Mercy (Denison) Gates (1787 - 1860)

Born 9 Feb 1787 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Zebediah Gates — married 7 Jan 1820 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1860 at age 73 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Mercy Denison, born 9 Feb 1787 at Stonington, Connecticut, was the seventh child of Eunice Williams & Isaac Denison.

She married 7 Jun 1820 Zebediah Gates (his second wife). They had 5 children.

Zebediah died in 1859. Per the 1860 census, Mercy resided with her daughter Eunice, who was married to Amos Chesebro.

Mercy (Denison) Gates died Sept. 5, 1860, aged 74 Years. She is interred at Lower Mystic Cemetery, W. Mystic, New London County, Connecticut.

Sources

• Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 1187: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/42/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/82/mode/1up

• Public Member Trees; Ancestry.com; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Repository #R-1958205582 #S-1450862356

• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI); Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Repository #R-1958205582

• 1860 United States Federal Census; Ancestry.com; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Repository: #R-1958205582

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 353, no. 405: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n375/mode/1up

Profile History

This profile was created through the import of master 11_12.ged on 21 October 2010.