Samuel Waldo

Biography

He was born in Boston, the son of Jonathan Waldo and Hannah Mason. In 1722, he married Lucy Wainwright. In 1730, he purchased a 17th-century title to a large tract of land in Nova Scotia with the intent of establishing a colony there; the title did not stand up when he proposed this plan to the authorities in England. A one-time business partner of Colonel Thomas Westbrook, Waldo acquired a large tract of land between the Penobscot and Muscongus Rivers in what is now Maine where he settled Irish and German immigrants and purchased several slaves.

During King George's War, he served as brigadier-general in the reduction on Louisbourg Fortress in 1745 and served on the temporary council that administered the settlement until Peter Warren was named governor. In 1757, during the French and Indian War, he submitted a plan to William Pitt which served as a basis for the second capture of Louisbourg from the French the following year. Waldo died of apoplexy near present-day Bangor, Maine in 1759 while participating in a military expedition with Governor Thomas Pownall.{{cite DCB

The Maine towns of Waldo and Waldoboro, together with Waldo County, are named for their early proprietor.

His son-in-law Thomas Flucker was royal secretary of Massachusetts and later Provincial Governor. His granddaughter, Lucy Flucker Knox, married Revolutionary War hero and founding father Henry Knox. The Knox family built the impressive Montpelier on Waldo's tract of land in Thomaston, Maine.

File:Robert Feke - Isaac Winslow - 42.424 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Samuel Waldo son-in-law Isaac Winslow [1709-1777] by Robert Feke

File:Robert Feke - Portrait of a Woman - Google Art Project.jpg|Mrs. Lucy [Waldo] Winslow by Robert Feke File:Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher.png|Portrait of Lucy Knox's daughter, Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher by Albert Gallatin Hoit

References

References

1. Lincoln, Waldo. (1902). "Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900". Press of Charles Hamilton.
2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ozNSzDNwaZMC&dq=Samuel%20Waldo%20born%201696&pg=PA956 Charles H. Browning, ''The American Historical Register;'' The Historical Register Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1895]
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Uf87AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA93 ''Collections of the Maine Historical Society'']
4. Chadbourne, Ava H.. (Apr 20, 1949). "Many Maine towns bear names of military men". Lewiston Evening Journal.
5. [https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1086&context=art-museum-exhibition-catalogs Portrait number 8]