Waitstill (Dennis) Stewart (abt. 1652 - aft. 1716)

Born about 1652 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British America

Wife of Hugh Stewart — married 1670 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 1716 after about age 64 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British America

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Biography

Wait(still) Denne (Dennis?) married Hugh Stewart circa 1670 or 72^{[1] [2] [3]}

Their children included:

1. Michael Stewart ^{[4] [3]}, who married Mary
2. James Stewart, born February 11, 167?^{[5] [4] [3]}, who married Elizabeth.
3. Lydia Stewart, born February 11,1674^[6] , who married Joseph Covell, son of Nathaniel^{[4] [3]}
4. Mercy Stewart, born May 2, 1677^[7], who married Edward Hall, son of Gersham^{[4] [3]}
5. Catherine Stewart, who married Nathaniel Nickerson, son of William^{[4] [3]}
6. Temperence Stewart, who married Elisha Dunham, son of John^{[4] [3]}
7. Joanna Stewart, who died young, unmarried^[3]
8. Joseph Stewart, born 1685, who married Mary^{[4] [3]}
9. Ebenezer Stewart, who married Ruth Higgins^{[4] [3] [8]}
10. Samuel Stewart, who married Deborah Lathrop, daughter of Thomas, and then married Elizabeth Howes, daughter of Thomas^{[4] [3]}

This profile shows she was living when her husband died.^{[4] [9]}

Sources

1. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol 2 Page 1451 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010, behind a paywall. It states TUARD, Hugh & Wait ____; by 1670; Falmouth/Yarmouth {Stewart Clan Mag. 1:18-19; Chatham Hist. 113, 239; MD 3:36; Cram 48; Higgins 71; Barnstable Co. Prob. 3:355-6})]
2. ↑ Yarmouth Mass Vital Records, book 3, page 4 found in Yarmouth Volume 1, page 125 of the Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). It states Hugh Stuard was married to Waitestill Denne the 13th (torn)
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10} Genealogical notes of Cape Cod families by Brownson, Lydia B.; Norton, Doris V.; Held, Grace V.; Publication date 1967; Topics Registers of births, etc.--Massachusetts--Cape Cod, Sturgis Library (Barnstable, Mass.), Marriage records--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Barnstable (Mass.)--Genealogy, Cape Cod (Mass.)--Genealogy, genealogy; Publisher Lydia B. Brownson; Collection sturgislibrary; regionaldigitizationmass; americana; Digitizing sponsor Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; Contributor Sturgis Library; Language English; Vol. 45 (Soule to Sweat); see page 114 for Hugh, son of James. This open source reflects the information behind a paywall
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9} “Barnstable, MA: Probate Records, 1685-1789.” Volume 3, page 198 Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQX9-RPF : 4 December 2014), Hugh Stuard in entry for James Stuard, 11 Feb 1672; citing YARMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 945,511.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQX9-YD3 : 4 December 2014), Stuard, 11 Feb 1674; citing YARMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 945,511.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQX9-YD7 : 4 December 2014), Stuard, 02 May 1677; citing YARMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 945,511.
8. ↑ Richard Higgins, a Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and His Descendants by Higgins, Katharine Chapin, ; Worcester, Mass.: privately printed, 1918), page 71
9. ↑ “Barnstable, MA: Probate Records, 1685-1789.” Volume 3, page 199 Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts . CD-ROM. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)