Sarah Waite

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft Jun 1732

Notes:

Several respectable sources, including the New England Early Families Study Project (citation details below) and The Snow-Estes Ancestry (citation details below), list her as a daughter of Capt. John Waite and Mary Hills. Notably, Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV does not.

Sarah married Nathaniel Stone on 25 Apr 1684 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Nathaniel (son of John Stone and Anne) was born on 11 May 1660 in Near Sudbury, in the region that later became Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died between 23 Jun 1732 and 3 Nov 1732 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ebenezer Stone was born on 16 Apr 1688 in Near Sudbury, in the region that later became Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in Apr 1739 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Notes:

According to Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, etc. (citation details below), he probably arrived on the Susan and Ellen in 1638.

He was Malden's representative to the House of Deputies from 1666 to 1685, and was Speaker of the House in 1684.

John married Mary Hills before 1650. Mary (daughter of Joseph Hills and Rose Clarke) was born before 13 Nov 1625; was christened on 13 Nov 1625 in Great Burstead, Essex, England; died on 25 Nov 1674 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Ward. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He and his family arrived at Boston 17 July 1638 on the Susan and Ellen. He was a woolen draper.

Selectman of Charlestown in 1644; in 1646, representative to the General Court. Re-elected in 1647, he was chosen speaker of the House of Deputies. Captain of the Malden train-band. He is most remembered for having, in 1648, led the committee that first codified and published all the laws of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ironically, this led to a small spot of bother on the occasion of his third marriage, to Helen Atkinson, as reported in Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills (citation details below):

"In the early days of the Colony all marriages were solemnized by magistrates, the clergy having no part in the ceremony. In 1641 Governor Bellingham, as magistrate, married himself to Penelope Pelham, and when called on to come down from the bench and plead to a complaint against him for the act, refused to do so. Joseph Hills was a magistrate for the trial of small causes, and followed the Governor's example in his marriage of January, 1656, but, unlike the Governor, did not escape public censure. The records of the Court for Middlesex County show that, April 1, 1656, 'Mr. Joseph Hills of Mauldon being presented by the Grand Jury for marrying of himself, contrary to the law of this Collony page 38 in ye old Booke. Hee freely acknowledged his offence therein, and his misvnderstanding the grounds whereon he went which he now confesseth to be vnwarrantable, And was admonished by the Court.'"

Joseph married Rose Clarke on 22 Jul 1624 in Great Burstead, Essex, England. Rose was born about 1604; died on 24 Mar 1650 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Rose Clarke was probably related to James Clarke, grocer, and Josias Clarke, both business associates of Joseph Hills in Great Burstead in the 1630s." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV, citation details below]

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Described in the ODNB entry on his son Samuel Ward as "a man of 'more ancientry than estate'", and in the entry on his son Nathaniel as "lecturer successively of Haverhill, Writtle in Essex, and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk".

John married Susan. Susan died after 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a tanner.

George married Mary on 13 Oct 1596 in London, England. Mary was born about 1575; died after 16 Jun 1611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Mary had married first William Symons, late of Billerica, Essex, England, tanner, but we have found no record of this marriage, now any trace of children born to this couple. This first marriage probably lasted no more than ten years, since Mary had children with George Hills until 1611." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV, citation details below]