Ancestry of
Tony Dow

TV Actor

Solomon Gates

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Tony Dow — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • William Gates 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Oct 1761 
  • Birth Location:
  • Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Jan 1847 
  • Death Location:
  • Seneca, Ontario, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Butcher Cemetery, Seneca, Ontario, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Esther Whitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1789 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Franklin Gates (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Solomon Gates

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A043564.
  • ² Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 551.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/01/2023).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Conway, Vol. 1, p. 51, Birth record for Solomon Gates.
  • ⁵ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 2, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 1649.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Whitney: The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came From London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, Chicago, Illinois: Press of W. B. Conkey Company (1895), 123.