Sarah Jordan (Bates) Ratcliff (1765)

Born 17 Mar 1765 in York County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah (Bates) Ratcliff was a Virginia colonist.

Sarah Jordan Bates

Birth

Sarah Jordan Bates was born on 17 Mar 1765 in Charles City, Virginia to Benjamin Bates and Hannah Green.^[1]

Marriage

Sarah and John Ratcliff married on 5 Nov 1787.^[1]

Sarah and John had children:

Hannah B. b 1788,10,12 d 1795,1,31

Elizabeth b 1791, 3,12 d 1795,10,16

Sarah J. b 1793,9,2

Josiah b 1796,4,26

Hannah b 1798,4,16

John b 1800,4,21

Elizabeth b 1802,7,21

William b 1805,2,12

Benjamin B. b n 1808,7,6.

Research Notes

Historical and Genealogical Notes; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 2

Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project Page 122. - Page 123.

proved in York county in 1784. It names wife Sarah, sons Benjamin(6) and Thomas, and grandchildren Edward, Mary, and Sarah -- all three under age. BENJAMIN(6) BATES' will was proved in York, January 16,

1804, and names sons Edward, Benjamin, Elisha, and Fleming, and daughters Mary Ratcliffe, Sarah Ratcliffe, Susannah Hockaday, and Martha Bates. In 1769 Fleming Bates, of York county, made a deed to Thomas, of Henrico county, his son. ISAAC(4) BATES' will was proved in Albemarle county, December 14, 1752, and in it he divides his land in York county among his five children -- John (of Buckingham county), Isaac, Ann, Lucy, and Elizabeth. THOMAS FLEMING BATES was one of the trustees in 1788 to lay out the town of Columbia, in Fluvanna county. (Hening Stats., XII., p. 682). Alexander Brown says he was grandson of John Bates, of York county, and Susannah Fleming, his wife. (Cabells and Their Kin, p. 499). He married Caroline Matilda Woodson, and had issue: 1, Frederick Bates, who went to Missouri and was Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards governor of the State; 2, James Bates, who went to Arkansas, and was delegate in Congress; 3, Edward, who went to Missouri, was congressman, judge, Attorney-General in Lincoln's ad- ministration, father of Onward Bates, Esq., of Chicago; 4, Fleming Bates, who has Sepnce, born October 14, 1804, Margaret, Deborah, Daniel, Unity, Hannah, Edward, Flementine; 5, Richard Bates, father of Charles W. Bates, of St. Louis; 6, Julian, M.D.; 7, John Coalter; 8, C. W. Bates; 9, Matilda, now deceased; 10, Mrs. E. B. Eno, of St. Louis.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hinshaw, William Wade, and Thomas Worth Marshall, (1936) Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy Ann Arbor, Mich: [Edwards Bros] online book (pp. 155,209).

See also:

• Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1740-1815; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: 1116/206; digital image, Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 August 2017); U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line].
• Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
• North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
• Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Earlham College Friends Collection & College Archives, Richmond, Indiana.
• Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.