Bezaleel Waste, Jr. was born on March 10, 1772 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where both his father and grandfather were also born. Here he lived until he was 6 years old.

Then the family moved to Wilmington, Vermont in 1778. And at 16, in 1788, he moved with them again to Hague in upstate New York. Here he remained until 1809.

In 1793, at the age of 21, he married and settled in Somerset, Vermont. As transportation started to become faster and easier on better roads, New Englanders traveled more and further from the places where they were born.

Of this family, Ira Charles Waste was born in Somerset, Richard Waste in Hague, and Zelotus in Utica, N.Y. The children of this generation migrated like pioneers to Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The cry "Westward Ho!" had begun!

However, Bezaleel, Jr. spent most of his busy, productive life in or near Somerset. He died in or near Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, north-east Ohio on June 28, 1841. He was 69 years old.

He married DIADAMA HAYFORD on December 2, 1793, in Somerset, Vermont. Her parents were Samuel and Diadama Bishop Hayford of Hanover, Massachusetts. She was born in Massachusetts and lived in Mayfield, Ohio after her husband's death. Her family name was changed from Hefford to Hayford about 1700.

Bezaleel Jr. and Diadama Hayford Waste had 10 children: IRA CHARLES WASTE (1795-1873) (Our Line). Deborah Waste (1796-18??). Warren Waste (1798-1859), wed Fannie Tabor; ch. Eliza, Frances. Richard Waste (1800-1874), wed Rispah Hayford; Eli, Jane, Charles. Zelotus Waste (1803-1862), wed Eliza Jane Canfield; ch. Ollie. Luke Waste ((1809-1884), wed Hannah Pratt; Bill, John, Debbie, Clarinda. Chloe Waste (1812-1860), wed James Hayford; daughter Emma. Diadama Waste. Mason Waste. Bezaleel Waste, the Third.

Somerset, Windham County, Vermont (pop. approx. 10 lies 16 miles west of Brattleboro, near the Massachusetts border on the south, and gleams like a ruby in a green setting of woodlands unchanged by the world. Being less than 6 miles square, this township ranks as Vermont's 2nd smallest town. It is mostly owned by the New England Power Association. This mountainous historic village, at 2,000 feet elevation, is located near the Somerset Reservoir and the Deerfield River. It was first settled in 1761.

"Each October the scarlet and gold of the Maples, burning along ridge and vale," described the WPA Writer's Program book, Vermont - a Guide to the Green Mountain State, "are softened by the brown and pale yellow of Elms and Birches, and darkened by somber Pines.