1643 - 1709

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• Nickname	Hester
  Birth	25 Mar 1642/1643	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	3 Jun 1709	Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I77782	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	17 May 2004 00:00:00
  Father	William HILLARD, b. Abt 1614, England
  Mother	Esther
  Family ID	F14519	Group Sheet
  Family	Joseph BATES, b. Abt 28 Sep 1628, Biddenden, Kent, England
  Married	7 Jan 1657/1658	Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [3]
  Notes	Only month and year given in Hobart;s Diary.
  Children	> 1. Joseph BATES, b. 28 Sep 1660, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts > 2. Esther BATES, b. 29 Aug 1663, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts > 3. Caleb BATES, b. 30 Mar 1666, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   4. Hannah BATES, b. 31 Oct 1668, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts > 5. Joshua BATES, b. 14 Aug 1671, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   6. Bathsheba BATES, b. 26 Jan 1673/1674, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   7. Clement BATES, b. 22 Sep 1676, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   8. Eleanor BATES, b. 25 Aug 1679, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts > 9. Abigail BATES, b. 16 Oct 1680, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F33127	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Joseph, in his will of 24 APR 1706, mentions and provides for wife Esther; also for his four sons and four daughters, and naming the sons but not the daughters. He was a bricklayer by trade. Constable from 1675 to 1678, inclusive. Selectman, 1671, 1677, 1684, and 1692. Sexton of the parish in 1673, and served in this capacity until the new meeting-place was erected. They lived on the paternal homestead, South Street. Boston records for the period 1644 and 1646 included earlier births from other towns claiming them to be Boston Records. I believe that Esther could have been born in Boston as the records indicate. Maybe her mother's parents lived in Boston and she went back home to have someone care for her first child, William.

• Sources

  [S1123] Town of Boston, Massachusetts, A Report of the Record Commission, 1630-1699, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths. (Bo, page 13. [S284] Town of Hingham, Hingham Town Records (1635-1830) and Rev. Peter Hobart's Diary. Microfilm (possession of NEHGS)., Frame 76, page 146. [S284] Town of Hingham, Hingham Town Records (1635-1830) and Rev. Peter Hobart's Diary. Microfilm (possession of NEHGS)., Frame 415, leaf 17.