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HASKIN
July 2, 2008; Nancy


Looking for info on Joseph HASKIN, born 24-Mar-1761.

 

WADE
June 9, 2003; Geoffrey Pope


I would like to obtain the will of Amos WADE, 1732?-1808?, and to confirm that Amos WADE and his first wife Phebe WILLIAMS were the parents of Seth WADE. Amos WADE was born in Bridgewater about 1732, and was Captain of a company of Minutemen in the Revolution. Amos WADE's father was Ichabod WADE, and he also had a brother named Ichabod (the latter also a Minuteman). Amos married Phebe WILLIAMS (a descendant of Thomas ROGERS of the Mayflower) in Scituate in 1758. Seth WADE (who used the spelling WAID from about 1807) was born in Middleborough about 1764. Seth fought briefly in the Revolution in 1781, married Rest HATHAWAY in Taunton in 1798, and Seth and his family appear in the 1790 Census in Taunton.

Phebe WILLIAMS died about 1775. In 1776, her widower, Amos WADE, married (2d) Mary RICHMOND (also, I believe, a Mayflower descendant) in Middleborough. Amos WADE, by one account, ended his days in Franklin Co., MA, and died in Buckland in 1808. Seth WAID, whom I hope to confirm is Amos's and Phebe's son, bought land in Ontario County in central New York in 1807. I am told that Rest, his wife, did not sign re-conveyance in 1814 (suggesting she had died) and Seth died, apparently while traveling, in 1821 and is buried somewhere in New York State. Seth WAID's known children are sons Williams WAID (ca. 1792), Warner WAID (ca. 1794), Seth WAID, and Ozial WAID, and daughter Aresta WAID. Sons Williams, Warner and Seth WAID removed from Ontario County, NY to, Crawford County, PA, about 1816. Williams (my third great-grandfather) married Abigail SKINNER (daughter of Asahel SKINNER and Phebe GOULD, descendants respectively of Thomas SKINNER of Malden, MA, and Zaccheus GOULD of Topsfield, MA, both noted early immigrant families), and Warner, Williams WAID's brother, married Abigail's sister Hannah SKINNER. My line from Williams WAID and Abi SKINNER is through their son Ozial WAID (b. Crawford Co., PA, 1823), who married a fifth or thereabouts cousin of his, Sallie BUSH, daughter of Horatio BUSH. Both Ozial WAID and Sallie BUSH are descended form the FRENCH family, yet another early family in coastal Massachusetts.

WAID was my mother's maiden name. Evidently it is generally believed, but not documented, that Capt. Amos WADE and Seth WADE/WAID were father and son; since establishing my descent from Phebe WILLIAMS (Amos's wife at the time of Seth's birth) would also get me a confirmed line back to the Mayflower, this one is of particular interest. Amos WADE was a descendant of Nicholas WADE the immigrant.