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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

SAMUEL WALDO

SAMUEL WALDO


WALDO, SAMUEL, Massachusetts merchant, land speculator and politician; brigadier-general in the 1745 expedition against Louisbourg; b. 1695 at Boston, son of Jonathan Walso and hannah Mason; m. 1722 Lucy Wainwright, by whom he had three sons and two or three daughters; d. 23 May 1759, on the Penobscot River, near present-day Bangor, Maine. - For the complete biography, including go to Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/en/index.html

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