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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1. Sergt. Benjamin Waite, in Wells, Daniel White, and Reuben Field Wells. A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts (1660-1910): in Three Parts. (Springfield, Massachusetts: F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910)
442.
"1. Sergt. Benjamin Waite, who is believed to be a brother of Richard, who was of Boston, 1634, and is known to be of Rhode Island stock, was in Had. in 1663 and in Hat. in 1669. He was b. as early as 1640, and m. June 8, 1670, Martha, dau. of John Leonard of Spfd. She was b. May 15, 1649. She, together with her daughters Mary, Martha, and Sarah, were in 1677 carried captives to Canada, and there her daughter Canada was b. The captives returned to Hat. in May, 1678. Sergt. Benjamin was k. in a battle with the French and Indians, Mar. 1, 1704, a. 64."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 3. Benjamin2 Wait, in Moriarty, G. Andrews. Thomas Waite of Portsmouth, R. I., and Some of His Descendants. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1919)
73:293-94.
"3. Benjamin2 Wait (Thomas1), born about 1645, was slain at the taking of Deerfield, Mass., on 29 Feb. 1703/4. … He resided at Hadley, Hatfield, and Deerfield, Mass. In the division of his father's estate he received the lands at Misquamicut (Westerly), which he disposed of, and then removed to the Connecticut Valley, where he was one of the guides of Capt. William Turner and his men in the 'Falls Fight' in May 1676. On 3 Feb. 1703/4 William Rooker assigned to Thomas Wait of Seaconnet (Little Compton) and Benjamin Wait of Hadley 40 acres in Brookfield, Mass. On 24 May 1717 Jeremiah, John, and Joseph Wait of Hatfield and John Belding, Joseph Smith, and Ebenezer Wells, married to the daughters of Benjamin Wait, deceased, sold the above-named land to Capt. Thomas Baker of Northampton, Mass., and war- ranted him against their uncle Thomas Wait, brother of the aforesaid Benjamin."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Benjamin Waite, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:382-383.
"Benjamin (Waite), Hatfield 1663, sw. alleg. 8 Feb. 1679, was serg. k. by the Ind. and Fr. in surpr. of Deerfield, to whose relief he hasted, 29 Feb. 1704. He m. 8 June 1670, Martha, d. of John Leonard of Springfield, had Mary, b. 25 Feb. 1672; Martha, 1673; Sarah 1675; on 19 Sept. 1677 the mo. and the three ch. were tak. by the Ind. (when his ho. with those of others was burn.) to Canada, where she had Canada, a d. 22 Jan. 1678; and next yr. all came back. She next had John, 17 Jan. 1680; Joseph, 17 July 1682, d. young; Jeremiah, 24 Sept. 1684; and Joseph, again, 11 Nov. 1688. His good est. was div. soon aft. his d. when the d. Martha is not ment. Mary, the eldest d. m. 4 Dec. 1690, Ebenezer Wells; Sarah m. John Belding; and Canada m. 15 Dec. 1696, Joseph Smith."
- Graves Family Association. Thomas Graves 1645 Settler of Hartford, Connecticut and Hatfield, Massachusetts and His Descendants.
Aaron Graves married Mary Wells, daughter of Ebenezer Wells and Mary Waite of Hatfield, Mass., and granddaughter of Benjamin Waite, the famous Indian fighter. Her mother [Mary Waite], along with other members of the family, was taken captive by the Indians and taken to Canada, but was released through persistent efforts of her father [Sgt. Benjamin Waite], who lived in the house adjoining the one where Isaac and John were killed in 1677.
- ↑ Various years of birth are given in different sources: (1) Wells says he died age 64 which would have him born about 1640; the memorial at Deerfield, Benjamin Waite, says he died age 54 which would have him born about 1650.
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