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Per The Gates Family at http://www.burrcook.com/history/gates.htm
According to the will of his father Stephen Gates (b. 1599) Simon and his mother received the
place at Cambridge and his (Stephen's) son Thomas was to remain with them at his pleasure.Simon married Margaret Barstow daughter of George Barstow and Susanna Marrett in 1671 in Cambridge, Suffolk, MA. Margaret was born on 24 Feb 1648/1649. She was christened on 24 Feb 1649 in Brookline, Mass. She died on 13 Apr 1707 in Brookline, Suffolk, MA.
According to Darlene's Family Genealogy http://www.dkdonovan.com/getperson.php?personID=I24438&tree=Main
Simon and Margaret had the following children:
1. Simon GATES, b. 01 Sep 1673, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, d. 02 Feb 1675 (Age 1 years)
2. Samuel GATES, b. 11 Aug 1685, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
3. Amos GATES, b. Abt 1680, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. Bef Jul 1754 (Age ~ 74 years)
4. Abigail GATES, b. 14 Aug 1671, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, d. 10 Mar 1775 (Age 103 years)
5. Margaret GATES, b. 13 Aug 1689, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 17 Aug 1734, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 45 years)
6. Jonathan GATES, b. 22 Jun 1683, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 07 Feb 1756, Testate in Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
7. George GATES, b. 06 Apr 1678, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 May 1679, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 1 years)
8. Simon GATES, b. 05 Feb 1675, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Mar 1734, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 59 years)
From Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston, by Henry Bond and Horatio Gates Jones, pub New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860, Massachusetts, p 677:
... son of Matthew Barstow, of Shelf, a parish of Halifax, C. York...
GEORGE BARSTOW, a member of the Artil. Co., 1644, had land granted to him in Dedham in 1642; was a householder of Scituate in 1652, and member of the 2d church. The next year he returned to Camb., where he d., Aug. 18, 1652. He m. Susannah, dr. of Dea. Thomas and Susannah Marrett, of Camb. Where she d. Ap. 17, 1654.
Margaret, bap. In Scit., Feb. 24, 1649-50.
George bap. In Scit., June 12, 1652. Jan. 1690, “George Bairsto,” aged 36, was wit. in court at Camb. George, son of George and Mary “Basto,” b. in Rox., Aug. 1687.