Person:Thomas Wight (8)

BIOGRAPHY: The Wights A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield And of His Descendants 1635 - 1890 By William Ward Wight Milwaukee - Swain & Tate - Printers 1890 Page 75 Thomas Wight (Joseph 5,Joseph 4,Joseph 3, Henry 2,Thomas 1), born February 23, 1744, united with the Dedham church January 7, 1770. He married in Dedham, May 2, 1771, Mary Whiting (62, Note 2). He was one of the minute men of Capt. Joseph Guild's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment, who assembled on the alarm, April 19, 1775, and was credited with 13 days' service. The births and baptisms of his six eldest children are recorded in Dedham. In 1792 he removed to Norwich, Mass., where the births of his two youngest children are found. He died in Norwich, March 30, 1817; his widow died December 9, 1836.