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Waits found in the early 70 s, this is really a fictional piece.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>I will make notes at the end of this document indicating <span style='color:black'>what is not proven info from the documents that our Wayte researchers have found.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>I am going to type out what the Rev. Emmett Moore Waits, Jr. wrote in the &quot;The Colonial Genealogist&quot; in 1970 until it leaves our connection with Richard to work on his own line from John of Hampshire and beyond.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>This is really the only area of this work that pertains to my line so this is where I look sometimes to see if I can find one of those documents he implies that prove the Richard of Middlesex link to </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial'>Wiltshire</span></st1:City><span style='font-family: Arial'>, </span><st1:country-region><span style='font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ginger and I have delved into some of those to no avail.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>We find men with Wayte names but nothing to prove they are ours.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>We certainly need more early VA data.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From here on is his submission:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>RICHARD WAIT, born <span class=SpellE>Grittenham</span> Parish, Brinkworth, Malmsbury Hundred, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wiltshire</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, about 1638, son of HENRY and ELIZABETH (PALMER) WAIT, died Christ Church Parish, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Middlesex County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:date Month="8" Day="10" Year="1715"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10 August 1715</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He married in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Middlesex County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:date Year="1705" Day="3" Month="2"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3 February 1705</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (2nd wife) ANNE DUGLASS, who died in </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Middlesex</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <span class=GramE>between 1709-1713</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>+ Biographical:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>RICHARD WAIT passed through the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>port</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bristol</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> aboard the ship '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hopewell</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>' in 1662, destined for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, and is named in the record of embarkation as of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He was claimed as a headright in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lancaster County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:date Month="5" Day="14" Year="1662"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>14 May 1662</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, and again in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rappahannock County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:date Month="7" Day="9" Year="1663"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9 July 1663</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> records indicate that he was a planter in the section of </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lancaster</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, and was resident in Christ Church Parish, </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Middlesex</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, from 1705 until his death in 1715.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A tradition that he was a sea captain is strengthened by the fact that there are only two references to him in the </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> records between 1663 and 1705 and by records in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of one &quot;Mr. RICHARD WAITS&quot; as commander of the ship 'Friendship', from 1687 until after 1692.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>+References:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>Wills, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 130 Harvey; 'The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia 1653-1812' (1964 reprint), pp. 68, 72,80,83,85, 90; 'Bristol and America: A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America 1654-1685:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Servants to Foreign Plantations', Volume I 1654-1663, Volume II 1663-1685, transcribed by R. Hargreaves-Mawdsly (1967 reprint), p. 71; Bristol, England, Charters, Book I, p. 361; Lancaster County, Virginia, Court Orders, Book 3, p. 181; Virginia </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pat</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ent Book 5, p. 200 (95), as cited in Nell Marion Nugent, 'Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pat</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ents 1623-1800' (1934); 'The Vestry Book of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia 1663-1767', compiled by C.G.Chamberlayne (1927), p. 185; 'The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography', Volume 34, p. 284; Wills, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 8 Coker.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>+Note:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>The immigrant ancestor, RICHARD WAIT, as mentioned, had two records as headright in Virginia, one in 1662 and a second in 1663.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>That both records refer to the same RICHARD WAIT, or WAYT, is obvious from the duplication of other names in both lists.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>The </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> record (R. Hargreaves-Mawdley, '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>'), states that one RICHARD WAIT of Brinkworth, Wiltshire, embarked at the port in 1661-1662 aboard the '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hopewell</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>' destined for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Hopewell</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>' was owned by Colonel CUTHBERT POTTER, planter of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and of </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lancaster-Middlesex County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> ('Virginia Magazine of History and Biography', Volume 34, p. 284).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>POTTER was justice of Lancaster and later <span class=GramE>high sheriff</span> of </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Middlesex</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and a charter member and vestryman of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, the last shown in the list of charter vestrymen in the parish register.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The first headright record of RICHARD WAIT is in Lancaster County, the second in Rappahannock County (Middlesex was taken from portions of Lancaster and Rappahannock south of the Rappahannock River in 1663), and it was in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, where the immigrant ancestor settled permanently.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>It is not unreasonable to conclude that RICHARD WAIT went first to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> aboard the '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hopewell</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>' and then from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, where Colonel POTTER owned a plantation and where he eventually died, to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, where POTTER is of record until 1690.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Other passengers on the '</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hopewell</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>' on the same voyage with RICHARD WAIT destined for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barbados</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> are also of record during the early 1660's as headrights in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>There is also the following evidence to be added to the reasons for believing RICHARD WAIT, the </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> passenger, was the same as RICHARD WAIT of </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Arial'>Lancaster-Middlesex</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>RICHARD WAIT married his first wife in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in 1660 as she was SARAH COLSTONE.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>In 1663 there is record at </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of the passage of one SARAH WAITE to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, and record that on </span><st1:date Month="9" Day="15" Year="1663"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>15 September 1663</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Arial'> SARAH WAITE was claimed as a headright in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rappahannock County</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> - the same summer in which RICHARD WAIT, on </span><st1:date Month="6" Day="9" Year="1663"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9 June 1663</span></st1:date><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, was claimed as headright in </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rappahannock</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>The claim that the immigrant ancestor was a &quot;sea captain&quot; has always been &quot;family tradition&quot;.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>However, in seeking confirmation of this, the following records have been found:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>(a)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>English Probates, 19/179 Scroope Folio (Abstract):<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Will of THOMAS DOBBS, of Ludgershall (near Malmsbury), Wiltshire, dates </span><st1:date Month="8" Day="27" Year="1657"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>27 August 1657</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>/proved </span><st1:date Month="2" Day="11" Year="1658"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>11 February 1658</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>wife, JOANE; daughter, URSILLA.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Witnesses: RICHARD WAIGHT and GILES PALMER.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>            </span>(b)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 8 Coker (Abstract):<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Will of LEWIS GODDARD of the Parish of St. Sepulchre's, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>London</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, of &quot;the Good Ship 'The Friendship', Mr. Richard Waits, <span class=GramE>Commander</span>.&quot;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Dated </span><st1:date Month="10" Day="10" Year="1692"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10 October 1692</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>/proved </span><st1:date Month="1" Day="24" Year="1692"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>24 January 1692/93</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Arial'>:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>wife, ANNA GODDARD.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Witnesses:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>GILES PALMER, JOHN WYHERD.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This may or may not constitute proof that the immigrant ancestor, RICHARD WAIT, or WAITS, was a sea captain sometime between the years he was recorded as a headright in Virginia and is of record in 1671 in HUGH BRENT's will as having owned land in Lancaster County, Virginia, and his permanent settlement in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County Virginia, beginning with the year 1705.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>[It must also be kept in mind that by law Wills had to be probated in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Canterbury</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> if the deceased owned land in more than one county or died, or was likely to die, at sea or in the colonies.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Editor]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Notes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>From here onward he talks about the Wayte Coat of Arms (which I have not investigated at all) and then starts in on our Richard b. 1708.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He talks about his wife Sarah Blake, her parents and grandfather John Blake who was an immigrant to VA from Pitminster, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Somersetshire</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:country-region><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>England</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>I can only assume he might be right about that part since I haven't checked it out yet.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>But then he claims that Richard, the ancestor married again after Anne Duglass to Charity Beaumont in 1713 and they had a son William, then later Charity married John Ingram after Richard died and with him had a son Samuel Ingram.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>From what I can tell in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> records there was a Richard who married Charity in 1713, died in 1715 and she remarried.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The problem is that who was it who died in 1724?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The Christ Church Parish Records have two Richard's dying, the one noted in 1715 and one in 1724.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Which one is ours?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>He states that part of his proof of his John in Hampshire Co was that a William Waite and a Samuel Ingram lived next to said John in Hampshire Co.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>So for years I thought that perhaps the Richard who married Charity was a cousin or nephew or relative of some sort to our Richard who married Sarah Blake but </span><st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DNA</span></st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> has proven that our lines do not intersect at all.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>So we can say that if the John Waits of Hampshire lines are sure of their William Waite and Samuel Ingram connections, then our Richard is probably the one who died in 1724.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>And that of course we have two separate families living in Middlesex at the same time.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Richard Wait, possible headright of 1663, seems to be the same one who was about 14 years old and he was indentured to a Henry Corbin.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ginger found the record after </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-family:Arial'>William Lindsey</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-family:Arial'> found the mention of him being 14 in one of the old books.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>&quot;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&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One other note about his proof besides the Richard who was 14 years old in 1663 was that Ginger saw the actual will of Hugh Brent of 1671 at the LOV which was to prove that Richard owned land in </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lancaster</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>County</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The will merely states giving &quot;ye neck of land which was cleared by Mr. Wate.....&quot; nothing about Richard owning anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One of the things that the John Waits of Hampshire line as always stated is that the family tradition of a sea captain.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>So the part about a Richard Waits, commander of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Friendship</i> might be the only part of this tale that is true.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>It is also possible that he is the same one who married Charity Beaumont and died in 1715.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>And it is also possible that he is the same man who married Sarah <span class=SpellE>Colstone</span> but there must have been another Richard Wayte in Middlesex who was married to Anne Moore Duglass in 1705 and he must have been the one who died in 1724 if the William Waite and Samuel Ingram of Middlesex connection to John Waits of Hampshire is true.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>The Rev. made many assumptions and while his guesses could be right in some places, I have a hard time thinking that Richard Wayte b. about 1638 was the same one who married first Sarah <span class=SpellE>Colstone</span>, then Anne Duglass in 1705, and Charity Beaumont in 1713. He would have been a bit long in the tooth I think, so I feel that we are missing a generation or two perhaps.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Much more is needed before we can safely state who the parents of Richard Wayte b. about 1670 who married Anne Moore Duglass in 1705 were.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Update </span><st1:date Month="7" Day="1" Year="2008"><span style='font-family:Arial'>July 1, 2008</span></st1:date><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoPlainText><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>