Timothy Dwight, only surviving son of Colonel Timothy Dwight, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and grandson of Nathaniel and Mehitabel (Partridge) Dwight, of Northampton, was born at Fort Dummer, in what is now Brattleboro, Vermont, May 27, 1726. His mother was Experience, daughter of Lieutenant John and Mehitabel (Pomeroy) King, of Northampton, and at the time of his birth she was with her husband, the commander of the fort lately built by order of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay under his direction for the purpose of checking savage invasion. ...
