Ancestry of
Colin Jost

Comedian, Actor, Writer

William Gates

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Colin Jost — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Lemuel Gates 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1788 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1868 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Louise Carter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jun 1845 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina 
  • Child:

  Julius Granville Gates (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for William Gates

  • ¹ Federal Census, RI, Newport County, 1850, Newport, Image 105 of 228.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/31/2024).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915, Marriage record for son Julius G Gates and Ella L Barrett.
  • ⁴ New York Evening Express (New York, New York), 27 JUN 1845, p. 3, Wedding of Col. W. Gates and Harriet Louisa Carter.
  • ⁵ Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1887), 616-617.

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