6 Sep 1775, Culpeper Co., VA - The will of Francis Gaines names his daughter, Betty. [3]
24 Apr 1786, Culpeper Co., VA - The will of Doratha (sic) Gaines names her daughter, Elizabeth Yates. [4]
Sources for parents are still under consideration. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. indicates that her father was Francis Gaines.
Elizabeth was born in 1757. She passed away in 1820.
Elizabeth Gaines married John Estes Yates, son of George Yates and Frances Fielding Lewis. Their children were Esther Yates and another.
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↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 22 Sep 2020), "Record of John Yates", Ancestor # A129437.
↑ Will of Doratha (sic) Gaines. Culpeper Co., VA, WB C (1783-1791), pp. 186-188, written 24 Apr 1786, proved 19 Jun 1786. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://tinyurl.com/m4af7znk
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However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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