Ebenezer was the eldest child of Bezaleel and Joanna Waste. He was born on Sept. 23, 1768 in Cape Cod (probably Barnstable), Massachusetts. In about 1790, soon after his parents moved to Hague on Lake George, New York, 22-year old Ebenezer left his father's family and settled in the town of Somerset in Windham County, Vermont. He lived there about 10 years and his three oldest children were born there. In this wilderness his principal business was hunting and trapping "for which he possessed superior skill. He managed to accumulate $1,200, chiefly by the sale of furs and skins, captured with rifles, dogs and traps."

He married Lydia Baldwin in Somerset, Windham County, Vermont on Oct. 5, 1796. Beginning in 1798 the first of their four children were born. The family moved to nearby Whitingham in 1804 where the family settled on a farm. Ebenezer was the town treasurer from 1831 to 1832.

Lydia Waste died on Aug. 29, 1845 at the age of 76. Her husband Ebenezer died on the family farm on Dec. 13, 1847 in Whitingham.

Excerpt from WHITINGHAM: JACKSONVILLE by Clark Jillson: WASTE FAMILY

"Ebenezer Waste, Senior, so well known in this town 50 years ago, was born there in 1768. His father, Bezaleel Waste, with his family removed from Cape Cod to the town of Hague, near the shore of Lake George, in 1790. Ebenezer, soon after, left his father's family and settled in the town of Somerset, in the County of Windham. He lived there about 10 years, and his three oldest children were born there. In this lone wilderness his principal business was hunting and trapping, for which he possessed superior skill. He managed to accumulate $1,200, chiefly by the sale of furs and skins, captured with rifles, dogs and traps.

He married Lydia Baldwin of Mansfield, Connecticut on October 5, 1796, and immediately moved into the wilds of Somerset, where they lived till 1804, when they moved to Whitingham.

His family consisted of three sons and one daughter. Ebenezer Waste and his two sons, Ebenezer Jr., and Uriah, lived together on the same farm, ever after they came to Whitingham.

Charles Waste, born July 3, 1798, went to the State of Ohio when a young man, married there, was a civil engineer, was killed Sept. 15, 1821, by the fall of a tree, leaving a wife and one child, who afterwards came to Whitingham.

Ebenezer Waste, Jr., born October 20, 1801, married, first, Rebecca Fuller. She died June 26, 1826. He married second, the widow of his elder brother, Charles Waste.

Uriah Waste, born June 1, 1804, died unmarried Feb. 6, 1856.

Deborah Waste, born Aug. 12, 1807, married Levi Sumner, a native of Whitingham. They settled in Heath, Mass., where he died. She is still living on the old homestead with her son, Oscar A. Sumner."

Charles Waste (Charles Waist), born July 3, 1778 in Somerset, Windham Co., Vermont. He went to the State of Ohio when a young man. Charles married Lucinda Gaut in Ohio. He was a civil engineer. Charles was killed in Ohio on Sept. 15, 1821, by the fall of a tree, leaving his wife and one child, who afterwards moved to Whitingham. The widowed Lucinda later married Charles younger brother, Ebenezer, Jr.

The 1820 federal census of Conneaut Township, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania recorded Warren Waist and Charles Waist living next door to Alexander Gaut, Lucinda's father.

Ebenezer Waste, Jr., born October 20, 1801. He married Rebecca Fuller on Dec. 6, 1821 in Whitingham, Windham Co., Vermont. They had three children. Rebecca died on June 26, 1826. Then Ebenezer, Jr., married again, this time to the widow of his elder brother, Charles Waste. Her name was Lucinda Gaut, born about 1795 probably in Halifax, Windham Co., Vermont. They were married April 9, 1829 in Whitingham. Ebenezer and Lucinda had a child named George L. Waist, born 1835 in Vermont. George married Melissa Scott in Thetford, Genessee Co., Michigan in 1891.