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Samuel Gates, I

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: September 30, 1793 (108)
Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:

Son of Simon Gates and Margaret Gates
Husband of Rachel Gates; Mary [Fairbanks] [Truesdell] Gates and Sarah Gates
Father of Jonathon Gates; Abigail Gates; Samuel Gates, II; David Gates; Lucy Gates and 5 others
Brother of Abigail Mayo; Simon Gates (1673 - 1675); Simon Gates, III; George Gates; Amos Gates, Sr. and 3 others

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About Samuel Gates, I

From “The New England Historical and Genealogical Register”, July 1966 (vol. 120, pg. 161)

Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster and Cambridge, Mass., and Some of His Descendants by the late Clarence Almon Torrey, Ph.B.

Samuel Gates was born in Cambridge, MA, 11 Aug. 1685.

He married (1st), in Woodstock, CT, 12 Feb. 1709/10, Mary (Richards) (Fairbanks) Truesdale, who died in Ridgefield, CT, 26, March 1732. Mary was the widow of Richard Truesdale and previously the widow of Benjamin Fairbanks. Samuel married (2nd) Sarah.

Samuel Gates was living in Pomfret, CT, at the time of his 1st marriage, and later moved to Ridgefield.

Children by his 1st wife, all born in Pomfret, CT:

Samuel, b. probably about 1710

Jonathan, b. 4 June 1712; d. in Pomfret March 1719/20.

Abigail, b. 7 Aug. 1714

David, b. 7 Sept. 1716; d. in Pomfret 16 Sept. 1716.

Lucy, b. December 1717

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Samuel Gates, I's Timeline

1685
August 11, 1685
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1712
June 4, 1712
Pomfret, CT, United States
1714
August 7, 1714
Pomfret, CT
1715
August 14, 1715
Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States
1716
September 7, 1716
Pomfret, CT, United States
1717
December 1717
Pomfret, CT
1722
April 8, 1722
Pomfret, CT
1733
September 10, 1733
Ridgefield, CT
1737
July 11, 1737
Ridgefield, CT
1739
July 20, 1739
Ridgefield, CT