History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . ger. He was in the Crowi Pointexpedition in 1754, and in service near Lake George, in 1755 ; and duri ? thatand the next year was under Col. Dwight, at forts Edward and William his associates here were Robert Rogers, Israel Putnam and John 1757, he was joined to Rogerss corps of Rangers, which was comp ed ofmen accustomed to traveling and scouting, and in whose courage and Iditythe most implicit confidence could l)c placed. In the same y
History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, embracing a comprehensive history of the county from its first settlement to the present time . ger. He was in the Crowi Pointexpedition in 1754, and in service near Lake George, in 1755 ; and duri ? thatand the next year was under Col. Dwight, at forts Edward and William his associates here were Robert Rogers, Israel Putnam and John 1757, he was joined to Rogerss corps of Rangers, which was comp ed ofmen accustomed to traveling and scouting, and in whose courage and Iditythe most implicit confidence could l)c placed. In the same year he t\ sontto Halifax, but was recalled and sent again to the region of the lakes, 1758, he reconnoitred in the vicinity of Ticonderoga. He was pn nt inthe attack on that fort in July, when the English lost nineteen hand 1 auJforty-four, killed and wounded, among the former of whom was Lord so he continncd scouting iiud lighting till the close of the war, ^^ n liesettled in Vermont, and afterwards in New Hampshire, whore he was a i nil>orof the General Assembly in 1775-76. In the war of the Revolution he came. ci.^« ULB WAIT TAVERN, FOSTIiR MILL, WEST BROOKFIELD, MASS. (Formerly OwnCd and kept by John Wait, of Revolutionary fame.) THE WAITE BROTHERS. 361 liciiteuaiit-colonel, with the reputation of one of the most brave and eflScientofficers ill the service, and while commanding the advance-guard of fleet on Lake Champlain, was killed in a skirmish a few days beforethe naval battle of Valcoiir. His life would make a volume full of darin andadventure. The third son of John Wait, the tavern-keeper, on Foster Hill, was was born in 1735, and was about twenty years old when the contest his brother Joseph, next older, he entered the army in the same com-pany, and, it is supposed, continued in the service during the seven yearswar. Afterwards he removed to Vermont, and was a patriot in the Revolu-tion. He was among the Rangers i
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