Person:Samuel Bates (25)

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Samuel Bates
b.Jul 1756 Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
d.30 Jan 1777 Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
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m. 15 Oct 1747
  1. Hannah Bates1749 - 1749
  2. Betty Bates1750 -
  3. David Bates1754 -
  4. Samuel Bates1756 - 1777
  5. Abner Bates1759 - 1819
  6. Lydia Bates1763 -
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Name Samuel Bates
Gender Male
Birth? Jul 1756 Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
Other[1] 1776 during the Revolutionary War MilSvc
Death? 30 Jan 1777 Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, USAof smallpox
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    Samuel Bates left home to fight against the British in the summer of 1776. Sometime between August and November he was taken prisoner by the British. As prisoners began to get sick with smallpox, the British started releasing them. Samuel was put on board the Glasgow on December 24, arriving in Milford, CT on January 1, 1777. He returned home and died of smallpox on January 30.

  2.   Doris Sherrow, "Job Bates' House," PortlandCT.org History Articles (September 2001) (www.portlandct.org/pdf/hi.
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