Notes for Samuel Gates, Jr: BIRTH: calculated from age at death on tombstone (birth date also seen as 14 Jan 1783 in family bible)
MARRIAGE: LUNENBURG TOWN VITAL RECORDS, p. 203; Lunenburg Town Clerk's Office, Lunenburg, Vermont
DEATH: VERMONT TOWN VITAL RECORDS, p. 503; film # Vermont VR 102; Historical Library, Montpelier, Vermont
"Samuel Gates, 87, farmer, BP Marlboro, Mass. father, Samuel, mother, Lucretia; 23 Oct 1870, Old age, Lunenburg"
CEMETERY-DEATH: HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION; -1870; Lunenbury Cemetery, Lunenburg, Vermont; Viewed June 1994 by Jane Adams, Greeley, Co HEADSTONE: Samuel Gates Died Oct 23, 1870 Ae 87 yrs 9 mo.
RELIGION: belonged to First Congregational Church
MILITARY: War of 1812
NOTES: By 1840 was living in Lunenberg, Vermont, farmer Feb 1840: Petit Juror
LETTERS: 7 Nov 1854: from Elisa Webb to M.E.G. Wilson: Uncle Wingate saw your granparents [sic] in Lunenburg last week; your granmother [sic] is very well and he thought in good spirits, your granfather suffering from his lameness
17 Aug 1862 letter from Eliza Webb: Samuel and wife are getting ready to move in with their daughter, Mrs. French in the fall
15 May 1871: letter from Eliza Webb to M.E.G. Wilson mentions death, said he was sick but a few days (may have lived in Western Pennsylvania [1812?]) 1836: addressed to Huntsburg, OH a sister of W.C. Gates is mentioned by the name of Elizabeth
More About Samuel Gates, Jr: Date born 2: January 14, 17831312 Burial: Unknown, Lunenburg Cemetery, Lunenburg, VT.1313 Died 2: December 23, 1870, Lunenburg, VT.1314, 1315
More About Samuel Gates, Jr and Jerusha Russell Clark: Marriage: July 31, 1806, Lunenburg, VT.1315
Children of Samuel Gates, Jr and Jerusha Russell Clark are:
Samuel Gates, Jr (b. January 23, 1783, d. October 23, 1870)
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