Silas Gates, of Stow, Mass., and the descendants of his son, Paul Gates, of Ashby, Mass / compiled by Julius Kendall Gates and Samuel Pearly Gates .. . HERE is in the possession of the family, aBible printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in1775, which is well preserved, with not aleaf torn nor missing. It once belonged toMrs. Mary Gates, who was the daughter of Peter andLydia Graves, and married (intention Nov. 23, 1751)her cousin Jonas Brown, son of Deliverance and Eliza-beth (Graves) Brown, of Stow, who was born March 10,1731, and died there while a young man. They hadthree children. Mrs. Browns s
Silas Gates, of Stow, Mass., and the descendants of his son, Paul Gates, of Ashby, Mass / compiled by Julius Kendall Gates and Samuel Pearly Gates .. . HERE is in the possession of the family, aBible printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in1775, which is well preserved, with not aleaf torn nor missing. It once belonged toMrs. Mary Gates, who was the daughter of Peter andLydia Graves, and married (intention Nov. 23, 1751)her cousin Jonas Brown, son of Deliverance and Eliza-beth (Graves) Brown, of Stow, who was born March 10,1731, and died there while a young man. They hadthree children. Mrs. Browns second husband was En-sign Silas Gates, who died in Stow, June 16, her son Silas removed to Wendell, she made herhome for a time in his family, but the latter years of herlife were passed in Ashby with her son Paul, and afterhis death with her grandson, Howard Gates, who livedon the old homestead, where she died June 19, 183 i, at the advanced age of nearly ninety-six years. (114). Ly^^^cciA% i^oXs:^ Mary Gates. 117 No one now living is able to give an extended sketchof the life of Mrs. Gates, and we can only judge of herby her silhouette and the character of her descendants. From this Bible the following record has been taken : MARY GATES HER BIBLE Mary Gates born august y*^ loth 1735Lydia Brown Born March y*^ 24th 1752*Sarah Brown Born Dec y^ ist 1755!Daniel Brown Born Mar y^ 9, 1758ISilas Gates Born March y*^ 27 : 1770Paul Gates Born Dec y^ r6 1771Mary Gates Bible Anno Dom : 1787 * Married (intention Oct. 2, 1772) Nathaniel Wilder, of Westminster,t Married Mar. 15, 1779, Abel Bigelow, of Lancaster.\ Married Feb. 19, 1783, Sarah Whitney.
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