Alexander GATES

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• Fact: 1850-Living with grandparetns and listed as Alexander Gates, age 2 years

Unknown married Melissa GATES before 1848. Melissa (daughter of Daniel GATES and Nancy NOFFSINGER) was born about 1825; died in 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Malissa's first husband might be A.C. Ring b. abt. 1820 and they married abt. 1846 in Sunsbury Twp, Monroe Co., Ohio

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• Birth: Abt 1787, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Birth date is unconfirmed.

Daniel married Nancy NOFFSINGER on 04 Oct 1808 in Belmont County, Ohio. Nancy was born on 20 Mar 1792; died on 23 Nov 1878 in Belmont Co., Ohio; was buried in Captina Church of Christ, Beallsville, Belmont County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Mathias Noffsinger and Nancy Ann Brill
• Birth: Abt 1791, Pennsylvania, USA

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Catharine Foreaker Fedorchak, Family research in Monroe County from the Spirit of Democracy, Woodsfield, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1973 Page 87.
"In the Name of God, Amen, I Matthias Nofsinger, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, blessed be almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my last will & testament in manner and form following (that is to say) First I give and bequeath to my eldest son John Nofsinger the plantation or farm that we now possess with all my personal estate, goods and chattels of what kind or nature soever. I give and bequeath the same to my said beloved wife Anne Nofsinger during her life time and at her death to be divided equally among my children now alive or with this exception that if my said wife Anne Nofsinger should marry that then a division of the property should take place in the like manner as it would at her death. Lastly I do also give and bequeath to my youngest son James Nofsinger when he arrives at the age of twenty-one a horse worth forty dollars, but if not worth that sum, that it might be made up in other property to that amount. I do hereby ordain and appoint George Goets and David ruble as sole executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of march in the year of our Lord 1808, witnessed by Mitchel Atkinson and Daniel Goets."

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• Also Known As: George Gates

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Information from mariana L Zuelsdorf:
History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. J.A. Caldwell. Historical Publishing Co., 1880 Page 417
"York was one of the original civil townships and erected November 25, 1801, as follows: The third to begin on the Ohio river at the southeast corner of the township of Pultney.......thence up the river to the place of beginning, to be called and known by the township of York. This township has been the scene of severa Indian depredations, prominent among which was the battle of Captina....this battle occured in 1794, on section 8, at the mouth of Cove Run.
.........George Gates (setled) Septembe 28, 1804......Abel Brown (settled )December 21, 1805

From: "Belmont Co., Ohio before 1830." Irene M. Ochsenbein and Catharine F. Fedorchak. 1977. Page 53
"George Gates is buried in the Boger Cemetery, York Township, Belmont Co., near the junction of State Road 7 and S.R. 148. He emigrated from Germany to eastern PA., then to Washington Co., PAS., in 1790, then to Washington and Belmont Cos. in Ohio, near the boundary with present day Monroe Co. His will is on file in Belmont Co. and the following children are named: 1. Mary; 2, Susan; 3. Daniel;4. Valentine; 5. Henry; 6. George; 7 Solomon; 8. Sevilla; and 9. John."

"Monroe County, Ohio: A History. by Theresa A. Maienknecht and Stanley B. Maienknecht. Chapter XXX Switzerland township. Page 408
"Early in the month of April 1819 a colony of ten Swiss families embarked in a flat boat......After leaving Wheeling they were informed that at Captina there was a great quantity of vacant land, and that there they would find two men (Henry Sweppy and George Goetz) who could speak German, and were urged to stop there. On the 15th day of September they landed there and were kindly received and cordially welcomed by the old settlers of the Valley of Captina, viz: the Greens, Lemleys, Moores, Browns, Goetz, Sweppy, Ruble, Smith, and others."
"Along the river all was a forest, except an improvement opposite Fish Creek, then owned by George Goetz. On Big Run, Jos Blare, Hendershot Lemley and the Smiths had made some improvement. In Belmont County, on Captina and Cat's Run, was settled by the Greens, Browns and Goetz, before mentioned."

Georg married Maria Sybilla STEHELI on 11 Jun 1782 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Maria (daughter of Johann Melchior STEHELI and Maria Sybilla ?) was born in 1761 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died on 09 Dec 1850 in York Township,Belmont County, Ohio; was buried in Boger Cemetery, York Township, Belmont Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with daughter, Susannah Gates Brisen, in York, Belmont County, Ohio