Continuing the Ancestors of Silence Waite DeLong

I quickly googled Montilleon Waite and found that in 1993, A Harland Waite Rees wrote a book called Descendents of Montilleon Waite and Lydia Douglas. So far only Amazon has one for purchase, for much more than I'm willing to pay. I'll try writing to the author or checking with my local library for a copy. Sounds like a great read!

We've got another Samuel to write about. This Samuel was born in 1660 in Rhode Island and married Abigail Wightman. I have a lengthy dissertation concerning the land purchases of this Samuel, which I won't go through at this point. There were 7 children born of this couple.

The father of this Samuel was again named Samuel, born 1640 in Newport, Rhode Island. He died abt. Oct. 1694 in Narragansett, Rhode Island. He married Hannah Whitman ab. 1658 and then Elizabeth Cole abt. 1675. Samuel and Hannah had 6 children. There is quite a bit of information concerning the history of Conn. and RI as to who had authority over Narragansett County.

The last ancestor that I have with the Waite family is Thomas Wayte, born in 1601 in Alford Lines, England. He died in 1665 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He married Eleanor Paine in 1643. Eleanor was born abt. 1618 in Hampshire, England.

From Gencircles - "Thomas Wait was granted land in Portsmouth on July 1, 1639. He had come from Wales to Portsmouth in 1634 with his brothers, Richard and Gamaliel. The two elder brothers settled in Boston. Tradition says that the three brothers were farmers or herdsmen and as they were driving their herd of cattle to market were beset by a press gang. They were able to escape whereupon they sold their cattle and immediately went aboard a vessel for America. They were said to have been a cousin of Thomas Wait who was a member of Parliament and one of the Judges who signed the death warrant of Charles I. The Wayte Coat of Arms was used down to the middle of the 17th century but when Charles II ascended to the throne in 1660 those instrumental in his father's death were brought to the scaffold except the few who fled to America. Thomas Wayte being of that number, either by an Act of Parliament or an edict from the throne, the family was deprived of its insignia.

The Crest is described as a bugle horn. The bugle portrays the musical element of the family and supports the tradition that the Waytes were musicians to the king and his knights. It is said that all Waytes trace their lineage to Ralph de Waiet who received the Earldom, City and Castle of Norwich from William the Conquerer. Ralf de Waiet married Emma, sister to Roger, Earl of Hereford and a cousin of the Conqueror. The Waytes live in the central part of southern England and northern Wales.

Thomas became a part of Roger William's settlement on the Delaware Bay which was organized in 1637 only two years previous to Thomas Wait's arrival. Roger Williams was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 for his belief in freedom of conscience in religion. He was warmly received by two Indian chiefs, Massosoit and Canon Icus, who gave him tracts of land on the Seekonk River."

Thomas wait was a Juryman in 1650, purchased land in what is now Darmouth, MA, one of the purchasers of Conanicut and Dutch Islands, a large owner of lands at Narragansett and Misquamincut (Westerley, RI).


I have only one child of Thomas and Elanor and that is the previously mentioned Samuel. Just checked the Internet and found Jeremiah, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, Reuben and Mary. There seems to be a lot more information to be found about this family.