Joshua Bates md Anna Poor 1804, MA
Joshua was born 03-20-1776 at Cohasset, MA, the son of Zealous Bates and Abigail Nichols. He married Anna Poor born 1783 at Andover, MA. They had a large family of eleven children; Mary (1805), Hannah (1807), Abigail (1808), Joshua (1810), John C. (1812), Prentiss (1814), William (1816), Anna (1818) all born in Dedham, MA, followed by Jane (1819), Samuel W. (1822) and Agnes (1824) who were born at Middlebury, VT. I have familes for John, William and Anna but no information on the other siblings. William is cheafly remembered as the father of Katherine Lee Bates, author of the poem which has become our song "America the Beautiful". Can anyone shed some light on this lost branch of my family?