Person:Phineas Gates (6)

Name^[1]	Phineas Gates
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1708	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1738	Based on estimated birth of eldest known child to Sarah Hapgood (add)
Death^[1]^[2]	Bef 10 Nov 1784	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Torrey, Clarence Almon. "Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster and Cambridge, Mass., and Some of His Descendants", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 121, p. 48.

Maj. Phineas Gates [#30], s/o Isaac Gates [#8] and first wife Mercy Benjamin, b. Stow about 1708, died Stow between 12 Nov 1782 [writing of will] and 1 Dec 1784 [proving of will], m. about 1737 Sarah Hapgood.
↑ Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
Case 8977 Phinehas Gates 1784.

Will of "Phinehas Gates of Stow ... Esq'r Being far advanced in years and of Indisposition of Bodey", dated 12 Nov 1782, heirs cited 10 Nov 1784, proved 1 Dec 1784, names wife; eldest son Noah Gates; son Phinehas Gates; eldest daughter Sarah Gates; second daughter Rhoda FAirbank; third daughter Kezia Longley; youngest daughter Damaris Farnsworth. Jon'n Hapgood and son Noah Gates to be executors.
[blank] Feb 1785: Inventory of Phinehas Gates Esq'r Late of Stow Deseaased: £54=14=10 by Charles Whitman, Jabez Brown, Hezekiah Hapgood.