Oliver GATES

Male 1753 - 1839  (86 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Oliver GATES was born on 20 Apr 1753 (son of Silas GATES and Mary WHITCOMB); died on 26 May 1839 in Stow, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Military Service: A soldier in the American Revolution

    Oliver married Patience MERRIAM on 25 Oct 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Silas GATES was born on 10 Jul 1718 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts (son of Daniel GATES and Anna ?); died on 16 Jun 1779 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    Silas made his home at the old Gates homestead, where he followed farming and spent his life. During the revolutionary war he did his part in the ranks of the patriots, it being recorded in the records of the Massachusetts soldiers and sailors in the Revolution that Silas Gates was among the men belonging to the alarm list of Captain Benjamin Monroe's Sixth Company, Fourth Middlesex County Regiment, indorsed a few years before the close of that great struggle.

    Silas married Mary WHITCOMB about 1744. Mary (daughter of Jonathan WHITCOMB and Rachel WOODS) was born in Massachusetts, USA; was christened on 4 Oct 1724; died before 25 Jul 1756 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary WHITCOMB was born in Massachusetts, USA; was christened on 4 Oct 1724 (daughter of Jonathan WHITCOMB and Rachel WOODS); died before 25 Jul 1756 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 04 Oct 1724, Lancaster, Massachusetts

    Children:
    1. Anna GATES was born on 27 Mar 1746 in Stow, Massachusetts; died on 08 Sep 1805 in New Braintree, Massachusetts.
    2. Daniel GATES was born on 28 Oct 1747; died on 20 Jan 1778.
    3. 1. Oliver GATES was born on 20 Apr 1753; died on 26 May 1839 in Stow, Massachusetts.
    4. Silas GATES was born between 19 Feb 1750 and 1751; died in young.
    5. Jonathan GATES was born on 25 Jul 1749; died on 06 Feb 1827 in Westminster, Massachusetts; was buried on 08 Feb 1827.
    6. Elizabeth GATES was born on 16 Jul 1744 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 23 Nov 1826 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.