Just up the hill from where John Bates and William Bates settled in Edmeston, New York (ca. 1805), is the Taylor Hill Cemetery. A list of headstones from this cemetery can be found here. Of interest relative to the Bates line explored in this blog are Louden Arnold and Charles Burlingame. William Bates named one of his sons Loudon Arnold Bates. Although there were a lot of Arnolds in Rhode Island and Connecticut, Louden or Loudon, is not a common name of the period. There may be a connection here. I wonder if John Bates' wife, Ruth, may have been an Arnold. At this point, this is all speculation, but some interesting possibilities nonetheless.
In addition, I have reason to believe that Charles Burlingame might be a cousin to William's wife Sarah Colvin, daugher of Samuel and Naomi (Burlingame/Burlingham) Colvin.
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