Person:Child Bates (1)

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m. 19 Apr 1643
  1. Hopestill Bates1644 - 1644
  2. Clement Bates1645 -
  3. James BatesAbt 1647 -
  4. John Bates1649 - 1690
  5. Ruth Bates1651 -
  6. Joseph Bates1653 -
  7. Benjamin Bates1655 -
  8. Solomon Bates1657 -
  9. Rachel Bates1659 - 1696
  10. Sarah Bates1661 - 1662/63
  11. Child Bates1663 -
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Name Child Bates
Gender Unknown
Birth[1] 21 Sep 1663 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. "Hobart Journal", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 121, p. 115.

    1663
    September
    [21] James Bate child borne

  2.   Source:History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, p. 38, applies the death in March 1663 to this child, making it a daughter who died young, and leaving Sarah presumably alive. However, the order of the entries in the journal suggests the death is March 1662/63 (it appears in the entries for the year before the year where the birth occurs) which suggests it applies probably to Sarah, or at least to one of the older children, and therefore all we know about this child is the birth date, but no gender or name. The History of Hingham mentions the will of James Bates but gives no abstract. If, perchance, he mentions a daughter Sarah, a possibility suggested by this source showing Sarah alive, that would seem instead to suggest the name was reused for this child? Hingham records do not really start until 1666 so this seems to be the only basis for all of this.