William
Gates
Born in Marlborough, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Silas Gates
and Elizabeth (Bragg) Gates
Brother of
Sarah (Gates) Holyoke, Lydia Gates, Silas Gates, Samuel Gates, Jonathan B. Gates, Elizabeth (Gates) Eager, Mary Gates and Susannah Gates
Husband of
Elizabeth (Howe) Gates
— married
20 Sep 1786 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Father of
Lydia (Gates) Rice
Died
at age 85
in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Biography
William Gates was from Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Brief Life History of William Gates
- When William Gates was born on 8 Apr 1762, in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, his father, Capt. Silas Gates, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Bragg, was 31. He married Jerusha Goodnow on 13 Jul 1784, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at Mary Gates, born 27 Nov 1784. Jerusha died shortly thereaftr in December 1784 and he married second Elizabeth Howe on 20 September 1786.[1] They had five children in Marlborough. He died on 11 Jun 1848, in his hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in Brigham Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
Birth and Family
Marriage
Jerusha died in December 1784 shortly after giving birth to daughter Mary Gates. He married second Elizabeth How (or Howe) on 20 September 1786.
Children
Siblings
Death and Burial
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850, Marlborough Marriages, page 254. NOTE: This sourcee lists both the Goodenow and How Marriages.
- ↑ Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts by Marlborough (Mass.); Rice, Franklin t, Worcester, Mass., F.P. Rice, trustee of the fund. P. (76).
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5NH-DVM : 15 January 2020), William Gates, 1762.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F82D-JZQ : Thu Oct 26 00:21:14 UTC 2023), Entry for William Gates and Jerusha Goodenow, 13 Jul 1784.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC7-D4B7 : Thu Oct 26 01:24:06 UTC 2023), Entry for William Gates and Jerusha Goodenow, 13 Jul 1784.
- This person was created through the import of Family.ged on 28 November 2010.
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