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.
He became a merchant in Northampton, and in September, 1748, was appointed Register of Probate for Hampshire County, succeeding in that office his father, who was then advanced to the position of Judge of the Court. The son continued as Register for twenty years, having also in the meantime succeeded his father, in January, 1758, on his resignation of the Judgeship of the County Court of Common Pleas. ...
