Veare Family - Ourfolk
Ann Veare (Gates) 1603 - 5 Feb 1682-5 Feb 1683
Ann was born on 1603 in England and died on 5 Feb 1682-5 Feb 1683 in Stow, MA .
Ann was married to Stephen Gates, Sr. .
Stephen, Sr. was born on BEF 20 MAY 1599 in England and died on 1662 in Cambridge, Ma .
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Husband - Gates Family Crest - Stephen, Sr. was born on BEF 20 MAY 1599 in England and died on 1662 in Cambridge, Ma
FYI - April 2009 NEHGR offers that Anne (Veare) (Gates) Woodward is really Ann Neave.
(email from George Woodward - May 2009)
(email from George Woodward - May 2009)
settled in Hingham, MA where he received a grant
of a three acre planting lot. His house lot was on
Town (now North) Street, bounded north by the
street, east by William Buckland, and west by the
town swamp. He received a grant of half an acre
of salt marsh in 1647. He and his wife probably
joined the Hingham church about May 3, 1646
when their children Simon, Thomas, Isaac, and
Rebecca were baptized.
The information
given by Charles Otis Gates in his 1898 publication 'Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster,
Massachusetts and his Descendants' regarding the parentage of Stephen Gates the immigrant is
apparent erroneous. He claimed that Stephen's father was a Thomas GATES and that his paternal
Grandparents were Peter GATES of London and Mary Josselyn. According to the Harlein Society
publication 'The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, 1577 and 1612', London 1981, this Peter Gates was
age 29 in 1612, thus could not have been a grandfather of our Stephen Gates (who we know was
born about 1599). Also, Peter Gates and Mary Josselyn apparently had one son, Jocelyn, bapt.
Feb 1606/07 at St. Mary Woolchurch Haugh, London and perhaps two daughters. Also, the
NEHGS Vol. 137, Apr 1983, pg 146 has an article about further errors made by C.O. Gates
regarding the ancestry of Stephen Gates.
of a three acre planting lot. His house lot was on
Town (now North) Street, bounded north by the
street, east by William Buckland, and west by the
town swamp. He received a grant of half an acre
of salt marsh in 1647. He and his wife probably
joined the Hingham church about May 3, 1646
when their children Simon, Thomas, Isaac, and
Rebecca were baptized.
The information
given by Charles Otis Gates in his 1898 publication 'Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster,
Massachusetts and his Descendants' regarding the parentage of Stephen Gates the immigrant is
apparent erroneous. He claimed that Stephen's father was a Thomas GATES and that his paternal
Grandparents were Peter GATES of London and Mary Josselyn. According to the Harlein Society
publication 'The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, 1577 and 1612', London 1981, this Peter Gates was
age 29 in 1612, thus could not have been a grandfather of our Stephen Gates (who we know was
born about 1599). Also, Peter Gates and Mary Josselyn apparently had one son, Jocelyn, bapt.
Feb 1606/07 at St. Mary Woolchurch Haugh, London and perhaps two daughters. Also, the
NEHGS Vol. 137, Apr 1983, pg 146 has an article about further errors made by C.O. Gates
regarding the ancestry of Stephen Gates.
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