Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Margaret Wait

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Chevy Chase — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 309 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Sep 1767 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ezekiel Miner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jun 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
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  Martin Minor (Ahnentafel No:154 )

  John Minor

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  • Margaret Wait's maiden name is also seen as Weight and Waite.

• Sources for Margaret Wait

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 137, Marriage record for Ezekiel Minor and Margaret Wait.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Birth record for son Martin Minor.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Death record for Margaret Minor.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lyme, p. 138, Birth record for son John Minor.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 2, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 25-26.
  • ⁶ Miner, John Augustus, Thomas Minor: Descendants, 1608-1981, Trevett, Maine: John A. Miner (1981), 120.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 311.

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