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Papers, including both personal and business communications. The bulk of the latter are from his term as Sheriff.
Cataloged.
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This collection is located on-site.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Waite papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Source of acquisition--Westerfield, Mrs. Jason. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--10/30/57. Accession number--M-57-10-30.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.
Sea captain, merchant. Waite, born in Newbury, Mass., commanded one of the transports in General James Wolfe's expedition against Quebec in 1759. He was later a member of the Provincial Congress, 1776, and in the same year was appointed Sheriff of Cumberland County, Maine, which office he held until 1809. He was a Colonel of the First Regiment.
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