Selected Families and Individuals

Source Citations

Thomas GATES

¹, Three1252, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

³Olsen, Wayne, Thomas Gates, EMail rec'd 28/APR 2002
EMail rec'd 28/APR 2002. "Reply-To: wayneolsen@earthlink.net X-Mailer: EarthLink MailBox 5.0.7.9 (Windows) From: "Wayne Olsen" To: "Dianne Stevens" Subject: RE: Thomas Gates Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:52:14 -0700
Hi Dianne,
I see that Thomas Gates was one of those for which I was sloppy and
substituted his baptism date for his birth date. Looked back through my
xerox files... have 4 written genealogies on the Gates family, and three of
them state that he was baptized in Hingham MA on 3 May 1646. Two sources
give his birth date as 1642, but don't state where. I assume by this that
they are just estimating that year, since no primary birth record with
specific date was referenced. The references cite that his parents arrived
in MA Bay Colony on the "Diligent" with three children in 1638, and these
children were Elizabeth, Stephen, and Mary (the Torrey reference in NEHGR,
1966).
To be born in Hingham, England, Thomas would have been born in 1638 or
earlier, thus would have been 10 years older than his wife Elizabeth
Freeman. Although the husbands back then were routinely a few years older
than their wives, being 10 or more years older was highly unusual. Thus, I
think his birth in Hingham, MA is the most likely."

⁴Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Elizabeth FREEMAN

¹, Three1252, Ancestry.com.

²Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

³Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Sarah GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Mary GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

John GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Joseph GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Josiah GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Deborah GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Anna GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Abigail GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Mary GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Ruth GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

Caleb GATES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

George HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, George Holmes Info, EMail, 28 apr 2002.

Deborah

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Sarah HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Lydia HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Joseph HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Nathaniel HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Deborah HOLMES

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Thomas WISWALL

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

John FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Lazarus FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Mary FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Benjamin FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Martha FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Joseph FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

Elizabeth FARR

¹Hardy, Laura (contact) , Hardy and Bruin Ancestors, Ancestry.com.

William MAKEPEACE

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Susan

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Stephen GATES

¹Ancestry.com, Stories and Publications. "HEAD OF GATES IN AMERICA
comment Author Added bymystic1842_1  on 1 Oct 2007


IMMIGRATED IN THE SHIP "DILIGENT" IN 1638
"THE GATES BLOOD SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN OF A TROPICAL NATURE. THE DAUGHTER, MARY, BOLDLY CONTRIDICTED THE MINISTER IN THE PUBLIC ASSEMBLY. STEPHEN GATES QUARRELED WITH HIS NEIGHBORS, THE WHITCOMBS, WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTABLE'S STAFF, AND MOVED AWAY FROM LANCASTER AFTER LESS THEN THREE YEARS RESIDENCE. HE DIED AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1662 AND HIS SONS, ATTEMPTED, WITHOUT SUCCESS, TO BREAK HIS WILL, ALLEGING THAT THEIR FATHER WAS NOT OF DISPOSING MIND.", GATES IN AMERICA."

²Olsen, Wayne, Thomas Gates, EMail rec'd 28/APR 2002
EMail rec'd 28/APR 2002.

³Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

⁴Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, AFN: B62Q-D2.

⁵Passenger List of the Diligent 1638
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ski/scott/diligent.html. "Passenger List of the Diligent 1638Ipswich, Suffolk England to Boston Harbor
from: The Planters of the CommonwealthCharles E. Banks,published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1930),pages 191-194.
Charles Banks' source for the 'Diligent' passenger is Daniel Cushing, 3rd and/or 4th Town Clerk of Hingham MA. Daniel Cushing was nineteen years old when the ship sailed, but close to sixty or more when he wrote out the list. Most of the wives are named only as "Mrs.", the children of some families are not listed and there are also some probable errors in the list. However, the list below is as it appears in Banks' book. Following the listing are some notes on many of the families from various sources (mainly George Lincoln's History of the Town of Hingham MA: The Genealogies unless noted otherwise) which name the wives and children and possibly make a correction or two to the list. The blue asterisks following some families names link to notes about them.

DILIGENT, of Ipswich, John Martin, Master. She sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, in June and arrived August 10 at Boston, with about one hundred passengers, principally from Hingham, Norfolk, destined for Hingham, Massachusetts (other sources have that the Diligent sailed from Gravesend on 26 Apr 1638)." from: The Planters of the CommonwealthCharles E. Banks,published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1930),pages 191-194. "STEPHEN GATES
Stephen emigrated with his wife Ann (___) and two daughters Elizabeth and Mary. The family moved to Cambridge in 1652 and the year after that to Lancaster, then back to Cambridge before 1662. Stephen died in Cambridge in 1662 (will made 9 Jun 1662, proved 7 Oct 1662). Ann married in 1663 to Richard Woodward and she died 5 Feb 1683 at Stow MA. Stephen and Ann had seven children, all but the first two were baptized in Hingham MA:
Elizabeth b. in Eng.; d. 3 Aug 1704 in Hingham. She married on 29 Nov 1647 in Hingham to John Lasell and they had eleven children.
Mary b. in Eng.. She married John Maynard in Hingham on 5 Apr 1658.
Stephen b. ?. He moved to Boston and then to Stow where he died about 1707. The name of his wife was Sarah and they had eight children.
Simon bt. 3 May 1646; d. before 21 Apr 1693 "of Boston". He lived in Cambridge, next at Lancaster then back to Boston. Simon married and had at least seven children.
Thomas bt. 3 May 1646. He lived at Marlboro, Sudbury and Stow and finally Norwich (CT?). He married in 1670 to Elizabeth Freeman of Sudbury and they had at least eight children.
Isaac bt. 3 May 1646; d. 3 Sep 1651
Rebecca bt. 3 May 1646; d. Jan 1650."

⁶Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.

Ann VEARE (Hill)

¹Steele, Ted, contact , Steele Family History, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

³Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, AFN:25N8 33.

⁴Burr History and Genealogy, http://www.burrcook.com/history/gates.htm. "Stephen married Ann VEARE on 5 May 1628 in Hingham, England. Ann was born about 1603 in Norfolk, Norwich, co. England. She died on 5 Feb 1682/1683 in Stow, Middlesex County, Mass. She deposed in Middlesex County, Mass., Court, 12 June 1673, aged about 70 years, fromwhich it appears that she was born in or about 1603._ Stephen Gates married Ann Veare (or Vere) in Hingham, Co. Norfolk, on_5 May 1628. On the transcript of the Hingham parish records I have, which_were copied from microfilm at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake_City, someone had written the name "Vere" on top of "Veare." If Ann's_surname was actually Vere, which I believe it is, then her father would have_been Sir. Horatio Vere and her mother was Mary Tracy. This Horatio Vere came_from a long distinguished line and he was knighted by The Earl of Essex on_Cadiz at the same time Sir Thomas Gates was knighted in 1596. Sir Thomas_entered Gray's Inn in 1598. Several other Gates has been to one or another of_the Inns of Court for legal training. Sir Horatio Vere and Sir Thomas Gates_obviously knew each other. it seems entirely possible that their children_would marry each other. I am still trying to read the original Latin old_secretary's script in the Hingham parish records to try to verify the name as_Veare or Vere. However, it was not uncommon to misspell names and it could_have certainly been Vere and actually written as Veare. Elsewhere in old_English records I have found what appears to be the name Gates written or_transcribed as Gate, Yeate, Yeates, etc.Dr. Torrey repuditates earlier statements that Stephen's wife was_Ann Hill. He says he can't find any trace of a "Veare" family in Norfolk._(This supports my speculation that Ann's surname was Vere - for which there is_a pedigree)."

John FREEMAN

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

²Randall, William , Randall, Ancestry.com.

Elizabeth NOYES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Thomas GATES

¹Gates, Boston Transcript - 16 SEP 1925.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Rose

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Richard WOODWARD

¹Steele, Ted, contact , Steele Family History, Ancestry.com.

²Ancestry.com, Richard Woodward notes. posted 23 May 2015 by hollybrugha28.

Ann VEARE (Hill)

¹Steele, Ted, contact , Steele Family History, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

³Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, AFN:25N8 33.

⁴Burr History and Genealogy, http://www.burrcook.com/history/gates.htm. "Stephen married Ann VEARE on 5 May 1628 in Hingham, England. Ann was born about 1603 in Norfolk, Norwich, co. England. She died on 5 Feb 1682/1683 in Stow, Middlesex County, Mass. She deposed in Middlesex County, Mass., Court, 12 June 1673, aged about 70 years, fromwhich it appears that she was born in or about 1603._ Stephen Gates married Ann Veare (or Vere) in Hingham, Co. Norfolk, on_5 May 1628. On the transcript of the Hingham parish records I have, which_were copied from microfilm at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake_City, someone had written the name "Vere" on top of "Veare." If Ann's_surname was actually Vere, which I believe it is, then her father would have_been Sir. Horatio Vere and her mother was Mary Tracy. This Horatio Vere came_from a long distinguished line and he was knighted by The Earl of Essex on_Cadiz at the same time Sir Thomas Gates was knighted in 1596. Sir Thomas_entered Gray's Inn in 1598. Several other Gates has been to one or another of_the Inns of Court for legal training. Sir Horatio Vere and Sir Thomas Gates_obviously knew each other. it seems entirely possible that their children_would marry each other. I am still trying to read the original Latin old_secretary's script in the Hingham parish records to try to verify the name as_Veare or Vere. However, it was not uncommon to misspell names and it could_have certainly been Vere and actually written as Veare. Elsewhere in old_English records I have found what appears to be the name Gates written or_transcribed as Gate, Yeate, Yeates, etc.Dr. Torrey repuditates earlier statements that Stephen's wife was_Ann Hill. He says he can't find any trace of a "Veare" family in Norfolk._(This supports my speculation that Ann's surname was Vere - for which there is_a pedigree)."

VEARE

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Edmund FREEMAN

¹Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

Alice COLES

¹Lewis, Barb (contact) , Carter, Ancestry.com.

²Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.

³Perry, William (Contact) , White - Perry Family, The, Ancestry.com.

⁴Perry, William (Contact) , White - Perry Family, The.