Thomas Fleming Bates

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He and Caroline had 12 children.

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(Research): A Rootsweb source gives the children of Thomas & Caroline as: Frederick, James, Edward, Richard, Julian M.D., John Coalter, C.W. Bates, Matilda, & a Mrs. E.B. Eno of St. Louis... Their names need to be clarified...

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(Research): The webmaster of The Bates Family of Old Virginia says that Elizabeth Daniel was the wife of the John Bates II-the uncle of our ancsstor John Bates. So I am listing her.

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Thomas was an early settler and was prominent in Goochland County and also in St. James Northam Parish. A Quaker, he nevertheless served in the Revolution.

From the «i»Bates Booster «/i»newsletter Vol 23 Number 6 138 November 1994 Pg 2-3: Re: Meriwether Lewis of "Lewis and Clark"-
Thomas Fleming Bates-"Another dark cloud was the Meriwether's elevation to private secretary to President Jefferson was not universally admired. Thomas Bates, father of Meriwether Lewis's friend Tarlton, suggested to his other son, Frederick in May 1801, that the appointment should have gone to one of the brothers, the father saying: "Capt. Lewis has received and accepted the appointment of private secretary to the President, so that my golden dreams have been delusive." Thomas' son Frederick Bates was an ambitious young man who was seeking his fortune on the frontier. He was of flexible politics, having been a Jeffersonian Democrat, then a Federalist, and now back to Democrat again. In 1767, he had served in Detroit under General Wilkinson and was quite close to the general at the height of the Burr "conspiracy". Bates not only had confrontations with Lewis and Clark but also with other officials... The source of Bates's unremitting hatred of Lewis has never been pinned down.----------------------------------- «i»Hening Statistic«/i»s XII p. 682: Thomas Fleming Bates was one of the trustees in1788 to lay out the town of Columbia in Fluvanna county. From «i»Cabells and Their Kin«/i», p. 499: Alexander Brown says he was the grandson of John Bates, of York county, and Susannah Flemling, his wife. He married Caroline Matilda Woodson and had issue... (See children's notes)