George Tate

George Tate (20 April 1700 – 20 August 1794) was an 18th-century British sea captain. He came to prominence after emigrating to Falmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (today's Portland, Maine). He was senior mast agent for George II in the province of Massachusetts Bay between 1751 and 1755. His former home in Portland, now known as the Tate House, is a National Historic Landmark.

He married Mary Tate, with whom he had five children —Samuel, William, George Jr, Mary and Robert—before emigrating to colonial America from their home in Rotherhithe, south-east London. George Jr served in the Russian Navy, was completed in the Stroudwater neighborhood of Portland in 1755.

Tate lost his authority at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

Death Tate died in 1794, aged 94. He had survived his wife by 24 years, and was interred beside her and three of their children at Stroudwater Burying Ground. George Jr and William were interred in Portland's Evergreen Cemetery after their deaths in 1821 and 1833, respectively.