Person:Canada Waite (3)

"[Canade Waite] was the child born in captivity to Benjamin Waite, the hero of the early days, who with Stephen Jennings made the perilous trip to Canada in the winter to ransom captives taken in the memorable attack on Hatfield, Sept. 19, 1677." -- Daily Hampshire Gazette, 22 October 1972

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Wells, Daniel White, and Reuben Field Wells. A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts (1660-1910): in Three Parts. (Springfield, Massachusetts: F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910)
   p. 437.

   Joseph Smith m. 15 Dec 1696 Canada Waite, [p. 442: d/o Benjamin Waite and Martha Leonard,] b. "in captivity" 22 Jan 1678, d. Hatfield 5 May 1749, a. 72.
   [Capture of Benjamin Waite's family described pp 89-90, birth in captivity, p. 95, and the account continues to p. 98]

2. ↑ Find A Grave: Hill Cemetery, Hatfield, Mass., in Find A Grave
   Canada Waite Smith.

   IN
   MEMORY
   of
   Canada Wait
   Wife of
   Joseph Smith
   died May 5th
   1749 in the
   72nd Year of
   [Note: Rest obscured by support block holding gravestone: presumably, "her Age". Age 71, so born about 1678.]