. Ancestors and descendants of Asa Bates of Cummington, Mass . BATES ARMS Batc6 (Benealogi? THE NAME. The name Bates is supposed to be de-rived from Bartholomews son, Bartholomewbeing shortened to Batte or Bate; some au-thorities, however, derive the name from theAnglo-Saxon woid bate meaning con-tendon. In the form Bate the name was commonin England for several centuries before thedeparture of the Puritans for New New England the name was usually Bate,at first, changing gradually, and becomingfixed as Bates about the time of the Revo-lution. ANCESTORS IN ENGLAND. The ancestors of C

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. Ancestors and descendants of Asa Bates of Cummington, Mass . BATES ARMS Batc6 (Benealogi? THE NAME. The name Bates is supposed to be de-rived from Bartholomews son, Bartholomewbeing shortened to Batte or Bate; some au-thorities, however, derive the name from theAnglo-Saxon woid bate meaning con-tendon. In the form Bate the name was commonin England for several centuries before thedeparture of the Puritans for New New England the name was usually Bate,at first, changing gradually, and becomingfixed as Bates about the time of the Revo-lution. ANCESTORS IN ENGLAND. The ancestors of Clement Bates of Hing-h im, Mass., can be traced back to John Bateo* Lydd, Parish of All Hallows, County ofKent, England, who died in 1522. The an-cestry of this John is not certainly deter-mined. A commonly accepted statementhas been that he was a son of Thomas Bate ot Lydd, who died in 1485, leaving a sonJohn; but another authority gives the fol-lowing :— 1. John Bate of Lydd, named in thewills of his brother William and his sonHenry, both wills dated 147

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