Gwynn Socolich's Blog – November 2009 Archive (2)

Looking for the Father of Peter Gates from Groton, New London, Connecticut. Peter was born 26 Feb 1750. An ancestry tree puts Peter as the son on Zebadiah Gates and Sarah Woodmansey but the Book (found on Google Books) Stephen Gates of Hingham and Landcaster, Massachusetts and his descendants by Charles Otis Gates does not support this. It has a completely different list for children of Zebadiah Gates which does not include children: Mary, John, David (brother of Peter who owned land with him… Continue

I am researching two ladies in my collateral line. One is Desire Avery and the other is Irene Avery. Desire Avery married Ephriam Gates whose sister Lephe Gates married John Riddle (Riddell). Desire Avery was born 5 March 1788 in Leyden, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. The other Avery is Irena who married Miles Coon of Manlius, Onondaga New York. Irena Avery was born in 1818 and died in 1903, she is buried in Hillside Cemetery, Palymra, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. One of my research… Continue