I can match you down through Solomon Bates (the first Solomon, son of Joshua and Rachel (Tower). Solomon's son James, b. 1743, is my ancestor, and I am trying to find out what happened to him after he "removed to Chesterfield," also when his son Benjamin left Chesterfield and where Benjamin's daughter Emily was born, in 1797: in Chesterfield, or westward, perhaps Pompey, NY, or en route there?? The book which Liz kindly offered, about Chesterfield, names James's children but stops there. Perhaps we've correspnded before on this ?? Thanks, Jane