1786 Gates married Mary Valens, a wealthy woman from Liverpool who had come to the colonies in 1773 with her sister and a Rev. Bartholomew Booth, to operate a boy's boarding school in Maryland
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed August 5, 2015), "Record of Horatio Gates", Ancestor # A043466.
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch [1] : accessed 14 April 2016), Mary Valens, 27 Jun 1737; citing , reference 1737-1739; FHL microfilm 1,656,155.
"Wealth Creation, Ethics and Education: The Career of Joseph Valens of Liverpool", by Maurice Whitehead, p 205
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