In in the 1790s, Bernard Gatewood sued for distribution of the estate of his father Joseph after the death of Bernard’s mother Elizabeth: Orators Bernard Gatewood by his next friend Reuben Garnett and Joseph Gatewood and John Gatewood by Reuben Garnett their guardian. That Joseph Gatewood father of your orators died on 14 July 17__ testate. He willed his estate to his wife Eliza during her life and after her death to children Thomas, Susannah (wife of James Cole), Elizabeth, John, Edmund, Leonard since dead and your orators. Elizabeth the widow of Joseph has now died. Some of the children are still infants. Later mentions a “said” Ambrose, apparently another child. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 7, item 7-D-22.]