. From [2004Russell] we find that Kent is also
known as South Wilton (or was). Russell's map on page 30 shows Kent
Road and Olmsted Hill Road with the #48 being the house of James
Olmsted. Did Ruth grow up in Wilton?
Ruth's
brother Noah (4060) the second, the first son Noah died as an infant,
is described as moving to Ballston, Saratoga, New York where he
kept a PublicHouse (p203).
Among many inertesting facts his sons Noah ( 4286) and Lewis (4287)
both go to Cayuga, County New York. It's
reported that Noah (the son) has settled there (in Auburn) by 1795.
His military service and donations of land for the North Street
Cemetery and in founding the Congregational Church at Auburn are
evidence of a large footprint. Lewis is named as going to Aurelius.
Their first cousin, Noah Gates, has gone to Ballston by ~1800 and is
in Aurelius(?) for the 1810 Census.
Perhaps of further interest
is that Noah married Joanna Morgan. This surname may be of note
since John Reed married a Charlotte Morgan. It is a generation later
but, their daughter, Phebe Reed marries Ashbel Gates.
This resource provides good
evidence and motivation for the Gates emmigration to NY.
Also Note: Available online via
GoogleBooks.
[1913Monroe] Joel H. Monroe.
Historical Records of One Hundred and Twenty Years: Auburn, New
York. Publisher: W. F.
Humphrey, Geneva, NY.
Noah
Olmsted is identified as an important early settler. He is nephew to
Ruth (Olmsted) Gates.
[1916Peeke] Hewson L.
Peeke. A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio. An Authentic
Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in
Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development. A Chronicle of
People, with Family Lineage and Memoirs. Volumes I and II. The
Lewis Publishing Company.
Beginning
on page 867, under the biographical entry of George I. Haise we find
the story of John Haise and Hannah Gates meeting and marrying in
Cayuhoga County, New York and traveling via the Erie Canal and Lake
Erie to Sandusky and then to Florence Township, Ohio. John Haise and
Hannah came to Erie County (then Huron) in 1828. Among the details
John Haise died in 1861 at the age of 80. Hannah (Gates) Haise
passed away in June, 1874 at the age of 84. [There are several
tombstones, one mausoleum and one family
plot, in the Birmingham Cemetery, Florence, Erie, Ohio associated
with Haise family including Hannah, 2007WmAGates.]
Given
the time, a reading would produce a very complete picture of the
origins of peoples in Florence Township. Only the primary
biographies are indexed.
I
first examined this source in October, 2007 at the Wisconsin State
Historical Society library.
[1927Rockwell]
George L. Rockwell. The History of Ridgefield Connecticut.
1927 edition, printed privately by thea author. Reprint published by
Harbor Hills Books for Keeler Tavern Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
A
Samuel Gates (and only) is indexed as on pp 95, 251 and 252. A
Samuel also appears on p97. An appendix of the Vital Statistics,
Ridgefield, Connecticut is also included and includes many important
connections but is not indexed and used carefully may sort out
families. An extremely valuable resource. There are 12 different
first names in the index associated with the Betts surname.
One
should compare this with [1847Hall] and Samuel Gates's
responsibilities for providing for families of the soldiers fighting
the British.
[1929Durkee]
Cornelius E. Durkee. Reminiscences of Saratoga.
Well worth a careful review
especially as relating to migration from Connecticut and settlement
in Saratoga County New York.
Some entries about Betts, St.
John and Fitch may provide some unique insight about Noah/Abigail
(Betts) Gates
[1932Barbour]
Lucius Barnes Barbour. State Examiner of Public Records from
1911-1934. Complete List of Births, Marriages and Deaths under
the name GATES, GATE [see also Cates, Gatte] as found in the GENERAL
INDEX OF CONNECTICUT VITAL RECORDS, July 14, 1932. [23p]
I obtained a copy of this
document at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1990
and had used it to construct Ruth and Samuel Gates family by hand on
the reverse of some pages. I also made notes (SLC90) that Noah (b.
1766) married Abigail (?).
See [1911Barbour]
[1934AprAmerGene]
The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine.
April, 1934 Vol. X, No. 4. Publisher. Donald Lines Jacobus.
English
Origin of Stephen Gates.
Clarence Almon Torrey. P199 – Musings on Cushings list of
immigrants and related English records.
In general good for browsing for
historical insights.
[1932Hale]
Charles R. Hale Collection. Connecticut State Library.
The
Hale Collection includes the Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery
Inscriptions, the Hale Collection of Newspaper Marriage and Death
Notices, ca. 1750-1865, a collection of Newspaper Abstract Volumes,
and the Veterans' Deaths Index.
In
the summer of 2008 I used this collection, available only at the
library(?), especially the cemetery inscriptions for Ridgefield.
[1935Bullard]
Chester Arthur Bullard. Arnold Bullard and related families :
including Bigelow, Orton, Scovill, and Stevens. Printed by C.A.
Bullard.
Indirectly
this source gives good insight into migration to New York and
families further movements.
Dorothy
Betts (husband Giles Fitch - a Revolutionary War soldier) is
identified as the daughter of Thaddeus Betts (of Ballston, New York).
The Fitches were from Norwalk, Connecticut. About 1786 she migrates
to St. John's Corners, Greenfield, New York from Ballston Spa. Giles
Fitche's sister Hannah married Capt. John St. John.
This
account may be a summary from another older source [1890Stone].
[1945CSLPubR]
Leonard Woods Larabee, State Historian. The Public Records of the
State of Connecticut from May 1785, through January 1789.
Samuel
Gates of Norwalk as Collector of State Taxes asks for reimbursement
for payments made from own pocket (1789). The amounts look sizable:
Continental Money, State Money and Hard Money – he was paid. p516
[1948CSLPubR]
Leonard Woods Larabee, State Historian. The Public Records of the
State of Connecticut from May 1789, through October 1792.
Suspension
of legal action against the Selectmen (of Norwalk) and Samuel Gates
(Tax Collector) for not remitting taxes (1791) – promised to pay by
next May. p351
[1953NEHGR]
Arthur Adams, p306. Memoirs of Deceased Members of NEHGR. Joel
Sanger Gates.
Branch
off from Simon Gates.
[1966Torrey][1966NEHGR]
Clarence Almon Torrey, Ph.B. Stephen Gates of Hingham,
Lancaster, and Cambridge, Mass., and some of His Descendants.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Several parts
to July 1967.
On
page 164, he provides several more details about Simon (3), his son
Samuel (14), his son Samuel (47) and his son Samuel (p251). This
last Samuel is described as born 3 December 1736 and marrying on 19
July 1758, Ruth Olmsted (b. 2 July 1738), according to two sources:
Norwalk Town records and Wilton Connecticut church records (p125).
Further information is not proivided.
Mary,
the wife of Samuel (14) dies in Ridgefield in 1732. Her last child,
Martha, is born is Pomfret in 1722. This leaves a ten year gap where
the family may have transitioned to some other location or to
Ridgefield.
On
page 251, Samuel Gates (47) is said to be born perhaps in Pomfret,
Connecticut , 1710. His aet is given as 84 and his
year of death is 1798. The latter age at death is inconsistent with
the birth date. Torrey does not provide his sources but the aet
suggests the death age is from a gravestone as is the year. Thus
the 84 is more likely 89 or a typo - confirmation is left for others.
[1911Barbour] supports 1793 as age of death as does
[1998GatesElmer].
Of
course collateral information about various siblings and marriages
provide further background on family connections.
[1969Parsons]
Gladys Merrill Covell Parsons. 80 Immigrants: Our
Merrill-Covell Pedigree. Privately Published, Detroit, Michigan
1969 (169p).
Eunice
Betts (b. 1764) marries John Wescott in Wilton, Connecticut 1789.
John's mother is Martha Keeler. John and Eunice both die in
Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. It is not clear who Eunice
descends from according to the author. Could she be a sister to
Dorothy (Betts) Fitch. Other names involved: St John.
[1970Curtiss] Pearl
Curtiss (Pearl Irene McGill), b. 1886. The Gates family history.
FHL US/CAN Film 1033843 Item 8
I
have only a couple of pages and I believe I obtained them on a visit
to the FHL in Salt Lake City UT. FHL online catalog search results
above. Some erroneous material but includes Simon Gates details.
The preface makes reference to a couple that supposedly visited the
graves of Samuel and Rachel (Hayes) Gates in Ridgefield CT. I would
like to locate these myself – not found in 2008.
[1970Simbach]
Louise Alice Wheelock Simbach. Descendants of Jared Gates of
Auburn, Cayuga County, New York. Published 1970 Milwaukee,
Wisconsin by author (32pp).
Jared
Gates (1786-1868) was born in Massachusetts and married Derinda
Patchin in 1805 at Auburn, New York.
The author reports she was
unable to find Jared's ancestors. Noah Gates and Ruth Olmsted are
almost certainly the parents. It seems more probable that Jared was
born in Connecticut but if it is Massachusetts then one should look
in the Lenox area for evidence.
The record provided simply
records that a gravestone in Massachusetts is somehow the evidence
that Jared was born there in 1786. On an earlier line reference is
made to pension records and a family bible abstract filed with same
(assume related to the War of 1812) from which Jared's birth is
determined from age at death.
The 1860 NY Census Cayuga
Aurelius indicates the Jared was born in Connecticut and is
age 76.
[1976Gates]
William A. Gates. Notes (handwritten) taken at the State of
Wisconsin Vital Records.
Data
collected about Gates, Homuth, Hartley, Curtis, Carver.
[1980Keeler]
Wesley B. Keeler. Ralph Keeler of Norwalk, Connecticut, and his
descendants. Publisher W.B. Keeler, Albany, New York.
This
source records not only the Keeler's history but many other related
families of Norwalk, Wilton and Ridgefield, Connecticut. There are
many references to unpublished material in the Wilton Public Libary.
There are interesting intersections with Gates. Jonathan Gates, son
of Samuel and Rachel (Hayes) Gates, marries (b. 1743 December 5th)
Sarah Keeler (Samuel, Jonah, Samuel, Ralph) [p71]. Jonathan dies
1803 January 6th, five to ten years after his father's
death and brother's migration to Saratoga, New York. Jonathan lived
in Ridgebury - the question is whether he was living on the family
homestead and when/where did his father and family live if other than
Norwalk.
See
[1998GatesElmer] as regards land transactions.
[1983RobertsMcGhan]
Genealogies of Connecticut Families. Genealogical
Publishing Co. Baltimore. 1983.
Compilation
from NEHGR.
[1985Keeler]
Wesley B. Keeler. Keeler family : Ralph
Keeler of Norwalk, CT, and some of his descendants.
See 1980 entry above ... 1985
may be the correct date. Copies of a few pages.
[1985Torrey]
Clarence Almon Torrey. New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
Genealogical Publishing Co.
[1989Hayes]
Edward R. Hayes. David Hayes of Connecticut, Vermont, and Ohio.
1715 Northwest Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50310.
A
well annotated resource with generally good references focused on the
Hayes with a difficult introduction discussing the parents of
Nathaniel Hayes and a later connection to Nathaniel Richards.
At
some later time it will be interesting to sort out this Richards and
his relation to Mary Richards who married third, the first Samuel
Gates in our line (note below).
An
entry about Rachel Hayes Gates living to 1811 is provided but without
supporting documentation. If this is true then she was 100 hundred
years old or nearly so. Her husband Samuel died in 1793. Are they
buried in Ridgefield?
The
Allen (Allyn) line plus several others are documented as well. This
source also discusses theories about Richards and Hayes connections
to Hartford Connecticut. Probably of no connection but do remember
that Samuel/Mary Gates was Mary Richards (Fairbanks) (Truesdell)
Gates.
There
are later editions and GoogleBooks is digitizing UW-Madison 1989
edition.
[1991Russell]
Robert H. Russell. Wilton (CT) Connecticut Congregational Church
Vital Records, 1726 -1805, An alphabetical surname index. The
Connecticut Nutmegger, V 24, Issues 2 and 3, 1991. Published
Connecticut Society of Genealogists Inc. [LC CS42 C56 - also Index
Volume]
This
publication has an index to be used as a further resource.
As
the author mentions previous record extracts of Wilton Congregations
Church Records have been done but in this ariticle he provides a list
of adult names with notes from original minutes, membership,
marriages and deaths (and place of burial, if known). Baptisms
are not included but seem to be promised as a separate project.
There several surnames of major
interest beyond Gates; those of Betts, Fitch, Olmsted are a few. A
summary of the Gates entries are as below.
In the Summer of 2008 we visited
Wilton and spoke with Robert Russell and looked at other records he
has compiled but not published. One note to make about fourteen (14)
Gates baptisms that have been identified is that Elijah Gates (b.1775
October 30th, bp. 1778 December 19th, d 1778
October 17th ) and note that only one Samuel Gates (III)
family is identified. The Noah Gates family has five baptisms.
I believe the “Halfway
Covenant” signifies you have been baptized in the church and thus
can join – so Ruth Olmsted and Samuel Gates probably joined as of
their marriage in 1758. One would expect Ruth to have been baptized
in Wilton (since her father was Deacon James Olmsted) but Samuel
Gates was more likely baptized in the Ridgebury Parish.
Russell has identified five
individuals as per Nutmegger:
- Last NameFirst NameMaiden NameSpouseLater Married NameJoin DateBirth DateDismissal DateDeath DateNotesGatesMoses179xschool comm 1792Mrs.Noah179xNoah179xschool comm 1793RuthOlmsteadSamuel1759halfway cov., m. 1758Samuel1759halfway cov. ,m. 19 Nov. 1758,school comm. 1767,minister comm. 1793
All
these Gates are related. Moses and Noah are sons of Ruth and Samuel.
Mrs. Noah Gates is probably Abigail Betts. The fact that she is not
completely identified may indicate that although there are many Betts
in this church, and she may be related, she is not directly of this
community – just a hypothesis. There are related baptism records.
Also keep in mind that we know they all moved to New York in ~1800
but were not evidently dismissed to another congregation.
[xxxxGolightlyFHLPedigree]
Catherine Marion Alden GOLIGHTLY. LDS submission
2897930-1102104151542
.
The
Reed family as related to Phebe Morgan (Reed) and Ashbel Gates.
[1997Erickson]
Vernon D. Erickson, Compiler. Births, Deaths, Marriages and other
Genealogical Gleanings from Newspapers for Crawford, Vernon and
Richland Counties, Wisconsin 1873-1910.
Many,
many family names: Gates, Bacon, Curtis, Homuth, Willoughby. [LC -
F587.C8 E73 1997]. The author has another title not explored [LC -
F587.C8 E75 1999] for Crawford County.
[1997Hanson]
Robert Brand Hanson, Editor. Vital Records of Dedham,
Massachusetts 1635-1845. Picton Press, Camden Maine.
Very
comprehensive and relevant: Gates, Fairbanks, Trusdell, Hunting,
Clark, Colburn. See similar Gates entry for 1886. Available WSHS.
[1998ReisingWWW]
Ted Reising. Florence Township, Erie County Cemeteries
Transcripts.
In the summer of 2007 I
revisited the above internet site looking for all the familiar
surnames: Reed, Gates and a few others that were identified by the
work that Elmer Gates had produced, especially the daughters of
Noah/Abigail Gates – Ennis, Haise, Patchin.
I had been looking for Abigail
and found it remarkable that although Noah was the one who died in
1813 she also seem to have disappeared except for some Bible images
that Don Gates had provided from another source that suggested she
was alive and well in 1819 if not later. My working hypothesis was
that since the family (as evidenced by the sisters) had stayed
together and moved together that Abigail had moved with them.
I decided to look at all
Abigails in the cemetery inscriptions and frankly was quite surprised
to find a perfect candidate by date. Ted Reising took the trouble to
actually visit the cemetery and tell me that Abigail Rood was buried
next to her daughter Dolly “Dorothy” Ennes.
Ted wrote:
I checked out
the graves at Birmingham for you. Abigail ROOD is buried immediately*
beside Dolly (GATES) ENNES (*any
closer to each other and their coffins would be on top one another!).
Since
Ted's note I have personnaly visited (2007 October) the Birmingham
Cemetery and can confirm that Ted did not exaggerate. Ted also found
some other records relating to the marriage that seem to confuse
names a little bit.
This
is not the only new fact revealed by the Birmingham Cemetery.
[http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/erie/census/Flo1830x.txt
Patten, R. L. p343]
[1998.05.27
lynn-n-suzy-calvin@worldnet.att.net] Email, personal
library, from WmAGates.
Lynn
Calvin, a docent at Saratoga County courthouse, had put up a note on
Rootsweb about a Noah Gates of Canada. He gave me information
connecting Ashbel Gates to Noah Gates and put me in touch with Don
Gates. Don had been in Saratoga had been looking for Gates records.
Calvin had assisted him.
My
email to Calvin and copy to Don contained notes about Census records
and my belief that Noah was deceased but Jared and Hiram Gates were
connected. It also relates information about Ashbel Gates and Hiram
Gates being in the 1840 Census of Michigan. There are other related
emails and I was using WmAGates@aol.com
at the time.
[1998GatesElmer] Elmer
Gates. Personal Correspondence, email, numerous.
I
assume that Elmer's collection of records will eventually be
published as part of the LDS FHL Pedigree Resources. I have bits and
pieces
of emails where he has shared information about sources public and
private (but sources are not always clear).
From several references to
Fairfield County Connecticut Land Records I believe there is a will
for Samuel Gates (Rachel) and that this Samuel died by 1793. I have
included here two of Elmer's list of a/the Samuel's numerous
transactions (also some for Saratoga County New York). This Samuel
in these transactions is the spouse of Ruth (Olmsted) Gates.
On
October 7, 1795, Samuel Gates of the Village of Norwalk, Connecticut
and his brother, Elijah Gates of Lenox in Berkshire County
Massachusetts sold to their brother Jonathan of Ridgefield in
Ridgebury Parish a certain piece of land belonging to the estate of
our Father, Samuel Gates for 32 pounds. FHL film #5009, Ridgefield,
Connecticut – Deeds – Volume #8 – 1793 to 1803. Refer to page
#95.
On
April 24, 1797, Samuel Gates of the Town of Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Connecticut sold to Joseph Rockwell of the Village of
Ridgefield for $100.00 for 10 acres of land lying at the West End of
my Honored Father, Samuel Gates, late of South Ridgefield. FHL film
#5009, as above, page #209.
In another paragraph in the same
email, but without any source referenced, and also unfortunately
containing some obvious errors, Elmer includes many interesting
facts, some verifiable and some remaining uncertain. Noah was only
ten years of age in 1776 and thus not likely to have served in or
died in the Revolutionary War as Elmer states and still have children
born in the 1800s. He probably meant the War of 1812.
In another paragraph Elmer
states the Samuel and Ruth became the guardian's of their
grandchildren (Hiram, Ashbel, William and Angelina ) after the death
of their son Noah, on or about 1813 March 26th.
Saratoga County New York – Will Records – (1816 – 1823, pp
239, 244, 256, 257). Except for the stated grandparents guardianship
– the other statements have been verfied in the record.
[19990210GatesElmer]
Elmer Gates. To Wm A. Gates about Angeline (Gates) Patton and
her husband and where they may have lived.
I am not sure of the comments
that I made and thus exactly the context of Elmer's reply. Today
(20071229) I would point out that the 1840 Census does not generally
provide the names of wives unless they were a head of household.
Several points in this email need clarification (2007). Clendening
should be Glendenning (see Warren Cemetery). Thomas Patton's
relationship to Angelina is almost certainly wrong.
Subj:
Additions/Corrections to Document
Date:
2/25/99 6:38:54 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:
rgates@innet.com (Bob Gates)
To:
GatesEA@aol.com
CC:
WmAGates@aol.com, sodakdon@arc.net, yooper@theriver.com
Hi
Elmer,
Based
on the information I gleaned from your last two very interesting
e-mail
messages to Bill Gates, with copies to me, I will make the following
additions
and corrections to the draft of "Some Descendants of Samuel-4
Gates
. . ."
1.
Death of Ashbel: November 27, 1863, Gratiot, Lafayette Co., WI
2.
Second marriage of widow, Phebe (Reed) Gates: January 12, 1868 (?),
Gratiot,
Lafayette Co., WI or Warren, Jo Daviess Co., IL to Jonathan
Clendening,
marble dealer of Warren, IL.
3.
I received the birth date of October 8, 1834 for William Noah Gates
from
Donald
Gates. Won't change it until I hear more about this.
4.
Angeline Gates married Thomas Patton.
Please
let me know if I have misinterpreted anything.
I
see from your latest research that you found Angeline (Gates) Patton
to
be
living in Erie County, Ohio, just as Aurilla Jane (Gates) Cook had
said
she
was in her letter to Hannah M. (Gates) Watkins. This lends further
support
to the truth and accuracy of this letter. Did you record
Angeline's
age in the 1840 census? I have received no record of when she
was
born and would like to include her age in the document.
Bob
[19990225GatesElmer]
Elmer Gates. Reply from Wm A. Gates with notes in BOLD re:
Thaddeus Betts Bible, Angeline/Augustine and Hiram Gates, etc.
This communication is a reply
with comments and questions and clarification about Gates: Angeline,
Hiram, Hiram B., Thaddeus Betts bible gift to Abigail and other more
recent family (Phebe Gates remarriage after the death of Ashbel –
it does not clarify the ambiguous spelling of the Blindenning as
Glendenning – see Warren IL Cemetery).
Today (20071229) I suspect the
comments about Thomas Patton family need to be revisted. The older
woman could be Abigail Gates but Angeline was married to Robert L
Patton. Was there a son or remarrige?
Subj:
Angeline (Gates) Patton Dau/o Ashbel
Date: 2/10/99 9:06:44 PM
Pacific Standard Time
From: Gates EA
To: WmAGates
Bill -
I did find something in going
thru your notes & comparing them with mine. This is an
interesting puzzle. I haven't been able to locate this family in any
1850 Census records to help clarify the situation. Will look again in
Land Records. Didn't find anything the last time I looked. Sometimes
I think that they don't buy the land, maybe just rent it ???
I really feel that they must
have gone to Michigan, but I don't know. Would you think that it
would be possible for them to have their Census taken at 2 different
times & at 2 different States? One Census taker could have talked
to the Wife at one location & the next time to the husband at
another location ---- with neither spouse close at hand to disclose
this fact?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Angeline Gates married Thomas
Patton. In the 1840 Ohio Federal Census, it was reported that they
were living in the town of Birmingham in Florence Township in Erie
County, Ohio.
The 1840 Ohio Federal Census
in Erie County in Roll # M-704-392 on Page# 318, Line # 5 in Florence
Township recorded the following: Thomas Patton = Head. Males: 5-10
years = Two (2). 15-20 years = One (1). 30-40 years = One (1). Total
males = Four (4). Females: Under 5 years = One (1). 30-40 years = One
(1). Total females = Two (2). Total members in the Thomas Patton
Family in 1840 in Ohio = Six (6).
The 1840 Michigan Federal
Census in St Joseph County on Roll # M-704-210 on Page # 253, Line #
15 in Nottawa Township with the following: John Patton = Head. Males:
Under 5 years = One (1). 5 to 10 years = Two (2). 30 to 40 years =
One (1). Total males = Four (4). Females: Under 5 years = One (1). 5
to 10 years = One (1). 10 to 15 years = One (1). 30 to 40 years = One
(1). Total females = Four (4). Total members in John Patton's Family
= Eight.
It is interesting to note
that there is a John Patton's farm in the vicinity of Hiram Gates
farm in Nottawa Township in St Joseph County, Michigan. Evidently
there is a strong relationship between the Gates & Patton
families. Are these two 1840 Census records made on the same Thomas
Patton family?
[19990226GatesElmer]
Elmer
Gates. Reply from Robert
Cady Gates ... Elmer highlights doubts about Angeline being married
to Thomas Patton ... really Pebtow!?
Subj: Angeline Gates,
Daughter of Noah & Abigail Gates
Date: 2/26/99 7:21:46 AM
Pacific Standard Time
From: rgates@innet.com (Bob
Gates)
To: GatesEA@aol.com
CC: sodakdon@arc.net,
WmAGates@aol.com, yooper@theriver.com
Hi Elmer,
I have studied your recent
e-mail message in which you report on the
results of your excellent
research on the 1840 census records for the
Patton families of Florence,
Erie Co., OH and Nottawa, St. Joseph Co., MI.
My guess (and I emphasize
"guess") is that you found Angeline with her
husband, Thomas Patton, in
the 1840 census of Florence Township, Erie
County, Ohio. My reasons are
as follows.
1. This is exactly where
Aurilla J. Cook said Aurilla lived in her letter
to Mrs. Watkins. (I am
referring to the letter that Al Covell scanned and
sent to you and to me. I
assume, and hope, that Don & Bill also have copies.)
2. It is extremely unlikely
that the surname for this family was "Pebtow",
and the people who indexed
the census read the name as "Patton."
3. You and I are in agreement
that Angeline was probably born about 1805-7,
and was about 35 to 37 years
old in 1840. You found that there was one
female in the family "15
to 20 years old" and the oldest female was "20 to
30 years old." If the
oldest daughter in the family was 15 to 20, then the
mother would almost certainly
have been over 30. So I think the census
taker may have checked the
wrong box for the age of the wife/mother. Of
course, the one 15 to 20
could have been a sister, but she would have most
likely been a daughter. Also
there is also the fact that the husband was
30 to 40 years of age.
Conclusion. If there are no
serious objections, I will enter the following
short statement for Angeline
in the document entitled "Some Descendants of
Samuel-4 Gates . . ."
45. Angeline, b. abt. 1805;
m. Thomas Patton. The family probably resided
in Florence Twp., Erie
County, OH.
I will also change the date
and place of Phebe's second marriage to
Jonathan Clendening to
4/16/1868, Gratiot, Lafayette Co., WI.
Thank you very much for the
census research you did yesterday.
Bob
At 12:02 AM 2/26/99 -0500,
you wrote:
>Bob -
>In response to your
letter, Items # 1 & 3 are OK. Item # 2, the second
>marriage of Phebe
occurred on April 16, 1868 in Gratiot, La Fayette, Wisc.
>For Item # 4, I offer the
following information with expectations of having
>some comments from
everyone. About all of the facts that can be drawn in
>these early years
requires a visitation to the County Clerk's office in order
>to get solid facts, I
guess. Maybe Angeline should fall by the wayside, too.
>I cannot find this family
beyond 1840, if even then. Any way, here it its:
>
> If Angeline Gates was
the last child of Abigail, then I estimate that she
>could
have been born as late as 1807. On that premise, by 1840, Angeline
would
>have been 37 years old.
Now that age doesn't fit in with the 1840 Ohio Census
>which shows the oldest
female between 20 to 30 years. But it does match the
>1840 Michigan Federal
Census with one female between 30 to 40 years of age.
>
> Angeline Gates married
John or Thomas Patton? Where did she get married? In
>reviewing the list of
Patton's in the 1840 Ohio Index, the only Patton living
>in
Erie County was a Thomas Patton & he was recorded on Page # 320
in Florence
>Township.
> The 1840 Ohio Federal
Census in Erie County on Roll # M-704-392 on Page #
>320 (as reported in the
1840 Ohio Index) on Line # 29 recorded the following:
>Thomas Pebtow (not
Patton) = Head. Males: One = 5 to 10 years. Two = 20 to 30
>years. One = 30 to 40
years. Total males = Four (4). Females: Two = Under 5
>years.
One = 5 to 10 years. One = 15 to 20 years. One = 20 to 30 years.
Total
>females = Five (5). Total
members in the Patton family = 9.
> It should be noted that
the name Patton in the 1840 Ohio Census Index it is
>very difficult to read it
as "Patton" since it really appears to be written
>"Pebtow." See
note above following Page # 320 (as reported in the 1840 Ohio
>Index). Evidently the
Census people can read it as being the word - "Patton."
>I have checked the 1850
Ohio Federal Census Index & examined 13 different
>Thomas Patton's &
none matched either the age, spouse name or birth location
>to match Angeline. What
happened to them? Where did they go?
> The 1840 Michigan
Federal Census in St Joseph County on Roll # M-704-210 on
>Page # 253, Line # 15 in
Nottawa Township with the following: John (not
>Thomas) Patton = Head.
Males: Under 5 years = One (1). 5 to 10 years = Two
>(2). 30 to 40 years = One
(1). Total males = Four (4). Females: Under 5 years
>= One (1). 5 to 10 years
= One (1). 10 to 15 years = One (1). 30 to 40 years
>= One (1). Total females
= Four (4). Total members in John Patton's Family =
>Eight.
>
It is interesting to note that there is a John (not Thomas) Patton's
farm in
>the vicinity of Hiram
Gates farm in Nottawa Township in St Joseph County,
>Michigan. Evidently there
is a strong relationship between the Gates & Patton
>families.
> All in all, I suspect
that John & Thomas Patton are or could be one of the
>same. I'd really
appreciate some comments. Should we discount the story
>mentioned
in Aurilla Jane (Gates) Cook's letter to Mrs. Hawkins about Angeline
>marrying or living with a
Mr. Patton in Birmingham, Ohio?
>
>Elmer
>
[1999Doherty]
Frank J. Doherty. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent: Duchess
County, New York – An Historical and Genealogical Study of all the
18th Century Settlers in the Patent.
Pleasant Valley NY.
Very
interesting source for names of Gates. See pp550, 549 – especially
Samuel and grandchildren.
[2004Russell]
Robert H. Russell. Wilton Connecticut: Three Centuries of
People, Places and Progress. Published by the Wilton Historical
Society.
A
valuable recount of Wilton's history and larger perspective of
happenings. Starting on page 48 Russell recounts several migrations
out of Wilton and of especial interest one to Ballston and Wilton,
Saratoga County, New York circa 1802. Taking up migrations again on
p 143 Russell says that as many as 30 families left Wilton after the
Revolutionay War to go to Ballston, Saratoga County, New York. In
this same section he also briefly covers the Firelands of the Western
Reserve of Ohio.
From [2004Russell] we find that
Kent is also known as South Wilton (or was). Russell's map on page
30 shows Kent Road and Olmsted Hill Road with the #48 being the house
of James Olmsted. Ruth Olmsted was born in 1738 and the family
moved(?) the short distance to Wilton in 1732 [1912Olmsted].
[2006Sharpe]
Linda Gates Sharpe. Jane (Gates) (Senter) (Landphair) Bible
Transcript.
I have used the date relative to
when I obtained a transcript prepared from the Bible at some earlier
time, transcriber unknown. Don R. Gates has the actual Bible and
also provided an email version of its contents in 1999.
[200804GatesE&W] William A. Gates.
Abigail (Betts) (Gates) Rood - Notes By Elmer A. Gates and
Comments and Extensions by Wm. A. Gates.
Elmer collected extensive
information probably only accessible in the FHL. This document
annotates original notes shared by Elmer with WmAGates in 1999.
[200811GatesWmA_Willoughby] William A.
Gates. John William Fletcher Willoughby and Charlotte Ann Eliza
(Gates) Willoughby (Resources and Timeline: Correlated with
Armstrong, Bowker, Gates,
Landphair, Gleave, and Glendening).
Extensive
chronological compilation of this couples/family life events.
Olmsted
[1912Olmsted]
Henry King Olmsted, M.D. (revised, completed Rev. Geo. Ward, A.M.)
Genealogy Of The Olmsted Family In America, Embracing The
Descendants Of James Nnd Richard Olmsted And Covering A Period Of
Nearly Three Centuries 1632-1912. Published New York, A. T. De
La Mare, 1912.
See
Gates entry.
Platt
[1891Platt]
George Lewis Platt. The Platt Lineage A
Genealogical Research and Record. Published
by T. Whittaker, 1891
from
page 20 -
Hannah
daughter of Richard 1st baptized October 1 164.3 married Christopher
Comstock October 6 1663 Their children were Daniel born July 21 1664
Hannah born July 15 1666 Abigail born July 27 1669 who died in her
20th year Mary born February 19 1671 Elizabeth October 7 1674 Mercy
born November 12 1676 and Samuel February 6 1679 Norwalk was his
residence At a town meeting in 1673 Christopher Comstock was chosen
and approved of to kepe an ordinary for the entertayning of strangers
The excellent custom of appointing some reputable householder to
entertayne ye stranger shows how wisely our fathers managed in their
day.
Richard
Platt was married to Mary – surname unknown. The family is thought
to have come to New Haven in 1638 and later helped found Milford
(1639). Mary and Richard had children on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hannah was baptized in Milford.1643 October 1st.
[WSHS
– LC - CS71.P719 1891 ] See Comstock entries.
[1906Todd] Charles Burr
Todd. The history of Redding, Connecticut,
from its first settlement to the present time, with notes on the
Adams, Banks, Barlow ... and Strong families.
New York, The
Grafton Press [c1906]
More
on the origins of Richard Platt.
[WSHS
– LC - F104 R3 T72 1906 ]
Fairbanks
- Fairbank, Fayerbanke, Farebanke
[1897Fairbanks]
Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in
America, 1633-1897. Printed American printing and engraving
company.
See
Gates entry – from p44. This entry skips the intervening marriage
of Mary to John Truesdell.
Truesdell
– Truesdel, Truesdall, Trusdel, Truesdell, Truesdill, Truesdil,
Truesdale
[1905NEGS]
New England Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Newton
Massachusetts to 1850.
[1914Woodstock]
Vital records of Woodstock, 1686-1854. Hartford, The Case,
Lockwood & Brainard co., 1914. [F104.W9 W9]
This
source is a printed version of original "town record"
manuscripts. It should probably be considered the most definitive
source for Woodstock vital records, short of the manuscripts. Those
interested in Gates, Fairbanks, Truesdell, Colburn in this geography
will find the index a rich source of leads. On the introductory
pages the point is made that Woodstock was incorporated in 1690 and
part of MA until 1749 when it became part of CT (Windham County).
Pomfret
(part of the same purchase as Woodstock) is just a few miles south of
Woodstock and is believed to have been first settled by colonist
Captain John Sabin in 1696. Pomfret became the official name in
1713. Other towns created from these lands: Brooklyn, Hampton,
Pomfretville/Cargill Falls.
On
[1914Woodstock:p13] Mary's husband, "Richard Trufdell Dyed
adjacent to Wookstock October 24th 1707.
At
the time of her third marriage, to Samuel Gates they both are
described as from Pomfret but married in Woodstock, CT. In
[1914Woodstock:p21-22] "Marriages Confumated by the Reverend
Josiah Dwight in Woodstock returned by him Jan(r) 18th 1716/17 viz".
Among these is "Sam(ll) Gates & Mary Trusdell both of
Mashamoquet now Pomfret Feb(r) 12 1709/10." They were
"Recorded, John Chandler, Town Cl."
[1933Bowen]
Clarence Winthrop Bowen, PH.D., LL.D. The History of Woodstock,
Genealogies of Woodstock Families in 8 volumes. [F104 W9 B69
1926]
[1933Bowen:v5p383] records in a
footnote the children of Mary and Benjamin Fairbanks as "Mary
Fairbanks b. Dedham Sept. 2 1693 ; Benjamin Fairbanks b. Dedham July
6, 1695. In Mar. 1710 Benjamin (age ?) chose his uncle Jeremiah
Fisher (Deborah Richards) to be his Guardian."
Mary, 21 years old, marries
Richard Truesdale, her second husband, in Dedham on February 24
1696/7 [1933Bowen:v5p383]. Richard and Mary's first two children are
born in Newton. Richard Truesdale is described as born in Cambridge
but died near Woodstock, CT October 24, 1707.
Under
Gates Family note [1933Bowen:v5p295] attributed in a footnote
to W.V.R., which is assumed to be Woodstock (CT) Vital Records, that
"Samuel Gates m. February 12, 1710 Mary Truesdale both of
Pomfret." As from the above note about Mary's son Benjamin it
seems consistent that the marriage to Samuel Gates may have caused
the change in guardian to J. Fisher.
Willoughby
Contains history of Charles
Gates Willoughby family, son of Charlotte Gates and John William
Fletcher Willoughby and subsequent generations.
[200811GatesWmA_Willoughby]
see
Gates entry.
Microfilms
[CTFairfieldDanburyProbateFHL4024]
Danbury Connecticut Probate District. Volumes 1-3.
From (http://www.cslib.org/probate/districtsr.htm)
the history of the Probate District for Ridgefield indicates one
should go to the Danbury District for “October 1746 - June 9 1841”
records.
Viewed - December 2008. This
probate district included Ridgefield and has records from 1739 -
1767. The general purpose of the search was to look for Gates in
indexes or in other roles. The indexes are difficult to use in terms
of legibility.
I need to reexamined the images
I took of the V-1 index ... the page order may not be alphabetical
and I may have missed some pages. There are no Gates in this
volume's index. In a casual scan, page by page, of V-1 a Samuel
Gates has been found as appraiser on three inventories. Most of this
information is just fabric for the story of associations and
connections.
On p107 in the matter of
Benjamin Starr, Thomas Truesdell and his wife, Deborah, inherit from
her father, Benjamin. Other family: Eunice Gregory, Hannah Stevens
and William Truesdell.
On p133 Timothy Street,
Recompense Thomas and Samuel Gates report on the inventory of Jabez
Rockwell (of Ridgefield), November 1759.
On p211/212 Samuel Gates,
Recompense Thomas and Joseph Nickerson (spelling?) report on the
inventory of William Nickerson (widow Sarah), 1757. This entry is
particularly interesting because the Nickersons are described as on
Duchess County NY and from my summer 2008 researches in Ridgefield we
know that a Samuel Gates who lived in Duchess County NY also sold
land in Ridgefield.
Another similar entry for
Salvanus Starr (of Ridgefield), 1762 July 9th.
On p309 Thaddeus Betts is a
witness for will/etc of Barnabus Hamblin, 1766
[CTFairfieldDanburyProbateFHL4025]
Danbury Connecticut Probate District. Volumes 4-5.
[CTFairfieldDeed10FHL5005]
LDS Family History Library, 5009. Conneticut,
Fairfield County Deed Books Vol. 10.
The pages of interest identify
and record four sisters in December 1748, two by first name and two
by inference. Rachel and Samuel Gates and Allin and Joseph Northrup
(of Ridgefield) sell land of their father, James Hayes late of South
Norwalk, to John St. John and Issac Sherwood as they appear before
Samuel Olmsted. Other records make clear that these men are all
husbands of four daughters of James and Mary (Allen) Hayes.
There
are two parcels that appear to be near Common Lands, the Danbury
Road, Chestnut Hill and half-part
of a tract laid out to their father.
[CTFairfieldDeedsV18FHL5009]
LDS Family History Library, 5009. Conneticut, Fairfield County
Deed Books Vols. 18,19,20.
The source needs to examined
more closely for more information. The family of Samuel and Ruth
Gates appears to have been compiled in the latter pages of Volume 18
sometime after 1796. This conclusion is based on the handwriting and
ink appearing to be of single author and consistent in weight and
instrument.
[CTFairfiledRidgefieldLandRecordsFHL5496]
Ridgefield CT. Land records,
v. 1-2 1709-1765.
Believed examined in
1990s. Generally one finds collections of birth records and other
vital records embedded in the Land Records where they usually
represent some sort of “later” compilation or recompliation that
can only be guessed at from the writing styles, ink and dates
themselves
[CTWiltonCongFHL101512] David H. Van
Hoosear. Wilton Congregational Church records : births, baptisms
and marriages, 1698-1816.
The microfilm contains Wilton
Congregational Church Records copied and arranged by David H. Van
Hoosear about 1920. This images lists Noah’s and his father
Samuel’s families baptisms suggesting that they are for the time
period (1760 - 1798) and the only Gates members of the Wilton
Congregational Church. Other locations and sources are also
identified.
One
may wish to examine LDSFHL1435805 for further details and
supplementary data.
[NYSaratogaWillsFHL555718]
Court Records Wills 1816-1826. Relating to the Estate of Samuel
Gates, Town of Malta, Saratoga County New York. Date: 1820 on
page 244.
Samuel had died some years
earlier (1816?). His son Coleman is disposing of his estate.
Samuel's minor grandchildren Hiram, Ashbell, William, Angelina and
Noah from his son Noah (deceased 1813?) are mentioned. By 1820 one
must wonder if they are still minors?
[CTVitalFHL1435729] Ridgefield CT
Vital Records. Index to births, marriages, deaths A-Q 1700- 1937.
[CTVitalFHL1435730] Ridgefield CT
Vital Records. Index to births, marriages, deaths Q-Z 1700- 1937
Births, marriages, deaths v. 2 1762-1852 Births, marriages, deaths v.
3A-5A 1852-1909.
Examined 2008.04. I was looking
for evidence of Abigail Betts who might be a candidate for spouse of
Noah Gates – no good candidates found. Other related families are
present – notes taken.
[CTVitalFHL1435805]
Registrar of Vital Records, also D. H. Van Hoosear. Connecticut,
Fairfield, Wilton – Vital Records 1776-1901.
2008.02 Examining 1436805 at
WSHS: Item 3:
Item 3 is described as "Volume
4: Wilton Vital Records". Roughly speaking this Item has 1860s
and 1870s vital records and at the end of this Item a collection of
lists and indexes of much earlier vital records from the Wilton area,
mostly (or all) by D. H. Van Hoosear. For example in 1883 he has
included records from "stones" of the "Sharp Hill"
cemetery as related to (surrounding) the Presbyterian Church (long
since gone, the second Wilton Church) but also states that many are
already gone.
The major reason for examining
this film was to look for Abigail (Betts) Gates. Other family names
such at St. John, Gregory, Olmsted, Keeler and Fitch are equally
important but mainly confirmatory or useful in consideration of
future evaluation.
A Samuel and Abigail Betts are
identified as the parents of a son Barzilla, died 1799 June 8th (~
15yrs 7 mos 17 days), on the page after Van Hoosear testatment about
the Presbyterian Cemetery. Our Abigail's father is believed to be
Thaddeus?
Van Hoosear, in 1887, submits
records related to a review of the Wilton Congregational Church
noting their delapidated state. In continuing with the first list,
that of deaths recorded their is one for Abigial Betts in 1746 and
two for Moses Betts in 1749 and 1751. Noah and Abigial (Betts) Gates
named a son Moses. These are tenuous connections. The father of
this group is (Capt.) Elias Betts as we continue to search for the
Abigial (Betts) Gates lineage. In later pages baptisms of children
of Thaddeus Betts are found: Nehemiah (1765), Hannah (1768), Deborah
(1771), Ana (1773) and one daughter noted but undeciphered (but after
his death(?) illegible - marginal note). On this same page an
Abigial Betts (1774) is the noted as the daughter of Benjamin, Jr.
On the next page a Thaddeus Betts has a daughter Lydia (1782).
Again, on later pages, there are
interesting entries for the families of Samuel and Noah Gates. There
are nine entries for Samuel and five for Noah. These entries are
available elsewhere but have not been specifically compared for
consistency.
And again, on later pages are
many entries for the Olmsteds. One would expect to find Ruth
(Olmsted) Gates, among baptismal entries since her father James was a
deacon of this church and it appears other of his children are
included - but she is not!
And so on - we find some
Truesdales, probably related to Mary (Richards) (Fairbanks)
(Truesdale) Gates.
Among marriages we find only one
Thaddeus Betts marrying Deborah Mead (1764). Samuel Gates is also
recorded as marrying __ Olmsted (1758 November 19th ). Joseph Platt
Fitch marries Eunice Betts (1780 November 16th ). However we do not
find Noah Gates and Abigail Betts being married in Wilton.
Web
Sites and Online Resources
[RootsWeb.com]
Search in database by name of contributor or use other options.
Giddens,
Dorothy (Hunnicutt). Hunnicutt-Giddens Ancestors.
Last Date: 2007.05.02. Last Email: dgidjaf@verizon.net. Database:
dgid.
Only
two Gates entries Noah Gates and Hannah (Gates) Haise. Appears to
have used Elmer Gates data [1STK-X83] for Hannah. From the record it
appears that the family was associated with Brutus/Auburn, Cayuga
County New York until 1825 and then Mt. Morris in Livingston County.
From other sources [1916Peeke] we know that they came to Erie County
Ohio in 1828 and that John Haise was an orphan. Elmer or Dorothy
give quite specific information about John's parents and place of
birth (but no primary source). The marriage to John is given as 1806
June 12th in Mt.
Morris New York.
Cemetery.
Starting point Cemtery searching ... perhaps ephermeral. See Ohio,
Erie County.
Cortez,
Jan. Allegan County Michigan USGenWeb Project. Last Date: 20080226.
Dibean's
Marriage Records – Particularly Angelina Gates Patten Lane.
Covell,
Al. The
Covell/Gates/Ekdahl/Jurva Tree.
Last Date: 20071202. Last Email: ruauper2@gmail.com. Database:
agcovell.
This work is originally one of the most important
sources in telling us about Abigail (Betts) and Noah Gates's family
and Hiram. Others are probably the source for following other of
their children.
Al Covell identifies Mt. Morris, NY as Hiram and
Angelna's birthplace but not for other children's born before or
after.
Afterword
In
2007 I started a Gates and Related Familes Bibliography as a
standalone independent document rather than having overlapping and
redundant bibliographies associated with each document that might be
produced. This is my solution to better research after years of
struggling and being frustrated with duplicative work and disjoint
observations. The bibliography is somewhat annotated and individual
annotations are expected to grow over time as some sources are used
again and again. You are very likely to find out more in the
annotations about thought processes and the relation to other sources
so that you may discover my omissions, mistakes or what I did not
have available and my own impression of the usefulness of the source.
The
first other thing I should mention is the copyright. It is
not meant to restrict or limit the use of this document but more of
an attempt to establish a chain of evidence so that compilers in the
future can find more than say a date of birth but also
discover clearly how the date was obtained and thus the date's
reliability or go and view the primary source themselves. It is so
common in the family genealogies being generated, especially on the
web, to quite specifically contradict one another and provide not
even a minor clue to secondary or primary source material. So any
and all can copy or incorporate any and all parts of this document
into their work so long as the reference to this document and
copyright is maintained by appropriate footnote or bibliographic
entry in the document the author(s) is creating including reference
to the Wisconsin State Historical Society Library.
To
the end of making this information available I hope to use the
Wisconsin State Historical Society Library Madison, Wisconsin
as a repository. I imagine that these documents will be placed in
the Library's Pamphlet Collection. To the end that you create new or
derivative works where they have some connection to this material I
encourage you to both contribute your work to the Library and support
them in any manner possible.
Finally
I also would appreciate notice of any corrections you may note and if
convenient to share your work in similar fashion. Copies of various
related documents (be aware of latest revision dates) are also
available at http://wmagates.googlepages.com/home
provided Google continues the googlepages project and of
providing web space.
William
A. Gates
125
N. Hamilton St. #1203
Madison,
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