Early VA Colonial Records of Wayte Emigrants

 

 

There are a number of Wayte people in early VA/MD records and many of them are hinted at in the Barbados records too.  We have no idea who many of these men or women are which is why on the website we start with Richard and Anne Duglass.

 

Before 1700, we find in VA records of people coming to VA, there is

Ursula Waight 1618 VA or 1642(ones with multiple dates depend on the record)

Mathew Wate 1653 VA

Oliver Waytes 1653 VA

Sarah Waite 1654-1663 VA

Sarah Waite 1661 VA

Richard Wait, age 14, in 1663 (this we know from the indenture record see note below)

Daniel Waite, 1664 to West New Jersey

Jer Wate 1665 VA

Rendry Wates 1666 VA

Thomas Wates 1663-1679 VA

Thomas Wates 1671 VA

Grace Wayte 1663-1679 VA

Grace Wayte 1664 VA

Robert Wayte 1663-1679 VA

Robert Wayte 1675 VA

Thomas Wayte 1667 VA

Robert Waytes 1676 Maryland

William Waite 1671 VA (from Stepney, Middlesex, England, wife Dorothy, died         November 1671 in VA, will probated in Eng.)

 

James Wayte 1673 Maryland

John Wayte 1673 Maryland

Jonathan Wayte 1674 Maryland

John Waite 1679 Barbados

John Waite, 1683 to Philadelphia

John Wayte 1691 Pennsylvania

 

After 1700 we have

James Waite, 1713 VA

Henry Waite, 1724 VA

John Waite, 1732 to Annapolis

 

Then there were many others after 1740 to VA or America locations but I am not going to list these only because we know how ours connect before this time.

 

The sources are compilations from

 

Peter Wilson Coldham - Bonded Passengers to America; The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775; The Kings Passengers to Maryland and Virginia; English Convicts in Colonial America; The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations; English Estates of American Colonists, American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1699; American Wills Proved in London 1611-1775; Maryland Land-Patent Records 1671-1680, Correlated Evidence Identifying Transported Convicts

 

R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley - Bristol and America, A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America 1654-1685

 

Nell Marion Nugent - Cavaliers and Pioneers:  Abstracts of VA Land Patents & Grants 1623-1666; Cavilers and Pioneers:  A Calendar of VA Land Grants 1623-1800

 

Marion & Jack Kaminkow - Original Lists of Emigrants in Bondage from London to the American Colonies 1719-1744

 

Berthold Fernow - West Jersey Settlers

 

Walter Lee Sheppard Jr. - Passengers and Ships prior to 1684

 

Marion Balderston - Pennsylvania's 1683 Ships and Some of Their Passengers

 

James C. Brandow - Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality...and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantataions 1600-1700

 

George Cabell Greer - Early VA Immigrants 1623-1666

 

Gust Skordas - The Early Settlers of Maryland

 

 

NOTE:  This Richard Wait seems to be the same one who was about 14 years old and he was indentured to a Henry Corbin.  Ginger found the record after William Lindsey found the mention of him being 14 in one of the old books.  "Essex Co. Order Book Entry page 255 - Richard Waight, servant to Henry Corbyn, esq., coming into this county without indenture and appearing at this court is declared to be 14 years old and is ordered to serve according to act, 13 Jan 1663/4"

 

Other Wayt sightings are William Wayt in Accomack Co. who appears in county court records from 1674-1704 and then Henry in Essex Co.  Henry and Catherine Weight had a daughter Catherine b. 1725 in Christ Church Records and son Sampson.  Henry died in 1728 intestate.  Later records confirm that Sampson was Henry's son but there is no mention of any other sons.  Another possible tie in here was that Ann Sampson married William Wayte 5-3-1666 in the Brinkworth England records.  So that lends the idea of this group being part of the same family.

 

Updated July 1, 2008