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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.
Henry Gates
Birth: Sep. 21, 1789
Death: Dec. 22, 1862
GATES, Henry
Died Dec. 22, 1862,
Aged 73 Y's & 1 Day
Capt. James Gates Company,
Champaign Co., Ohio
War of 1812
PARENTS: Ralph GATES and Jane WILEY
MARRIED: 2 December 1819, Springfield, Clark Co., OH,
Eleanor ROCK (dau. of Patrick and Rosanna ROCK)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10064396
- HENRY2 GATES, SR. (RALPH1) was born 20 December 1790 in Greenbrier Co., [W]VA8, and died 22 December 1862 in Tippecanoe Co., IN8. He married ELEANOR ROCK 2 December 1819 in Clark Co., OH9, daughter of PATRICK ROCK and ROSANNA. She was born Abt. 1796 in Kentucky, and died 20 June 1869 in Tippecanoe Co., IN.
Notes for HENRY GATES, SR.:
Henry came to Tippecanoe Co. with his family from Clark Co., Ohio around 1827. He settled in Shelby Twp. where he purchased 160 acres. He is listed as purchasing the land in the First Tract Book of Tippecanoe Co.
1812 Aug 18-Sep 23 Served in the WAR of 1812 from Champaign Co., OH, were:\
1813 Jul 30-Aug 13 Capt. JAMES GATES, JOHN GATES, HENRY GATES, Ensign JOHN BEST, GABRIEL BILDERBACK, Sgt. JOHN BOYCE\
1813 Nov 05 - HENRY and JOHN GATES of Champaign Co., OH, bought land, R 10, T 4, S 25, NEq Miami River Survey (Champaign Co.)
1818 - Found taxable in CLARK CO. OH, were:
HENRY GATES, 60 acres, R 9, T 5, S 33 SW corner
FRANCIS ROCK, 50 acres, R 9, T 5, S 33 NE corner
WHITSEL CAREY, 160 acres, R 9, T 5, S 33 SE
SAMUEL CAREY, 200 acres, R 9, T 5, S 33 NW corner
JOHN AMBLER, 20 acres, R 9, T 5, S 33 SW corner
1818 May 30 - Voting in election in Springfield Twp., Clark Co., OH were:
JAMES GATES, HENRY GATES, ZEBULON LEWIS, WAITSILL CAREY
1818 Dec 02 - HENRY GATES witness with Cooper Ludlow to land transaction between Zephaniah Platt
and Jesse Demint, grantors, to Alexander Simpson 5 acres in Sec. 5, Twp., 4, Range 9
1819 Dec 02 - HENRY GATES married ELEANOR ROCK, Clark Co., OH
1820 Feb 23 - HENRY GATES bought part lot 272 (Demints) in Springfield, Clark Co., OH.
1821 Aug - HENRY GATES served as witness for the plantiff in case of William Moody vs. Andrew McBeth in court action, Clark Co., OH.
1828 Apr 26 - HENRY GATES bought land from JOHN AMBLER, SWq Sec 33, Twp. 5, Range 9
Clark Co., OH
1828 Oct 01 - HENRY and ELLEN GATES sold land to JAMES JOHNSTON, SWq Sec. 33, Twp. 5, R. 9.
1829 Mar 20 - JOHN KENNEY (pltf.) vs. HENRY GATES (def.) in Common Pleas court action, Clark Co., OH
1829 Apr - JANE GATES (pltf.) vs. JOHN GATES and HENRY GATES (def'ts.) in Common Pleas court
action Clark Co., OH. Damages of $500 paid and suit dismissed.
1829 Dec 01 - HENRY GATES files land entry 160 acres S7, T23N, R5W, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
1846 Apr 03 - HENRY GATES, of Tippecanoe Co., IN, sells lot 277 in the town of Springfield, OH [which was sold to JAMES GATES Jun 23, 1821] to JOHN GATES, of Clark Co., OH. The deed stated that HENRY and JOHN GATES were surviving brothers and sole heirs of JAMES GATES.
1850 Oct 28 - HENRY GATES files for Bounty Land Warrant from Tippecanoe County, Indiana, for service in Capt. James Gates Company during the War of 1812---
"On this twenty-eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me a Notary Public with and for said County and State, Henry Gates aged fifty nine years on the 20th day of December 1849, a resident of the County of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical Henry Gates who was a private in the Company of Riflemen commanded by Colonel Tupper in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he volunteered at Urbanna in the State of Ohio on or about the 20th day of June 1812 to serve for the space of six months, that immediately after such volunteering the said company was, under the direction of Governor Meigs of the State of Ohio, detached and employed there as a Company of Rangers to guard the frontiers against the depredations of the Indians that said company was actively employed in such service until late in the fall of 1812, and that this deponent and others of said company returned home on or about the 30th day of October 1812, that this deponent with the other members of said company was again called out by Governor Meigs in the spring of 1813 (the precise time not recollected) and was again employed in such ranger service until on or about the last day of November 1813 when he was honorably discharged from service, but this deponent never received a written discharge. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the Act granting Bounty Land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States : passed September 28, 1850."
1855 Apr 3 - HENRY GATES files for Bounty Land Warrant from Tippecanoe County, Indiana, for service in Capt. James Gates Company during the War of 1812---
"...personally appeared before me, the Mayor of the City of Lafayette within the County and State aforesaid Henry Gates aged Sixty-five years, a resident of Tippecanoe County in the State of Indiana, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Henry Gates who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James Gates in the __ Regiment of Ohio Militia commanded by Col. Tupper, in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812 for the term of about four months and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days; that he has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of September 28, 1850, and received a Land Warrant No. 2314 for forty acres which he has since legally disposed of, and cannot now return. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3rd day of March, 1855. He also declares, that he has never
applied for nor received, under this or any other Act of Congress, any Bounty Land Warrant, except for
the one above mentioned."
Children of HENRY GATES and ELEANOR ROCK are:
5. i. ROSANNA3 GATES, b. 5 June 1819, Clark Co., OH; d. 17 February 1880, Round Grove, White Co., IN.
6. ii. JAMES GATES, b. 20 February 1820, Clark Co., OH; d. 3 February 1900, Cornell, Livingston Co., IL.
iii. JOHN GATES, b. 22 September 1822, Clark Co., OH10; d. 29 December 1900, Tippecanoe Co., IN; m. MARGARET CONLEY, 14 February 1849, Tippecanoe Co., IN; d. Bef. June 1850, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
7. iv. HENRY G. GATES, b. 29 February 1824, Clark Co., OH; d. 17 June 1888, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
v. MINERVA E. GATES, b. 7 October 1825, Clark Co., OH11; d. 11 January 1896, Tippecanoe Co., IN11; m. UNMARRIED.
vi. RALPH GATES, b. 15 October 1827, Springfield, Clark Co., OH12; d. Bef. 1830.
8. vii. WILLIAM GATES, b. 3 May 1829, Ohio; d. 21 August 1873, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
9. viii. HARRISON ALEXANDER GATES, b. 22 October 1831, Tippecanoe Co., IN; d. December 1883, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
10. ix. SAMANTHA ELVIRA GATES, b. 23 May 1836, Tippecanoe Co., IN; d. 20 January 1901, Tippecanoe Co., IN.
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