Waite Genealogy Research Forum

I would have thought that the "send me everything you have…" syndrome would have gone the way of snail mail inquiries. It's amazing the number of people who still write to me and say "my great-great-great grandfather's name was John Waite and he lived in Massachusetts…please tell me everything you know about him!" I'm not kidding! Friends…I can't tell you everything I know about your John Waite unless you tell me who your John Waite was. If you don't know anything other than his name…tell me about his wife…tell me about his children…tell me where his descendants migrated to… I need something to go on! AND…John Waite born 1820s or 30s won't get it either! As of tonight I have 57 John Waites born between 1820 and 1830 in my database. Please be very specific about what you need and I will happily send you the information I have and often will research your ancestor to add both to my knowledge and yours.

Last Will & Testament of

John Waites, Putnam County, Georgia*

contributed by M.H. Waites, Clanton, AL

In the name of God Amen I John Waites of the State of Georgia and County of Putnum Planter Being Werey Sick & weake in or impurfect Health of Body but or and of perfect mind & memory Thanks be Given unto God, Calling unto mind & mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once for to be do make & ordain this my last will & testament that is today Principally & first of all I Give & to command my sole unto Hand of allmighty God that Gave it & my body, I | command to the Earth to be Buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor nothing |  but at the General Resurection I Shall |  the Same or Gain by the might Power of God & as touching | worldly Estate wharwith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I Give & Desire & Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form, first I Give and bequeath to my Beloved Daughter Mary Singleton the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars in Good and lawfull money Also I Give & bequeath to my beloved Son Samuel Waits Two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Nancy |Kylherd| the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars in Good & Lawfull Money. Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Sarah Waits two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I to my beloved son John Waits the Sum of two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved Son James Waits part of a Square of land lying in the Printunth District of Baldin County know by the number one hundrid and ninety Sevin begining at a Spring Branch running a South Corse to a Safrifris Stake then Turning nor west Corse to a post oake Corner or Corner of Same of the |Dyeriphtren| then turning East ward Course till it intersects with the Said Spring branch also I Give to my beloved Daughter Patience Waites a Negro Girl named bet with one feather Bed & furniture also I Give to my beloved Daughter Hester Waits one Negro Girl named Jin with one Feather bed and furniture Also I Give to my beloved Daughter Hannah Waits Two hundred & twenty five Dollars of Good & lawfull money Also I Give to my beloved wife Sary Waits the other part of sd Squar or tot of land being the other part that I Give James Waits above named with two Negros one fellow named Pomfrey & his wife Trude one Feather bed & furniture with all my household and | furniture with all my household and said part of tot of land that I Give unto my wife to my beloved Son Benjamin Waits the Negros & other bequeathed to my wife I desire at her Death on the Exspration of two years & Six months from the Date of this will to be Sold at publick Sail by the Discration of my Executor and all my other property that I have not mentioned this will I desire to be Sold at publick Sail by the Discration of my Excutors and all my other property that I have not mentioned in this Will I Desire to be Sold at the Same Time and the money Equally Divided amongst my above Named Children Also I Give to my well beloved Sons William Waits & James Waits whom I | constiture make & ordain the Sole Excutors of this my last will & testament by them them freely to be possessed and Injoyed & I do hearby utterly disallow Invoake and Dismantle all other former testamints will Legacies Bequests and Excruts by me in any ways before named to be my last will & testament in witness whereof I have herunto Set my hand & Seal this Seventeenth Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eight and in the thirty third year of the American Independance

Signed Sealed in the presants of

William Dawkins

John Waits

Thomas Finkler

*As filed at Jasper County Probate Court, Monticello, Georgia, 31064

“Leicestershire lawyer who fought for Parliament as a captain under Lord Grey. Profited from the sale of the Duke of Buckingham’s lands under the Commonwealth. Arrested at the Restoration and pleaded that he had been forced by Cromwell and Ireton to sit on the High Court of Justice. Sentenced to life imprisonment on Jersey.” The Regicides: 59 Signatories of the King’s death warrant.

There were ten men of the Waite surname who settled in New England by 1663.   Most of you who can trace your Waite ancestors back to New England in the 17th century descend from one of these men.

• Richard, Marshall of Boston, b. 1596, of Boston by 1634
• Gamaliel, brother of Richard above, b. 1598, of Boston
• Thomas, brother to Richard and Gamaliel above, b. 1601, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1639
• Richard, b. 1608, of Watertown, Massachusetts by 1637
• John of Malden, son of Samuel, b. 1618, of Malden, Massachusetts by 1644
• Thomas, probably the son of Samuel of Malden, of Ipswich, Massachusetts by 1658
• Alexander of Boston by 1637
• George of Providence, Rhode Island by 1646
• John of Windsor, Connecticut by 1649
• Benjamin, son of Thomas of Portsmouth, of Hatfield, Massachusetts by 1663

“An inventory of the estate of William Waite, Indian man, late of Hartford, deceased, is as follows: vizt;

To his wages due from the Colony for his service on the expedition against Canada, in the year 1709, besides what he had received and taken up there of himself as money, 6£ 04s 05d.

Hartford, 2 Apr. 1711:  This is a true inventory of all the estate of the said William Waite that I can hear of or come at.

Test:  Nathaniel Hooker, Ad.

Court Record pg 37-3 Sept. 1711:

Nathaniel Hooker, Administrator exhibits an account of his administration.  Accepted.  And this Court grant him a Quietus Est.” (DECP)

This is a photographof Seth C. Waite and his son, my dad, Robert S. Waite. Why did they call him Johnny? According to my dad…Seth was quite the tease. He always called dad “Johnny” because he looked just like their neighbor John who lived down the road. Was he truly worried…not likely…but if he was he shouldn’t have been. Just look at the DNA results!

OK…I’ve wanted to add a discussion forum of some type to the site for a long time. I’m hoping this “flavor” will work. PLEASE make some posts…let me know how easy or difficult it is for you to use…let me know of any problems. This will be very helpful to all of our research if we get your specific questions in a forum that we can all view and respond to. There is no limit to what you post here…including your lines…data you’ve extracted…transcriptions or photos you want to share. Let’s wear it out to see if we want to keep it. Thanks, Sue