Amos Gates

1709 - Bef 1783  (< 73 years)

• Name	Amos Gates
  Birth	Oct 1709	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 12 Mar 1783	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Probate	12 Mar 1783	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  	Amos Gates, yeoman of Stow, died intestate before 12 March 1783 in Stow, Massachusetts. The papers can be found in Middlesex County [Mass.] Probate Records, Packet 8,936 (accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,397,070). His widow, Deborah, and Jabez Brown were granted administration on that date. An inventory was taken by Jabez Brown, Joshua Brown and Jonas Hale, all of Stow. The personal estate totalled 90 pounds, 15 shillings, and the real estate totalled 225 pounds. The inventory was allowed on 14 May 1783 by the Court. An account of the debts due, in the sum of 85 pounds, 9 shillings, 11 pence was allowed on 5 November 1783. In the partition of the land, the widow was allotted her thirds. Amos Gates was appointed the executor of his father's 1743 will, which was proved 22 June 1752 in Middlesex County Probate Court, and was bequeathed the following: "I give to my son Amos Gates (....) one set of cast irons allso I give to my said son Amos that parcel of land yt is called ye pasture joyning to the farm on wch I now live containing by estimation twelve acres be the same more or less both within ye fence and without it obliging him on confirmation thereof to give to me & my wife a decent Christian burial when we shall dye and as to my own burial I so far direct as to say yt my sd son shall give to my three surviving daughters viz. Hannah Heald, Mary Hains & Susanna Fitch mourning aparel that is robe gowns of Norwich ... of black and white ... crape as it is commonly called suitable in price and goodness for people of their fashion together with decent black gloves and vales and to each of my three sons decent black gloves & ... My will further is that my sd son amos Gates shall pay to ye children of my daughter Elizabeth Wheler deceased in money as much as it shall cost him to ... either of daughters abovesd in mourning as above; that is to say to all of my grand children as much as one of my said daughters. and: "I give further to my son Amos Gates all my rights in the common land in said Stow and my whole property in sd Stow commons."
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  Person ID	I2788	van Amber One Name Study
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Simon Gates,   b. 5 Jun 1667, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America d. 22 Jun 1752, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Hannah Benjamin,   b. Feb 1669, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America d. 7 Sep 1750, Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	4 May 1688	Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F924	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Hubbard,   b. 4 May 1712, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America d. 16 Dec 1754, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	7 Nov 1732	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
  Notes	Amos Gates married first, in Concord, Mass., on 7 November 1732, to MARY HUBBARD, born 4 May 1712, living 2 September 1747, when her father made his will, but died before 10 December 1754, daughter of Samuel Hubbard and Sarah Clark.
  Children	1. Abraham Gates,   b. 7 Aug 1741, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America d. 7 Mar 1806, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F923	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Oct 1709 - Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Marriage - 7 Nov 1732 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Death - Bef 12 Mar 1783 - Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Probate - 12 Mar 1783 - Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Amos Gates, yeoman of Stow, died intestate before 12 March 1783 in Stow, Massachusetts. The papers can be found in Middlesex County [Mass.] Probate Records, Packet 8,936 (accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,397,070). His widow, Deborah, and Jabez Brown were granted administration on that date. An inventory was taken by Jabez Brown, Joshua Brown and Jonas Hale, all of Stow. The personal estate totalled 90 pounds, 15 shillings, and the real estate totalled 225 pounds. The inventory was allowed on 14 May 1783 by the Court. An account of the debts due, in the sum of 85 pounds, 9 shillings, 11 pence was allowed on 5 November 1783. In the partition of the land, the widow was allotted her thirds.