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In This Issue

Renewal Time …………………………...……….Cover Page

Note on a Future Reunion ………………………..Cover Page

Ephraim Family Line ………………..Cover Page—Page 463

Bates Association Loses Members …………………Page 463

Renewal Notice ……………………………………..Page 464

Association Volunteers and Trustees ………………Page 465

RENEWAL TIME

Please take note that this Bulletin includes a page for Re-newing. If you are not sure where you stand with dues, please contact me; Sandy at SBates1011@gmail.com. I will check and let you know.

Look at the specials, and see if you can take advantage of any of them.

NOTE ON A FUTURE REUNION: By Sandy

In the Spring 2011 Bulletin, I asked if anyone was inter-ested in a Reunion in Colorado. Stan Bates said he would help as well as Spence Klein. These were the only two folks who replied. So I must assume at this time, no one is interested in a Colorado Reunion.

Philip Geoghegan of Ireland, who lives where William of Newton Creek NJ resided, has asked if we might organize a visit to Ireland. Could link up with Ballitore Quaker Village and perhaps include England.

EPHRAIM FAMILY LINE: Cont from last Bulletin, Summer 2011.

Members Stephen Bates and Thomas Scanlon are both in the William of Hanover/Ephraim Line with.: 1 William --2 Ephraim --3 William--4 Ephraim W. for Stephen’s Line and 4 David brother of Ephraim W. for Tom’s Line.

Stephen and Tom both believe that the Father of William of Hanover is a Thomas Bates from Wales.

If we go back to the last winter Bulletin Page 415 on right hand side it has Children of Ephraim and Susannah. It has William born 9-2-1772 as untraced. We pick him up here.

Here we will put the story on this William written by Stephen Bates, being his and Tom’s Line.

William Bates, Pioneer Settler of Ohio and Indiana

1780 - 1860 , Ohio and Indiana

This story came from the Bates Family Tree of Hanover NJ and Wales belonging to Stephen Bates

William Bates was the third child and second son of Eph-raim Bates and Susannah Clark, and the first of their chil-dren born west of the Appalachians. From his headstone in Bethel Cemetery near Jonesboro Indiana, we know he was

born September 2nd 1772, and according to the 1850 Fed-eral Census he was born in Virginia. His father, the oldest son of William Bates of Hanover NJ, was born in 1743, moved just west to Pequannock NJ in 1758, and then mi-grated with 15 other families from Morris County NJ to what became Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, but at one time was known as Yohogania County, Virginia.

Though impeded by Indian attacks in the first year after their arrival, and by the squabble between the Virginia Colony and the Pennsylvania Colony over who governed the land west of the Appalachia and south of the Ohio, William’s father and the other settlers soon tamed the wil-derness. By 1781 a schoolhouse had been constructed and by 1785 a Presbyterian Church.

In the spring of 1797, after the signing of the Greenville Peace accord with the Indians of Ohio and Indiana in 1795, Ephraim was prepared to move his family across the Ohio, into the less expensive and unsettled lands of the Northwest Territory. They moved to the mouth of Grave Creek along the Ohio River in Moundsville Virginia, and then six months later crossed the Ohio and settled a few miles up from the mouth of Captina Creek.

William received his certificate for land along Captina Creek at the Steubenville Land Office on June 14, 1805, in Section 7, Township 5, Range 3. This land is located al-most at the mouth of Captina Creek, where the town of Powhatten now stands. Though he paid for it in full by 1805, he may have settled on this land much earlier. Wil-liam was the first of Ephraim’s sons to marry, tying the knot at age twenty-six. We know from her headstone in the Bethel Cemetery Graveyard, that William’s first wife was named Elizabeth, and would have been 23. They

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probably married in the winter of 1799, as their first child Mary, was born on Captina Creek, November 22, 1799, in what was then called Washington County, in the North-west Territory. Another daughter, Anna was born in 1802, a son Isaac in 1804, and then a son named Martin in 1806, in what had then become Belmont County, in the State of Ohio.

In 1810 William followed his father and brothers west, settling in what became Noble County Ohio. His older brother Isaac, along with his younger brother Timothy set-tled in Seneca Township in 1805, and his father settled in Center Township in 1809, along with his brothers Daniel and Ezekiel. It was a golden age for the Bates Family; almost all of his brothers had large families and lived to be 80 or 90.

William was the first to settle along the Bates Branch of Buffalo Creek a little south of Cumberland Ohio. He paid three hundred twenty dollars for the southwest quarter of section 5, in township 8, range 10, a full 160 acres, on Oc-tober 22nd, 1810. At that time the area was part of Buffalo Township in Guernsey County Ohio and later it became Brookfield Township in Morgan County. The only other settlers in the township at that time were the Dye family way in the south of the township. Before long, William’s brothers John and Amos joined him, taking land a little farther south along the Bates Branch. In 1810, two sons were born to William, Aaron D. and Ephraim W, and in 1812, Daniel was born. Elizabeth followed in 1814, and then David in 1818. In the 1820 census William Bates is listed as having a family of 13. Four males are between 0 and 10, two are between 10 and 16, 1 is 16 to 18, one is 18-26, and one is over 45. One female is 0 to 10, 2 females are between 16 to 26, and one is over 45. The females are all accounted for, but two males are not. My guess is that the male aged 18 to 26 is William’s brother John, who like his other young brothers, Daniel, Ezekiel and Amos, all fought in the War of 1812. After the war Daniel, Ezekiel, and Amos all got married, but not so John. Amos married Mary Noble and moved to Noble Township, Morgan County, where he is listed in the 1820 census with two young children, and a young wife. John probably moved on to William’s farm when Amos married, and seems to have moved with him to Indiana. This leaves us with one missing son, probably born in 1808.

Soon after their arrival in Brookfield, a schoolhouse was built across the creek on the farm of Newton Allison. It had windows made of greased paper, a clapboard door, and one end of the room was taken up with a huge fire-place. William’s children probably attended school during the winter term, as they were needed on the farm during the summer. Winter back then was colder, and the sum-

mers were cooler too, due to the great forests that still stood in Ohio. During the summer the sons would have helped their father with clearing the land, planting the crops, building fences, harvesting the crops and looking after the animals. William’s mark on his hogs was to cut off both ears near to the head. At that time hogs ran wild in the woods, fattening themselves by foraging in the for-est.

In addition to teaching the many skills of pioneer farming, William would have taught his sons to hunt, as much of the early settlers’ diet was from wild game. Deer were abundant, as were pigeons and turkeys. William was re-membered as a great bear hunter, killing more bears than any other in his neighborhood. While William lived in Brookfield, several massive migrations occurred. In 1819 the sky was fairly dark for several days from the flight of pigeons overhead. Another year there was a massive mi-gration of grey squirrels east to west through the county. Previous to that, the squirrels had marched north to south and back again eating whole fields of corn if the crop was not quickly harvested. Both migrations though were seen as opportunities by the pioneers who were not averse to putting them into potpies, fries and stews.

Brookfield Baptist Church was the first church in Brook-field, organized February 8, 1825. William’s wife Eliza-beth joined Brookfield Baptist Church in its first year. Be-fore then the Bates Family probably worshipped with their neighbors in their cabin each Sunday. The new church met in Ezekiel Dye’s residence its first year, necessitating a long ride to church for the Bates family across Brookfield Township to Renrock. The following year a meeting-house about 30 feet square was built of hewed poplar logs, and its first minister was a Welshmen, Rev. William Reese.

Being the first settler on the Bates Branch, William Bates is said to have sought to run the affairs of the neighbor-hood. He was known as a true woodsman, but was rough in manner, and not popular among his neighbors. Most of the later settlers came from Massachusetts, and were probably not used to the ways of pioneer life. Thomas Muzzy, who came from Boston, organized the first tem-perance society, and to William and other pioneers from Pennsylvania and Virginia, whiskey was a necessary part of the social fabric, a needed ingredient for log rollings, harvests, and cabin raisings.

The first of William’s children to marry in Brookfield Township, Morgan County, was his oldest daughter Mary, who wed Thomas Coleman, January 18, 1821. They had a large family and moved west with William in 1829. His second daughter Anna married the following year, on Feb-

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ruary 19, 1822, to John Dolman. They also had a large family and moved west with William. Isaac his first son, married Rhoda Davis, April 8, 1824, but did not move with William, and is untraced after his marriage. Martin his second son, married on December 1, 1824, to Nancy Archer, and moved his burgeoning family when William did.

In 1818, the Indians of northern Indiana signed a treaty on the St. Mary’s River, in Ohio, giving most of the land in central Indiana to the United States. The Indians then had three years to move from the land and after that it would be sold to any settler who could pay two dollars an acre for a minimum purchase of eighty acres beginning in 1817, reduced to forty acres in 1832. Only one quarter of the purchase price had to be paid in the first forty days, and the settler had four years to extinguish the debt com-pletely. Given these incentives, William sold his land in Brookfield Township to Elijah Collins in 1829 and moved his family to Indiana. Two of his sons had married, and two of his daughters, but he had four more sons who would soon want to marry and own land of their own. Wil-liam chose to settle in the northern part of the St Mary’s Treaty lands, nearest the Indians, along the Mississinewa River, just south of present day Jonesboro.

Only one family proceeded William Bates to Mill Town-ship, the Hiatts, who arrived in 1826. William came in 1828, marking and clearing his land, planting crops on lands of the best grade, and raising a cabin along the gen-tly sloping southwest bank of the Mississinewa River. On January 21, 1829 he entered his claim at the Fort Wayne Land Office for 73 acres in section 10 and an adjoining 55 acres in section 3. On that same date, his son-in-law, John Dolman claimed 45 acres in Section 10. In July, his son Ephraim claimed 32 acres across the river in Section 10, and in December his brother John, purchased 104 acres in Section 3, and his son-in-law, Thomas Coleman, bought a 105 acres in Section 12. In 1830 his son Martin purchased 80 acres in section 10, and then his son Daniel bought 40 acres in Section 3.

William Bates and his extended family would have trav-eled by wagon and flatboat to their new home along the Mississinewa River. Loading all their belongings onto wagons, with their livestock trailing behind them, it would have been slow going across the rough roads of Ohio, with snow, and mud, and rivers to cross, traveling to the head-waters of the Mississinewa River in Granville Indiana. Once in Granville, they would have sold their wagons, bought additional supplies, and then loaded all their be-longings onto flatboats, floating down the river to their new lands.

Early on in the settlement of Mill Township, there was a lot of land trading, and most of the Bates siblings ended up settling on different land than they originally purchased. William settled on the 73 acres of land he purchased in the northeast quarter of section 10, along the river, and his son-in-law John Dolman was directly south of him, in the southeast quarter of section 10. Just west of John Dolman was William’s son David, and next to him was his son Ephraim, in the southwest quarter of section 10. A little farther west was his brother Amos. Martin and Aaron set-tled up river, on the southeast bank, in what became Jef-ferson Township, in sections 8 and 17, both within a short ride of their father. Next to them were William’s son Daniel, and his son-in-law Garrett Dodd.

The work of clearing the land was laborious, and added to this was the need to construct drainage ditches to remove the standing water that early in the settlement of the county caused its pioneers to be stricken with malarial fe-ver. Soon after their arrival, William’s first daughter, Mary, lost her infant child Nancy. She was buried on the land of Robert McCormick, on a wooded knoll, September 6, 1830. The following year William lost his wife Eliza-beth who was buried on the future site of Bethel Methodist Church and burial ground, August 20, 1831. Though Wil-liam and his children must have been pleased with their land along the river, over time there must have been some sadness that crept in as more and more of them died each year. Whereas in Pennsylvania and Ohio, in the previous two generations, there had been few early deaths, and many lived into their eighties and nineties, this was not so in the dampness of Indiana. The trip to graveyard was an all too frequent occurrence for the Bates family in Indiana.

Within a year of his wife’s death, William Bates remarried to Hannah Cowgill, July 4, 1832. In that same year, Wil-liam’s home became the site of the first meeting of the Methodist Church in Mill Township. By 1835, Bethel Methodist Church was built, adjacent to the property of William Bates, and on the land of his son-in-law, Thomas Coleman. John Dolman, another son-in-law, settled on the Muncie Road south of William, and kept a post office and store. William’s son Ephraim then opened a distillery next to the river. William’s brother Amos settled in Mill Town-ship in 1830. He was known as a great fire hunter, hunt-ing at night by firelight. His cabin was remembered fondly as being filled with the best venison, and whatever he had, was free for all his friends and neighbors.

In 1834, William’s older brother Isaac arrived with the younger part of his family, probably escorted by William’s son Ephraim, who had returned to Sarahsville Ohio to wed Isaac’s daughter, Phoebe. Isaac and his second wife Sarah, with their children Catherine, George, Nathaniel,

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Hannah, Abraham, Andrew, Sarah, and Margaret, stayed for a year before purchasing land in Plain Township, Kos-ciusko County.

In 1840 at age sixty-eight, William was no longer engaged in farming, and was living next to his sons Ephraim, and David. His second wife Hannah passed away on Septem-ber 1, 1843, but he was married again in less than three months, to Elizabeth Jones, November 16, 1843. By 1850 they were living with William’s son David and David’s wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Jones passed away August 19, 1853, and William followed her two years later on Sep-tember 12, 1855. He is buried in Bethel Cemetery next to his three wives, and his son David, not far from the site of his homestead, aged 83 years, and 10days. William, like his father Ephraim, had settled new land in three different counties, moving west so that his many sons might con-tinue to be independent farmers.

Of his children we know only about the ones that moved west with him from Brookfield Township, Morgan County Ohio, to Grant County, Indiana. Fortunately that is all but two. Isaac, who married Rhoda Davis, did not move west and he is untraced. There is also one other older son listed in the 1820 census, probably born in 1808, who is un-traced.

Mary, born at Captina Creek in 1799, married Thomas J. Coleman in 1821. They had 11 children but only six who lived into adulthood, and three who died in infancy. It was they who donated the land for the church and burial ground where their son Daniel later resided. Thomas was a substantial farmer in the community and served as county commissioner. Mary passed away on July 13, 1854. She is buried next to her husband Thomas and two of her sons, Thomas J. and John C., in the Bethel Ceme-tery.

Anna, born at Captina Creek, Belmont County in 1802, married John Dolman in 1822. They had six children un-der 10 in the 1840 census, and were living next to her brother Ephraim. In 1850 they have four children between age 13 and 21, and are living next to her brother David and father William. Her husband is listed as a merchant, with land valued at $3500. Before 1870, her husband passed away, and she moved out to Topeka, Kansas to live with her son Samuel. Her oldest known son John, seems to have inherited the original homestead, and was living there in 1870.

Martin, born in 1806 at Captina Creek, married Nancy Archer in 1824. In 1840 he was living next to his brothers Aaron and Daniel, and sister Elizabeth, in Monroe Town-ship, Grant County, which later became Liberty Township. He had seven children, with two boys between 10 and 15.

Martin bought a half section of land in Fairmount Town-ship and took stock for all of it in a scheme to build a rail-road from Cincinnati to Chicago. When the bubble burst, nearly everyone that took stock in the railroad lost every dollar and acre of land they put in. Martin seems to have recovered from this venture, as his real estate in the 1850 census is valued at $3400. Martin’s first wife passed away sometime before 1849, as he remarried in that year to Nancy Gregory. In 1850, he has five children living with him, all under 12. He remarried again to Ellen Johnson, December 2, 1857, after moving to Verdigris Township, Madison County, in the Kansas Territory. With Ellen, he had nine more children, before passing away February 19, 1878.

Aaron D., born in Buffalo Township Guernsey County Ohio, married an Elizabeth sometime before 1840. At that time he was living next to his brothers, Daniel and Martin, and his sister Elizabeth, in Monroe Township Grant County, along the southeast bank of the river. Aaron and Elizabeth apparently never had children, but raised Aaron’s nephew James after his father Daniel died in 1850. In the 1850 census he is living in Jefferson Town-ship on land valued at $1000. By 1860 he had moved to Mill Township, where his real estate was valued at $5000, and his personal estate at $2000. By 1870 his real estate had gone up in value to $21,000. In the History of Grant County he is noted as one of the prominent farmers of Jef-ferson Township, and was the trustee of the township. His will is dated April 2, 1874 and lists his heirs as his nephew James H. Bates, John Graham minor son of Mary Graham of Vermillion County, Illinois, John W. Bates, Aaron J. Bates, Eliza M. Bates and Marriott Kelly. His nephew James married Eliza Douglas in 1860. They had three children, Wellsmer, Aaron, and Harvey. James sold his land in the 1870’s, moving to Chicago with his family, where he was a physician.

Daniel also born in Buffalo Township married Rixey Smith, Oct 19, 1834, in Delaware County, Indiana. He married a second time to Rebecca Connor, Oct 16, 1837, presumably after his first wife passed away. In 1840 they were living along the Mississinewa River and had two children. A third marriage occurred, Jan 10, 1843, to Eliza Wright. They soon moved to Staunton Township, Miami County, Ohio, and had two daughters, Harriet L, and Eliza A., before Daniel died from Lockjaw in 1850. Aaron D’s nephew James, is most likely the son of Daniel, moving in with his Uncle after his father’s death in 1850.

Elizabeth born in what had become Brookfield Township, Morgan County, married Garrett Griffin Dodd in 1835. They lived next to Martin, Daniel and Aaron for many years, and had a large family. In the 1850’s they moved to

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Delaware County Iowa.

David was the last of William’s children and the last to marry. He married Elizabeth Bradshaw March 8, 1838. They had eight children but many of them died as infants or as teenagers. They had Harvey 1838, John Wesley 1840, Rebecca 1842, Phebe 1844, Elizabeth 1846, Amanda 1848, Anna 1849, and William 1851. Harvey, Amanda and Anna, all died in the year of their birth, and both Phebe and Elizabeth died in 1860. William lived with his youngest son David in his last years, but actually outlived David, who passed in 1853. David’s wife Eliza-beth followed soon after in 1857. Of the three surviving children, only John Wesley, their second, has been traced. He lived for many years in Fairmont Township, Grant County, just south of the original homestead of William Bates and like his fathers before him, was a farmer. He married Emily Jane Schooley and had a large family, some of whom moved to Kansas and Missouri.

We will pick up with Tom’s Line. Tom originally be-lieved he went back to William of Newton Creek NJ, but has changed his belief to it going back to Thomas of Wales.

Line of 9. Thomas J. Scanlon--8. Marion Clifford Bates--7. Clifford Dunn Carl Bates--6. Lee S. Bates--5. John Wesley Bates--4. David Bates--3. William Bates--2. Eph-raim Bates--1. William of Hanover.

1. WILLIAM OF HANOVER:

2. EPHRAIM BATES: b 24 May 1743 NJ, d 2 Jan 1834 OH.

3. WILLIAM BATES: b 2 Sept 1772 in VA marr 1799 (1) Elizabeth b 20 Oct 1775 d 20 Aug 1831 age 55. (2) marr 4 July 1832 Hannah Cowgill, she d 1 Sept 1843 (3) marr 16 Nov 1843 Elizabeth Jones, she d 19 Aug 1853 William d 12 Sept 1855 in Ind.

4. DAVID BATES: b 6 Oct 1818 Oh marr 8 Mar 1838 in Delaware, Elizabeth Brad-shaw b 19 Mar 1819 in Pa d 16 Feb 1857 in Ind. He d 3 May 1853 in Ind. David and Elizabeth had the following children: 5. Harvey b 1838 d 1838. 5. JOHN WESLEY BATES: b 12 Aug 1842 in Ind marr 1863 Emily Jane Schooley. b 23 Sept 1842, d 7 Apr 1884. He d 15 June 1882 in KS. John & Emily had the following children:

6. LEE S. BATES : b 18 Dec 1864 in Ind. Marr 18 Sept

1893 in KS Caroline Virginia Dunn. B 16 Sept 1854 in VA d 14 Jan 1918 KS. Lee d 22 Dec 1917 in KS. 6. William H. b 22 Jan 1867 Ind marr 1893 Rosella Rose b Aug 1872 in KS. He d 7 Oct 1933. They had 7. Living Bates--7. Clara M. b Oct 1898--7. Helen M b 1903--7. Robert CF b 1905--7. George H b 1908.

6. Albert Justice b 13 Dec 1869 d 25 Feb 1870. 6. Zella Emily b 14 June 1871 d 24 July 1945. 6. Essie Rebecca b 28 Feb 1874 marr 24 Jan 1895 Leroy Jefferson Bartlett b 1869 d 1935. Essie d 24 Jan 1926. 6. Harvey Dawson b 10 Oct 1876 marr Callie b abt 1877 in Tenn, He d Nov 1935. 6. Edith Lucille b 4 Oct 1878 marr 10 July 1897 Ernest Almon Whitney. Edith d 18 Aug 1963. 6. Frederick R. b 24 May 1883 marr Mary b 1890.

Children of 4. David and Elizabeth cont:

5. Rebecca b 20 Sept marr 21 Sept 1863 Columbus F. Lay. She d 1842. 5. Phebe b 1844 d 1860. 5. Elizabeth b 17 Aug 1846 d 13 May 1860.

5. Amanda b 27 Aug 1848 d 12 Oct 1848. 5. Anna M. b 11 Sept 1849 d 27 Sept 1849. 5. Infant b 4 Dec 1851 d 4 Dec 1851 Twin to Wil-liam A. 5. William A. b 4 Dec 1851 marr 31 Dec 1874 Aramintha Bare b Aug 1847, He d 24 June 1927.

Lee S. and Carrie Bates

Gravestone of David Bates 1818-1853

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They had the following children: 6. Maggie b 1877--6. Cora B. b 1879--6. Bertha b Aug 1882--6. John W. b 1888.

7. Clifford DUNN CARL BATES: born 31 July 1895 KS, marr. 29 June 1914 Florence Standiford b 21 July 1896, d 11 Dec. 1964. Clifford d 31 Aug 1954.in UT.

8. MARION CLIFFORD BATES: born 1915 in Kansas, was adopted by his step father and his name was changed to Marion Joseph Scanlon. He marr. Eliz Vera Schlonga. He died 1985 in KS.

9. THOMAS J. SCANLON.

EPHRAIM FAMILY LINE:

Member Stephen Bates Family Line: 10. Stephen Bates--9. Harvey Harlan Bates Jr.--8. Harvey Harlan Bates Sr.--7. Omer C. Bates--6. Aaron J. Bates--5. Ephraim W. Bates--

4. William--3. Ephraim--2. William--1. Thomas of Wales.

Stephen has done extensive research on this Fam-ily Line of Ephraim and Ephraim’s Father Wil-liam of Hanover NJ. Steve believes from his Re-search that the Father of William of Hanover is Thomas Bates from Wales to NJ.

William Bates, Pioneer Settler of Ohio and Indi-ana 1780 - 1860 , Ohio and Indiana

1. THOMAS BATES OF WALES.

Thomas Bates 1. was born between 1680 and 1690, reportedly in Wales, and died some time between 1751, when he was a witness to Samuel Tuttle’s will, and 1760, when his son John noted in his will that his mother Abigail was a widow. He settled in Hanover, New Jersey.

He married, probably by 1712, Parnel Gordon, who died sometime after the birth of son David, in 1725. Thomas married, second, Abigail _____, who died 29 November 1763 and is buried at the Hanover Graveyard west of the Hanover Presbyterian Church.

Thomas probably owned land along the road running north out of Whippany Village toward Troy Hills, as his descendants for many generations continued to farm that land.

The earliest reference to Thomas Bates of Hanover is found in the probate records of John Blanchard of Eliza-bethtown, New Jersey, dated 1730, where he is noted as a debtor: “Part of bill due from Thomas Bates. £1 12s.” Blanchard, a member of the committee for that Associa-tors of Elizabethtown, a group that protected the property rights of the founders of that town against the Proprietors

of New Jersey, was involved in business with several Hanover-area people. John Johnston of Hanover in his 1725 will notes John Blanchard as a creditor. Blanchard, as principal creditor, was given administration in 1725 on the estate of Thomas Garring [sic - Genung], and Thomas Guerin of Hanover is noted as a creditor in John Blanch-ard’s will.

In 1749 the will of John Budd of Hanover included a bequest to his wife of 700 acres of land called the Pine Hammock [sic], bordered on the west by the Whippany River and the meadows of Samuel Tuttle, Bates, Lum, Allen Penn, and Joseph Kitchel. The fact that the owners of the Bates and Lum meadows were mentioned without given names might suggest that there was only one land-owner of each of those surnames in Hanover at the time. That the owner for the Bates meadow was Thomas Bates is indicated by the will of neighbor Samuel Tuttle of Hanover, dated 21 May, 1751, which was witnessed by Thomas Bates.

A book written by Charles B. Stuart in 1871, Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America, in-cludes a chapter on David Stanhope Bates (1773-1839). Stuart reported that Thomas Bates, David’s grandfather, was a native of Wales, and an early settler of New Jersey. He stated further that Thomas was one of a family of ten brothers and two sisters. His brother John was killed dur-ing the French and Indian War at Oswego, New York, while his other brothers settled in New England. Tho-mas’s son David lived on a farm in Hanover, New Jersey, was a captain in the Revolutionary War, and married Phebe Tappan.

The genealogical collection of Walter Beach Plume of Orange, New Jersey (1846-1911), at the New Jersey His-torical Society, includes a typescript, “The Genealogy of William A. Bates and Charles Francis Bates,” in which it is claimed that Thomas Bates came from Wales about 1716 and about 1720 [sic] married Parney Gordon of Hanover, New Jersey. The account continues with their son David Bates, born 1725, who was elected Captain of the First [Militia] Company of Hanover, Morris County. In the Plume collection there are also notes in pencil on a legal size pad entitled “Bates family,” in which it is again stated that Thomas Bates married Parney (Parnel?) Gordon, and that their children were Rachel, born in 1714, William, Thomas, and David, born in 1725; the children of William, Thomas and David are also noted with records of their baptisms.

A vertical file folder on the Bates family, at the North Jersey History and Genealogy Center in Morris-town, includes a letter written by a David S. Bates of San

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Diego, California, in 1979. Mr. Bates stated that he had in his possession a family Bible in which it was written that his ancestor Thomas Bates came from Wales. He further reported that his third great grandfather was David Bates, who served in the American Revolution and married Phebe Tappan.

Consistent with all the sources mentioned is the testi-mony of Ephraim Bates’ ancestors at a family reunion in 1913, that tradition claims his ancestors came from Wales. Also Dighton Moore Bates, in his “Bates Family History” printed in the Caldwell Republican Journal of 1912, states that Ephraim Bates’ parents were Welsh. It is wor-thy of note that two of the second-generation sons married women of Welsh descent (William to Mary Ball, and Daniel to Elizabeth Griffing); and that Ephraim Bates set-tled among Welsh neighbors in Amwell, Pennsylvania, (David Evans, and Moses Cooper). His neighbor in Noble County was his maternal uncle, Mathew Ball, also of Welsh descent.

Although birth or baptismal records for Thomas’s chil-dren have not been found, there is much evidence to link Rachel, William, John, Daniel, Thomas, and David as sib-lings. In his will (noted below), John Bates named Ra-chel’s husband, Joseph Kitchel, as his brother, and Wil-liam’s son, David, as his heir. Two of the witnesses to his will were Rachel’s adult children, Abraham Kitchel and Moses Kitchel. The executor of Thomas Bates [Jr.]‘s will was Joseph Kitchel, and two of the witnesses were Ra-chel’s children, Grace Kitchel Ford and Moses Kitchel. One of Thomas [Jr]’s daughters was named Rachel, and a son, named for his brother Daniel, married Mary Kitchel. Joseph Kitchel was the executor of Daniel Bates’ will, and Daniel’s first two daughters were named after his mother and stepmother, Parnel and Abigail. David named his first daughter Rachel, and two of David’s sons were named after his brothers, William and John. William, who is tied to the family through John’s will, also named a son for his brother David.

Children of Thomas Bates, probably all born at Hano-ver, N.J., order uncertain; first five with first wife Parnel (Gordon), but John was perhaps son of second wife Abi-gail (___): (the order of the sons is based on the order of their marriage, except for John, who did not marry, and Daniel whose wife was born in 1714, making it likely that he was born earlier then 1714.) :

Daniel b say 1712, Hanover, NJ, marr. Elizabeth Griffing before 1747, d. 1755, Hanover NJ. Their children were Martin, Abigail, Parnel, and Lydia. Daniel’s son, Martin, moved to Salisbury CT where he married Catherine Ball, 15 June 1774, appears on the guard duty roll in 1777, and

on the 1790 census. In 1795, Martin appears in Richmond Massachusetts, where he had six of his children baptized on the same day at the Congregational Church. His chil-dren are Elizabeth, Daniel, Catherine, Robert Bull, Abi-gail, Harriet Victoria, Parnel, Sarah, and Martin Waltham. Martin married Persis Smith in Williamstown Mass, 22 April 1805, and d. after 1810. His son, Martin Waltham, was a US senator for Delaware.

Rachel, b 1714, Hanover, NJ, marr. Joseph Kitchel by 1736, d. 24 Dec, 1789. Their children were Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Grace, Aaron, Joanna, Asa, Phebe, Jemima, James and John. Her son, Aaron, became a US senator of New Jersey and was a pall bearer at George Washington’s funeral.

William 2, b say 1716, Hanover, NJ, d. between 8 Dec 1767 and February 1770, Pequannock, NJ, marr. Mary Ball by 1742, Hanover NJ. Mary died between 1753 and 1767 when William’s will named his second wife, Re-becca______.

Thomas 2, b say 1723, Hanover, NJ d. 25 Nov 1766, Hanover NJ, marr. Eunice_____ by 1752, Hanover NJ.

David b. 1725, Hanover; NJ, m. Phebe Tappan, by 1759, d. 7 Sep 1820. Their children were Rachel, Sarah, Phile-mon, William, John, David Stanhope, Phebe, Mary Polly, and Ebenezar. David was a Captain of the Eastern Battal-ion of the Morris County Militia during the Revolutionary war, fighting in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. He was also elected as an elder of the Hanover Presbyterian Church. His wife Phebe d. 7 March 1803 and David married Annabelle Squire. It is likely that David inherited the original homestead of his father Thomas. David passed this on to his son William who passed it on to his son Charles William. Its location can be found in the 1868 Atlas of Morris County New Jersey on p. 27, where the home of Chas W Bates is noted in Whippany, just west of Troy Hills Road. David is buried in the Old Whippany Burial Ground on the land of the first church built in 1718. His headstone still reads:

“Sacred to the memory of Captain David Bates who died Sept 7th 1820, Aged 95 years.”

John, birth date unknown; probably child of Thomas’s second wife, Abigail; d. unm. In his will, dated 6 March 1760, proved, 12 October 1761, he described himself as a yeoman farmer and named as executor “my brother Joseph Kitchel.” He left all of his lands and effects for the mainte-nance of his mother [sic], Abigail Bates, “so far as she shall need it during her life,” then to “David Bates, the son of William Bates, all ... that shall remain”

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2. WILLIAM BATES OF HANOVER NJ.

William 2-Thomas 1

William Bates 2, was born say 1716, and died between 8 December 1767 when he made his will, and February 1770 when his widow relinquished her executorship. He married first, by 1742, MARY BALL, who was born say 1720, daughter of Caleb II and Elizabeth (___) Ball. Mary died some time between 1753 and 1767 when William’s will named his second wife, REBECCA _____.

The first record of William Bates of Hanover is in the Morristown Presbyterian Church, which shows Will Bates of Hanover as the father of Ephraim Bates baptized 6 July 1745. William appears in the Hanover Presbyterian Church records at the baptism of his children, David 1747, Uzal 1749, Caleb 1751, Rhoda 1753, and Mary 1757. On 21 May 1751 he was a bondsman for Zeruah Garner, widow and administratrix of Samuel Garner’s interstate estate; Joseph Wood was his fellow bondsman, and all three were of Hanover, Morris County. On 6 October 1751

William Bates appears on a petition of owners of Bloom-aries in Morris county, seeking removal of a tax on their iron works. This suggests that William may have been a blacksmith, as many of them owned small forges to pro-duce their needed iron. William again appears in the bap-tismal records of the Morristown Presbyterian Church on 5 August 1759, as the father of his daughter Martha.

Some time between the baptisms of his daughters Mary and Martha, William moved about 10 miles west to the Township of Pequannock, where he is on an undated list requesting a pastor for the Rockaway church. His will, dated 8 December 1767 in Pequannock, Morris County, witnessed by Ephraim Goble and Stephen Beach, proved 3 September 1770 at Perth Amboy, noted that he was weak in body but of perfect mind and memory. He left one third of his estate to his beloved wife Rebecca, “over and above what the law allows,” and the other thirds “to two of his daughters,” Catherine and Rhoda and named as executors his wife Rebecca, and his “trusty and well Beloved friend” John Huntington of Hanover, Morris County, Cooper.” William was dead by February 1770 when his wife Re-becca requested that John Huntington be the sole executor, but the will was not proved until the following September.

Evidence that William Bates of Pequannock was the same William Bates who lived in Hanover comes from his son Ephraim registering as a member of the Rockaway Presbyterian Church in Pequannock in 1768, and by the appearance of his son Uzal on the Pequannock Tax list in 1778 William’s sons Ephraim and David paid Rockaway Church Taxes in 1768 and 1769, and Ephraim mortgaged land near Cranbury Pond, just north of Rockaway, in 1771 and 1772. Moreover, one of the daughters named in the 1767 will is Rhoda, known to be the name of one of the daughters of William of Hanover.

An 1888 Manuscript genealogy in the Charles Gardiner Collection at the New Jersey Historical Society, “Descendants to the third generation of Edward Ball,” by Joseph Harrison Vance of Erie, Pennsylvania, notes Mary Ball as a child of Caleb Ball II and says that she married a Bates. Caleb Ball of Hanover, gentleman, in his will dated 25 July 1748, proved 29 August 1748, named Mary Bates as one of his daughters.

The only Bates at the First Presbyterian Church of Hanover whose wife is not named in records there is Wil-liam. The fourth child of William Bates of Hanover was named Caleb and his sixth child was named Mary. This Mary Bates, known to her descendants as Mary Ball Bates, married David Cory Jr. of Hanover and moved to Bridport, Addison County, Vermont. William’s only sons for whom descendants have been found — Ephraim and

Hanover Presbyterian Church with the shad-owed stone of Abigail, second wife of Thomas Bates, in the foreground.

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Uzal,— both named their first daughters Mary.

It is not clear when Mary (Ball) Bates died. It cannot be assumed that she was the mother of William’s daughter Mary (known as Mary Ball Bates), because naming a first child for a deceased earlier spouse was common practice at that time and in this case the use of the full maiden name is strongly suggestive of a memorial intent. Since the time interval between daughters Mary and Martha is normal — two years — it seems more likely that Wil-liam’s first wife died and he remarried during the four years between Rhoda and Mary, around 1756.

N. Earl Wharton suggested that William Bates of Hanover married Rebecca Tomlinson, stating, “William Bates of Hanover NJ in his marriage license, is of Gloucester County, indicating that he was of the family which was founded by William of Newton Creek.” There is, however, no evidence that a William Bates of Glouces-ter ever moved north to Hanover. The William Bates who married Rebecca Tomlinson in 1741 was of Waterford, Gloucester County, and Rebecca (who according to the marriage license was a widow), lived in Evesham, Bur-lington County, both considerably south of Hanover. Moreover, according to historians, Morris County was settled from the east, from Newark, Elizabethtown, and Long Island. In fact, when New Jersey genealogist, Helen M. Wright tried in 1967 to investigate this link for a de-scendant of Ephraim Bates, she reported that the Library staff at the New Jersey State Archives thought William of Hanover was not of the Irish line from Gloucester County, as there were several Williams of that line who stayed in Gloucester County. It is also notable that none of the

Hanover William Bates・daughters or granddaughters was named Rebecca.

It is likely that the William Bates who married Rebecca Tomlinson is the William Bates of Waterford, Gloucester County, who wrote a will there in 1777 naming [evidently second] wife Elizabeth and nine children, including six daughters: Hope, Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Rebekah and Sarah. Rebecca Tomlinson was born Rebecca Wills, the daughter of John Wills of Burlington County, who in his will dated 17 November 1745 named his daughter Re-becca and four of her children from her marriage to Wil-liam Tomlinson: Hope, Elizabeth, Anne, and Sarah. Thus William Bates of Waterford, Gloucester County in 1777, names all four of Rebecca Tomlinson’s daughters in his will, as well as another daughter named Rebecca. It seems clear that this William Bates who married Rebecca (Wills) Tomlinson, was not William Bates of Hanover.

Children of William Bates and Mary Ball (Catherine is inserted in the space between Ephraim and David, as Wil-

liam’s preference in his will for his daughter Catherine indicates that she and Rhoda are the two eldest of his daughters):

Ephraim 3 b 24 May 1743, Hanover NJ, d. 12 Jan 1834, Sarahsville, OH. Marr. by 1768 to Susannah Clark.

Catherine b say 1745, Hanover, NJ, given one third of her father’s estate in will dated 8 December 1767, Pequan-nock, NJ.

David bap. 29 Mar 1747, Hanover, NJ. He is named in his uncle John Bates’ will in 1760. He is noted in 1768 and 1769 to be on the Rockaway Presbyterian Church tax list in Pequannock Township. May be ancestor of William S Bates.

Uzal bap. 5 February 1749, Hanover, NJ, d. after 1820, Sycamore Township, OH. Marr. Elizabeth Hurin, 1774. Uzal lived in Pequannock as late as 1780, then moved to Chemung, NY by 1788, before going west to Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Ohio by 1793. Their chil-dren were Mary, Seth Hurin, Othneil, and Catherine.

Caleb bap. 14 July 1751, Hanover, NJ.

Rhoda bap. 1 April 1753, Hanover, NJ. She is named in her father’s will 8 Dec 1768, Pequannock, NJ.

Children of William Bates, uncertain with first or second wife (see discussion above):

Mary b. 10 Feb 1757, bap. 20 March 1757, Hanover, NJ, d. 24 Oct 1829 in Bridport, VT. Marr. David Cory by 1777. They had 11 children: Eunice, William, John, Zo-phar, Jane, Mary, Luther, Anna, Parmella, Elizabeth and David.

Martha bap. 5 Aug 1759, Morristown, NJ, m. David Reeve, 14 Nov 1780, and had four children, Abraham, Daniel, David Hallock and Bathia.

Thomas 2-Thomas 1

Thomas 2 b. say 1723, m. Eunice _______, by 1752, as their oldest child, Sarah, was baptized on May 13th, 1753. Thomas and Eunice Bates appear in the Hanover Presbyte-rian Church baptismal records of their children Sarah 1753, and Mary 1755. Thomas and Eunice also appear on an indenture on the 18th of September 1766, when they sold 10 acres of land for 44 pounds to Thomas Brown of Newark. On the indenture Thomas Bates notes that the land was originally purchased by John Ball from Mrs. Ann Wheeler, and abuts the land of John Conger and Samuel Ball. His will is dated September 6, 1765, and leaves to his “dear and loving wife” all his household goods and pro-vides for her maintenance out of his estate while she re-mains his widow. He singles out his son Daniel for 30

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pounds, and his daughter Sarah for 10 pounds. Thomas died a year after writing his will, being thrown from his horse along the Newark Road near the Hanover Church and expiring on 25 Nov 1766.

Children of Thomas Bates and Eunice (Sarah, and Mary are known from their baptisms, and the date of birth of Daniel is known from his revolutionary war pension state-ment. As Sarah must be the oldest as she is the only daughter singled out, and Mary would come next, the other daughters are ordered in the way they are given in Thomas’ will.)

Sarah bap. 13 May 1753, Hanover, NJ. Mary bap. 7 Mar 1755, Hanover, NJ. Hannah b. say 1757, Hanover, NJ. Rachel b. say 1759, Hanover, NJ.

Daniel 3 , b. 27 Mar 1762, Hanover, NJ, d. 6 Feb 1845, Green Creek Township, Sandusky County OH County, Ohio. Marr. Mary Kitchel 22 Nov 1787, Hanover NJ, marr. Sarah Osbourne bef. 1802, Cincinnati, OH.

Eunice b. say 1764, Hanover, NJ.

3. EPHRAIM BATES. B 24 May 1743 NJ d 2 Jan 1834 in OH.

Ephraim 3-William 2- Thomas 1

Ephraim 3, b 24 May 1743, in Hano-ver, NJ, bap. 6 July 1745, in Morris-town, marr. Susannah Clark, by 1768, in Rockaway, NJ, as their first daughter, Mary Polly, was born 15 Mar 1769. Ephraim moved to West Au-gusta County, Vir-ginia in 1772, where he served in the Vir-ginia Militia in 1777 and 1778. This area became Amwell Township, Washing-ton County, PA in 1780. He moved to Captina Creek in Belmont County Ohio in 1797, and then to what became Sarahsville, Noble County, Ohio in 1809. He d. 12 January 1834. Children:

Mary Polly, b 15 Mar 1769, Rockaway, NJ, d. 10 Mar 1838, Senacaville, OH, marr. John Voorhies by 1790 in Washington County PA, as their oldest son Aaron was born in 1791. Isaac Clark, b 22 Sep 1770, Rockaway NJ, d. 6 Apr 1839, Wayne Tsp, Kosciusko County, IN. Marr. Katharine Moore 17 May 1802, Belmont county, OH, had Daniel, Isaac, Samuel, Uzal, Phoebe, and Jacob. Marr. Sarah Cath-erine Powell 1816, Guensey County, OH, had Katherine, Richard, George, Nathaniel, Hannah, Araham, Andrew, Sarah, Margaret.

BATES ASSOCIATION LOSES MEMBERS:

We have lost the following Members:

Florence Bates Wyland, Roger Kingman Bates husband of Barbara Bates. Susie Mabell Bates. Carol Seward lost her cousin Donald Porter who was a past member. Charles Kenneth Bates, gone for years but Bulletins still going to address till last Bulletin returned. Never notified of his death. Sandy will do write-ups on these folks and include them, with their obituaries, in the Spring Bulletin

Stephen Bates and 3. Ephraim Bates Grave

The date on stone for birth, is incorrect. It is 24 May 1743, according to Ephraim’s Pension record, which he swore to be the correct date.

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be paid by check, made out to TBA and mailed to Sandy.

One year dues will remain the same:

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Thanks! From your Membership Committee: Carol Seward, Cindy Waltershausen, Terri Black, Sandy Bates.

Membership Committee............Terri Bates Black, Sandy Bates, Carol Seward, Cindy Waltershausen

Directory...................................Terri Bates Black & Sandy Bates

Communications Coordinator........................... Terri Bates Black

Wharton, NJ 07885, terri@batestraits.com

Backup Communications Coordinator..........................Stan Bates

Web Site............................................................Terri Bates Black

Back-up Web Site........Derek LaPointe, Computerconscript.com

Historian-VA....................................................Wayne Witt Bates

Head of DNA Project......Wayne Witt Bates, Wittbates@aol.com

Visit Our Website at http://www.batesassociation.org

President......................................................................Sandy Bates 222 Line Rd, Greene, ME 04236, Sbates1011@gmail.com

President Emeritus..........C. Benjamin Bates, Benbates3@aol.com

Executive Vice President……………........James Cleveland Bates 192 South St, Rockport, MA 01966, Batesbunch4@comcast.net

Resident Agent............................................................Lynne Bates 11 Meadow Lane Apt 2, Bridgewater Mass 02324

Treasurer....................................Mary Lou Bishop & Sandy Bates

Secretary of Treasurer…C. Benjamin Bates, Benbates3@aol.com

Computer Chair..........................Spence Klein, Spengen@aol.com

Editor................. ..............Terri Bates Black terri@batestraits.com

Librarian......................................................................Sandy Bates

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