Ancestry of
Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska

Canada Wait

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Sarah Palin — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1059 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Wait 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Leonard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Jan 1678/1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canada 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 May 1749 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 05 or 15 DEC 1696 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Martha Smith

  Mary Smith (Ahnentafel No:529 )

  • Notes: 

  • It is said that Canada Wait got her name because she was born in Canada while her mother being held captive by Indians.

• Sources for Canada Wait

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1919, Vol. 73, p. 294.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, p. 231.
  • ³ Boltwood, Lucius Manlius, Genealogies of Hadley Families: Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Northampton: Metcalf and Company, Printers (1862), 146.
  • ⁴ Nash, Rev. Sylvester, The Nash Family: Records of the Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven, Connecticut, 1640, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1853), 44.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 162.