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John Dwight (bef. 1599 - 1661)

John Dwight aka Dwite, Dwyt
Born before in Woolverstone, Suffolk, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
Husband of — married 1625 (to 5 Sep 1656) in Englandmap
Husband of — married 20 Jan 1658 (to 17 Jul 1660) in Dedham, Suffolk, Colony of Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Died after age 61 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
Profile last modified | Created 10 Oct 2010
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The Puritan Great Migration.
John Dwight migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 2, p. 371)
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Biography

This profile is part of the Dwight Name Study.

John Dwight, son of William Dwight by his first wife Alice Vunter was bp Woolverstone 6 Feb 1598[/9]. He was the first of two sons named John born to William.[1]


He married Hannah ________ in England by 1626. She died in Dedham Massachusetts in 1656[1]

He came to America about 1635 with other followers of Rev. John Rogers of Dedham. He settled first in Watertown, and then moved to Dedham in 1638. He was admitted to church membership on 24 April 1638, and was one of the founders of the First Church of Christ at Dedham in 1638. He was a selectman and a surveyor in Dedham.

John and Hannah had two sons and three daughters:

  1. HANNAH DWIGHT, b 1625, England; d 4 Nov 1714, age 89; m Nathaniel Whiting[2]
  2. (Capt) TIMOTHY DWIGHT, b 1929, England; d 31 Jan 1717/8, age 88; m Sarah d/o Michael POWELL
  3. JOHN DWIGHT, b 1632, England 24 Mar 1638, lost in the wood between Dedham & Boston
  4. MARY DWIGHT, b 25 Jul 1635; mc 1652 HENRY PHILLIPS, as his 3rd wife; had 12 children
  5. SARAH DWIGHT, b 17 Jun 1638; d 24 Jan 1664, age 27; m Nathaniel Reynolds

He married second Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Thatcher and of William Ripley, on January 20, 1657/58.[3]

"From such a triple marriage, it is natural to suppose, that she must have been an attractive and accomplished woman. She died without issue 17 July, 1660."[4]
Robert Charles Anderson theorizes William Dwight married in 1590 in Freston, to Alice Hunter. Two children baptized there: Judith and William. They then moved to Woolverstone, where they baptized three sons: John (6 Feb 1598/9?), Nicholas, then another John (25 Sep 1603). Anderson suggests both Johns might have survived (saying that a 1628/9 baptism of a daughter calls him "John Dwight Jr."), and that it was the elder who emigrated to Massachusetts. William and his wife died at Woolverstone and were buried there-- she on 16 Apr 1629, he on 23 Apr 1629. William left no will in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk. [5]
Additionally, Anderson suggests he might have been the elder of two Johns, both sons of William Dwight and Alice Vunter, and therefore he baptized 6 Feb 1598[/9?].
"John Dwight, deceased ye 24:11" 24 Nov. 1660/61 in Dedham, Massachusetts.[6][7]

He was buried 24 FEB 1661 or possibly 3 FEB 1660/61 Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

Research Notes

Coat of Arms removed: No indication this was an amergenerous family. The coat of arms was published in The History of the Descendants of John Dwight (1874),[8] however, it was typical in 19th century family genealogies to include a coat of arms without accurate documentation.

Alternate spellings: Benjamin Dwight suggests that John Dwight was signed as 'John Dwite' on a list of 19 freemen.[9]


Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Mahler, Leslie. WilliamA Dwight, Father of John1 And Timothy1 Dwight of Dedham, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 654, Page 137: bp. Woolverstone 6 Feb. 1598[/9], AmericanAncestors (subscription$)
  2. Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass (J.F. Trow & Son, New York, 1874) Vol. 1, Page 97
  3. (Dwight), vol 1, p 94
  4. (Dwight), Vol 1, 95.
  5. Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 377
  6. Hill, Don Gleason (editor). The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriage In the Town of Dedham, Volumes 1 & 2, 1635-1845. Dedham, Mass.: 1886.
  7. This record could easily be misinterpreted to be 1659/60.
  8. Benjamin Woodridge Dwight. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Volume 1, (New York: John F. Trow & Son, Printers and Bookbinders), 1874 p. vii.
  9. (Dwight), Vol 1, page 98.
  • Great Migrations, Vol. 2, C-F by Anderson, pages 371-378
  • The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass, 2 vols., by Benjamin W. Dwight, New York, 1874
  • Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., 2 vols. (1874) (an attempt to trace the entire progeny through the 1860s of Timothy2 Dwight and Anna Flint) ? to Timothy Dwight IV and V, Theodore Dwight Woolsey and Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey (Mrs. Daniel Coit Gilman); Lloyd Wheaton Bowers [p. 281]; Rachel Kent [p. 405]; W.M. and R.M. Hunt [p. 408]; Abraham Burbank, Jr. [p. 429, forebear of Mrs. Kipling and J.M.G. Low]; Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Mrs. C.E. Norton and Arthur George, Henry Dwight, Jr. and Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick [pp. 735-38, 745-46, 748-50]; J.D. Dana [pp. 796-99]; J.D. Whitney, Jr. and W.D. Whitney [pp. 834-36]; C.S. Day [p. 914]; Mrs. M.Y. Beach [p. 911]; C.A. Bowles [p. 875]; Mrs. George Bancroft [p. 885]; Ella and Anna Dwight Baker [Mrs. J.A. Weir, p. 882]; Mrs. Alexander Bliss [p. 825, forebear of Mrs. (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. W.G. McAdoo]; S.B. Ward [p. 769]; Frederick Augustus Francis [p. 443, great-grandfather of First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan]; J.D. Archbold [p. 662]). See also H.M. Sedgwick, A Sedgwick Genealogy (1961), pp. 167-263 (#s 5-9 above).
  • Dwight, Benjamin Woodridge. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Volume 1. New York: John F. Trow & Son, Printers and Bookbinders.
  • T.S. Lazell, Whiting Genealogy: Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham, Mass., 1641, and Five Generations of His Descendants (1902), esp. pp. 5-17, 28; Dorothy Farrington Parker, The Farringtons, Colonists and Patriots (1976, rev. 1981), pp. 10, 12, 17, 27-28; T.W.-M. Draper, The Drapers in America (1892), pp. 20-23, 129-32; The Dedham Historical Register 4 (1893), 140-46, 5 (1894): 7-11 (Lewis).
  • A.M. Phillips, Phillips Genealogies (1885), pp. 188-90; T.B. Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (1879, repr. 1982), pp. 742-46 (Phillips); Register 67 (1913): 209-15, 309-16, 320-27, Register 68 (1914): 22-23 (Savage, to James Savage, Mrs. W.B. Rogers, Mrs. Lemuel Shaw, Mrs. Thomas Heyward, Mrs. Mehitable Crocker Porter, and Mrs. Sarah Bass Bancroft); Susan Augusta Smith, Ancestors of Moses Belcher Bass [forebear of Mrs. R.E. and E.H. Childers] (1896) (also for Henry Bass, forebear of Hugh Bancroft).
  • NCAB, vols. 22 (1932), p. 148 (L.W. Bowers), 47 (1965), pp. 16-17 (R.A. Taft).
  • Harrison Ellery and E.P. Bowditch, The Pickering Genealogy, vol. 2 (1897), pp. 713-14 and chart 328 (8/312) of the accompanying Ancestor Tables, Volume 4 (table for Mrs. I.S. Gardner), partly confirmed by F.B. Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, vol. 5, 1792-1805 (1911), pp. 170-72 and Suffield VRs (1778 birth of Isabella, daughter of David and Rachel Todd).
  • See the Dwight and Sedgwick genealogies, plus the Savage article cited above in General Sources.
  • NCAB, vol. 28 (1940), pp. 411-12 (Clarence S. Day, Jr.), Current Volume G, 1943-46 (1946), pp. 348-49 (Chester B. Bowles), and vol. 22 (1932), pp. 296-97 (J.A. Weir).
  • Register 55 (1901): 421-23 (Cunningham) and A.F. Howland, The Descendants of John Bass Dabney and Roxa Lewis Dabney (1966), pp. 1-2, 18-19 (to Mrs. Lawrence).
  • H.P. Andrews, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn., 1635-9, 2 vols. (1893), pp. 457-58, 652-53 (Olcott, Porter) and Sibley?s Harvard Graduates, vol. 15, 1761-1763 (1970), pp. 387-90 (Asa Porter).
  • Who?s Who entries for Julie Harris (1974, 76, 78), TAG 45 (1969): 90-92 (AT of her father, William Pickett Harris, Jr. ? to John Hart, Jr. & Polly Smith); Alfred Andrews, Genealogical Dictionary of Deacon Stephen Hart and His Descendants (1875), pp. 177, 204 and Horace Wilbur Palmer, ?Palmer Families of America,? Mss 297 at NEHGS, vol. 2, pt. 9, pp. 5817-18.
  • Notable American Women [vol. 4], The Modern Period (1980), pp. 618-19 (Kay Linn Sage), NCAB, vol. 25 (1936), p. 260 (H.M. Sage), vol. 1 (1898), pp. 245-6 (S.B. Ward).
  • Register 95 (1941): 364-65, 97 (1943): 67-68 (Bancroft).
  • Temple Prime, Some Account of the Bowdoin Family with a Notice of the Erving Family, third ed. (1900), pp. 6-7, 15-16, and Danny D. Smith, Preliminary Study of the Descendants of Governor James Bowdoin (1996), pp. 4-7, 11-12, 18-19; Boston Transcript genealogical column of 26 Feb. 1923, #382 (citing Suffolk Co. probate, vol. 34, pp. 125, 156, 465), which misspells Erving as Ewing (children of John Phillips and Mary Gross) and Register 73 (1919): 239 (Gross[e]).
  • Waldo Lincoln, Genealogy of the Waldo Family, 2 vols. (1902), pp. 183-86, 309-11.
  • Revista del Instituto de Estudios Genealógicos del Uruguay, #7 (1988) (Hernán Carlos Lux-Wurm, ?La genealogía de los Stewart uruguayos?): 23, 40-41.
  • Column #42 in this series, Mass. VRs for cited dates, Edmund Dana Barbour, ?Descendants of George Barbour,? 1907 typescript at NEHGS, vol. 4, p. 1132, 1134, 1137 (Fisher, Winslow, Grant to T.F. Grant).
  • Possible christening: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7Q4-P98 : 6 December 2014, John Dwight, 25 Sep 1603); citing WOOLVERSTONE,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 919,639.




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The birth date is for a son tha died I believe as there is this baptism in 1603

John, son of William Dwight, was baptised on 25 September 1603 in Woolverstone, Suffolk, England.<ref> Baptism: "England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"

Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013; FHL Film Number: 919639

Ancestry Record 9841 #147947881 (accessed 2 November 2023)

John Dwight baptism on 25 Sep 1603, son of William Dwight, in Woolverstone, Suffolk, England. </ref>

Also the coat of arms should be removed unless there is proof he ws armigerous.

Ann

posted by Ann Browning
I checked the NEHGR article cited and this appears to be one of those cases where there were two sons named John. The second one married an Abigail, and the baptism of his daughter Deborah refers to him as John Jr.
posted by M Cole
Found it Here and its James Dwight of New Haven (1784-1863 I think). This image will be placed on the correct profile. Dwight-128
posted by Anne B
The clothing on the image attached looks wrong to me. What do others think? Anyone know the provenance of this image?
posted by Anne B
Dwight-165 and Dwight-11 are not ready to be merged because: Needs further investigation when I have more time.
posted by Aidan Bizony
If the date "ye 24:11" is a quote from the time, as it appears to be, it is probably 24 January in the old calendar. January was the 11th month of the year.
posted by Walter Howe
Dwight-181 and Dwight-11 appear to represent the same person because: Dwight-181 was created from a GEDCOM, but is clearly the same John Dwight, with the same wives and children and history. They should be merged.
posted by Walter Howe
Michael,

Is Dwight the last name of this profile and related? PGM-1 as well? Or does PGM stand for something else? If it's something else, you will need to edit the last name for both to reflect the correct last name at birth. If you need help, let me know. I am also a mentor and here to assist. Thanks! Nae

posted by [Living Lockhart]
John Dwight is the ancestor of one of the founders of Church and Dwight, Co. Inc., two New Englanders first prepared a product that would become a household name: bicarbonate of soda — that is, baking soda. See: http://www.churchdwight.com/company/who-we-are/history.aspx
posted by [Living Lockhart]

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