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Silas Bates

Silas Bates

Male 1737 - 1801  (64 years)
Person ID: I782 


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  • Name Silas Bates 
    Born 1737  North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died Jan 1801  Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Buried Rockland Cemetery, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Siblings None

  • Family

    Family ID: F265 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart   
    Wife Dorcas Cordiner,   b. Abt 1739,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Est 1758 
    Children 
    + 1. Nicholas Bates,   b. 1775, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1845, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)

  • Other Personal Events

    DAR ID A007508 
    Family Search ID L18B-L1H 
    Find A Grave ID 209921110 
    Military Service From May 1781 to 1784  [4, 5, 6] 
    American Revolution, Continental Army 
    • Private in the Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War

      DAR application:
      My ancestor's services in assisting in the establishment of American Independence during the War of the Revolution were as follows:
      Silas Bates - Soldier in the 3rd Battalion of Militia of the State of Rhode Island. Enlisted May, 1781 for 3 years service. His name appears on the "Revolutionary Muster and Pay Rolls" and on the Roll of honor in the Secretary of States office of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation.

      The Wikipedia entry on the Rhode Island Regiment, starting in May of 1781:


      With Colonel Greene's death, command of the regiment devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah Olney. Under Olney's command, the regiment took part in the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781, which proved to be the last major battle of the Revolution.

      After Yorktown, the regiment moved with the Main Army to Newburgh, New York where its primary purpose was to be ready to react in the event British forces in city of New York went on the offensive.

      On 1 March 1783 the regiment was reorganized into six companies and re-designated as the Rhode Island Battalion (a.k.a. "Olney's Battalion"). On 15 June 1783, the veteran "during the war" enlisted men of the Rhode Island Regiment were discharged at Saratoga, New York. The remaining soldiers of the Battalion who were enlisted for "three years" were organised into a small battalion of two companies. After the British Army evacuated New York, the unit was disbanded on 25 December 1783 at Saratoga, New York. It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to have served through the entirety of the Continental Army's existence.

      The Rhode Island Regiment served its final days in Saratoga, New York, under the command of Major William Allen. The regiment was left waiting in Saratoga for months, with low supplies and a terrible snowstorm until December 25, 1783, when Major William Allen and Adjutant Jeremiah Greenman printed the discharge certificates. The discharged troops were “dumped back into civilian society,” with only the white soldiers being guaranteed 100 acres of bounty land from the Federal Government, as well as a pension.

      The 1st Rhode Island was one of the few regiments in the Continental Army which had a large number of black Patriot soldiers in its ranks.
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    _UID 8486DC1011D945F7B32DF331529BD1EAC891 

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  • Source Citations

    1. [S1409] National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogy Research, "Descendants Search: Member #29391 Katherine Bates Bennett to Ancestor #A007508 Silas Bates", (Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 2022), Daughters of the American Revolution (https://sarpatriots.sar.org/application/SearchDescendants/: accessed 2 September 2022)..

    2. [S1410] National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogy Research, "Descendants Search: Member #523370 Virginia Ruth Brenholts Campbell to Ancestor #A007508 Silas Bates", (Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 2022), Daughters of the American Revolution (https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search/?Tab_ID=5: accessed 2 September 2022)..

    3. [S1497] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209921110/s-bates: accessed 12 May 2023), memorial page for S. Bates (unknown–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 209921110, citing Rockland Cemetery, Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA; Maintained by Allison Campion (contributor 49694678)..

    4. [S360] Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls., Volume: 29; SAR Membership Number: 5602.

    5. [S1389] Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogy Research Center, "Ancestor Database - Revolutionary Era Ancestors", (Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 2022), Daughters of the American Revolution (https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search/?Tab_ID=1)., Silas Bates #A007508.



    6. [S1499] Benjamin Cowell, Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island: Sketches of the Efforts of the Government and People in the War of the Revolution, (Boston, MA: A.J.Wright, 1850), Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/spiritof76inrhod00cowe: accessed 13 May 2023)..