Link: http://www.waitegenealogy.org/waitedunnell.pdf

The ancestry of John Waite is still a mystery. WAL claims that the John and Mary Dunnell referenced in Corey are the John and Mary Waite of Mason, Hillsborough, NH. While WAL's scenario may be true, I feel there are enough holes in his logic to suggest that care should be used in embracing his theory. A Y-DNA test could solve this mystery once and for all.

His logic is as follows:
1. Since John and Mary Dunnell Waite sold the last of their land in Lynn 8 Jan 1779 and "apparently" moved out of Essex County since no further record for them is found there...

Follow up:

2. And since on 20 Dec 1779 a John Waite appears in Mason, Hillsborough, NH as grantee of a deed from Whitcomb Powers.
3. And since John of Mason did have a wife Mary as proved by their deed conveying land 1 Apr 1787 to Sylvanus Russe of Lynn, MA.
4. Therefore the John Waite with wife Mary Dunnell of the line of John of Boston as mentioned by Corey must be the John and Mary Waite of Mason, NH.

I believe that these suppositions may be faulty for the following reasons:
1. To base a theory on the fact that two families with a husband named John and a wife named Mary are one in the same is foolhardy.
2. This logic cannot guarantee that John Waite of Mason with wife Mary is the same man as John Waite of Lynn who had a wife Mary Dunnell as early as 1754.
3. The fact that John of Mason had a wife Mary in 1787 when they sold land to Sylvanus Husse of Lynn does not necessarily mean that he had a wife Mary in 1779 when he arrived at Mason.
4. Because of the 1779 land transaction, the three year enlistment of John Waite (husband of Mary Dunnell) noted by Corey has been credited to his son John. In fact, in order to make this theory work at all, WAL had to ascribe the Revolutionary War record of John of Lynn to his son John so that they'd be in the right place to have served per the records. John, the father or son depending on the source, is in the return of men raised to serve in the Continental Army as the First Essex Company Regiment sworn to Salem 16 Feb 1778; Capt. Williams Company, Col. Grenton's Regt. So, we are to assume that John of Mason left Essex County...removed to Mason, NH...and then returned to Massachusetts to enlist in the Army.
4. WAL does not take into account that the last record of John in Mason is dated 2 Jul 1806 in a deed where he is called of Townsend, MA.

"John left behind him, many records of his existence, in the land records in Essex, MA and Hillsborough NH. The last record is a deed dated 2 Jul 1806 wherein he is described as of Townsend, MA. He is mentioned many times in the History of Mason, New Hampshire in addition to the account of him in Corey's Wait Family." (WAL) Note that Corey gives the account of "a" John b. 5 Jul 1734 in Lynn who m1 Mary Dunnell of Lynn 29 Jan 1754. There is NO connection or illusion made by Corey that the John husband of Mary Dunnell is the same as John of Mason.