
Person Info
Millicent Waite: Birth: 30 Jan 1787 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Death: 3 Sep 1838 in Shoal Creek, Caldwell, Missouri
Joseph Waite: Birth: 17 Jan 1789 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Death: 22 Jun 1853
Susanna Waite: Birth: 15 Feb 1791 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts. Death: 2 Apr 1870
Lydia Waite: Birth: 1 Feb 1793 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Title: Stan Page Author: Stan Page, 2587 West 11275 South, South Jordan, Utah 84095 Publication: 4 June 1999 |
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Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 2 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) |
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Title: GEDCOM file #6 imported on 3 Feb 1999. (Imported GEDCOM file #6) |
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Title: GEDCOM file #7 imported on 3 Feb 1999. (Imported GEDCOM file #7) |
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Title: Records submitted by Sherol Rookstool. GEDCOM file imported on 6 Feb(GEN: ROOKSTOOL, Sherol) Author: Sherol ROOKSTOOL Publication: Sherol Rookstool, 6431 Hay Cyn Rd, Cashmere,, WA 98815 Fax:509-782-1479 Email: [email protected] |
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Note: From a paper record found by Susan McMullin susan mcmullin <[email protected]> |
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Note: HI79693 Note: (Research): Hello Susan, Thank you for your nice inquiry. All the sources quoted that I could find relating to this question do not satisfy me as having a sure answer to it. If the marriage date of 3 Aug 1786 belongs to Millicent Stratton & Phineas Waite, then Millicent Waite would probably be the daughter of Millicent Stratton. However, the same marriage date is given in numerous places for the marriage of Phineas to Mehitable Foster. If that be true, then she might be Millicent Waite's mother, but it seems clear that Millicent Waite was born 30 Jan 1787, three months before the expected nine months time-frame, so, it seems to me, the question might remain unanswered in any case. If you have any solid information about death dates for the wives of Phineas, that might help. I've copied below the notes from several places that I thought were interesting. One is supposed to be church records. I think it actually refers to an early version of the LDS Church's collection of records submitted by church members from their own research. Relevant data for marriages shown in ancestry.com use a source called "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900" which is really a hodge-podge of records which don't seem any better as sources to me than "Ancestral File." Note that if Mehitable Foster is really the mother of Millincent Waite, then all Phineas' descendants might not be connected to our Leavitt descendants tree, so this is quite an important question for us, as it must be for you as well. Here is something I just found that makes me think that Mehitable Foster is really the mother of Millicent Waite (from a page on RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project website ): HISTORY OF MILLICENT WAITE CURTIS Compiled by Dora M. Curtis Taylor ~ Millicent Waite was born 20 January 1787, in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, to Mehitable Foster, daughter of Mary Wheeler and Joseph Foster, and Phineas Waite, son of Susanna Bancroft and Joseph Waite. She was the oldest child in a family of four children. Her brother Joseph was born 17 January 1789, Susanna was born 15 February 1791 and Lydia was born 1 February 1793. Millicent's mother must have died shortly after Lydia's birth, as her father married Eunis Smith at Barrie, Franklin, Massachusetts, on 12 July 1795. Millicent married Nahum Curtis on 29 October 1808, in the First Congregational Church in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts. Her wedding dress was changeable silk shading green and lavender. While living in New Salem, they had three children, Sophronia, Lyman and Phineas. Phineas died as an infant. The family then moved to Conneautville, Erie (now Crawford) County, Pennsylvania, where a son, Moses, was born on 8 May 1816. This place was first settled sometime in 1815, so it appears that they were among the first settlers of this place. Another son, Joseph, was born there and also a daughter, Mary. On 23 October 1823, my grandfather George was born in Silver Lake (near Pontiac), in Oakland County, Michigan. Foster, Loren and Hyrum were also born there. Loren died as an infant. Great Grandmother Millicent lived a rugged pioneer life, but she was always willing to do her part. She saw to it that her children had as good an education as it was possible for them to have. Her oldest daughter, Sophronia, became a school teacher and the younger children attended her school. His mother was a very good and religious woman, and she had her grandson George read a chapter each Sunday from the Testament when he was quite small. He also said that she was a very good cook, and one who worried about her family. They soon left their home in Michigan and joined the Saints in Missouri. In 1836, they bought a farm from Mr. Fletcher, which they farmed for two years. It lay seven miles east of Far West at the mouth of Log Creek, where it emptied into Shoel Creek. The Saints began to gather there from all over the States. Both they that were driven from their homes, and they that were not. By 1838, there were from four to five thousand people gathered at that place. The mobs again began to drive the Saints from their homes, burning their buildings, stealing their cattle and other property. Millicent took sick at this time and continued to get 2 worse. The strain was too great on her and she died on 3 September 1838, and was buried on the 5th. That same day her husband and three sons were called to stand guard to keep the mob from stealing and burning the Saints property. After Millicent's death, her beautiful wedding gown was cut up and divided among her children for keepsakes. March 28, 1843 A BLESSING given by Hyrum Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of NAHUM CURTIS Son of Moses and Molly Curtis, born 7 July 1784, at New Salem, Frankland County, Massachusetts. Brother Nahum, I lay my hands upon your head in the name of Jesus to seal the blessing of the Covenant upon your head according to the desires and integrity of your heart. For you are an Ephraimite and shall be numbered with the first born from whom and unto whom cometh the Shepherd, the stone of Israel, upon whose heads are the crowns of the Priesthood and by whom shall the Tribes and Nations of Israel be crowned. Therefore, I seal upon your head the blessings of the Everlasting Covenant, even the blessings of the Priesthood, the same shall be a blessing upon the heads of your posterity and to be continued in their lineage unto the latest generation. And your name shall be had in honorable remembrance and perpetuated by them. And for your sacrifices, spiritual blessings shall be multiplied upon your head, and for the honest integrity of your heart in which there is no guile, you shall enter into the rest and your children after you, that remains for the people of God and be numbered with the sanctified and with those that shall come up upon Mount Zion with Hundred and Forty and Four Thousand. And with the innumerable multitude that had washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. This is a blessing of promise upon you and your children after you. Therefore I seal you up unto Eternal Life, that your mind may be at rest and that your heart may rejoice, and that joy may spring up in your heart henceforth, and that you may go down to your grave in peace, and your works to continue. And you shall be blest Spiritually and temporarily according to your faith as it hath hitherto been multiplied upon your head. Notwithstanding your sufferings and your sacrifices and your name shall be remembered, and your name and acts shall be written in the Chronicles of your Brethren and your days and years shall be multiplied upon your head and be many. These blessings, I seal upon your head. Even so, Amen. The 144,000 High Priests found in "THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS" Sec. 77, Verse II \endash IN REVELATION Chapter 7 Verse 4 Thank you for bringing this up to us. We look forward to hearing from you again. Warmest regards, and kindest wishes to you and your family. The Western Association of Leavitt Families Family History Committee delegate, Joseph V. Leavitt 4335 Smoketree Ave. Yorba Linda, CA 92886 NOTES: Although Phineas died in Athol, he actually lived on the Waite Farm in New Salem from the early 1750s to 1753 until a boundary shift between New Salem and Athol in late 1820s put the farm in Athol rather than New Salem. SOURCES: Deloraine P. Corey, The Waite family of Malden, Massachusetts (Malden, 1913), 27; Chas Bancroft of Montreal, by Joseph S. Bancroft, p. 16; Stratton Family, Vol. 2, by H.R. Stratton; New England Register (Am Pub H, Vol. 12, p. 84); Vital Records of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Mass l 14c, Vols. 1-2, pp. 33-34, 423); Vital Records of New Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Mass N 25, p. 51, 73, 121-22); LDS Missionary Record of Joseph Curtis in 1841; Vital Records of Danvers (GS #974. 45/D1 v2e). CENSUS: 1790 Census, New Salem, Massachusetts ("WAIT, Phins" ; 1 free white male;16 years and over; 1 free white male under 16; 3 free white females; 0 other free persons; 0 slaves). NEW SALEM PUBLIC RECORDS: Phin[eha]s, resident, 1790. U.S.C.; Phinehas [Waitt. dup.], grantee, 1796-1820. F.D.; Phinehas, grantor, 1796-1833. F.D.; Phinehas, occupant, 1798. D.T. >From PRF DVD 140 Contributor Samuel D. Wattles (for marriage 3 Aug 1786 to Mehitable Foster): !MARRIAGE: Vital Records of New Salem, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (BYU CS 43 .G46x PS 132) page 73, FOSTER, Mehitable, and Phineas Wait, Aug. 3, 1786. C.R. (church records) >From Stan Page PRF CD2: Ancestral File says Mehitable Foster was buried Aug 1786. If that is correct she did not have any children because she was married 3 Aug 1786. That would make Millicent Stratton mother of these children. Needs researched. susan mcmullin wrote: > I think we're cousins. I was so interested to see your genealogy in Leavitt families.org. I come through Phineas Waite's daughter Millicent. I have seen so many discrepancies in records. Some show Mehitable Foster as her mother; some show Millicent Stratton and some show Eunice Smith. Do you have any resources to prove your showing of Millicent being Millicent's mother? I have had my daughter research in Massachusettes. She contacted a lady that lives across from the old Phineas Waite homestead. She said, "You can take it to the bank that Mehitable Foster was Millicent's mother." She didn't have any proof. But, that is what she said. She sent me a grocery list of Phineas' and a land deal that he signed. i would be happy to send them to you. Susan |
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