GATES Stephen d. Between 9 Jun 1662 and 29 Sep 1662 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States: Noyes Family Genealogy

1597 - 1662 (~ 64 years)

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Name	GATES Stephen
Christening	26 Dec 1597	Coney Weston, Suffolk, England [2]
Gender	Male
Emigration	Jun 1638	Ipswich, Suffolk, England [3]
	Under the leadership of Rev. Robert Peck, a large number of Hingham families decided to emigrate to New England, including that of Stephen Gates. With about one hundred others, most of them his neighbors, he sailed with his wife (Ann Veare) and two small daughters on the "Diligent" of Ipswich, John Martin master, in June.
Immigration	10 Aug 1638	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [4]
Residence	Aft 10 Aug 1638	Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [5]
Residence	1652	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [5]
Residence	Bef 3 Apr 1654	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States [5]
Will	9 Jun 1662 [5]
	His will directed that his wife Ann and son Simon continue on this farm until the lease was out and that his son Thomas might continue with them as long as he pleased. To wife Ann was given a third of all his lands and all personal estate for life. To son Stephen, a house and house lot of twenty acres at Nashaway and other lands, including all of his meadow at "postipolikin," the thirds being excepted. To sons Simon and Thomas equally three hundred and fourteen acres at Nashaway and meadow at Still River. To daughter Elizabeth a colt and to daughter Mary Maynard a heifer, both when the farm lease was out. An apprentice Elizabeth ____ [Bradshaw or Bradstare? Note Edmund Bradshaw on p. 41] was to serve out her time with his wife. Executors: his wife and son Simon. Witnesses: Edmund Angier, Ester Sparhauke. A very detailed inventory shows a well stocked farm at Lancaster where there was an old house and a new one "a finishing." On January 27, 1715, Simon Gates and Nathaniel Sparhawk were named administrators de bonis non [Middlesex Probate, No. 8995]
Death	Between 9 Jun 1662 and 29 Sep 1662	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [2, 5, 6]
	Torrey says 1662.
Will (proved)	7 Oct 1662 [5]
_UID	B9C90D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000F651
Notes	Stephen Gates, the emigrant ancestor , spent his early life in Hingham, county Norfolk, England. The parish records of Hingham, now in existence, begin with the year 1601, and there are no entries of the Gates name until 1622, so it is probable that Stephen, who married in 1628, was born in another parish. After emigrating to New England, he and his family were part of the group who founded the settlement they named Hingham, where Stephen Gates had a grant of land soon after the town's organization. In 1646 a fine entered against him was remitted because of poverty. [Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 2:164:8:80]. In 1652 he removed to Cambridge and soon afterward to Lancaster where he subscribed to the town orders April 3, 1654. He took the freeman's oath May 14, 1656. As late constable of Lancaster, Gates was fined £10 in June, 1657, for not summoning the town's freemen to vote for magistrates, [Middlesex Court Records, printed in Nourse's "Annals of Lancaster," p. 48], but in October following his fine was remitted on his petition stating that he was sick at the time and had already paid 10 s. for entering his petition. [Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 4:1:303] The next year he had trouble with his neighbor John Whitcomb who had given him a bill of 45s. to pay for three swine Stephen claimed had been killed by his neighbor's sons. Whitcomb owned the bill in court as his own act, but later petitioned that the case might be fully heard on both sides, claiming he had signed it when weak and sick without proper consideration, and also because of Stephen's threats. The court decided the bill must be paid. [Middlesex Court Records in "Annals of Lancaster," p. 63] During the family's stay in Lancaster, also, Stephen's wife gave offense of some kind to "Mister Rowlandson," the minister, but this was soon lost to sight in the trouble that resulted to her daughter Mary for speaking up in public meeting in support of her mother's word against the minister's. [Middlesex Court Files in "Annals of Lancaster," pp. 46-48] At some later date Gates returned to Cambridge where he lived on a leased farm.
Person ID	I28820	Noyes Family Genealogy
Last Modified	6 May 2010

Father	GATES Eustace d. Yes, date unknown
Mother	WRIGHT Rose, c. 25 Feb 1566, Coney Weston, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 69 years)
Marriage	4 Mar 1592	Coney Weston, Suffolk, England [2, 4]
Family ID	F11296	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family NEAVE Ann, b. 1603 d. 5 Feb 1682/3, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 80 years)

Marriage 5 May 1628 Hingham, Norfolk, England [2, 4, 6, 7]

Children

	1. GATES Elizabeth d. Yes, date unknown
	2. GATES Stephen d. 9 Jul 1707
	3. GATES Marie, c. 15 Oct 1636, Hingham, Norfolk, England d. Yes, date unknown
	4. GATES Simon, b. Abt 1643 d. 26 Aug 1691 (Age ~ 48 years)
	5. GATES Thomas, b. Abt 1642 d. 10 Aug 1726, Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 84 years)
	6. GATES Isaac, c. 3 May 1646 d. 3 Sep 1651 (Age ~ 5 years)
	7. GATES Rebecca, c. 3 May 1646 d. Jan 1650 (Age ~ 3 years)

Family ID F11295 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Feb 2024

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	Christening - 26 Dec 1597 - Coney Weston, Suffolk, England
	Marriage - 5 May 1628 - Hingham, Norfolk, England
	Emigration - Jun 1638 - Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Sources

[S325] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:5-6.
[S1237] Periodical-NEHGR, 160:14 Jan 2006 "English Origins of Stephen Gates".
[S325] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:8.
[S325] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:5.
[S325] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:6.
[S175] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.296.
[S1237] Periodical-NEHGR, 163:134 Apr 2009 "Ann Neave, Wife of Stephen Gates.

GATES Stephen[1]

GATES Stephen^[1]