The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

106 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
John Wiswell, May 6, 1685. Sarah, born 12 (5)
1668, married James White. Elizabeth married
- -- Pratt, of Weymouth.
James Bate, or Bates, having the title of Mr.
prefixed to his name, sailed in the Elizabeth, Capt.
-Stagg, from England, in April, 1635, with his wife
Alice and several children. He is styled, in the list
of passengers, husbandman. He was born in 1582,
joined the church in 1636, was made freeman in
1636, a selectman in 1637,'38 and'51, and represented Hingham in 1641. His son Richard lived in
Sid Town Kent, Old England, and was named a
kind of trustee in his father's will. He had a son
James, born in 1626, who lived in Dorchester, and
settled his father's estate here, to account to his
brother Richard in England for the same. His
daughter Margaret, born 1623, married Christopher
Gibson. Mary, born 1618, married Hopestill Foster.
Lydia, born 1615; James, 1626. He left the wife
of Gabriel Mead (whose name was Johanna) ~20. She
may have been a daughter. In his will he left Mr.
Mather ~20. He was probably a brother of Edward Bates, who came in the same vessel and settled
at Weymouth —and of Clement, who settled at
Hingham.
William Blake was born in England in 1594, and
came with his wife Agnes to Dorchester, about the
same time with Mr. Mather, probably in the same
ship. He joined the church in 1636; was a grantee
of land in 1637, and at several other times prior to
1656; was admitted freeman, March 14, 1638-39,
and was a selectman in 1645,'47 and'51. He was