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E If 1 I I 1 4 f i v W r kAt L lI W ri k f 1 BATES FAMILY I Saxon Anglo Derivation of r Name a me Suggested Suggested Always Always Prominent Prominent Prom Prom- and Men of Affairs Coat Affairs Coat Coat Armor Granted in Six- Six f i tenth Century fly BY OH I No o very cry satisfactory been heen theory has hos ever eve advanced to account for tOI the thc name nates Bates If Jr I It U is a corruption of or Hartl Harth Of this tills may moy bo Lc a form torm of bar which me means son son of of in th the Bible lible wo have th the ls name Simon Bar Ba or Simon son o ot Jona JOla Just as ns Bartholomew means the son on of oC If Jr I the name was first Bar or Barth the evolution was ms perhaps Barts Batts Bats loth Battis Bate Bates Dates is also on 01 orthography An n Saxon Anglo-Saxon word hate means mano contention Bute Is the usual form form 0 of the name in I England tJ all ni tIo pilgrims WC were Bate nate About th the end of the eighteenth century Bates leea became w t the I e accented a ted to form ml lates office of oC Jurat of l Lydd Y dd or Lid was as held by the Date Bate family l for or many generation cn ns and the HI el church nt at t Lydd n Is Ii un o of All J ms' ms I iii 1 ot ot-ilia O n az-n- fy with h The coat of oC arms herewith F H Illustrated tl blazoned upon lomb tombstones Thc Unit was wa Wl John i Halo Hate who died Clement Kale Bate or Hates as his descendants now write the name was ono of or the settlers of or Hingham lingham Mass He lIe le lIeas was WS horn born at Lydd Lytt about aboul I lr 1595 95 f and antI with hi his Ann came caine over in inthe inthe the Planter In 1635 Ills Ils grant of or f live five acres of lan land at it t Is still in the Bates Bats family Clements Clement's son Joseph Josel who was one of live five sons sons Is hi a good ancestor to appropriate appropriate ap ap- ap- ap for he lie hold helt various town to offices ITo Jin was wa selectman constable and sexton He lie Ie married married every l every ono non oln married In ILl those days and bachelor maids were too AIl unpopular anti and left ln a family of or some size Enterprise has lus ever been a Bates characteristic antI anil 1 between 1030 and anti l 1640 O five of or the Date Bate name came from the ol old country to Massachusetts settling set set- thug In Boston or near It It There were ere v Clement and anc Ami Alin already mentioned Willam WIliam came In the Freelove 1635 Tames James Tamel with wih Alice Alce George a freeman treeman tree free man nn and l g Edward of or Weymouth Some Somera ra may have been brothers Edward seems scents to have had hal some his his- tory lie iTe was a 0 follower of airs Hutchinson anti and with s seven others of It r Boston n was disarmed for or heresy and for tor fear they will wi make some Mom sudden eruption Later Lter he lie le recanted and became a freeman anti and deputy to th the court court Also Alfo a n good gool forefather to an annex annex an- an nex for descendants nr desiring affiliation with patriotic societies Comfort Bates Bats was an ni immigrant of ofa ofa a n later date n Ho iTo camo came from I England 1 1771 1171 and as of the settlers ant was wa one at Lenox Mass As Is what is known kown as the lie Bates Bales homstead al There was born Samuel Austin Hates orator poet historian who was wa of th the plain unaffected d type who Is remembered not hOt for Cot 01 his Il learning only but alsi ahl for fur his kind acts of or brotherly charl charity f the nip family Nehemiah was In the Continental army and Asa AKa sa born 1760 married J Jemima daughter of Isaac who was a soldier oll r. r Asa sa and ane Jemima had hat a largo large fUl family I with a n assortment of names and Marvel Manel and Vesta ant three Vesta ma married GM fr I IJ J nry J Jam James M Bates ot or JUng JUng- Ham was ns also alu a bold bohil buIl as SS 38 years yearn of ff age i stature stature six feet om- om Olt complexion l light ht Sergeants I tants ts Abraham and ami nHI Abner lieutenant Elna- Elna than increase and A I nn ar tr also ahm men of or 70 iG Nor can the tue tl following story be he told loM of or any n of the Bates Batts This il I 1 suppose Is lh the gun gnu gUl your YOI great nat grandfather grand f father Mthr ther c carried through the Revolution Hl Most ro t assuredly not that was as his gun un hut but his man carried It I for Cor him Upon that memorable occasion when w Washington ashington crossed the tho Delaware one ant of oC his faithful officers and nd friends of oC his most faithful officers an and friends was Colonel Jacob Bates whose wife wie was Ruth Chapman Colonel Jacob mn may have been of or the Virginia family Two famous m members of or this branch ranch are the Ihl statesmen Edward and Frederick Fred Fred- erick crick Hates Bates Hats brothers born horn at B Belmont lmont Vii Va Edward born 1793 19 presided over thin the I t II Whig enton cOI convention held at I Baltimore In Jn he lie was candidate for tur the tH Republican Presidential nomination nomi izumi- naton nation lit lIt was a it member r of l Lincoln's in Inn cabinet Frederick also ahw prominent n ria Irs removed to Missouri 1 Th Tile Virginia Bates mm hail a n marriage connection with lh thA Major oC- oC r Nc ii mil JF Fielding J j r who vho married ti l Betty Bet Bel ty LYe sister sinter of ot Washington Other mar inar- mo- mo Iia connection with wih famous Virginia families are or with wih the tw Lees the llie Itan- Itan sons of and the thc Jeffer- Jeffer Characteristics of ot the Bates are plain ihl-a ihl fashioned out no no always In f fashion fashion- hon honesty ty He lie was an un honest man was M 11 said of Zealous lat Bates s. s and it I can In very truthfully be I said Raid that there ther are nrC lv lr others Of or Of another It has haR been written written writ writ- ten lie III weeks seeks I 1 not Honor or riches nut lint I Is content L to keep close CloP to lo muth earth Irth and ail bo lie he a man I lie Ic h had hod HI no pet pel or remarkable able discoveries to Lo thrust on un you 0 whether or no no Accuracy Ac Ac- curacy of or statement Is also called a aBates aBates aBates' Bates Dats Bates Bates' characteristic The rhe coat coaL of arms alms reproduced was granted It I is blazoned sable a h fosse fesse or Ir between three dexter han hands s len argent t Crest CIRl a stags stag's head argent attired or or erased gules through h the neck with an un arrow gOl gold feathered and heu headed ed nt argent nl Motto Moto l El Bt t Conic Corde et pt Manu lan This ts Is the coat armor of the Bates of or Kent on and Yorkshire It I is also the arms of or the families of or Derby Derly and Leicester nut out the th crest b is a dexter hand erect reN at nt the wrist or for fOI the the Bates of Leicester a cro cross s patel or for the Derby Derly family N Nathaniel Bate ate of or Little Chester Chester Ches- Ches Ches Ches- ter E f Derby was as put hut down as one of the tho of ot the proposed Order of o the Royal nl Oak 1 lie died 11 1 1647 1047 and anil was the lie son of It f Anthony Bate Bale gent Nathaniel Nathaniel Na Nn- thaniel hr hail had l a a son BOH ton Thomas Thoma Bate ate of Grays Gray's Inn Esq a m major jor In thin the army of King Charles I I- I IThe The rhe chaplain chapIn In of I I 1 II I. I I was vas as William V ill ha in Bale Bute tO who 01 wrote rOte til the J Lives I e of Pious Persons In iii II Latin ho |