Box 1

Scope and Contents

This folder contains genealogical information about various branches of the Waite and Huston families. In the case of the Waite family, several documents purport to identify its progenitor as Richard le Wayte, a minstrel watchman, ca. 1066. None of the notes containing genealogical material identify either their author or the source of the information reported. The folder also contains an unsigned essay about “the Huston Place on the Mast Road,” near present day Highland Lake.

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This folder contains a number of portraits of family members several of whom are identified as well as an image of the homestead at “Mast Road Falmouth” believed to have been taken ca. 1870.

Scope and Contents This folder contains material relating to the marriage of Sally Rowe to Raymond Wilson, but her connection with the Huston or Waite families is not disclosed by the material in the folder. The folder contains, inter alia, a list of material to be used in constructing a three-story farm house, dated March 5, 1787; the obituaries of Edward F. Waite and Morrison Remick Waite; the discharge papers of William M. Huston from the Union Army, dated July 10, 1863; and some genealogical notes and...

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This folder contains a number of deeds, some dating from the late 18th century, mortgages and miscellaneous legal documents. There are three documents in the form of a bond for a deed, a now obsolete form of conveyance. The folder also contains several mortgages, some dating from the 19th century.

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The folder contains a bill of sale for hay, farm implements and farm equipment, dated May 24, 1874; an execution [a judicial order to seize property to pay a debt] against Isaac Huston and William Huston, dated October 13, 1830; and an order from the sheriff to seize the schooner Capt. Charles Robbins, dated December 13, 1875. Not all the documents in the folder have been described here.