Person:Simon Gates (24)

Name	Simon Gates
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	Abt 1737	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Military^[3]	1760	went to Canada
Marriage	27 May 1766	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Susanna Reed
Military^[2]
Death^[1]	11 Mar 1809	Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1907)
118.

Gates, Simon, h. Susanna, March 11, 1809.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Stephen Gates and Some of His Descendants, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
120:270.

He served in the Crown Point Expedition under Capt. Abijah Hall, 15 May to 13 Dec 1759. He was again in service the following year from 4 Mar to 27 Nov., under Capt. Silas Brown, in the campaign for the total reduction of Canada. In 1759 he was mentioned as a son of Amos Gates; residence, Stow. In his enlistment, 26 Feb 1764 he was described as 21 years of age.
↑ Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton). History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. W. Lewis, 1890).

The following Stow soldiers went to Canada in 1760: Joshua Brown, Jonathon Farr, Phineas Fuller, Amos Gates, Simon Gates, Abraham Gates, Paul Graves, Solomon Savcas (?), a servant of Mary Hapgood.