Person:Mercy Hale (1)

Name	Mercy Hale
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt 1712	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Abt 1730	Based on birth of eldest known child to Capt. Daniel Gates
Death^[1]	8 Jan 1803	Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States

▼References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Torrey, Clarence Almon. Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster & Cambridge, Mass: and Some of His Descendants. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Jul, Oct 1966; Jan, Jul, Oct 1967)
vol. 121, p. 46.

Capt. Daniel Preston m. abt 1730 Mercy Heald of Stow, who d. 8 Jun 1803, in 92d year.
[age 91, so born about 1712.]
"Dafter Mercy Gates" is named in the 1755 will of her father. Then in the deed where her Aunt quitclaims the property of Benjamin Heald, her father's brother, Mercy Gates is grouped as a child of Oliver: "Daniel Gates of Preston, Conn., yeoman, as Attorney for his mother Mercy Gates of Preston, Conn."