The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Birth: 1764 Marlboro / / MA Death: 21 July 1838 bur St Albans / Franklin / VT
Qualifying Service Description:
Capt Nehemiah Emerson; Col Benjamin Tupper's 10th Reg't, MA Line, enlstd 17 May 1781, svc 19 mos, 16 days
Additional References:
Massachusetts, U.S, Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War. Vol 6, pg 315
Pension: S18832
The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol I, pg 944
Spouse: Abigail Ball Children: Horatio; Abigail Ball;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
None*
*This means that the NSSAR has no applications for this Patriot on file.
Instead the information provided is best effort, and from volunteers who have either researched grave sites, service records, or something similar. There is no documentation available at NSSAR HQ to order.
Upright, rectangular, white granite, contemporary to burial, engraved, "Sacred to the memory of Capt. John Gates who departed this life July 21 AD 1838, aged 73 years."
FOL stake marker
Image 1-4 provided with permission from Barb Destromp, Find-A-Grave contributor #46785064
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Photo: 1 of 4
Photo: 2 of 4
Photo: 3 of 4
Photo: 4 of 4
Author: Dirk Livingston
John Gates was born to Silas Gates (1727-1793) and Elizabeth Bragg (1731-1806) on 14 May 1765 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. John married Abigail Ball (1767-1832) at age 22 in Northborough, Massachusetts, on 13 December 1787.
Abigail (1788-1797)
Susannah (1791-1877)
John (1792-1866)
Silas (1794-1813)
Maria (1795-1866)
Eliza (1798-1825)
Caroline Abigail (1800-1882)
James Wilder (1802-1886)
Susan (1804-1888)
Martin Luther (1810-1869)
Nahum Ball (1812-1890)
John passed away at age 73 on 21 July 1838, in St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont.1 He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vermont.2
John enlisted on 17 May 17813 as a Private for three years in a company commanded by Lieutenant Jeramiah Edmundson of the 10th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper4 served from 16 May 1781 for 19 months, 16 days.5 The 10th Massachusetts Regiment was a military regiment of the American Revolutionary War. It was authorized on 16 September 1776 in the Continental Army under Colonel Marshall as eight companies of volunteers from Worchester, Middlesex, Bristol, Hampshire, Essex, Plymouth, and Suffolk counties of Massachusetts and Cheshire County of New Hampshire. On 1 January 1781, the regiment was assigned to the 1st Massachusetts Brigade of the Highland’s Department. The regiment was disbanded on 15 November 1783 at West Point, New York.6,7
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.
