Dwight
The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham Mass., by Benjamin W. Dwight (New York: John F. Trow, 1874). Two Volumes, 8vo, xxx + 1144 pages. This Digital Edition, published on CD-ROM, © September 2008
The account opens with some interesting lists and “statistical analyses” of the Dwight family. The lists include graduates, officers and teachers of colleges; foreign missionaries; members of state and provincial legislatures; judges; members of Congress, authors and journalists, leading business men; and soldiers and sailors.
Following the lists, we find (1) a somewhat ponderous, fifty-page “introduction” in which the compliler attempts to explain or justify his sometimes peculiar treatment of the family’s history, (2) a thirty-page essay entitled “A Brief Sketch of the Parallel Recent History of the English Dwight Family,” and (3), a “Brief History of Timothy Dwight of Medfield, Mass., Brother, Probably, of John Dwight of Dedham” with a record of some of his descendants through five generations.
The history of John Dwight and his descendants begins (on page 91) with John’s emigration from Dedham, England, in 1634 or early 1635. John had five children, four of whom, three daughters and one son, survived childhood. By their husbands – Nathaniel Whiting, Henry Phillips, and Nathaniel Reynolds – the daughters had several children, but the record of John’s descendants in this genealogy extends beyond the third generation only for the children of his son, Timothy – specifically Nathaniel (383 pages), Josiah (127 pages), Henry (327 pages), and Michael (62 pages) – all sons of Timothy’s third marriage. Into the ninth generation (to 1874) the descendants of these four Dwights numbered about 8,000 in male and female lines.
Though the prose of this genealogy is often pompous and the erudition, strained, the research is patently impeccable. Biographical accounts are fuller and appear more frequently in this work than is typically the case in other family histories. The author is at his best when retelling another’s story.
Among related families of other surnames, the following are prominent: The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham Mass., by Benjamin W. Dwight (New York: John F. Trow, 1874). Two Volumes, 8vo, xxx + 1144 pages. This Digital Edition, published on CD-ROM, © September 2008
The account opens with some interesting lists and “statistical analyses” of the Dwight family. The lists include graduates, officers and teachers of colleges; foreign missionaries; members of state and provincial legislatures; judges; members of Congress, authors and journalists, leading business men; and soldiers and sailors.
Following the lists, we find (1) a somewhat ponderous, fifty-page “introduction” in which the compliler attempts to explain or justify his sometimes peculiar treatment of the family’s history, (2) a thirty-page essay entitled “A Brief Sketch of the Parallel Recent History of the English Dwight Family,” and (3), a “Brief History of Timothy Dwight of Medfield, Mass., Brother, Probably, of John Dwight of Dedham” with a record of some of his descendants through five generations.
The history of John Dwight and his descendants begins (on page 91) with John’s emigration from Dedham, England, in 1634 or early 1635. John had five children, four of whom, three daughters and one son, survived childhood. By their husbands – Nathaniel Whiting, Henry Phillips, and Nathaniel Reynolds – the daughters had several children, but the record of John’s descendants in this genealogy extends beyond the third generation only for the children of his son, Timothy – specifically Nathaniel (383 pages), Josiah (127 pages), Henry (327 pages), and Michael (62 pages) – all sons of Timothy’s third marriage. Into the ninth generation (to 1874) the descendants of these four Dwights numbered about 8,000 in male and female lines.
Though the prose of this genealogy is often pompous and the erudition, strained, the research is patently impeccable. Biographical accounts are fuller and appear more frequently in this work than is typically the case in other family histories. The author is at his best when retelling another’s story.
Among related families of other surnames, the following are prominent: BLISS, CLARK, DANA, DEWEY, FOSTER, GRAVES, GREEN, HALL, HOWE, HUNT, HUNTINGTON, KING, LATHROP, LYMAN, MOORE, PALMER, PARTRIDGE, PORTER, SMITH, STRONG, TAYLOR, WHITE, WHITNEY, WOOD. For all the family names, please see the on-line index.
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Enhancements: Lineage-tracking hyperlinks; hyperlinks to high-resolution images in separate files.
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