1George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 4, p. 1701 (1909).
"(IV) Barnabas, son or nephew of Samuel (2) Bates, was born in Sandwich, about 1720. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, enlisting March 4, 1745, for the Cape Breton expedition (p. 169, N. E. Reg. 1889). He and his brother Thomas settled in the adjacent town of Wareham, and are the ancestors of most of the Bates families of that town. He was received from the Second Church of Sandwich by letter to Wareham Church, February 11, 1749-50. He married, at Wareham, September 17, 1747, Phebe Gibbs. Children, born at Wareham: 1. Barbabas, Jr., June 15, 1748; married Sylvia ------- and had William, Barnabas and Stephen. 2. Joseph, May 4, 1750, baptized June 3, 1750. 3. Betsey, June 1, 1752. 4. Asa, August 13, 1754. 5. Samuel (twin), January 6, 1757, married Sibell -------, and had Clarissa, born March 15, 1787. 6. Thomas (twin), January 6, 1757, mentioned below. 7. Phebe, June 29, 1759. Abigail, October 4, 1761. 9. Mercy, November 2, 1763. 10. Zilpha, May 27, 1766. 11. Joshua, June 8, 1768. 12. John, May 10, 1770, baptized June, 1770. 13. Isaac, January 20, 1773.".