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Dr Laban Gates

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Dr Laban Gates

Birth
Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death
27 Apr 1836 (aged 82)
Burial
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.703525, Longitude: -72.2919112
Plot
Lot No. 131
Memorial ID
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son of Dea Thomas Gates and Ruth Randall

removed to Hanover in 1774
m1 Huldah Ormsbee
Children:
- Clarissa Gates (26 Feb 1782-23 Mar 1782)
- Lucy Gates (11 Feb 1783-16 Feb 1783)
- Bella Randol Gates (19 Jun 1784-)
- Lucia Gates (12 Dec 1785-)
- Electa Gates (14 Sep 1787-2 Aug 1789)
- Paul Henry Gates (19 Sep 1792-12 Mar 1836) m Mary Ann Flint (16 Sep 1798-19 Nov 1855)
- George Thomas Gates (7 Jan 1795-)
- Frances "Fanny" Conry Gates (14 Aug 1797-) m Edmund Westroop Armstrong

Surgeon during Revolutionary War
Doctoring at various times from 16 Oct 1780 to 30 Dec 1780: "extracting a ball from the abdomen of Phineas Parkhurst of Royalton, 16 Oct, and for "dressing Charles Tilden's arm which was wounded by the Indians at Brookfield" 20 Oct.

Hanover physician who became embroiled in dispute with Eleazar Wheelock over the vaccination of students against smallpox.

Source:
- Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college: By George Thomas Chapman (1867)
- Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants by Clarence Almon Torrey (1939)
- Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783; compiled by John Ellsworth Goodrich (1904)
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England, Volume 1
- vital records
son of Dea Thomas Gates and Ruth Randall

removed to Hanover in 1774
m1 Huldah Ormsbee
Children:
- Clarissa Gates (26 Feb 1782-23 Mar 1782)
- Lucy Gates (11 Feb 1783-16 Feb 1783)
- Bella Randol Gates (19 Jun 1784-)
- Lucia Gates (12 Dec 1785-)
- Electa Gates (14 Sep 1787-2 Aug 1789)
- Paul Henry Gates (19 Sep 1792-12 Mar 1836) m Mary Ann Flint (16 Sep 1798-19 Nov 1855)
- George Thomas Gates (7 Jan 1795-)
- Frances "Fanny" Conry Gates (14 Aug 1797-) m Edmund Westroop Armstrong

Surgeon during Revolutionary War
Doctoring at various times from 16 Oct 1780 to 30 Dec 1780: "extracting a ball from the abdomen of Phineas Parkhurst of Royalton, 16 Oct, and for "dressing Charles Tilden's arm which was wounded by the Indians at Brookfield" 20 Oct.

Hanover physician who became embroiled in dispute with Eleazar Wheelock over the vaccination of students against smallpox.

Source:
- Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college: By George Thomas Chapman (1867)
- Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants by Clarence Almon Torrey (1939)
- Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783; compiled by John Ellsworth Goodrich (1904)
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England, Volume 1
- vital records

Inscription

Laban Gates M.D.
Born July 23, 1753
Died April 27, 1836
Son of Dea. Thos. Gates
Settled here 1774



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  • Created by: LadyGoshen
  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67668758/laban-gates: accessed ), memorial page for Dr Laban Gates (23 Jul 1753–27 Apr 1836), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67668758, citing Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by LadyGoshen (contributor 46951894).