Ancestry of
Morrison Waite

7th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Richard Waite

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• • Great-grandfather of Morrison Waite — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Waite 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bronson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jun 1711 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Dec 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Higgins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1757 
  • Marriage Location:
  • First Church, Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Remick Waite (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • French and Indian War veteran

• Sources for Richard Waite

  • ¹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2005, Vol. 38, pp. 184, 189.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 104.