~PETER YATES, R.S.~

Name: Peter Yates ,RS • Revolutionary Soldier

Sex: M

•Birth: ABT. 1755 in Coastal area of North Carolina (?)

•Death: 1825 in Georgia

•Occupation: Soldier and farmer

•Residence: North Carolina; Clarke Co., Ga.

•Event: Ethnicity/Relig. Baptist

•Event: Comment 1 Name often rendered Peter Gates

•Event: Fact 1799 Montgomery Co., Ga.

•Event: Fact 1788 Land grant of 300 acres in Burke Co., Ga.

•Event: Fact 1820 Clarke Co., Ga. census and land lottery

Note:

A Peter Yates was paid for being a chain carrier and helping run the line at Bath, North Carolina, separating crown land from Granville Co. September 23, 1745 (Colonial Records of N.C., vol. VIII, p. 205). Was this Peter's father--? A John Yates was warranted land (300 acres) by the government in Wilmington on November 26, 1746 (p. 210); the land was in Craven County and was patented by him in 1749 (p. 233).

Peter Yeats received a land grant of 300 acres in Burke Co., Georgia in 1788 as a Revolutionary Soldier (Book QQQ, p. 402). Possibly he served as the Peter Gates given his final pay in the Wilmington, N.C. District militia vouchers of 1786--there was also an Edward and John Gates. . . . The number of acres indicated he had a wife and one child (James?). His third son, John, was born in Georgia, whereas the oldest James was born in North Carolina. Apparently Peter had moved out of Burke by the time of the 1798 Federal tax. However, he paid tax on 100 acres in Alexander's District, Jefferson Co., formed from Burke's Co. in 1796. He then paid tax in Montgomery Co. in 1797 and around 1800 he seems to have been involved in several land transactions there, though there was another Peter Yates residing in the county, the son of William Yates, brother of Eli Yates (born about 1775). Two of his children were married in Montgomery County.

In 1816-1817 he, his wife Susannah and their two sons William and John joined the Mars Hill Baptist Church near Athens in Clarke/Oconee Co. In 1820 Peter drew land in Early Co. as a Revolutionary Soldier. His widow, Susannah, was living with son William and his family in Fayette Co. by 1830. An indenture of January 4, 1826 made in Emanuel Co. assigns the Early Co. land to Joseph Yates, an heir, and names his other heirs, John, Matthew, James, William and Susanna Yates. The land was granted August 31, 1841.

This Peter Yates may have been related to the person by that name listed in the Bladen County tax list of 1781 who left a will 1789 GATES, Peter, Mary (wife) children not named; Bladen County is in the southern portion of North Carolina, just inland from Wilmington and on the border with South Carolina's Cheraw District, where a William Yates, R.S. lived in 1782-1794. It was the homeland of the Lumbee Indians, called the Eastern Cherokees. An Edward, John and Jane Yates also paid taxes there in 1781 and 1784. A Peter Yates, evidently an older man with his wife and a daughter, was living in Chesterfield County, S.C., in 1820 (old Cheraw).

Source:

Cooper, Yates, Choctaw, Cherokee and Sephardic in Ga.-Tenn.-Ala. (from DNAconsultants.com)