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Born - 18 October 1728 - Windham, CT, Died 23 August 1814, Bridgeport, Harrison Co., VA, and is buried in Bridgeport, Harrison Co., VA (now West Virginia).
Parents - Edward Waldo, b. 23 April l684, Dunstable, MA and Thankful Dimmock, b. March 1682, Barnstable, MA, d. 13 December 1757, married 28 June 1706, Windham, CT, buried Palmertown Cemetery, Scotland, CT.
Buried - Harrison County, VA
Spouse - Married - Jemina Abbott, daughter of John Abbott, b 23 March 1729, Stow, MA, died 1815, Bridgeport, Harrison County, VA, married Windham, CT, 14 March 1751.
9 Children - Phipps, Gamaliel, Olive, Ann, Zerviah, John J., Daniel, Jemima, and Jedediah
The immigrant ancestor of the Waldo family arriving in Ipswich, MA in 1654 was Deacon Cornelius Waldo born ca 1624 in England. John Waldo was the forth generation of Waldos in America. The family moved from Massachusetts to Windham, CT, after 1697 and then to Albany County, NY, after 1762. In 1795, John J. Waldo (son of John and Jemima Abbott Waldo) and family, sold their farm of 200 acres in Hoosick, Otsego County, NY, to Benjamin Walworth for 1000 pounds and moved to Harrison County, VA, bringing his parents with him.
Rev. War Service: John Waldo had Public Service serving as a member of the New York Committee of Safety and as a Private in the Albany County, NY Militia with Colonel Peter Yates. (DAR Applications #530317 and 731996 and NARA M881, Comp Mil Serv Recs, Roll #776; Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applicaion File; Pension S-6321.)
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