William Wightman Sr. (1758 - 1796)

Born 24 Jul 1758 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth Bethia (Thomas) Palmer — married 12 Apr 1781 (to 9 Sep 1796) in Lebanon, New London, Ct

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1796 at age 38 in German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Wightman Name Study.

William Wightman was born 24 Jul 1758 at Norwich, Connecticut.

William married April 12, 1781, in Lebanon, Connecticut, Ruth Bethia Thomas ^[1]. There were several children of this marriage, as profiled.

This family resided in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1790 (census).

William Wightman bought land 1 Aug. 1795 in Herkimer County, New York.

William Wightman died 9 September 1796 at German Flatts, New York. His grave is in Dennison Corners Cemetery, German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York, USA ^[2]. This is a rural cemetery about a mile west of Denison's Corners, six miles south of Mohawk, New York. The graves of the two young children of William and Ruth Bethia are there also.

Notes

William Wightman's widow, Ruth Bethia, married Stutely Palmer, a neighbor, living at what is now known as Denison's Corners, but known in earlier days as "Whitman Town." The two families of Wightman and Palmer thus brought together were subsequently more closely related through further intermarriage. Eunice Palmer, eldest daughter of the Palmer household had married Humphrey Wightman, son of Abraham Wightman, Junior of German Flatts, a second cousin of William Wightman. The will of Stutely Palmer, Senior names among his heirs Eunice Wightman and also William Wightman and Charles Wightman, the latter being "children of my wife by a former marriage" (Herk. Co. Surr., Bk. E, 232).

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com Early Connecticut Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #102756549

• Whitman, Mary Ross. George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (1632-1721/2) and descendants : Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman, Whitman, Whytman, Wightman, Wyghtman. Chicago, Ill. 1939. Page 135-136.