Timothy Dwight, only surviving son of Colonel Timothy Dwight, of Northampton, Massachusetts, ...
As the Revolution approached, he was unwilling to transgress the oath of fealty to the British Government which he had taken on assuming office as Judge. He undertook therefore to solve his political doubts, and at the same time to gratify his love of adventure, by investing largely in the enterprise of a colony on the Mississippi, in which his only sister's husband, General Phineas Lyman (Y. C. 1738), had been so deeply interested (v. p. 606).
In the spring of 1776, he set out for Natchez, accompanied by two sons and by his sister and her children. ...
