The Wade Genealogy (Illustrated.) Compiled by STUART C. WADE. " He tolde a tnle of Wade." OHAUCER:-'l'roih,s and, Oreaseide. NEW YORK, STUART C. WADE, t48 WEST 34TH STREET, 'l'he marshalled Coat of Arms (with r r quarterings) and Crest of Sir William ·waad, Knight, Secretary of the Privy Council, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Ambassador. (From his ton.1b in the Parish Church of Mannden in the County of Essex, England, as recently restored by William de \Tins vVadc, Esquire, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Great Dunrno\\·, Essex.) To JEPTHA HOMER '\VADE, ESQ., (of Cleveland), To whose researches so much of this work is clue, and by whose liberal encouragement it was accomplished, the Compiler, with sincere respect, dedicates this volmne. New York, 1900. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter. PREFACE. 1, THE ORIGI:-I AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME OF vVADS AND HEREIN OF DUKE \VADA. 2. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE vi'ADE F.\!IIILY - ENGLISH PEDIGREES AND FA:\IOUS \v'ADES. 3. THE GENEALOGY OF \\TADE OF ]\IIASSACHUSETTS AND 4. THE GENEALOGY uF WADE OF NEW JERSEY AND Omo. 5, VARIOUS A~IERIU\)I GENEALOGIES, INCLUDINC; vVADE OF VnwIN!A. 6, THE Rou, OF HONOR 01<' THE vVADE:3 WHO WENT TO WAR, INDEX 01<' WADES. INDEX OF NA1!ES OTHER THAN WADE. INm:x Oli' PLACES. PREFACE. The fact that up to the present, no one has published a connected account of a family, famous not only in England, but in America, should be a sufficient excuse, if excuse be needed, for the compilation of this book. A family which has produced Armigel Waad, Secretary of the Privy Council to King Henry VIII. of England and one of the first English­ men to land in America; his son, Sir William Waad, who had so lead­ ing a part in the colonization of Virginia, and whose activity as Lieu­ tenant Governor of the Tower of London procured for him the epithet of "that villain Wade," from his prisoners, Sir Walter Raleigh and Cobham; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, the ill-fated Mor.mouth's companion at Sedgmoor; Field Marshal General George Wade, Commander-in­ Chief of the British Army in early Georgian days and builder of the famous Highland Roads; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, of Massachusetts, who held West Point the night after Arnold's treason and who was the friend and confidant of Washington and Lafayette; scores of Revo­ lutionary soldiers; United States Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade and his patriot sons, Major-General James Franklin Wade and Major Henry P. Wade of the United States Army; Jeptha Homer Wade, Senior, the first President of the present Western Union Telegraph Company; his son, a Union officer, and his grandson· to whom the compiler dedicates this book; and to. turn for a moment to the Old World, Sir Claude Martine Wade, K. C. B., the soldier who firstforcll! the Rhyber Pass, and Sir Thomas Francis Wade, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court.of China; such a family may be pardonlild for a family pride which, deeming insuffi­ cient the scattered notices in biographical and genealogical works, bas essayed to present a collected, though necessarily far from perfect, History of the Wade Family. Occupying, as the present compilation has, the labor of many years and requiring the expenditure of much money, it can only hope to serve as an index or stepping-stone for others who come after to use. All honor to our ancestors who preserved records, to Savage, whose Genealogical History of New England has proved of ~reat value, and to those, dead and gone, who with a pardonable pride in the possession of an honored name, collected much of the material. The compiler can only say with Montaigne, "I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the string that binds them is mine own." PART I. The Wade Genealogy (Illustrated.) Compiled by STUART C. WADE. " He tolde a tale of Wade." CHAUCER:-'l'roUus and Oreaseide. NEW YORI<, STUART C. WADE, 146 WEST 34TH STREET. Though the little J1,fayftower bore none of the name, as early in the days of settling the Massachusetts Colony as r630, came Nathaniel, Nicholas, and Jonathan Wade, solid yeomen of the English county of Norfolk, and settled around Boston. From this stock came men who rushed to arms at the first call of the colonies, who mustered at Reho­ both to fight the fierce N arragansetts, who went with Pepperell to the attack on Louisbourg, and whose descendants, in the times that tried men's souls, responded to the first echo of the Lexington alarm - men who fought at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, at Harlem and in Rhode Is­ land, and who went with the "Father of their Country" to the wintry horrors of Valley Forge. The records of the Revolution have been carefully examined and all information obtained as to those Wades who took up arms for freedom. The compiler's especial thanks are due to very many members of the family for valuable information, data, copies of documents and assist­ ance in his self-imposed task. The obligations under which he remains to Messrs. Ebenezer Delano Wade, Judge Decius S. Wade, Major­ General J. F. Wade, Jeptha Homer Wade, Junior, William Wade of Pittsburg, Daniel Treadwell Wade, William Dwight Wade, Alexander L. Wade, George Washington Wade, Alfred L. Beebe, and his trans­ atlantic correspondents, William de Vins Wade, Armigel Bleaymire Wade, D. T. Newton-Wade, William Cecil Wade, and Claude Fitzroy Wade, in this respect, are deep and very sincere. There exists a third class - as the old Winchester adage runs - to be scourged. 'l'o the many engrossed too deeply iu the chase of the almighty dollar to reply to his circulars of enquiry, the compiler can only express his conviction that in future years, their negligence will be execrated by their descendants. It remains but to add that all corrections, data and particulars will be welcomed by the compiler with a view to later and more extended editions of the work. STUART C, WADE. 1.i6 West 34th Street, NewYork, March, 1900. The Wade Genealogy, CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME OF WADE AND HEREIN OF DUKE WADA. (a) "Sine nomlne, homo non est." Puteanus: Diatr: de Erycio. "To find out the true original! or surnames Is full of dlf!lcultie."-CA'.IIDEN. Wade, according to Lower (Patronymica Britannica), is one of the names that man derives from the face of nature. Britaine's Remaines (1614) speaks of it as a baptismal name in use in England at the Conquest (1066). It is one of the oldest English names, as the following folk-rhyme, (quoted by Lower), will show:- With Thorpe and Bourne; Coke, Carter, Oke, Combe, Bury, Don and Stowe and Stoke, With .Ey and Port; Shaw, Worth and WADE, Hill, Gate, Well, Stone are many made Cliff, ilfarsh, and Mouth and Don and Sand, And Beck and Sea with numbers stand. As to the derivation of the name, the same author ascribes it to the· Anglo-Saxon wad, as importing a meadow or a ford. The late Dr. E. Cobham Brewer, also, in his excellent Dictionaiy of Phrase and Fable, derived the name from the Anglo-Saxon wad, a ford; wadan, to ford or go through (a meadow), but erroneously instances the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of June-Weyd­ monat; as, so called, according to V erstegan, " because the beasts did then wryd in the meadow, that is to say, go and feed there." Thus, an investigator may expect to find innumerable instances of the surname from the earliest date when surnames came into general use.