Looking for Benjamin Bates m.-Rhoda Scovill in
CT. b.-1764-65, Benjamin is buried in Leyman,NY
His son Benjamin Lewis Bates b.-1805 CT. found in
Rochester,NY 1850-51. He married Mary [Maybe Wells]
Children: Birney b.-1848 William Wells b.-1850 and
Florence b.- after 1850. Benjamin Lewis was
worked in a shipyard/sawmill. William Wells 'Billie'
Came to Texas and lived in Blanco County, married
Amanda Felps.