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About Richard Waite, of Watertown
Richard Waite
- Birth: 1608 Wethersfield Essex, England [NO: that’s a different Waite family]
- Death: Jan. 16, 1669 Watertown Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA
Richard, was one of the original planters of Watertown, MA. He probably arrived with the "Winthrop Fleet" in 1630. He married, Mary ( ) about 1637, and had the following children all born in Watertown:
- Stephen (1638 died 9 days later)
- John (1639-1722) rem to Framingham, MA
- Thomas (1642-1723) remained in Watertown
- Joseph (1743-1726) rem to Marlboro, MA
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Spouse:
- Mary ( ) Waite (1607 - 1679)*
Children:
- Thomas Wayt (1641 - 1722)*
- Calculated relationship
Burial: Old Burying Place Watertown Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA
Disambiguation
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Waite-11
Since there was another Richard Waite, a tailor of Boston, who held some positions of responsibility in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and who was contemporaneous with our Richard Waite of Watertown, and has sometimes been confused with this man, it would need further research to confirm this statement. In fact in most instances that have been discovered so far, events surrounding the other Richard Waite of Boston seem to be attributed in error to our ancestor by some researchers. There were several of another family of Waite who came early on to the colony. There was Richard (probably the Boston man), a cousin of Thomas Wait (1601-1677) of Portsmouth Rhode Island (who spelled his name Wait without the "e." There was Gamaliel Waite in Boston, 1637 who died 9 December 1685, who had sons Samuel, and John. A Return Waite was a member of the Artillery Company, and then the other Richard of Boston, a tailor and member of the Boston church in 1633, who was also a marshall. A Thomas Wayte was a member of Parliament under Cromwell and signed the warrant for the exectuion of Charles I, 29 January 1648. Some earlier genealogists claim some relationship to that man and our Waites but that is not proven by this compiler.
A different Waite family
http://www.archive.org/stream/greenefamilyitsb01lama#page/277/mode/1up
Another child of William and Meribe Wardell was Rosanna, who married ___ Waite. They had several children who came to the Colonies, Melutable, the oldest, who married Richard Hill, of William, and was left a widow soon after coming to the new country ; Richard Waite, born in 1596, Gambiel, b. in 1598, and Thomas, b. 1601. All of these came about the height of the Anti-Laud emigration. One of the sons, Thomas, went to Portsmouth, R. I., in 1639, and from him all the R. I. Waites are descended. D. Byron Waite's "Waite Genealogy" takes up their history, so it need not be given here.
From http://www.waitegenealogy.org/dna.htm
We're Changing Widely Held Beliefs. If we assume that no non-paternity events have occurred in any of the lines so far tested, we are forced to make some startling conclusions. These conclusions, if proven with further testing, will require us to re-write most of what we believe about the English origins of the Wait/Waite families. For instance, based on the testing done so far we must conclude that Thomas of Portsmouth and Richard of Watertown WERE NOT cousins and that all Waytes DO NOT trace their lineage to Ralf de Waiet who received the Earldom, City and Castle of Norwich from William the Conqueror.
References
- Richard of Watertown, MA DNA study http://www.waitegenealogy.org/ROW.jpg
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Richard Waite, of Watertown's Timeline
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April 10, 1604
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Alford, Lincolnshire, England
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April 10, 1604
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Alford, Lincolnshire, England
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1608
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perhaps of, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1637 |
December 31, 1637
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Watertown, Middlesex, Mass.
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1637
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Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1639 |
May 6, 1639
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Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1642 |
March 3, 1642
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Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1643 |
February 1643
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1669 |
January 16, 1669
Age 61
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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