Meadow Farm. The Bates family moved into this dwelling early in 1793. Joseph Jr. was born July 8, 1792. The address is 191 main Street, Fairhaven. The eastern bank of the river was included in New Bedford until the War of 1812 when in became...
Elder Joseph Bates was the first known Seventh-day observer to visit Battle Creek, which he did in the early part of 1850. He had been an old sea captain and had been impressed into the English service, or, rather, was made a prisoner by the...
