Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Caleb Gates

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 128 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Gates 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Freeman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1693 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Sep 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Fobes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jun 1716 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Simon Gates (Ahnentafel No:64 )

• Sources for Caleb Gates

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1966, Vol. 120, p. 165.
  • ² Bollenbach, Willard M., Jr., The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (2003), 149-150.
  • ³ Gates, Charles Otis, Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1898), 13.

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