Person:Clement Bate (2)

Clement Bate
chr.26 Jan 1594/95 Lydd, Kent, England
m. 6 Jun 1580
  1. Robert Bate1580/81 - 1610
  2. James Bate1582 - Bet 1655 & 1655/56
  3. Anna Bate1584 - 1586
  4. Anna Bate1586 - 1587
  5. John Bate1588 - 1606
  6. Thomas Bate1590 -
  7. Edward Bate1592 - 1616
  8. Clement Bate1594/95 - 1671
  9. Joseph Bate1598 -
  10. Mary Bate1600 -
  11. Isaac Bate1601/02 -
  12. Rachel Bate1603/04 - 1676
  13. Martha Bate1605 - 1606
  • HClement Bate1594/95 - 1671
  • WAnn UnknownCal 1595 - 1669
m. Abt 1621
  1. James BateCal 1621 - 1689
  2. Clement BateCal 1623 - 1639
  3. John Bate1624 - 1624
  4. Rachel Bate1626 - 1647
  5. Joseph Bate1628 - 1706
  6. Unknown BateEst 1631 - 1631
  7. Lieutenant Benjamin Bate1632 - 1678
  8. Samuel Bate1638/39 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Clement Bate
Alt Name[2] Clement Bates
Gender Male
Alt Christening[3] 22 Jan 1594/95 Lydd, Kent, England
Christening[1][4] 26 Jan 1594/95 Lydd, Kent, England
Marriage Abt 1621 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Ann Unknown
Emigration[1] 1635 On the Elizabeth.
Residence[1] 1635 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 3 Mar 1635/36 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Will[1][2] 12 Oct 1669 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation[1] Tailor
Death[1][2] 17 Sep 1671 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[5] Hingham Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[1] 24 Sep 1671 £215 12s., of which £192 was real estate.
Probate[1] 2 Nov 1671 Will proved.

"On 6 April 1635, 'Clement Bates,' aged 40, tailor, 'Ann Bates,' aged 40, with five children: 'James Bates,' aged 14, 'Clement Bates,' aged 12, 'Rachell Bates,' aged 8, 'Joseph Bates,' aged 5, and Ben[jamin] Bates,' aged 2, and two servants 'Jo[hn] Wynchester,' aged 19, and 'Jarvice Gold,' aged 30, were enrolled as passengers for New England on the Elizabeth [Hotten 48]."[1]

The family settled in Hingham where Clement was granted several parcels of land and a houselot. He engaged in minor land transactions through 1647 and served as Hingham selectman on several occasions between 1642 and 1652.[1]


Elizabeth (1635)
Sailed: mid Apr 1635 from London, England under Master William Stagg
Arrived: July? 1635 at Massachusetts Bay Colony

Passengers:
? (Full List)
Clement Bate family (servant Jervice Gold) - James Bates family - John. and William Beamond - Rachell Bigg - William Bracey - Daniel Bradley - Jo: Browne - Henrie Bull - Edward Bullock family - Ralph Chapman - Jo: Cluffe - Margaret Davies family - Jo: Duke - Robert ffaronds - Patience Foster and son Hopestill - Peter Gardner - Edward Gold - Versala Greenway - Samuel Haleward - William Holdred - James Hosmer family (servants Marie Dounard - Marie Martin) - Jo: Hubbard- William Hubbard - John. Johnson (age 23) - Thomas Lettyne - Edward Loomis - Thomas Millet family - Jo: Mussell - Roger Preston - George Russell - Joan Sellin and daughter - Jo: Smith - Thomas Smith - Isack Stedman family - John Stone - Peter Thorne - Robert Thornton - Dorothy Smith and daughter - James Walker - Richard Walker - Sarra Walker - William Walker - Joshua Wheat - William Whitteredd family - Francis White - William Wild family - Jo: Wynchester

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Other information: Passenger List

References
  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Clement Bate, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    1:195-98.

    "ORIGIN: Biddenden, Kent"
    "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Hingham church prior to 3 March 1635/6 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 3 March 1635/6 (third in a sequence of three Hingham men) [MBCR 1:371]."
    "BIRTH: Baptized Lydd, Kent, 26 Jan 1594/5, son of James and Mary (Martine?) Bate [NEHGR 51:269]. (The baptismal date given here is from the Lydd Bishop's Transcripts, and differs slightly from the version published in 1897.)
    DEATH: Hingham 17 September 1671 'aged 81 years died Sabbath Day night' [NEHGR 121:126]."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 1. Clement Bates, in Lincoln, George; Thomas T. Bouve; Edward T. Bouve; John D. Long; Walter L. Bouve; Francis H. Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles W. S Seymour; and Town of Hingham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts . (Hingham, Massachusetts: The Town, 1893)
    2:38.

    "In his will, dated at Hing. 12 Oct. 1669, gives to eldest s. James, 'my house-lot next adjoining to my son Joseph, containing four acres, which was given unto me by the town. To sons Joseph and Benjamin, land and other valuables. To son Samuel, my now dwelling-house with the lot of five acres which the house stands upon. Also all my household stuff to my four sons,' etc."

  3. Clement Bate, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:138.

    "Clement (Bates), Hingham, a tailor, said to be from Co. Herts, but more prob. from Kent, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 40, with w. Ann, 40, and ch. James, 14; Clement, 12; Rachell, 8; Joseph, 5; Benjamin, 2; and two serv. and here had Samuel, and perhaps other ch. was freem. 3 Mar. 1636, and d. 17 Sept. 1671.

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 3:601] [Vol. 1] p. 138. l. 8, ft. Samuel, add bapt. 24 Mar. 1639;─also, for 'perhaps other ch.' r Hopestill, Sept. 1644;"

    Hopestill was not his child, but the eldest child (died young) of his son James.

  4. Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, A.M.. Genealogical Gleanings in England. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901)
    2:1302.

    "Clement (Bate), bapt. (Lydd) 22 Jan. 1595."

  5. Clement Bates, in Find A Grave.