Martha (Stetson) Bates (1765 - abt. 1849)

Born 4 Dec 1765 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Bates — married 3 Mar 1786 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 26 Feb 1849 at about age 83 in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Martha “Matta” Stetson, born in Dec. 1765 in Pembroke^[1], 7th Child of Abel Stetson and Lydia Washburn. ^[2]

Marriage

Married Benjamin Bates of Hanover Massachusets, 3 Mar 1786^[3] - 8 Children (see Maltby Below) ^[4]

1. Abigail (Stetson) Hersey, m. David Hersey of Abington, Massachusetts
2. Betsey (Stetson) Bates, m 4 Mar 1812, William Bates
3. Lydia (Stetson) Stoddard, m. Jun 1813 William Stoddard of Hingham
4. Sally Stetson, unmarried
5. Horatio Stetson
6. Benjamin Stetson, m. Hannah Munroe of Norton, Massachusetts
7. Oliver Stetson, d. unmarried
8. John Stetson, moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts

• From John Maltby:

Lydia Washburn and Abel Stetson had children, including:

Martha “Matta” Stetson, born on 4 Dec. 1765 in Pembroke,^[5] mar­ried Benja­min Bates, of Hanover, MA, on 3 Mar. 1786 in Pembroke.^[6] They possibly had 3 daughters by 1790, and were living in Hanover in the 1790 federal census ^[7]

Death

She possibly died on 26 Feb. 1849 ^[A] in Hanover, aged 87 [sic] years,^[8] and he was living in an elderly and insane house in Hanover, MA, in the 1850 federal census.^[9]

He died on 22 Apr. 1853 in Hanover, aged 92 years, 6 months,^[10] but no pro­bate re­cords were filed for his estate in Plymouth County.

Research Notes

• Stetson Kindred Genealogical Index: 1-1-1-5-1-7

A. O.F. Stetson quotes the 26 Feb Date for her death as accurate. ^[11]

Much of the information above is actually about her husband and their children -- probably does not belong on this record rsl

Sources

1. ↑ Pembroke Record in Stetson: Vol. 1, no. 2, Page 107
2. ↑ Pembroke Record in Stetson: Vol. 1, no. 2, Page 107
3. ↑ Stetson: Vol. 1, no. 3, Page 25
4. ↑ (No Birth Dates are given in Stetson: Vol. 1, no. 3, Page 25
5. ↑ Pembroke VRs, p. 194.
6. ↑ Pembroke VRs, p. 353, as “Martha Stetson.”
7. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 170, Hanover Town, Plymouth County, the Benjamin Bates household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older and 4 free white females.
8. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 41, p. 86, online at www.americanancestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, but the names of her parents were not given in the death record and her age is incorrect; Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, online database at www.familysearch.org, but her age at death is incorrect.
9. ↑ 1850 Federal Census, Hanover, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 104, dwelling #57, family #69: John Stetson, 35, male, shoemaker, $1600, born MA; Ann Stetson, 26, female, born NY; Henry M. Stetson, 7, male, born NJ; Samuel T. Stetson, 4/12, male, born MA; Shubal Munroe, 89, female, born MA; Benjamin Bates, 88 male, born MA; (Plus 5 other unrelated people)
10. ↑ Hanover, MA: Vital Record, 1727-1857, p. 240, online at www.americanancestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.
11. ↑ Stetson: Vol. 1, no. 3, Page 25

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Lydia Washburn - child # 2067
• Stetson, Oscar Frank, ed; Stetson, Nelson Mitchell, The Descendants of Cornet Robert Stetson of Scituate, Massachusetts. Stetson Kindred of America, Inc., 1933.