. The Yates book : William Yates and his descendants; the history and genealogy of William Yates (1772-1868) of Greenwood, Me., and his wife, who was Martha Morgan, together with the line of her descent from Robert Morgan of Beverly. venanters to protecttheir lives, worshippersentered upon the performance of all religious exercises, as did the ancient Jews,standing, armed and ready for instant defence. Back of all this is the significantfact that the only instance of record wherein grandfather named his birthplacewas his statement made Cordwell, his grandson, that he was born in Scot-lan
. The Yates book : William Yates and his descendants; the history and genealogy of William Yates (1772-1868) of Greenwood, Me., and his wife, who was Martha Morgan, together with the line of her descent from Robert Morgan of Beverly. venanters to protecttheir lives, worshippersentered upon the performance of all religious exercises, as did the ancient Jews,standing, armed and ready for instant defence. Back of all this is the significantfact that the only instance of record wherein grandfather named his birthplacewas his statement made Cordwell, his grandson, that he was born in Scot-land. While evidence that grandfather was born in Scotland would seem to beconclusive, the other significant fact that his speech was clean-cut English with-out the faintest symptom of the Scottish clip, is strong presumptive evidence of hisEnglish pareutage; therefore in the absence of more definite information, I ad-here to my conclusions as already expressed, namely, that Grandfather Yates wasborn of English parents near to or on Scottish soil; that in his early teens he wasapprenticed as a laborer near Portsmouth, England ; that soon thereafter becameover the sea as a stowaway, landing in Boston and drifting thence to > X ^ ^J
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