Married March 30th 1817
in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York.
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Capt. Benjamin G. Waite, was born in Petersburg, N. Y., April 27, 1793. He was with the Eightyy Sixth New York Volunteers in the War of 1812, under General Brown on the northern frontier in this State. He married Mary Odell, sister of the late Mrs. Lydia Baxter, the poet, and her grandfather, Abbott, fell in the Revolutionary War. Captain B. Waite died in Canadice, January 27, 1861. Peleg, grandfather of our subject, was born in West Greenwich, R. I., in 1761, and his wife was Mary Greene, whose father was a cousin of Gen. Nathaniel Grene of Revolutionary fame. Peleg was a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas of Portsmouth, R. I., who came from England in 1634 to Boston, and went to Portsmouth in 1639. He had four sons and two daughters, of whom D. Byron and Edwin G. are living of the sons. The latter was born in 1824 in Granville, Washington county, before the family came to this town. He went to California as a gold hunter in 1849, and has been a member of both branches of the State Legislature there, county treasurer of Nevada county, and during four administrations was naval officer of San Francisco, and after that chief clerk in the Mint. He is now secretary of state of California.
History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
1893
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Married March 30th 1817
in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York.
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Capt. Benjamin G. Waite, was born in Petersburg, N. Y., April 27, 1793. He was with the Eightyy Sixth New York Volunteers in the War of 1812, under General Brown on the northern frontier in this State. He married Mary Odell, sister of the late Mrs. Lydia Baxter, the poet, and her grandfather, Abbott, fell in the Revolutionary War. Captain B. Waite died in Canadice, January 27, 1861. Peleg, grandfather of our subject, was born in West Greenwich, R. I., in 1761, and his wife was Mary Greene, whose father was a cousin of Gen. Nathaniel Grene of Revolutionary fame. Peleg was a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas of Portsmouth, R. I., who came from England in 1634 to Boston, and went to Portsmouth in 1639. He had four sons and two daughters, of whom D. Byron and Edwin G. are living of the sons. The latter was born in 1824 in Granville, Washington county, before the family came to this town. He went to California as a gold hunter in 1849, and has been a member of both branches of the State Legislature there, county treasurer of Nevada county, and during four administrations was naval officer of San Francisco, and after that chief clerk in the Mint. He is now secretary of state of California.
History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
1893
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