Person:Thomas Gates (49)

Name	Thomas Gates
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	5 Jun 1755	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	4 Jun 1778	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lydia Hale
Death^[3]	14 Feb 1833	Note: No primary record found.

References

↑ Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society at the charge of the Eddy Town Record Fund, 1911)
p. 43.

GATES, Thomas, s. John and Mary, [born] June 5, 1755.
Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
[1].

5 Mar 1779: Thomas Gates signed a receipt for an advance of £140 from his father John Gates, representing "my full portion of his Real Estate".
↑ The death of Thomas Gates is given as 14 Feb 1833 in both Source:Carleton, Hiram. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, p. 289 and Source:Caswell, Lilley Brewer. History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts, p. 328 (one might suspect based on similar wording and dates of publication that the second copied from the first). No such death record is found, nor gravestone, nor probate, and the location was not specified.