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had many members who were military leaders, educators, jurists, authors, businessmen and clergy. Around 1634, John Dwight came with his wife Hannah (1604-1656), daughter Hannah (1625-1714), and sons Timothy (1629–1718) and John (bef Jul 1629-1638) from Dedham, Essex, England, to

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. John and Hannah Dwight had two more daughters before John Dwight died in 1660. Mary (born at sea (1635-1713) and Sarah (1638-1663). 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)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. in 1693. Their descendants were: * Colonel Timothy Dwight II (1694–1771), lawyer married Experience King (1693–1763) ** Eleanor Dwight (1717-1777) ** Major Timothy Dwight III (1726–1777), married Mary Edwards (1734–1807), daughter of

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attorney, author and civic reformer ** Anna Kent (1730-1807) ** Elihu Kent (1733-1814) ** Mehitable Kent (1734-1735) *** Amelia Leavitt (1757-1809) *** Freegrace Leavitt (1764-1843) *** Jemima Leavitt (1764-1818) *** Dorothy Leavitt (1768-1844) *** Charlotte Leavitt (1769-1863) * Mehitable Dwight (1705–1767), married Captain Abraham Burbank (1703–1767), large landholder, residing at Suffield, Connecticut. ** Abraham Burbank, Esq. (1739–1808), lawyer, Yale 1759, Massachusetts Legislature from 1779 to 1808; delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1780; Justice of the Peace in June 1772 and a commissary during the Revolutionary War; married (1) Bethia Cushing (1740–1768) (2) Sarah Pomeroy (1744–1808), daughter of General Seth Pomeroy. *** Arthur Burbank (1782–1839) farmer, married Sarah Bates (1789–1870), daughter of Revolutionary War Soldier Eleazer Bates (1749–1826) **** Abraham Burbank (1813–1887), largest real estate owner in Pittsfield, Mass.; builder, hardware store owner, hotel operator, married Julia M. Brown (1812–1897)

Henry Dwight

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, 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) *** Solomon Dwight (1769–1813) married Veina Foster **** Elijah Dwight (1797–1868) married Olive Standish (1795–1874), descended from

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* 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 Whitney (1786–1869), merchant, married Sarah Williston (1800–1833) **** Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896), geologist ****

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(1907–1989) mathematician ** 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) **** Jonathan Dwight, third (1799–1856), merchant, married Ann Bartlett ***** Jonathan Dwight fourth (1831–1910), civil engineer, married Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck ****** Jonathan Dwight fifth (1858–1929),

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**** William Dwight (1805–?) married Elizabeth Amelia White ***** General William Dwight, Jr. (1831–1888), in

**** Thomas Dwight (1807–?) married Mary Collins Warren, daughter of John Collins Warren ***** Thomas Dwight (1843–1911), physician,

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author and teacher *** Edmund Dwight (1780–1849), merchant and philanthropist, married Mary Harrison Eliot

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