Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Daniel Gates Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Joseph Smith — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Gates 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Merriam   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1706/1707 
  • Birth Location:
  • East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Oct 1775 
  • Death Location:
  • East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 3 Sep 1732 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Gates (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Jesse Gates

  Nathan Gates

  Daniel Gates

  Hannah Gates

  Joseph Gates

• Sources for Daniel Gates Jr.

  • ¹ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ² MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 169-170.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 566.