Jonathan BATES

                   Notes:
    From "Bates, Bears, and Bunker Hill."
Stephen Bates was born near Smyrna, N. Y., May 22nd, 1798; he was undoubtedly the youngest child of Jonathan. He grew up to be a farmer and a shoemaker, and contracted for some land in Randolph near Windsor. The purchase was completed after his death and deed recorded January 27th, 1842. He married August 4th, 1822, Pamelia Wakeman, daughter of Hill Wakeman and Dorcas Saunders; she was born July 22nd, 1805, and they lived in Colesville, and Windsor, Broome County, and raised a large family of children, as follows:
Clarissa, born July 4th, 1823. Mary C, born February 15th, 1825. Henry Mapes, born October 7th, 1826. Orson, or Orison, born March 17th, 1828. Caroline A., born April 22nd, 1829. Roswell, born March 17th, 1831. Sarah M., born October 21st, 1832. Emily R., born September 25th, 1834. George O., born January 31st, 1836-7. Dorcas Dorothy, born May 7th, 1839. 
Mr. Bates is represented as a man of dark complexion, rather undersized, about five and a half feet high; would weigh about 150 pounds; peaked face and Roman nose, dark eyes and black hair. He belonged to the Militia, and his children remember him "training in the old time of company and general training in Broome County, carrying a rifle with so many rounds of ammunition." He died May 19th, 1840, aged 42 years. A brick house near Windsor was given to his widow Parmelia, by her brother, John Wakeman, some years after her husband's death.