Nehemiah Bates (1740 - 1817)

Born 19 Jun 1740 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitable (Marble) Bates — married about 1761 in Scituate, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 20 May 1817 at age 76 in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Nehemiah and his growing family removed from Hingham to Chesterfield, Massachusetts about 1771, settling in that part of town near Goshen. Chesterfield, like many other “frontier towns” of the mid 1700s, was a land grant, "payment" for services in the French and Indian Wars as much as fifty years earlier. The Massachusetts legislature couldn't afford to pay the veterans in cash, so they gave them (or their heirs by then) land in what was then the frontier.

Private Nehemiah Bates served with Hampshire County, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Nehemiah Bates is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A007490.

Nehemiah was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving for 21 days as a private in Captain Bannister’s company, Col. Ezra May’s Regiment (he is included in DAR’s “Patriot Index”). Sears Hampshire County, MA Regt. Mehitable died June 3, 1809; he followed eight years later on May 20, 1817. They had 11 children.

Sources

• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol II, p.45