Andrew
WAGER
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.... - 1705-17
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Family 1 : Elizabeth ALLEN
1. Andrew WAGER
3. Allen WAGER
4. Elizabeth WAGER
5. Deborah WAGER
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His name is often found in records spelled "Waker" and even "Walker." The sketchy nature of the records he leaves behind opens up many theories about who he was and where he came from. He could have been the first of his line to travel over from England, although John Winthrop mentions both "Augustine Waker" and "James Waker" as living in the earliest days of New England. More likely Andrew Wager stems from them, although any records connecting these early New England settlers to this Andrew Wager have not yet been discovered. Savage lists the early New Englanders as "Augustine Walker" and "James Walker" and proceeds to name some offspring, but provides no real clues as to why the vital records in early Boston, which are quite extensive, might have stopped recording anything about this family. Perhaps they moved to another town (Winthrop mentions Jamaica, that is, the town on Long Island) and this Andrew Wager for some reason moved back to Boston.
The stories that suggest a link between Andrew Wager and Sir Charles Wager are equally mysterious. Sir Charles Wager was the Imperial Governor of the colonies in the early part of the 18th-century, but died without issue. He was a good friend of the Quaker Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey and owner of what is now the Bronx (called "Morrisania" at the time), and oddly enough the Wager clan eventually settled in Roxbury, now Chester, which is near to where Governor Morris lived (today Morristown, New Jersey). Governor Morris actually erected a obelisk in a cemetery at Southold on Long Island where the Dickerson clan originated (the same clan that produced Andrew Jackson's Secretary of the Navy, Mahlon Dickerson) and Charles Wager is listed on that obelisk. Other than these strange coincidences, it appears as if the name "Waker" was probably the original spelling of this family name (since the "g" is always hard; Sir Charles Wager's name is usually pronounced with a soft "g," including "Wager Bay" in Canada which is named after him). This all leaves us with a wonderful puzzle, but an incomplete picture.
see Wesley L. Baker. Dickerson & Dickinson descendants of Philemon Dickerson of Southold, Long Island, N. Y.; Also Long Island Descendants of Captain John Dickinson of Oyster Bay. Chicago: Adams Press, 1978.
see Winifred Lovering Holman. "Hope Allen and Granddaughter Deborah (Wager) Henchman." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 102.
see Mary Wheeler's Website: http://www.gendex.com/users/rtwgen/mwheeler/d0042/g0000063.html
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