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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
John Dwight |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Bef 1601 |
Based on estimated date of marriage. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1626 |
to Hannah Unknown |
| Residence[1] |
1626 |
Woolverstone, Suffolk, EnglandBaptism of eldest known child. |
| Emigration[1] |
1635 |
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| Residence[1] |
1635 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1638 |
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
13 Mar 1638/39 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Marriage |
20 Jan 1657/58 |
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Unknown |
| Will[1] |
16 Jun 1658 |
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation[1] |
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Yeoman |
| Death[1] |
24 Jan 1660/61 |
Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
8 Feb 1660/61 |
£506 2s. 6d., of which £251 was real estate. |
| Probate[1] |
5 Mar 1660/61 |
Will proved. |
In Woolverstone, John Dwight recorded his children's baptism in the late 1620s, and lived near Rev. Timothy Dalton and Richard Evered, who were later also in Dedham. There were two John Dwights born to William and Alice (Vunter) Dwight in Woolverstone, in 1598 and 1603. It is possible both survived, as a John Dwight married in October 1626 (a month after this John's first daughter was baptized) and is called "John Dwight Jr." in the record of his first daughter's Debrah's baptism.
John appears at Dedham in the first land division, when he was granted a 30 acre Great Dividend, Lot # 21, on 25 July 1636, as well as 14 more acres the next year, and several more grants in the years afterward. In January 1636/7, he was a member of a committee to buy 300 acres for Dedham from Mr. Samuel Dudley. He was later a was a selectman and surveyor at Dedham consistently during the 1640s.
His will, dated 16 June 1658 and proved 5 March 1660/1, names his wife Elizabeth, son Nathaniel Whiteing, son Henrie Phillips, son Nathaniel Reinolds, son Timothy Dwight "at his first marriage with Sarah Sibley", the children of "my son Nathaniel Whiteing and of Hannah his wife," my grandchild Eliazar Phillips, son of my son Henry Phillips and of Mary his wife, my daughter. His son Timothy was executor. The inventory was taken 8 Feb 1660/1.[1]
| Founders of Dedham, Massachusetts
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| Winthrop's Journal states that a town was formed on the banks of the Charles on September 1, 1635--a town that must have been Dedham. Twelve men attended the first town meeting held on that day. In November 1636, those 12 and 7 others petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of their grant for a township. In July 1637, twelve more men arrived, bringing the total to 31, at which time the town admitted freeman and established a church. [1] [2]
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| 1636 Petitioners: Edward Allyne - Abraham Shaw - Samuel Morse - Phileman Dalton - Ezekiel Holliman - John Kingsbury - John Dwite - John Cooledge - Richard Ewed - John Howard - Lambert Genere - Nicholas Philips - Ralph Shepard - John Gay - Thomas Bartleet - Francis Austin - John Rogers - Joseph Shaw - William Bearstowe
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| Current Location: Norfolk County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: Newton, Cambridge Daughter Towns: Norwood, Westwood, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley, Walpole, Medfield, Medway, Millis
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 John Dwight, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
2:371-78.
ORIGIN: Woolverstone, Suffolk.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 24 April 1638, "John Dwite who after some scruples wherein the Church waited a good while for satisfaction yet gave good, comfortable satisfaction to the church," and was admitted at Dedham [DeChR 14|. On 9 January 1639/40,"----- Dwite the wife of our brother Dwite was received" [DeChR 22].
FREEMAN: 13 March 1638/9 |MBCR 1:375].
OCCUPATION: Yeoman [SPR 1:361].
BIRTH: by about 1601 based on est date of marriage
DEATH: Dedham 24 Jan 1660/1 [DeVR 8]
- Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. (John F. Trow & Son, 1874).
to America in 1635, orig settler of Dedham MA
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:85.
JOHN, Watertown, rem. with first sett. to Dedham a. 1635, freem. 13 Mar. 1639, had brot. w. Hannah (wh. d. 5 Sept. 1656), and some ch. from Eng. as his eldest s. perhaps nam. John, wh. was lost in the woods, 24 Mar. 1639, aged 7 yrs.; Hannah, and Timothy. He had Mary, b. 25 July 1633, call. the ; first fem. ch. of D.; and Sarah, 17 June 1638; and d. 24 Jan. 1661. In his will of 16 June 1658, pro. 5 Mar. 1661 he names w. Elizabeth (m. 20 Jan. 1658, wh. was wid. of William Ripley, and had been wid. of Thomas Thaxter, and d. 17 July 1660, shortly bef the testat.); only s. Timothy; ds. Hannah, w. of Nathaniel Whiting, m. 4 Nov. 1643, Mary, third w. of Henry Phillips; and Sarah, w. of Nathaniel Reynolds, m. 7 Jan. 1658. He had made a contr. 24 June 1653 with Phillips, after the m. as to the jointure for Mary; and his will takes notice of their s. Eleazer.
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