BATES, Edward

Abt 1616 - 1645  (~ 28 years)

• Name	BATES, Edward  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Born	Abt 1616	Boston, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Between 28 Apr 1644 and 7 Nov 1645	Probably Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I6717	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family	FAIRBANKS, Lydia,   b. 13 Jun 1622, Boston, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. 12 Oct 1704, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years)
  Married	Abt 1638	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. BATES, Prudence,   b. 11 Jun 1639,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. BATES, Susanna,   b. Abt 1640,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. BATES, John,   b. 9 Jun 1641, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Apr 1722, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)   4. BATES, Increase,   b. 28 Dec 1641,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. BATES, Mary,   b. Abt 1643,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. BATES, Edward,   b. 10 Dec 1655,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. BATES, Jehoshabeath,   b. Abt 1657,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F2562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Edward's birthdate is estimated at 1616 based on his admittance as afreeman. Edward immigrated to Massachusetts in 1633 and took up residencein Boston. He was admitted freeman on March 9, 1636/7. Edward was involved with the Boston Church as noted in the following, "Edward Baytes, one of our brother Thomas Leveritt's men servants," was admitted to Boston church in November 1633. On 20 November 1642 Edward Bates was excommunicated "for sundry scandalous thefts committed by him and for many lies and unclean dalliances with another man's wife," and on 28 April 1644 he repented and was readmitted to the church. Official duties assigned to Edward included Fenceviewer for Corn Field at Muddy River, 25 March 1639. Edward's property ownership was recorded in the following, on 12 June1637 "Edward Bayts" was granted fourteen acres of upland and marsh at Pullen Point Neck [Boston Town Records 1:18, 28]. On 30 March 1640 the Boston selectmen ordered that "Edward Baytes (in regard of his absence at Isle Sables) shall be allowed 6 months to build upon his lot; otherwise he consents to leave it to the town, his charges being allowed to the value". Mentioned as an abutter of Robert Scott in Boston Book of Possessions. Edward died after 28 April 1644 [Boston Church Records 41] and before 7 November 1645. COMMENTS: Pope has combined two men by the name of Edward Bates, one from Boston and one from Weymouth. Since we now know that Edward Bates of Weymouth was in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, as late as 1636, there is no longer reason for confusion [TAG 65:33-43, 89-96]. Most other published accounts make the distinction. Edward Bates of Boston was one of those disarmed on 20 November 1637 for siding with Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright in the Antinomian Controversy [MBCR 1:211]. There is no direct evidence for the conclusion that the widow of Edward Bates was the Lydia Bates who married William Fletcher at Concord in 1645, but the circumstances make it a high probability: the last record of Edward Bates is in 1644, and the marriage of Lydia Bates takes place in 1645; and John Bates, presented to the Chelmsford church on 1 February 1656/7 as a child of William Fletcher, was said to be about fifteen at that time [Fiske Notebook 113], which is exactly what the John Bates baptized in Boston as son of Edward Bates would be. Lydia had several additional children by William Fletcher. Some secondary sources suggest thatLydia (____ _) (Bates) Fletcher may have been daughter of RICHARD FAIRBANKS of Boston. The latter source, for instance, says "there is evidence of some association between the two families" (Richard Fairbanks and Henry Farwell), but does not produce the evidence. Nothing in the career of Richard Fairbanks suggests that he had a daughter Lydia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S193] Boston Church Records: 17, 37, 41. [S194] Boston Town Records 1:39. [S195] Boston Town Records 1:52. [S196] BBOP 23; see also BBOP 79, where the editor states that this boundary is"hard to explain". [S197] See Bates Bulletin, Series 3, p. 39, and Series 5, pp.58-59; Snow-Estes1:278-80, 296; Winifred L. Holman, MS Robert Fletc. [S198] Snow-Estes 1:296; Farwell Gen 1:45. [S64] Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33.