Tombstone reads, "In memory of Mr Judah Gates who died June ye 25th AD 1767 in the 40th year of his age."
Sources
East Haddam, CT, Vital Records, p 140-141.
Lucius Barnes Barbour, Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.), East Haddam.
Hale Collection of Tombstone Inscriptions, Connecticut.
D. Williams Patterson, George Gates of East Haddam, Connecticut, and His Descendants (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, typescript copy 1934 from original manuscript 1865 (FHL #517148 item 1)).
Mary Virginia Wakeman, Inscriptions on the Old Grave Markers in All of the Burying Grounds in East Haddam and Seven of Those in Lyme. (Nathan Hale Memorial Chapter, NSDAR. June 1907.).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Judah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Judah: