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WILLIAM BATES--A BUILDER of FREEDOM...90 Dress: COHASSET, MA BIRTHS to 1850 The Bates Bulletin Series VIII, Volume ISpring 1999 Number 1 1999 BATES REUNION The Bates Association will not have a reunion this year. The “Bates Family of Old Virginia” has invited us to join them at their annual reunion. This year their reunion will be held in Charlottesville, VA on June 18 & 19. Reservations for Friday night should be made directly with the motel be- fore June 1. In making reservations, men- tion the “Bates Family of Old Virginia”. Prearranged room rate is $78.84 including tax. To make room reservations, phone (804)977-5100 or toll free 800-977-9991 BATES CREST PIN Reservation for the Saturday 19th June A reproduction of the original Bates pin can 1999 Luncheon should be made with their be purchased for five dollars. Order form treasurer Claude M. Leake, Jr., 326 Isle Av- on page 97 enue, Waynesboro, VA 22980. Phone 540- 949-6444. Please make checks to Claude M. Leake for the number of luncheons at rate of $12.00 each. Luncheon reserva- Index tions with Claude Leake should be made PAGE prior to June 1. FATAL ACCIDENT OF ALFRED BATES .......88 GETTING TO KNOW OUR MEMBERS..........88 Contact Michael Teague, President OLD WETHERSFIELD, CT......................89 of the “Old Virginia Bates Association” ATREBATES--A BATES CONNECTION........90 for more information at his e-mail ad- WILLIAM BATES--A BUILDER OF FREEDOM...90 dress: COHASSET, MA BIRTHS TO 1850...........92 [email protected] SUGGESTED FAMILY QUESTIONNAIRE..........95 For introduction to the “Bates Family of Old BATES IN VERMONT FROM 1790 TO 1810...96 Virginia”, visit their home page at: http://members.aol.com/Lramrtn/batesva.html The Bates Bulletin page 88 Reprint of Oct. 22, 1889 GETTING TO KNOW OUR Mt. Vernon Chronicle Fatal Accident. MEMBERS by C. Ben Bates On Thursday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bates, of upper Tuckahoe near Scarsdale were out riding; they had been to New Roch- , We know that there are well over 200 “cousins” who elle and were returning home, when their horse, a spirited animal , are members of The Bates Association. Did you took fright at the engines of the New Rochelle Fire Department re- know that some of our members, excluding spouses, turning from the Yonker’s parade and dashed away. Before Mr. Bates are not Bates descendants yet are highly interested who was in feeble health could get the horse under control he and his in and support the work we do? wife were thrown out of the wagon. Mr. Bates sustained injuries, a One of those members is Mr. Stanley Sigelman, broken limb and internal, together with shock which resulted in his Manager General of the Stanley Banking Group of death a few hours thereafter, and Mrs. Bates is so seriously but that Baltimore. Stanley’s family and mine go back a long little hopes are entertained of her recovery. She is 73 years of age. way. His mother, Sarah and my mother were very Mr. Bates was 76 years of age and an old resident of this town. close friends. When my mother died, Sarah kept in He always took a lively interest in its welfare especially in political close contact with me. She was very interested and affairs. In his younger days he was a merchant in the hat business in proud of the family history research I was doing and New York and in 1858 he disposed of his business and purchased the newsletter that I published. When the Bates from David Gould a 900-acre farm at Lloyd’s Neck. He employed a Association had its rebirth in 1993, she was a char- large number of farmhands and sent his grain and produce to New ter member. After her death, in 1993, her son, York in sloops. He owned several line horses three teams of mules, Stanley, picked up the interest. He has continued to one of which was valued at $1,000 and with which there were several be an enthusiastic supporter and contributing mem- successful trotting matches against the horses of Mr. Brandegee on ber. Through his financial contacts, he has made the latter’s private track. A few years later he sold the farm and numerous and generous donations to the purchased a handsome place of 2OO acres in this town near Scarsdale, Association’s Foundation Fund. This fund, when it upon which there is a valuable marble quarry. reaches that point, will be able to give grants or Deceased has several children, his oldest son being Henry W. scholarships to young people interested in pursu- Bates, a lawyer doing business at 245 Broadway, New York; and at ing family history studies. Stanley and others hope present quite prominent in affairs of this town. to encourage the younger generation to continue LATER. -Since the above was put in type we learned the Mrs. where we leave off. Bates died on Sunday from the effects of injuries received as above. The funeral of the aged pair whose deaths were so sudden and sad If my memory has not failed me, Stanley’s ancestors took place yesterday at the church of St.James the Less Scarsdale came from Russia to America for many of the same reasons that our Bates ancestors came to these shores These were the Great Grandparents of Florence Bates Wyland earlier. Stanley was born and raised in Baltimore just a few city blocks from me. Being slightly older, Stanley had the opportunity to serve in World War II. He served distinguishably in Europe, one of mil- THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, lions of Americans who saved this land from a hor- rible fate. History and its preservation are important President: C. Benjamin Bates to those, like Stanley, who were a part of a great era Executive Vice-President in history. Learning about our history, and our fam- Secretary/Resident Agent: Duncan Bates Todd ily members who made history is an activity that Treasurer: Mary Louise Bishop strengthens family values. Stanley, my friend, here Vice-Presidents Lynne E. Bates is to the future. Mary Patricia Bates Wayne Witt Bates Lauren Delaney Melvin Spencer Klein Beverly Lutz Membership: Sandy Bates Directory: Lauren Delaney Historian: C. Benjamin Bates Web site: Daniel L Bates Editor: Elanathan Lee Bates The Bates Bulletin OLD WETHERSFIELD, CT by Florence Wyland Exploring Connecticut’s Farmington Valley along the Wethersfield from Watertown, Mass. beautiful, winding Farmington River, I discovered Simsbury, Robert Abbott Caleb Benjamin a typical New England town. Right on Simsbury’s Main Street, in a restored schoolhouse, is a gem of a library for the genealogical researcher, The Free Library. In one large room Robert Bates Roger Betts William Palmer with loaded bookshelves, IGI and microfilm equipment, I Samuel Clark Edward Pierce (?) found a computer hooked up to the Connecticut Genealogy Robert Coe John Pierce (?) Society in Hartford, and willing helpers. Rev. Richard Denton Thurston Raynor While browsing I found a cabinet full of microfilms, sev- Leonard Dix John Reynolds John Goodrich and Robert Reynolds eral of which related to counties in Pennsylvania that I was William Goodrick, Lt. Robert Sweeney interested in, so I spent an hour or so looking at them. Then, brothers William Swayne, Gent. as I got the feel of the room, I started on the book collection. George Hubbard Edmond Sherman Several geographic areas seemed to be covered, including Samuel Hubbard, son Samuel Sherman, son of Edmond of George Samuel Smith much of Connecticut and some of Canada. The book that I Lewis Jones John Thomson found most interesting was the large Memorial History of John Livermore Jonas Weede Hartford County, 1633-1884 by J. Hammond Trumbull, Edward Mason Thomas Whitmore L.L.D.; E.L. Osgood Pub., Boston, 1886. This book covers Henry Palmer More information on early in- early towns in Connecticut, and I zeroed in on one of the habitants can be found in The History of Ancient Wethersfield, earliest, Old Wethersfield, which was settled in 1634 by sev- Connecticut, prepared by Henry R. Stiles, published in two eral adventurers and their families who had come from volumes in New York in 1904. Watertown, Mass., seeking more land. Also see The History I’d been searching for a John Bates of Huntington, Long of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut prepared by Henry R. Island, and I had a land deed, dated 1664, relating to his farm Stiles, two volumes, New York 1904. The second volume in Huntington. I also had a document saying that a John Bates has the biographical and genealogical sketches of who was married to________ Boardman lived in Old Wethersfield inhabitants. Wethersfield, Conn., in 1644, and that he and his wife had The land in Wethersfield was divided into rectangles that sold their farm and moved to Huntington, Long Island, in backed up to the oxbow-shaped, wide, “Great River,” now 1664. This circumstantial evidence inclined me to believe known as the Connecticut River. These lots were not very that there might be a connection - a theory I later abandoned. wide, but about two miles deep with great marshes in most of I have long wondered where the Long Island John Bates the back land, and gave each family access to the river. Some in my family originally came from and have gone over the of the properties even extended across the river, allowing the many early Boston records of Bates, but could find no evi- farmers to own even more land on the other side. A ferry boat dence that any of them had moved to New York - and little ran back and forth across the river to accommodate them.
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