Friday, February 21, 2020

52 Ancestors - Week 318: #529 Hannah (Benjamin) Gates (1669-1752) of Stow, Massachusetts

Hannah Benjamin (1669-about 1752)  is number 529 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #528 Simon Gates (1667-1752)  in 1688 in Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #264 Amos Gates (1706-1783), who married #265 Mary Hubbard (1712-1754)  in 1732.
*  their son #132 Simon Gates (1739-1803) who married #133 Susannah Reed (1745-1833) in 1766.
*  their son #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830) who married #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) in 1790.
*  their daughter, #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)  in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 

*  Name:                        Hannah Benjamin[1-2,4]    
*  Alternate Name:        Hannah Gates[3]

*  Sex:                            Female    

*  Father:                      Joseph Benjamin (1633-1704)    
*  Mother:                    Sarah Clarke (1639-1716)  
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth                        7 February 1668/9, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]    
*  Distribution:            22 July 1743 (age 74), Simon Gates will written ; Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Death:                      before 9 March 1752 (before age 83), probably Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*   Spouse 1:               Simon Gates (1667-1752)    
*  Marriage 1:             4 May 1688 (age 19), Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,4]    

*  Child 1:                  Hannah Gates (1689-????)    
*  Child 2:                  Joseph Gates (1691-1748)    
*  Child 3:                  Simon Gates (1693-1736)    
*  Child 4:                  Mary Gates (1695-1741)    
*  Child 5:                  Elizabeth Gates (1701-1741)    
*  Child 6:                  Israel Gates (1703-1726)    
*  Child 7:                  Benjamin Gates (1704-1758)    
*  Child 8:                  Elisha Gates (1705-1762)    
*  Child 9:                 Amos Gates (1706-1783)    
*  Child 10:               Susannah Gates (1709-1748)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Benjamin family information was obtained from the book by Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown,  The Benjamin Family in America, available on FamilySearch Digital Library(https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/)[1] .

Hannah "Bengeman" was born February 1668/9 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Clarke) Benjamin[1-2].

Hannah Benjamin married Simon Gates on 4 May 1688.  The marriage record in the NEHGR article says that Simon Gates of Stow married Hannah Benjamin on 4 May 1688 in Stow or Marlborough, by Rev. William Brinsmead of Marlborough[4].  

Simon and Hannah (Benjamin) Gates had ten children, all born in Stow, but only two were recorded there.  They were[1,4]:

*  Hannah Gates (1689-????), married about 1710 Oliver Heald (1685-1755).
*  Joseph Gates (1691-1748), married 1728 Prudence Hamlin (1692-????).
*  Simon Gates (1693-1736).
*  Mary Gates (1695-1741), married 1720 Joseph Haynes (1687-1775).
*  Elizabeth Gates (1701-1741), married 1722 Thomas Wheeler (1697-1756).
*  Israel Gates (1703-1726).
*  Benjamin Gates (1704-1758), married 1727 Bethulia Rice (1704-????).
*  Elisha Gates (1705-1762), married 1735 Mary Gates (1717-????).
*  Amos Gates (1706-1783), married (1) 1732 Mary Hubbard (1712-1754); (2) Deborah Thayer (1732-1822).
*  Susannah Gates (1709-1748), married 1733 John Fitch (1708-1795).

There is no known death date for Hannah (Benjamin) Gates in the Benjamin or Gates works.  She is mentioned in Simon's 1743 will, which said[3]:
"...I give to Hannah my beloved wife (before ye provision I have made for her by covenant with two of my sons) my whole estate for life by her to be used and injoyed ... of Life and after her death my will is that it be disposed of in ye following manner..."
Simon Gates died before 9 March 1752 when his will was presented to the probate court, and in the probate of his estate the property was divided according to Simon's will by 1755[3].  

Therefore, it is likely that Hannah (Benjamin) Gates died before March 1752.  There is no probate record for her in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and there is no known burial place or record. 
   
5.  SOURCES

1. Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown, The Benjamin Family in America (Racine, Wis.: the author, 1977); accessed on Family History Digital Library, page 40, #31 Hannah Benjamin sketch.

2. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com) Yarmouth, Town Records, page 10 (image 6 of 388), Hannah Bengeman birth entry.

3. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 26 November 2015), Probate Packet 8,994 (10 images), Simon Gates of Stow, 1752.

4. Clarence Almon Torrey, "Stephen Gates and Some of His Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 120, pages 161-170 (July 1966), 261-271 (October 1966), Volume 120, page 166, #6 Simon Gates sketch.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.


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