Jason Wait of Alstead, New Hampshire from A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. (1904)

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Surname: WAIT
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 32

Listed under Captains:

JASON WAIT of Alstead, b. ---; d.---; was ensign of the first militia company of Alstead, 1773, 
In Feb. 1776, he was in command of a company in Col. Timothy Bedel's regiment which went from 
the towns of western N. H. to reinforce the northern army. In November of that year he was 
captain of a company in Col. Joseph Cilley's regiment. July 5, 1780, he was made major "vice 
Morris resigned," in the 2d N. H. regiment under Col. George Reid, and resigned Dec. 8, 1782. 
Mrs. Prudence Baxter whose husband, Simon Baxter, was a Tory, stated, 1778, that Capt. Wait as a
prisoner had experienced kind treatment from said Simon Baxter. Capt. Wait was a prisoner in 
New York, captured probably in the disastrous battle on Log Island. 

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904.
Jason Wait. He received, 1784, £77-2s-6d for depreciation of his pay in 1781.