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Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska


    Benjamin Wait

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of Sarah Palin — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 2118 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1645 
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    • Death Date:
    • 29 Feb 1704 
    • Death Location:
    • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 8 Jun 1670 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Sarah Wait

      Canada Wait (Ahnentafel No:1059 )

      Jeremiah Wait

      Joseph Wait

    • Notes: 
    • Benjamin Wait was killed during the raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, by French and Indian forces during Queen Anne's War (aka Meadow Fight).

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  • Sources for Benjamin Wait

    • 3 Allen Charles Edwin, comp., The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont: First Year Book 1906, Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Printing Co. (1906), 44, 46.
    • 4 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.
    • 5 Temple, Josiah Howard, History of the Town of Whatley, Mass: Including a Narrative of Leading Events from the First Planting of Hatfield . . ., Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son (1872), 275.
    • 6 Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison . . ., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son (1864), 281.
    • 7 Wells, Daniel White and Reuben Field Wells, A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts: F. C. H. Gibbons (1910), 375.