Person:David Wait (4)

Watchers
m. 21 Dec 1758
  1. David Wait1759 - 1764
  2. Samuel Wait1760 -
  3. Rebecca Wait1763 - 1828
  4. David Wait1764 - Bef 1770
  5. Ruth Wait1765 -
  6. Elizabeth Wait1767 -
  7. Mary Wait1769 -
  8. David Wait1770 -
  9. Sally Wait1772 -
  10. Susanna Wait1772 -
  11. Lydia Wait1773 -
  12. Benjamin WaitAbt 1775 -
Facts and Events
Name David Wait
Gender Male
Christening[1] 18 Nov 1764 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] Bef 1770 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAnother son named David baptized
References
  1. First Church (Charlestown, Massachusetts), and James Frothingham, ed. Hunnewell. Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789. (Boston, Mass, 1880)
    p. 157.

    1764.
    Nov'r 18, David S of David & Rebecca Wait [baptized].

  2. Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
    p. 987.

    Wyman says another son named David was bp. 14 Jan 1770. This date would be found in the "New Book" which is apparently missing, so the baptism date cannot be confirmed. Wyman also says this David was "bapt. Nov., d. 17th, ae. 10 ds., 1764", but the church records place his baptism on 18 Nov 1764, so a death at age of 10 days would be 28 Nov 1764. The Find A Grave memorial also gives a death date of 17 Nov 1764, but as no gravestone is pictured, it has no credibility against a church record, as cited, and may well have been based on the data in Wyman. The format of Wyman's entry is suspicious, as it turns out the church records gives the day of baptism but Wyman seems not to know it, while he seems to know the date of death, which cannot be found in contemporary records.]