Person:John Bates (38)

Information on John Bates

From "Historical and Genealogical Notes, William & Mary Quarterly", Vol. 6, No. 2:

BATES--John(1) Bates* was born about 1600 (Hotten), and was in 1624 one of the company of Abraham Peirsey at Peirsey's Hundred. His will was proved in York county in 1666, and names a wife Elizabeth and sons George(2) and John, who died March 30, 1701, and daughters Ann Belbie and Alice Deane.

George(2) married Mary -----, who married, second, Edmund Brewer. His will was proved April 24, 1677, and names sons James(2) and John(2) Bates and daughter Mary. they lived near Skimeno, in York county, and were prominent Quakers.+

JAMES(3) BATES, of Skimeno, married Sarah -----, and in his will, proved in York county February 7, 1723, names son James, to whom he leaves land in York and New Kent and his mill at Skimeno; and daughters Mary (dead before 1738) and Hannah,++ who married Samuel Jordan.

JOHN(3) BATES, brother of James(3) Bates, made his will, which was proved in York county, December 25, 1719; names sons John and Isaac, and daughters Hannah and Ann, and grandsons Fleming, John, and Charles Bates.

JOHN(4) BATES, son of John(3) Bates, married Susannah, && and in his will, proved in 1723, names Uncle James Bates and sons Fleming, John, Charles, James, and daugher Hannah Easley, wife of Robert Easley.

FLEMING(5) BATES' || will was proved in York county in 1784. It names wife Sarah, sons Benjamin(6) and Thomas, and grandchildren Edward, Mary, and Sarah -- all three under age.

BENJAMIN(6) BATES' will was proved in York, January 16, 1804, and names sons Edward, Benjamin, Elisha, and Fleming, and daughters Mary Ratcliffe, Sarah Ratcliffe, Susannah Hockaday, and Martha Bates.

In 1769 Fleming Bates, of York county, made a deed to Thomas, of Henrico county, his son.

ISAAC(4) BATES' will was proved in Albemarle county, December 14, 1752, and in it he divides his land in York county among his five children -- John (of Buckingham county), Isaac, Ann, Lucy, and Elizabeth.

THOMAS FLEMING BATES was one of the trustees in 1788 to lay out the town of Columbia, in Fluvanna county. (Hening Stats., XII., p. 682).

Alexander Brown says he was grandson of John Bates, of York county, and Susannah Fleming, his wife. (Cabells and Their Kin, p. 499). He married Caroline Matilda Woodson, and had issue: 1, Frederick Bates, who went to Missouri and was Secretary of the Treasury, and afterwards governor of the State; 2, James Bates, who went to Arkansas, and was delegate in Congress; 3, Edward, who went to Missouri, was congressman, judge, Attorney-General in Lincoln's administration, father of Onward Bates, Esq., of Chicago; 4, Fleming Bates, who has Sepnce, born October 14, 1804, Margaret, Deborah, Daniel, Unity, Hannah, Edward, Flementine; 5, Richard Bates, father of Charles W. Bates, of St. Louis; 6, Julian, M.D.; 7, John Coalter; 8, C. W. Bates; 9, Matilda, now deceased; 10, Mrs. E. B. Eno, of St. Louis.

• In the York county records, under date of May 24, 1660, there is this entry: "John Bates, of Middletown Parish, in this county, an ancient Inhabitant of this collony, being sixty-two years of age, and thereby disabled to worke as formerly, is discharged from ye countrey and county Leavyes by this court for the future."

+The preacher, Thomas Story, held meetings at their houses in 1705. (See Friends' Library). There was afterwards a Quaker meeting-house erected in the locality before 1774, and the road that passes in that quarter is still known as the "Quaker Meeting Road."

++From Cedar Creek Quaker Minutes, in possession of R. A. Brock; Married Samule, son of Robert Jordan, on Nansemond county, and Hannah, daughter of James Bates, of York county, deceased November 3, 1738, at the house of Sarah Bates, mother of Hannah.

&&Susannah Bates married, second, John Woodson, of Henrico county, father of Tarleton and Robert Woodson. She was Susannah Fleming, daughter of Charles and Susannah Fleming, of New Kent. (Brown's Cabells and Their Kin; Goochland county records.) In. St. Peter's Parish register are the following entries: John Fleming, died August 30, 1686. Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and susannah Fleming, born October 23 (or 28), 168-. Charles, son of Tarleton and Hannah Fleming, born December 10, 1725. In Goochland there is the marriage bond of William Bernard and Mary Fleming, 1748.

||Married Fleming, son of John Bates, deceased, of York county, and Sarah, daugher of Benjamin Jordan, deceased, of Nansemond county, at the house of John Pleasants, in Henrico county, May 1, 1737. (Cedar Creek Minutes).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).