John Bates

1642 - 1722  (80 years)

• Name	John Bates
  Birth	9 Jan 1642	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Baptism	23 Jan 1642	First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Apr 1722	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I12264	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Edward Bates,   b. Abt 1616   d. Between 28 Apr 1644 and 7 Nov 1645, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 28 years)
  Mother	Lydia,   b. Abt 1620   d. 12 Oct 1704, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1641  [1]
  Family ID	F19742	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Farwell,   b. Abt 1642, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 7 Mar 1714, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	22 Dec 1665	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Bates,   b. 8 May 1667, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 20 Jul 1743, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut (Age 76 years) + 2. Sarah Bates,   b. Between 1677 and 1678, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 5 Apr 1735, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 58 years)
  Family ID	F4099	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He was a cooper. His will mentions his daughter Sarah Butterfield.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S8719] The Ancestry of Joseph Fletcher Parker, 1880-1962, of Duluth, Minnesota by Marian Parker Congdon. Duluth, Minnesota, 2006. [S141] The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass by John Dennis Farwell, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson. Orange, Texas: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933.