Waitsfield

English

Etymology

From Wait +‎ -s- +‎ field, named after General Benjamin Wait.

Proper noun

Waitsfield

1. A town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
   • 1782, Thomas Chittenden, Joseph Fay, “The Charter of Waitsfield”, in Charters Granted by the State of Vermont, volume 2, Bellows Falls: P. H. Gobie Press, published 1922, →OCLC, page 201:

     That each proprietor of the Township of Waitsfield aforesaid his heirs or assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land & build a house at least Eighteen feet square on the floor or have one family settled on each respective right or share of Land in said Township agreeable to the time allotted by the Legislature of this State, […]

   • 1801, A Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, Bennington: Anthony Haswell, →OCLC, page 216:

     that said roads, exclusive of a number of other private roads, are much wanted, to facilitate public travel from Burlington, through said towns and gores, to Waitsfield, in a direct way to Windsor, as also from Waitsfield, through Huntington and the Gores to Starksborough, Bristol and Middlebury, […]

   • 1809, “Chapter CXII”, in Acts and Laws Passed by the Legislature of the State of Vermont, Randolph: Sereno Wright, →OCLC, page 103:

     It is hereby enacted by the general assembly of the state of Vermont, That there be, and hereby is laid a tax of four cents per acre on all the lands in the township of Waitsfield, in the county of Chittenden