Joseph Christopher YATES

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Hudson-Mohawk Family Memoirs, Vol I, p 294, On-Line Genealogy Library database: Joseph Yates, an English soldier, who came over with Colonel Nichols, commander of the English forces to whom Stuyvesant, the Dutch director general of New Amsterdam, was compelled to surrender. . .Joseph Yates appears in Albany in 1664, died there in 1730. He was in receipt of a pension as a soldier of the king and seems to have been purveyor of Fort Orange, as he makes a most earnest plea for pay for his wood furnished to Fort Orange. He married Hubertje Marselis, buried July 13, 1730, daughter of Marselis manse Van Bommel. In 1693 he had seven children living and in 1713 lived on the east corner of Green and Beaver streets, Albany. He was buried July 13, 1730. A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times, Adult Freeholders - Yates (Yets, Yetz, Yattes), Prof. Jonathan Pearson, Internet: The first of this name in this vicinity was Joseph Yates, an Englishman who settled in Albany about 1664, when the colony was occupied by the English. In early documents the name is very commonly spelled Yets or Yetz, which would be pronounced as at present - Yates. He died in Albany and was buried May 22d, 1730. He either learned the trade of cordwainer or shoemaker, or worked with Marcelis Janse Van Bommel, in Albany. He married Hubertje Van Bommel, and had seven children."