Brief Life History of Abraham Abel
When Abraham Abel Gates was born on 10 July 1793, in Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathan Gates Sr, was 26 and his mother, Abigail Knowlton, was 19. He married Mary Jane Burns in 1825, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Morrow Township, Adair, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 2 November 1870, in Adair, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Novinger, Adair, Missouri, United States.
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- Abel Gates, "United States Census, 1870"
- Abel Gates, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 for son Jasper Gates
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1803
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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