Dwight family

The Dwight family of New England 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 (1629–1718) and John (d. 1638) from Dedham, Essex, England, to Dedham, Massachusetts. John and Hannah Dwight had two more daughters before John Dwight died in 1660. The known descendants of John and Hannah Dwight are from their two grandsons (children of Timothy and his third wife Anna Flint): Justice Nathaniel Dwight (1666–1711) and Captain Henry Dwight (1676–1732).

Nathaniel Dwight

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

Henry Dwight

Captain Henry Dwight (1676–1732), farmer, merchant and judge, married Lydia Hawley (1680–1748). Their descendants were:[7]

  • Brig. General Joseph Dwight (1703–1765), judge in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, married Mary Pynchon, and then Abigail (Williams) Sargeant (1721–1791), half-sister to Ephraim Williams Jr.
    • Lydia Dwight (1732-1798) married Rev. Dr. John Willard (1733-1807), brother of Joseph Willard, former president of Harvard College. Rev.Dr. John Willard was a mentor of Rev. Abishai Alden and a descendant of Major Simon Willard. See Endicott Rock history.
    • Joseph Dwight, Jr. (1737–1826) married Lydia Dewey (1745–1811)
    • Pamela Dwight (1753*–1807), married Judge Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813)
      • Theodore Sedgwick (1780–1839), lawyer and diplomat, married Susan Anne Livingson (1788–1867)
      • Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1785–1831), anti-slavery lawyer, married Jane Minot (1795–1859)
        • Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1903), married Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (1829–1899)
      • Catharine Sedgwick (1789–1867), novelist
      • Charles Sedgwick (1791–1856), clerk of Massachusetts Supreme Court, married Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801–1864)
        • Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1820–1880) married William Minot II (1817–1894)
    • Henry Williams Dwight (1757–1804), married Abigail Welles (1763–1840), descended from Thomas Welles
      • Henry Williams Dwight (1788–1845), lawyer and politician
      • Edwin Welles Dwight (1789–1841), author and minister
  • Captain Seth Dwight (1707–1774), farmer, married Abigail Strong (1710–1780)
    • Ensign Josiah Dwight (1747–1796) married Tabitha Bigelow (c. 1740–1796)
      • Seth Dwight (1769–1825), merchant, married Hannah Strong (1768–1813)
      • Josiah Dwight Jr. (1772–1826) married Sarah Hartwell (1772–1822)
  • Colonel Josiah Dwight (1715–1768), merchant and judge, married Elizabeth Buckminster (1731–1798)
    • Thomas Dwight (1758–1819), politician, married Hannah Worthington (1761–1833)
    • Clarissa Dwight (1762–1820) married Major Abel Whitney (1756–1807)
    • Josiah Dwight, Jr. (1767–1821), merchant, married Rhoda Edwards (1778–1864), granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards
      • Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801–1864) married distant cousin Charles Sedgwick (1791–1856), see above
  • Edmund Dwight (1717–1755) married Elizabeth Scutt (1724–1764)
    • Jonathan Dwight (1743–1831) married Margaret Ashley (1745–1789)
      • Jonathan Dwight Jr. (1772–1840), merchant and politician, married Sarah Shepard (1774–1805)
      • Edmund Dwight (1780–1849), merchant and philanthropist, married Mary Harrison Eliot

See also

Notes
  1. Mehitable Partridge was a daughter of Samuel and Mehitable Crow Partridge (c.1652-1730). Mehitable Crow Partridge was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Goodwin Crow. Elizabeth Goodwin Crow was a daughter of Elder William (b.c. 1591-1673) and Elizabeth White Goodwin. William was remarried to Susanna Harkes Garbrand Goodwin (1593 -1676. He died in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut. (William and Elizabeth White were ancestors of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, founder of the Goodrich Tire Company. Dr. Goodrich was a brother-in-law of Gen. Selden Erastus Marvin, a nephew of Judge William Marvin, who resided in Key West, Florida. Marvin became the seventh Governor of Florida.) Susanna had first married Rev. Thomas Hooker ll. Their son-in-law was Rev. John Wilson Jr., who married her daughter Sarah Wilson. Sarah Hooker Wilson was born in Little Baddow, Essex County, England, around 1629. Sarah Hooker Wilson was an ancestor of President William H. Taft. She died in Braintree, Massachusetts on August 20, 1725. Rev. John Wilson was a colleague of Rev. Richard Mather. Rev. John Wilson Jr. was born in London, England and came to New England in 1630. He graduated from Harvard College in 1642, the first graduating class, along with Rev. John Woodbridge.

References
  1. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. Vol. 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). The 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. Joseph Edward Adams Smith, Thomas Cushing (1885). History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men, Volume 2. Berkshire County, Massachusetts: J.B. Beers & Company. pp. 472–479.
  7. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. Vol. 2. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders.
  8. "Obituary" (PDF). The New York Times. November 29, 1910.
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