"Joseph (Wadsworth) … m. by an unknown date Mary _____ (his widow, named in his will of 22 March 1689[/90], was Mary [Gen Adv 1:115-16, citing PPR 1:68-69]. … All secondary sources state that he had first wife Abigail Waite, whom he married about 1655. No contemporary record of a wife named Abigail has been found, and there was no Waite family in Duxbury or vicinity from which Abigail could have come. According to his will Joseph had six children, three sons (Elisha, Joseph and Samuel) and three daughters (unnamed). Elisha married in 1694 and Samuel about 1700, indicating births in the early 1670s, and so no need for a marriage as early as 1655. Since Elisha named a son Wait, and this name was carried down in the family, some later historian of the family may have thought this indicated the surname of Elisha's mother, rather than a popular Puritan virture."
