1812: Matilda Gates was born in Aylesford (Kings) Nova Scotia, Canada
"A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America" by William Edward Chute; pp. cixiii & cixv; Salem, Massachusetts 1894 (FH C-36 SR)

"Stephen Gates of Hingham" by C .A. Torrey from the "NEHGS Register" Jane Fletcher Fiske, editor; New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; July 196 6 (974.0 NEa SCGS)