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| | Bingham Genealogy - Gates Family History |
 | | April 11, 1834, with his young wife, he left his father's house for Missouri, where he arrived June 30, 1834, and located seven miles west of Liberty, Clay county, which was quite a small village at that time. |
 | | His house lot was "on the neck lying north to the house lot of John Whitcomb, Jr., bounded by the lot of said John Whitcomb south by the house lot of Nathaniel Joslin north by a rang of lots easterly which lyeth on west side of Penicock River and westwardly a piece of entervail... |
 | | At the risk of perpetuating another error, Chris Moore (soc.genealogy.medieval, 29 April 1998) hazarded a guess of his own: "Personally, I tend to believe that Stephen was either the son or grandson of Sir Thomas Gates, who was the first governor of the settlement at Jamestowne, Virginia 1611-1614. |
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