Wight, Thomas, Exeter 1639, prob. of Lincolnshire origin; see N. E. Reg. 68:77. He was fined for speaking contemptuously of magistrates in 1642, signed a pet. in Sept. 1643. … Prob. d. bef. 25 Mar. 1648 when w. Lucy gave p/a to George Barlow. As a wid. she sold a ho. and lot to John Tedd which he sold to John Bean in 1664. She m. 2d in Boston 24 Dec. 1652 John Samuel (see Records of Mass. Bay, 3: 420; 4: 1: 283), whose est. was apprais. 8 Dec. 1662, and was liv. 1665 when there was a suit over a Boston ho. which Samuel had left to her for life with remainder to her ch: Israel, a Boston wit. 1656. In 1664 sued his former gdn. Capt. R. Waldron for withholding his est., got judgment, levied on Squamscott land, and sold to Christopher Palmer, 20 a. marsh and meadow; the deed also incl. a q.c. to a Boston ho., and ho. and land of Charles Buckner in Dover. See Records of Mass. Bay 4: 2: 283, 322; Rec. of Ct. of Assistants 3: 142-4, 170. On 11 Apr. 1665 he was gr. adm. on his fa.'s est. (N. H.); in Sept. 1666 had gone out of the country. Elizabeth, had John Joyliffe as gdn. in 1665.
