Came to America on the ship "Diligent". Arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on 10 August 1638, with the Rev. Peck party.99
Hart Family Genealogy website, Settled in Hingham, Massachusetts where he received a grant of a three acre planting lot. His house lot was on Town (now North) Street, bounded north by the street, east by William Buckland, and west by the town swamp. He received a grant of half an acre of salt marsh in 1647. He and his wife probably joined the Hingham Church about May 3, 1646 when their children Simon, Thomas, Isaac, and Rebecca were baptized.
The information given by Charles Otis Gates in his 1898 publication "Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts and his Descendants" regarding the parentage of Stephen Gates the immigrant is apparent erroneous. He claimed that Stephen's father was a Thomas GATES and that his paternal Grandparents were Peter GATES of London and Mary Josselyn. According to the Harlein Society publication "The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, 1577 and 1612", London 1981, this Peter Gates was age 29 in 1612, thus could not have been a grandfather of our Stephen Gates (who we know was born about 1599). Also, Peter Gates and Mary Josselyn apparently had one son, Jocelyn, baptizes February 1606/07 at St. Mary Woolchurch Haugh, London and perhaps two daughters. Also, the NEHGS Vol. 137, April 1983, pg 146 has an article about further errors made by C.O. Gates regarding the ancestry of Stephen Gates.356