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Andrew Ward, from whom Rev. Henry Ward Beecher received his middle name.
Robert Bates died at Stamford. June II, 1675, and his will was proved November 1. 1675 ; he bequeathed to his son Jolin, daughter Mary, wife of Abraham Ambler, and his son- in-law. John Cross ; he left some negroes "who are to be made free at forty years of age." A John Bates was one of five to fortify and stockade the town of Stamford. October 19, 1675. A Thomas Bates of Rye, New York, probably a brother, married Mary Butcher. February 21, 1679. Robert Bates married Margaret Cross. The son-in-law mentioned in his will might have been a step-son. He married (second) Susannah, daughter of Si- mon Hoyt. Children : John, mentioned be- low ; Mary, married, December 25, 1662, Abra- ham Ambler.
(II) Ensign John Bates, son of Robert Bates, was one of the patentees from the governor and county in 1685 of Stamford. In 1685 he was ensign of the Stamford militia. In 1689-90 he was deputy to the general court. He died at Stamford, December 26, 1742. He married (first ) January 18. 1693. Elizabeth Lockwood : she died May 23, 1702. He mar- ried (second ) December 28, 1702, Sarah Smith. Children by first wife, born at Stam- ford: John, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, Oc- tober 4, 1697: Elizabeth, December 10, 1699: David, May 23. 1702. Children by second wife: Nehemiah, March 29, 1704: Hannah. May 5, 1705.
(III) John (2), son of Ensign John ( I) Bates, was born at Stamford, Connecticut, No- vember 6, 1694. He married (first ) Septem- ber 1, 1718, at Bedford, Westchester county, New York, Sarah Selleck, who died February 21, 1720. Ile married ( second ) Mary Webb. Child by first wife: John, mentioned below.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Bates, was born June 24, 1719. He married, in 1744, Martha Seeley. Children : Selleck, mentioned below; Nathan, born November 7, 1747; Sa- rah, May 20, 1750: Charles, August 13. 1752. (New Style ) ; John, September 6, 1755; Aza- riah, January 21, 1758; Elisha, July 10, 1760; Seeley, February 6, 1763.
(V) Selleck, son of John (3) Bates, was born at Stamford, January 12, 1745. He was a soldier in the revolution from Stamford, Au- gust 13 to September 27, 1776, in Captain Jonathan Ball's company, the Ninth Connecti- cut Regiment (p. 456 "Conn. Soldiers in the
Revolution" ). His name does not appear, at any rate under the proper spelling, in the cen- sus of 1790 of Connecticut or New York. He may have gone elsewhere for a time. The date of his death is not known. Ile had a son Selleck, mentioned below.
(VI) Selleck (2), son of Selleck ( 1) Bates, was born in Stamford, June 18, 1768. He lived in Stamford until 1812. when he came to Danby, Tompkins county, New York, remov- ing his goods and family on an ox-team. He was one of the pioneers of the town. cleared his farm and followed farming there the re- mainder of his days. He died November I. 1836. He married Sarah, daughter of Nehe- miah and Elizabeth ( Scofield ) Bates; she is known not to be a near relative. Children : Hezekiah, Isaac, Abraham, mentioned below : Jacob, Charles, Hannah, Elizabeth, Fanny.
(VII) Abraham, son of Selleck (2) Bates. was born in Stamford, Connecticut, August 28, 1810, died at Brookton, Tompkins county, New York, May 28, 1895. He lived at home until he was eighteen years old, helping his father on the farm, then he learned the trade of blacksmith. He was in the employ of R. L. Cowdrey, of Ithaca, for nine imonths, and afterward in the employ of William Sanford, of Ithaca, New York, attending the public schools during his youth and some of the time after he began to work at his trade. Return- ing to the town of Danby, he opened a black- smith shop on his own account and followed his trade there successfully. Ile also hired a farm and conducted it, and afterward bought a farm on Ithaca Ilill, whither he moved in 1836 and cultivated it for the following six years. In 1842 he bought a farm of one hun- dred and twenty-five acres in the town of Car- oline, settled there and followed general farm- ing. From time to time he added by purchase to his holdings in real estate, both in Caroline and in the city of Ithaca. and became a lead- ing citizen of the town. In politics he was a Republican and he took a lively interest in town affairs, but never accepted public of- fice. In religion he was a Methodist.
He married. November 1, 1832, Mary E. Wright. born January 22, 1815, died in 1889. Children : Charles W., born November 17, 1833: Mary Jane. June 23. 1835, married George W. Franklin : Francis A .. October 15. 1837: Sarah A., May 11. 1840, married Jerome Brown: Frederick E., mentioned below : Cor- nelia A., June 16, 1845, married Charles Man-
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deville : Martin L., October 15, 1847, died in infancy ; Kate E., February 12, 1851, married Charles Poppelwell : Theron A., January 10, 1855, died aged nine years.
(VIII) Frederick E., son of Abraham Bates, was born May 4, 1842, on the home- stead near Caroline Depot, Tompkins county. New York.
He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, at Ithaca Academy and Charlotteville Seminary. He worked on the farm in boyhood and as- sisted his father until he enlisted in the Un- ion army in the civil war, August 30, 1864. He was a private in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment, New York Volun- teer Infantry, and was in the service to the end of the war. He was mustered out with his regiment at Elmira, New York. On the first day in the service he took part in the en- gagement at Poplar Springs Church. He was in the siege of Petersburg and took part in various other skirmishes. For two months after he returned from the service he assisted his father on the homestead. He then en- tered partnership with his brother Charles W. in mercantile business in Ithaca until 1872. when he resumed farming. He was one of the most successful and prominent farmers of this section. For the last ten years, from 1902 to 1912, he has resided in Ithaca where he owns considerable real estate. He has been honored with various offices of trust and re- sponsibility. He served the town of Caroline for three terms in the board of supervisors and his administration of the town affairs was creditable alike to him and his constituents. He was member of the assembly at Albany two terins. 1896-97, and was appointed to various important committees of that body. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He is a charter mem- ber of David Ireland Post. Grand Army of the Republic, of Brookton, New York, of which he was commander for four years. He is now and has been for three years comman- der of Mix Post, Ithaca, New York, and is aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. In religion he is a Methodist.
He married, September 27, 1893, at New Windsor, Illinois, Juanita, daughter of Hugh and Mary ( Watson ) Breckinridge ( see Breck- inridge III). Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bates: Juanita. born December 25. 1894: Abraham, February 24, 1899.
(The Breckinridge Line) .
(I) William Breckinridge. immigrant an- cestor, was born in Scotland in 1749, died in Pennsylvania in 1827. He married Jane An- derson, born in Scotland in 1749, died in Penn- sylvania in 1834. Among their children was William, mentioned below.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Breckinridge, was born in 1784, died in Mer- cer county, Pennsylvania, December 29. 1865. He married Jane Wallace, who died in Mer- cer county, March 8, 1851.
(III) Rev. Hugh Breckinridge, son of Will- iam (2) Breckinridge, was born May 5, 1826, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, died August 28, 1887, in Mercer county, Illinois. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and in Ohio. Early in life he became a patternmaker and designer of machinery in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Illinois, and after engaging in business for a time as a carpenter and builder bought a farm in Mercer county, Illinois. He was a lifelong student and largely by private study fitted him- self for the ministry and was ordained as pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church at Hopewell, Illinois. He was a gifted musician and singer, an able, forceful versatile man. In politics he was a Republican and he at- tended the first Republican National conven- tion. He married Mary Watson. Children : Juanita, wife of Frederick E. Bates (see Bates VIII) ; Clara L., married Asa E. Fritz ; Will- iam Watson: Sarah E., died in infancy ; Ed- ward E .: Mary A. Mrs. Juanita ( Breckin- ridge) Bates is also a descendant of John Mc- Millan, P. D., who was very active in the Presbyterian church in western Pennsylvania, and one of the founders of Washington-Jeffer- son College, Pennsylvania.
BATES (VII) Jacob Bates, son of Sel- leck Bates (q. v.), was born in Danby, February 16, 1815, and died at Ithaca, New York, January 8, 1887. He was educated in the public schools, and dur- ing his youth followed farming for an occupa- tion in the town of Danby. In his early man- hood he was well known as a butcher, cattle drover and dealer. He bought cattle through- out this section of the state and drove them to New York City markets. He built up a well deserved reputation forhonesty and fair dealing in business and was highly respected in the community. He prospered in business and in-
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vested wisely in real estate, owning large tracts of land in this section at the time of his death. He continued in business until two years before his death. In religion he was a Unitarian. In politics he was a Democrat. He built the Bates Block, Ithaca. He married (first) Laura Puffen, born January 17, 1814, died December 13, 1845. He married (sec- ond) Sophie Brown. He married (third) Frances A. Carpenter, born July 27, 1827, now living ( 1912) and enjoying good health at the age of eighty-four years (see Carpenter XVI). Child by first wife: Rufus, mentioned below. Children by second wife: Wilbur J., men- tioned below ; Laura Sophia, born March 20. 1852, married De Borden Wilmot, of Ithaca.
(VIII) Rufus, son of Jacob Bates, was born in Danby, October 13, 1836, died March II, 1880. He attended the public schools of Ith- aca, Alfred University and Syracuse Business College. He became associated with his father in the cattle and meat business, and in real estate. He was in partnership with his father in the building of the Bates Block, and devoted most of his time to real estate in his last years. He was well known. highly re- spected and was sincerely mourned in the com- munity when his career was cut short in the prime of life. He was popular in every walk of life. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was keenly interested in public affairs. a citizen of public spirit. He was president of the village of Ithaca for one term. He was a trustee of the Ithaca Savings Bank, and a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family attended the Unitarian church. He married, in Addison, Steuben county, New York, April 2, 1863, Flora M., born March 10, 1839, daughter of Anson and Abigail (Smith) Doolittle ( see Doolittle VI). Children : Frank Cornell, born November 6, 1864, died April 11, 1869; Annie M., born October 4, 1876.
(VIII) Wilbur J., brother of Rufus Bates and son of Jacob Bates, was born September 18, 1850, in Danby, New York. He attended the district schools of his native town, Ithaca Academy and Cornell University. At the end of the freshman year he left college to engage in mercantile business. For a number of years he was in the retail shoe business, for the past twenty years conducted a successful dairy business, and also engaged in real es- tate transactions from time to time. He owns several farms. among which are the Bates
homestead of one hundred and eighty-eight acres on the Danby road, Ithaca. In politics he is an Independent. Ile is a member of ITobaco Lodge, No. 716, Free and Accepted Masons of Ithaca.
He married, October 21, 1885, Catherine J., born June 10, 1863, daughter of John and An- nie (Royall) Ryan, of Candor, New York ( see Royall). John Ryan was a native of Art Fry, North Sea, Ireland. He came to this country with relatives at the age of seven years. His home was at first at Motts Cor- ners, but in 1856 he moved to Candor, New York, where he became a prominent lumber dealer, and a leading citizen. For several terms he was supervisor of the town of Can- dor. He was active in politics and a local leader of the Democratic party until the ad- ministration of President Benjamin Harrison, when he became a Republican, and he con- tinued in the Republican party the remainder of his life. Mr. Ryan died in Candor, July 8, 1909. Children of John and Annie Ryan : Catherine J., born June 10, 1863, married Wil- bur J. Bates, mentioned above; Nannie R., born June 13, 1866, married W. E. Brown, of Ithaca : Fanny, born 1867, married J. W. Alex- ander, of Bay Shore, Long Island. Children of Wilbur J. and Catherine J. ( Ryan ) Bates : Horace Ryan, born June 2. 1888, died young ; Laura Ryan, born July 21. 1894, educated in public schools of Ithaca, now ( 1912) in Wall- court school, at Aurora, New York.
(The Carpenter Line).
(XII ) Captain John Carpenter, son of John Carpenter (q. v.), was born in Connecticut about 1658. He lived at Jamaica, Long Is- land. On November 22, 1703, he took the oath as captain of troops at Jamaica. His will was dated June 10, 1732, proved July 30, 1732. Nehemiah and Increase were executors of the will, May 1, 1738, and he mentioned his wife, his sons Nehemiah, John and Solomon, of Goshen, and daughters Mary, Hannah, Sus- anna and Phebe. He married Mary Children, born at Jamaica: Nehemiah, about 1685 : John, about 1685 ; Solomon, about 1686: Joseph, about 1687; Increase, mentioned be- low ; Mary; Hannah; Susanna ; Phebe.
(XIII) Increase, son of Captain John Car- penter, was born about 1688, died about 1776. In 1709 he bought land at Jamaica. He was executor of his father's will, May 1, 1738. He married Bergin. Children, born at
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Jamaica : William, mentioned below ; In- crease, April, 1743 : Jacob, 1745; John, 1747; David, Luke, Elizabeth.
(XIV) William, son of Increase Carpenter, was born at Jamaica, Long Island, about 1740. He was a harnessmaker. He served in the revolution. He moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, and spent his later years with his daugh- ter, dying at her home. Child, John W., men- tioned below.
(AT ) John W., son of William Carpenter, was born at Pleasant Valley, Jamaica. Long Island, July 9. 1769. died February 7. 1834. He succeeded to his father's farm at Pough- keepsie and lived the life of a country gentle- man. engaging in no active business. He mar- ried Mary Thorne, born September 26, 1771, Children : William, mentioned below : Hel- ache (?). April 13, 1796; Anne, February 10. 1798: Daniel. December 9, 1804: Eliza, July 3, 1807 : Maria, August 4, 1810: George W., December 27. 1811, died December 22, 1835.
(XVI) William (2), son of John W. Car- penter, was born at Poughkeepsie, New York. March 4, 1792, died March 26, 1885, at Ithaca, New York. He received his education in the district schools, and learned the carpenter's trade in the employ of his uncle, Joseph Thorne. Subsequently he settled in the town of Dryden, Tompkins county, New York. where he engaged in business as a carpenter and builder. He was always a dealer in real estate and owned an excellent farm. Ile was a member of the Society of Friends, and was highly respected in the community for his sterling traits of character. He married ( first ) Alice, daughter of John I. Ward. of Pough- keepsie. He married ( second ) Sarah B., daughter of Tilton Aldrich, of Poughkeepsie. Children by first wife: John and Thorne. Children by second wife: Sarah. Captain Charles T., Frances A., married Jacob Bates (see Bates VII).
(The Doolittle Line).
(I) Abraham Doolittle, immigrant ances- tor, was born in 1619 or early in 1620, in England. He seems to have been related closely to the Worcestershire family. but his home in England has not been found. Ile spells his name "Dowlittell," and he was the progenitor of most of the Doolittles in Am- erica. When he was about twenty-one years of age he came with his wife, shortly after their marriage, in company with the Puritans,
and he was in Boston as early as 1640, but before 1642 they moved to New Haven, Con- necticut, where many settlers were going from Boston. His name was mentioned in a divi- sion of land in 1643, as having one and a half acres in the first division and one and three- quarter acres in each of the other two divi- sions. In 1644 he took the oath of fidelity and was made the chief executive officer of the colony before he was scarcely twenty-five years of age. He was very prominent in all public affairs, being chosen seven times as deputy from New Haven to the general as- sembly at Hartford. For many years he served as selectman.
On October 15, 1662, the following is found on the records of a court of magistrates hield at New Haven : "Abraham Dowlitle ppounded to have five pounds for keeping the Indian Taphanse about seventeene weekes time for all his charges and troubles about him. The court thought it moderate and granted it." After 1667 he moved to a tract of land twelve miles north of New Haven, and although the colonists held a title to that section it is re- corded that they paid the Indians for the tract. Abraham Doolittle is said to have been the first white man to explore the forests beyond the Quinnipiac river, and in 1669 he was one of three chosen by the planters of New Haven to manage the affairs of a new settlement, which was incorporated as a town, May 12, 1670, and named Wallingford, though the committee managed it until 1672. Here also Abraham Doolittle was prominent in town af- fairs and he held many offices of trust. He was representative from Wallingford to the general court at Hartford for several terms, and during the twenty years after the incor- poration until his death he held almost every position of responsibility in the town. In 1671 he was chosen treasurer. In October. 1671, he received a grant of land and two and a half acres on Wharton's brook, a grant containing a water privilege upon which in 1674 the first mill in town was built. On May 27, 1672, he was one of five chosen as a committee for ap- probation of planters to be admitted. In 1672 he was on a committee from Wallingford which with the New Haven committee ad- justed the boundary between the towns, on the west side of the river. In December, 1673. he was appointed surveyor of highways, and he was selectman in 1674-75. On February 15. 1775. he was on a committee of thirteen
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to attend the founding of the first church, Congregational, in the village and later was chosen to superintend the construction of the building, which was delayed about two years because of the Indian war. In 1673 he was made sergeant of the "first traine band," and in 1675, during King Philip's war, he was a member of the vigilance committee. His
dwelling was fortified at this time against an expected attack from the Indians led by King Philip himself. He and Elezier Peck were in charge of the town's stock of ammunition. In 1677 he was chosen to oversee the work on the mill dam. In April, 1679, he was dep- uty to the general court and again served as selectman, and was on a committee to lay out a highway for the town. In 1681, when he was over sixty years of age, he was again deputy, and was on a committee which bought from the Indians a large tract of land including the present loca- tion of Meriden. In March, 1684, he was foreman of a jury of inquest for the first drowning case in Wallingford, and in 1685 was deputy and townsman, as well as in 1687- 88. Several grants of land were given him at various times, the last one being in 1689.
He died August 1I, 1690, aged seventy years. His gravestone is still standing, the oldest one in Wallingford. At his death he held about two hundred acres in and around Wallingford. In his will he mentioned his wife Abigail, seven sons and three daughters, Sarah Abernathy, Elizabeth Brockett and Abi- gail Doolittle, and in May, 1700, the mother and seven sons made an agreement about the division of the lands. She died November 5, 1710, aged sixty-nine years. She was granted twenty-five acres on the side of the blue hills. and in 1694 received ten acres more which her husband had bought from John Beach.
Hon. Abraham Doolittle married (first) Joane Allen (Alling on the early records), daughter of James Allen, a well-to-do citizen of Kempston, county Bedford, England. James Allen died in Kempston in 1657 and his will mentioned his daughter. "wife of Abra- ham Dowlittle now living in New England." He married (second), July 2. 1663, Abigail Moss, born April 10, 1642, daughter of John Moss. of New Haven, later of Wallingford : John Moss died in 1707, aged one hundred and three. Children by first wife, born in New Haven : Sarah ; Abraham. born Febru- ary 12, 1649; Elizabeth, April 12, 1652; Mary,
February 22, 1653, died young ; John, June 14, 1655; Abigail, baptized May 22, 1659, died young. Children by second wife: Samuel, July 7. 1665 ; Joseph, February 12, 1667. Born in Wallingford: Abigail, February 26, 1669; Ebenezer, July 6, 1672; Mary, March 4, 1674 ; Daniel, December 29, 1675 ; Theophilus, men- tioned below.
(II) Theophilus, son of Hon. Abraham Doolittle, was born at Wallingford, Connecti- cut, July 28, 1678. He was twelve years of age when his father died, and when he became of age he received his share of his father's land. After his marriage he settled as a farmer. He married (first) January 5, 1698, Rev. Samuel Street officiating, Thankful, daughter of David and Sarah (Rockwell) Hall, of Wallingford. She was born there December 29, 1679, died June 2, 1715. He married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Jere- miah Howe, of Wallingford. He died March 26, 1740, aged sixty-one. Children by first wife, born in Wallingford: Thankful, May 18, 1700; Sarah, June 1, 1703; Henry, 1704, died 1733; David, probably ; Solomon, August 17, 1713. By second wife: Benjamin, men- tioned below.
(III) Benjamin, son of Theophilus Doolit- tle, was born September 28, 1723, at Walling- ford, died at Mt. Carmel, Connecticut, March 5, 1790. His "ear mark" is recorded at New Haven, December 26, 1754. He married, No- vember 10, 1748, Esther, daughter of Nathan- iel and Esther ( Blakeslee) Tuttle. Children : Titus, mentioned below: Elizabeth, born Au- gust 1, 1752 ; Esther, May 20, 1754 : Benjamin, probably: Eunice, October 4, 1758: Sarah, July 20, 1761 : Abigail, October 10, 1763; Samuel, probably.
(IV) Titus, son of Benjamin Doolittle, was born June 8, 1749, died probably in the winter of 1837: his wife died some years before he did. He married Nabbie Mallory, and they lived probably at Mount Carmel Center, Con- necticut. All his descendants except son Titus left Connecticut. Children : Abbie, married (first ) . Benjamin Franklin, ( second) Church ; Benjamin, mentioned below ; Polly, twin, married (first) Cooper. ( second) Jonathan Rumsey, lived in Trumansburg, New York ; Sally, twin, married Jonathan Rumsey, and he married (second) her sister Polly : Lola, married James Charles; Patty, married Thomas Lewis: Betsey, married Thomas Plaice : Electa, married - -- Roberts ; Titus.
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(V) Benjamin (2), son of Titus Doolittle, was born in Connecticut, probably at Mount Carmel, died in 1854, aged seventy-three. He settled near the Catskill mountains in New York and later moved to Tompkins county, New York, when his son Luther was still young. He was a ship carpenter. He married Ann Winchell, and they had eight sons and three daughters; four sons and two daughters were living in 1891. Children: Luther; Je- hiel; Esther, married John Drake, and died aged twenty-one ; Harmon; Anson, mentioned below ; Calvin ; Ann, married Hiram Whitney ; Benjamin J .; Alvah; Lavira, married Albert Saxton ; Isaiah.
(VI) Anson, son of Benjamin (2) Doolit- tle, was born in Catskill, New York, April 6. 1812, died August 24, 1895, in Ithaca, New York. In early life he settled with his parents in Enfield, Tompkins county, New York. He worked with his brother clearing a tract of land there, and later he moved to Addison, New York, where for a number of years he was engaged in the hotel business. In 1864 he returned to Ithaca and retired because of ill health, spending the remainder of his life there. In religion he was a Methodist, and in politics a Republican. He married Abigail Smith, born June 10, 1812, in Cayuga county, New York, died January 8, 1910, at Ithaca, daughter of Jeremiah and Martha (Bates) Smith. Child, Flora M., married Rufus Bates (see Bates VIII).
(The Royall Line).
All the Royal and Royall families of colonial ancestry were descended from William Royall. the immigrant, who was sent over by the Massachusetts Bay Company from England on account of his trade, cooper and cleaver of timber. He settled at Salem in 1629 and had a grant of land that is still known as Ryall's Neck, formerly Ryall's Side. The name was pronounced in the old-fashioned way and spelled accordingly in many cases. There is evidence that he was at Casco Bay, Maine, as early as 1635-36; he had a grant of land at Sagadahoc in 1639 and in 1643 bought a tract at Saco. At that time he had already built a house on the south side of what was after- wards called Royall's river in North Yar- mouth, Maine. The hostility of the Indians in 1675 drove him away from his farm and he came to Dorchester, Massachusetts. In March. 1673, he and his wife Phebe deeded a portion
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