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 .. . ^Mtc/^ ^a^ HE founder of the family in Ashby was PaulGates, second son of Silas and Mary (Graves-Brown) Gates, who married in Boxborough,Mass., February 13, 1800, Elizabeth Hay-ward, daughter of Paul and Anna (White) died in Ashby, August 28, 1819, and she married asher second husband, February 9, 1831, Samuel Whit-comb, son of Ephraim and Hannah(Hoar) Whitcomb of Littleton, whowas born April 30, 1777, and died June 30, 1861 ; shewas
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 .. . ^Mtc/^ ^a^ HE founder of the family in Ashby was PaulGates, second son of Silas and Mary (Graves-Brown) Gates, who married in Boxborough,Mass., February 13, 1800, Elizabeth Hay-ward, daughter of Paul and Anna (White) died in Ashby, August 28, 1819, and she married asher second husband, February 9, 1831, Samuel Whit-comb, son of Ephraim and Hannah(Hoar) Whitcomb of Littleton, whowas born April 30, 1777, and died June 30, 1861 ; shewas born in Boxborough, October 7, 1776, and died inAshby, May 8, 1855. Mr. Gates and his wife, immediately after their mar-riage, removed to their new home in the southern partof Ashby, where the year before he had purchased afarm containing ninety-one acres, with a fertile soil suitably divided into pasture, mowing and woodland. This is the old family homestead around which have (30). Silas Gates and His Descendants. 33 been gathering, for more than a century, many happymemories, and here he died. The house is now occupiedby his grand-daughter, Mrs. Edward White. It is situ-ated on an elevation commanding an extensive view,north and east, of perhaps fifty miles. A copy of the deed conveying this farm to Paul Gatesis here given. Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Pingry of Ashby inthe County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, tailor,in consideration of one thousand dollars paid me by Paul Gates ofBoxborough in the County aforesaid. Cooper, the receipt whereof Ido hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey to thesaid Paul Gates, his heirs & assigns, a certain tenement or farm lying& being in Southerly part of Ashby aforesaid, containing fifty eightacres & three quarters of an acre of land with a Mansion House* onthe same, be the same more or less, bounded as follows (viz) begin-ning at a stake «& stones by the
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