This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wait/Waite/Waits Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBC.2ACI/2110.2.1 Message Board Post: I believe that the Waits of Virginia were very early settlers there from either England or moved down from the New England area. I have found a Henry Wait in the Virginia very early records in 1650's. My John moved away to SC in 1785 and I am trying to find out more about the Waits that stayed there. What do you know about your Waits in Culpeper? I know that there was a Richard with a few sons there in the early 1700's. I suspect that your Culpeper Wait and mine might be cousins of some sort. email me direct at adicken@cswnet. thanks.