Dwight family

The New England Dwight family had many members who were military leaders, educators, jurists, authors, businessmen and clergy.

Around 1634 John Dwight came with his wife Hannah, daughter Hannah, and sons Timothy Dwight and John Dwight, from Dedham, Essex, England to North America where the town was named Dedham, Massachusetts. Son John died in 1638, and he had two more daughters, before dying in 1660. Known descendants are from their son Captain Timothy Dwight (1629–1717) and his third wife Anna Flint.

Justice Nathaniel Dwight (1666–1711) married Mehitable Partidge (1675–1756) in 1693. Their descendants were:[1]

Captain Henry Dwight (1676–1732), farmer, merchant and judge, married Lydia Hawley (1680–1748). Their descendants were:[6]

References

  1. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass 1. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders.
  2. Edward Hooker; Margaret Huntington Hooker (1909). The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908. Harvard University. pp. 87, 360–361.
  3. 'History of Dane County, Wisconsin,' Consul Wilshire Butterfield, Western Historical Society: 1880, Biographical Sketch of Edward W. Dwight, pg. 1288
  4. "Obituary" (PDF). New York Times. January 17, 1910. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  5. Kenneth Hopkins (Summer 1985). "Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey". Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies (McMaster University): 50–58.
  6. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass 2. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders.
  7. "Robert Minturn Sedgwick (1899-1976)". Sedgwick Genealogy North America web site. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  8. "Francis Minturn "Duke" Sedgwick (1904 - 1967)". Sedgwick Genealogy North America web site. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  9. "Obituary" (PDF). New York Times. November 29, 1910.
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