Selected State Repositories with selected counties

Document Archives:   I created these files a while ago: Let me know if you find any broken links:

Wisconsin

http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/wisconsin.html

Illinois
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/illinois.html

Maryland
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/maryland.html

Massachusetts
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/massachusettes.html

New Hampshire
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/new_hampshire.html

New York
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/new_york.html

Pennsylvania
http://gsocolic.tripod.com/html/pennsylvania.html

Click on the web Url to see which counties are covered.

Getting Orginized Sate Research Guides

I finally made a large binder for all those genealogy articles I have collected.
So far I have collected some state guides for:
-Virginia...on the Virginia/Pennsylvania boundary dispute in 1681-1785 where both states claimed the same land. One of those areas was in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania where I am trying to locate my ancestor Aneas Graham who was the father of Alexander Graham. Alexander Graham was the father of my direct ancestor DeWitt Clinton Graham (of Monongahela)
-Illinois, where my grandmother Alice Sankey was born. Also in Illinois: Kramer, Stonequist, Dahlberg, Nauta (Swedish and Dutch ancestors)in Chicago.
-Massachusetts, where my Dow, Thayer, Riddell, Gates, Darling families resided before the Revolutionary war until about 1850.
-Missouri; where my ancestor Christian DeYoung homesteaded according to family tradition. (I am still working on this one.)
-Ohio, where my Graham, Ward, Pementor, Malcolm, Andrews, Byal, Hawkins, Graff, Palm, and Rowland ancestors lived.
-Pennsylvania (other than Graham mentioned earlier in this post): Applegate, Behanna, Sankey, Runkle, Gilliland, Cowden, Sankey(Centre County), McChesney, Adams, Rose, Lewis, Hawkins, Byal ancestors.
-Wisconsin: Riddell, Dow, Coon, Pattee, Congdon, Bodish, Wescott, Avery, DeYoung, Corrigan, Donaldson, Moore, Knapp, Dahlberg, Sankey, Kramer, DeYoung(Step Dad's family: Bartnicki, Luczynski)

Peter Gates' brother Ephiam Gates b. 1783 and wife Desire Avery

Desire Avery [Avery 347] was the daughter of Christopher Avery, Desire Avery died in Leyden, Massachusetts in 1831. (Leyden is also where Peter Gates lived and where my ancestor Lephe Gates was born)Desire's which were born in Leyden were:

Anna Gates
Avery Gates
Peter Gates (nephew of my ancestor Peter Gates father of Lephe)
John Gates
Joseph Gates

Avery, Elron McKendree, 1844-1935; The Groton Avery Clan. 1912. http://archive.org [digital image].

Who was Peter Gates Father?

Looking for the Father of Peter Gates from Groton, New London, Connecticut. Peter was born 26 Feb 1750. An ancestry tree puts Peter as the son on Zebadiah Gates and Sarah Woodmansey but the Book (found on Google Books) Stephen Gates of Hingham and Landcaster, Massachusetts and his descendants by Charles Otis Gates does not support this. It has a completely different list for children of Zebadiah Gates which does not include children: Mary, John, David (brother of Peter who owned land with him in Leyden (Gate's Hill)), Peter (my direct ancestor), Zebediah, Sarah, Esther, Anna and Mary Gates.

My Peter Gates had a daughter named Lephy (aka Lephe, Lefy) Gates who was born in Leyden.

I have searched through many books on New London, CT but many of them are too early to list Peter's birthdate on 26 Feb 1750.