Waite Genealogy Research Forum

The following is my transcription of a DAR transcription in the Maine State Historical Society.  I have not confirmed every date here but I have compared many of them with headstones and other sources so I am fairly comfortable with the reliability of the information.  Many other family names are listed including Holman, Holland, Kidder, Newman, White. 

These records were originally copied from the diary of Isaac Wait by a Mrs. A. B. Root, Dixfield, Maine.  She began her transcription as follows:  Isaac Wait came from Millbury, Mass. to Dixfield, Maine Oct. 21, 1818.  He kept a diary until he died.  

Wait, Ira L. died Feb. 2, 1838.

Wait Mother died Apr. 4, 1838.

Wait, William died May 29, 1840, ae 86 y.

Wait, Harvey died Mar. 14, 1843 ae 49 y.

Wait, Horace died Apr. 19, 1845.

Wait, Widow Polly, died Apr. 29, 1848.

Wait, Mrs. Lucy died Thurs. Oct. 25, 18__, wife of William.

Wait, Lucy, wife of Charles A. died Feb. 6, 1859, buried at Canton Pt.

Wait, Lucy, wife of Emerson died Apr. 8, 1859.

Wait, Tyler, died June 3, 1859.

Wait, H. Abbie, dau. of John H., died Mon., Jan. 26, 1863.

Wait, Chandler D., died Sat., May 18 (or 28), 1867, funeral at Town House.

Wait, Warren, died Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1867, sick three hours.

Wait, Mason, died Fri., Feb. 21, 1868.

Wait, wife, died Tues., Jan. 21, 1868.

Wait, Cirus, died Fri. Jan. 15, 1869.

Wait, George, died Sun., Sept. 12, 1869, sick 24 hours.

Wait, Polly, wife of Tyler, died June 3, 1856.

Wait, Gershom, died May 11, 1847, ae. 62 y.

Wait, Aaron, died Mon., Mar. 27, 1871.

Wait, Manvill, died May 3, 1874.

Wait, Harris N., son of Lorenzo, was killed instantly by falling of a tree. Wed., Nov. 11, 1874.

Wait, Mrs. Sarah A., wife of Lorenzo, died Fri., Mar. 12, 1875, dau. of Isaac Newman.

Wait, Mrs., 2^nd wife of Wm. W. died Dec. 10, 1875.

Wait, Lorenzo, Sun., Jan. 2, 1876. This makes the seventh time that Rev. Mr. Johnson has attended funerals in my family.

Wait, John H., d. Tues., June 22, 1880.

Wait, Fred, son of Manvill, d. Apr. 29, 1881.

Wait, Widow Charlott, died Sat., Sept. 24, 1881.

Wait, Lucy W., died Aug. 29, 1882, ae. 84 y, 4m, 5d.

Wait, Charles A., died June 20, 1877 by shooting himself with a gun in Warren Severy’s field, ae. 46.

Wait, Mrs. Bej. F., died Thurs., July 12, 1860 while milking cow.

By the blessing of God my life has been spaird and I have livd to see and be present at the funeral of every one of the following and followed them to their graves.  My father and mother, eight brothers and sisters, all I had, my wife and six children out of eight, one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law and one grandson, making twenty in all.  This I have wrote in my eighty-fifth year.  Dixfield, Jan. 5, 1876.
Isaac Wait.

Source: Records Presented to Maine Historical Society by Maine Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Georgiana Lilly, State Chairman Genealogical Records 1933 – 1934.

contributed by Donna Waite, Easton, MA

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

“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)