By 1708, Benjamin inherited 1,250 acres of land in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which his father had bought from William Pardoe, who had original title from William Penn. Benjamin’s father had willed the land to his oldest son John, but John died without issue. The second son, James, died as well, so the land became Benjamin’s. He and his wife sold the land in 1714. It isn’t clear whether they ever saw it, or what they might have done with in in the meanwhile.2457

In 1722, Benjamin Waight and his wife Mary née Gulson were living in a building on Smithford Street, in the center of Coventry. It was owned by Mary’s mother, who devised it to four of her other children when she died that year.2453