Samuel Waldo

This article is about the colonial Massachusetts merchant. For the painter, see Samuel Lovett Waldo.

Samuel Waldo
Brigadier General Samuel Waldo (c. 1748–1750) by Robert Feke
Born(1696-08-07)August 7, 1696
Boston, Massachusetts, British America
DiedMay 23, 1759(1759-05-23) (aged 62)
near Bangor, Maine, British America
Resting placeFort Point, Cape Jellison, Maine (until 1760)
King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston (since)
Spouse
Lucy Wainwright
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(m. 1722)​
RelativesLucy Flucker Knox (granddaughter)
Military career
Allegiance British America
Service / branchMassachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colonial Militia
Years of servicec.1742–1759
RankBrigadier-General
Battles / warsSiege of Louisbourg (1745)
Other worknamed Mount Waldo
Signature

Samuel Waldo (August 7, 1696 – May 23, 1759) was an American merchant, land speculator, army officer and politician in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.[1]

  1. ^ Lincoln, Waldo (1902). Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900. Worcester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton. pp. 96–105.