These books, compiled and published by Robert Cady Gates,
represent some 20 years of carefully recorded research
of the Gates families in the United States. 

When Mr. Gates was unable to follow his line back to 
their arrival in this country, he decided to try to
collect all the Gates information that he could locate.
This required visits to numerous libraries, courthouses,
and other sources of genealogical information. All of
which he ultimately entered into his computer. The 
result was "Records of Gates Families of America From 
The Colonial Period To 1860". He soon had located more 
information and wrote a supplement. These were 
followed by a book about George Gates of East Haddam,
Connecticut. 

Back in 1898, Charles Otis Gates penned a book entitled
"Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Mass.". Later 
researchers found errors in the earliest lines contained
in that book. Robert Gates has provided updated 
information regarding those lines in "English Ancestry
of Stephen Gates". 

Overall, these materials should be of great value 
to Gates researchers and those with connected families.