Silas GATES

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 DABY on 25 Jul 1756. Mary (daughter of John DABY and Hannah BUTTERICK) was born on 24 Oct 1722 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died between 28 Jun 1757 and 01 Dec 1760 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Silas married Mary GRAVES on 08 May 1769. Mary (daughter of Peter GRAVES and Lydia ?) was born on 10 Aug 1735 in Stow, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jun 1831 in Ashby, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Silas married Anna BEMIS on 01 Dec 1760. Anna was born on 04 Jul 1730 in Watertown, Massachusetts; died before 08 May 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Mary married Daniel HOOKER, Sr. on 24 Apr 1773 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Daniel was born on 25 Jun 1750 in Littleton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 15 Feb 1817 in Brandon, Rutland Co., Vermont; was buried in Congregational Church Cemetery, Brandon, Rutland Co., Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Paul was born in the town of Stow, and there grew to manhood. After his marriage he removed to the town of Ashby, Massachusetts, where he bought a tract of 91 acres on which he made extensive improvements, enlarging the dwelling-house and other buildings. On this property he spent the remainder of his life, engaged in general farming, and prospered by hard work and close application to his business affairs.

Paul married Elizabeth HAYWARD on 13 Feb 1800 in Boxboro, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Paul HAYWARD and Anna WHITE) was born on 07 Oct 1776 in Boxboro, Massachusetts; died on 08 May 1855 in Ashby, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Silas married Elizabeth JOHNSON on 06 Aug 1791. Elizabeth died on 06 Jan 1866 in Leverett, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eunice married Amos WHEELER on 27 Jan 1780. Amos was born on 12 Jul 1754 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 07 Apr 1817 in Sullivan Co., New Hampshire; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Charlestown, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Aaron WILLARD on 06 Mar 1783 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Aaron (son of Benjamin WILLARD and Sarah BROOKS) was born on 14 Oct 1757 in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 20 May 1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Jonathan WOOD on 19 Jun 1766. Jonathan died on 19 Sep 1807 in New Braintree, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Soldier in the American Revolution

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: A soldier in the American Revolution

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: A soldier in the American Revolution

Jonathan married Hannah SALTER on 28 Nov 1785. Hannah died on 25 Jan 1839. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joshua BROWN on 15 May 1767 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Joshua was born on 24 Jun 1742 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 27 Jun 1817 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail GOSS. Abigail was born in 1789 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA; died on 04 Aug 1845 in Gowanda, Cattaraugus, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Paul received his early education in the schools of his neighborhood, and grew to manhood on the home farm, and after his marriage he bought a tract of land in another section of the town. Upon this tract of land he settled, and was engaged in farming and stock raising. He met with continued success in his undertakings and was enabled to make material improvements on his property, on which he remained to the close of his useful and well-spent life. He reached a ripe old age, honored and respected by all who knew him for his honesty and high standards. In political faith he was a staunch Republican. Mr Gates was an active and devout member of the Unitarian church, of which he was deacon for a number of years. Mr. Gates and his wife passed a well-rounded married life of almost 54 years, and they were not long separated by death. She was laid to rest beside her husband, at Ashby. Mrs. Gates was a true Christian woman, thoroughly beloved in her home, to which her best thought had always been devoted.

Pearly married Mary BURR on 01 Oct 1834 in Ashby, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Robert Waterman BURR and Susannah BUTLER) was born on 10 Nov 1810 in Ashby, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 19 Nov 1888 in Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Living in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Stephen married Helen Nash NORTON on 12 Jun 1849 in Springville, New York. Helen was born on 09 Sep 1830 in Richfield Springs, Otsego, New York, USA; died on 15 Mar 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Ilinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 21 Dec 1911

Notes:

Samuel's boyhood was passed on his father's farm in the customary manner of the sons of the average farmer of those days, assisting in season with the work on the farm and attending the neighboring district schools during the winter months. While yet in his teens, in his 19th year, desirous of furthering his studies, he entered the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1857. For a short time after his graduation he was engaged as a clerk in the general store of Joshua E. Crane, but soon accepted a clerkship in the office of Messrs. Bates, Hyde & Company, manufacturers of cotton gins, at Bridgewater, which was the beginning of what proved to be a most honorable and successful business career. His deportment, application and all around adaptability to the business of the establishment commended itself to his employers and it was not long where he was thoroughly familiar with all the details of the business and given the opportunity of entering the concern as an interested member. This opening was taken advantage of by him and he continued actively identified with the same until his death. Upon the breaking out of the civil war, Mr Gates offered his services to his country, enlisting in the regular army of the United States at Washington, for 5 years, and was detailed for duty in the adjutantgeneral's office in the war department under Marjor Samuel Breck, then assistant adjutantgeneral and afterwards adjutant-general of the United States army In 1864 he was given an honorable discharge by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and he then returned to Bridgewater, resuming his position with Messrs. Bates, Hyde & Company. In 1877 the business was incorporated under the name of the Eagle Cotton Gin Company, and Mr Gates was made treasurer of the new corporation, continuing to discharge most satisfactorily the duties of that office until 1899,when this concern with other similar plants consolidated under the name of the Continental Gin Company, of Birmingham, Alabama, the latter concern being incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware. Mr Gates was then made a director of the new corporation, and from that time until his death continued in charge of the plant at Bridgewater. As he was noted for his generosity, it was naturally to be expected that he would be liberal in his public bequests.

Samuel married Marcia Elizabeth JACKSON on 26 Oct 1871. Marcia (daughter of Jacob JACKSON and Joan HOLMES) was born on 16 Aug 1843; died on 20 Jan 1873; was buried in Mt. Prospect Cemetery, Bridgewater. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hattie Patten CLARK. Hattie was born in New Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rev. George Stetson SHAW. George (son of Elnathan Tabor SHAW and Mary Ann STETSON) was born on 08 Apr 1837 in Bristol, Rhode Island; died on 01 Feb 1909 in Ashby, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]