John B. Bates

The following is from a Biographical Review of Otsego County, New York (974.774 D3b): "Deloss A. Bates was born in Burlington, January 3, 1836. He is a grandson of John B. Bates, who was a native of Rhode Island, and after his marriage came to the State of New York by team, and settled in what is called the Edmeston Woods. While he was a mason by trade, yet he followed farming in this new country, as much, perhaps, from necessity as from choice. He lived in Edmeston until his death, which occurred when he was about eighty-five years old. His family consisted of six sons: John, Comfort, Leonard and Lory, all dead; Walter, who went West, and a younger son, now also deceased. Lory Bates, the father of Deloss, was born in the town of Edmeston, was brought up on the farm, and learned the trade of carpenter. . . ." (p. 691).

Our William Bates is likely a brother to John B Bates. Their father settled further east in Otsego, Otsego, New York. I found a genealogy that gave John B Bates' wife as Dorcas Burlingame. I have no records to corroborate this information, but Dorcas' brother, Charles, is the Charles Burlingame who settled along with John B. Bates in Edmeston.

Here's an excerpt from the Bates Bulletin of October 1921, probably taken from the preceding Biographical Review: "Four brothers, Oliver, John, Samuel, and ______ Bates, came from the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, town of Scituate, about 1800. . . . John Bates was born in Rhode Island and after his marriage moved to New York State and settled in "the Edmeston Woods." He died aged about 85 years, and left a family of six sons, John, Comfort, Leonard, Lory, Walter, and a younger son." I think there are two John's in this record. John, brother to Oliver, Samuel, and (I believe) Nathan came from Rhode Island to Otsego along with his brothers. His son, John B Bates, settled in Edmeston and has six sons.

I came across a record entitled, "Family of Samuel Bates of Scituate Rhode Island," by Frank Greene Bates of Providence, Rhode Island. It gives three generations of the Bates family in Scituate, Rhode Island. The "four brothers" in the Bates Bulletin are listed as sons of John Bates and Experience Bragg. This John Bates (husband of Experience Bragg) is the son of Samuel Bates and Mary Corp.