The New England Dwight family had many members who were military leaders, educators, jurists, authors, businessmen and clergymen.

Around 1634 John Dwight came with his wife Hannah, daughter Hannah, and sons Timothy Dwight and John Dwight, from Dedham, Essex

Dedham, Essex

Dedham is a village within the borough of Colchester in northeast Essex, England, situated on the River Stour and on the border of Essex and Suffolk...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 to North America where the town was named Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...

. Son John died in 1638, and he had two more daughters, before dying in 1660.
Known descendants are from their son Captain Timothy Dwight (1629–1717) and his third wife Anna Flint.

Justice Nathaniel Dwight (1666–1711) married Mehitable Partidge (1675–1756) in 1693.
Their descendants were:

• Colonel Timothy Dwight (1694–1771), lawyer married Experience King (1693–1763)
  • Major Timothy Dwight (1726–1777), married Mary Edwards (1734–1807), daughter of theologian Jonathan Edwards
    • Timothy Dwight IV
      Timothy Dwight IV
      Timothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author...
      
       (1752–1817), president of Yale College
      Yale College
      Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.-Residential colleges:...
      
       1795–1817, married Margaret (or Mary) Woolsey (1754–1777)
      • Benjamin Woolsey Dwight (1780–1850), physician married Sophia Woodbridge Strong (1793–1861)
        • Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight
          Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight
          Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight was an American educator and author.-Life:Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight was born April 5, 1816 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was physician Benjamin Woolsey Dwight , and paternal grandfather was Yale University president Timothy Dwight...
          
           (1816–1889), educator and author
        • Theodore William Dwight
          Theodore William Dwight
          Theodore William Dwight , American jurist and educator, cousin of Theodore Dwight Woolsey and of Timothy Dwight V, was born July 18, 1822 in Catskill, New York....
          
           (1822–1892), lawyer
      • James Dwight (1784–1863), married Susan Breed (1785–1851)
        • Timothy Dwight
          Timothy Dwight V
          Timothy Dwight V was an American academic, an educator, a Congregational minister, and president of Yale College...
          
            (1828–1916), president of Yale University
          Yale University
          Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
          
           1886–1898
      • Sereno Edwards Dwight
        Sereno Edwards Dwight
        Sereno Edwards Dwight was an American author, educator, and Congregationalist minister, who served as Chaplain of the Senate.- Early years:...
        
         (1786–1850), author and minister, married Susan Edwards Daggett, daughter of David Daggett
        David Daggett
        David Daggett was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School.-Life:...
        
        
    • Theodore Dwight
      Theodore Dwight (elder)
      Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and journalist.He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards...
      
       (1764–1846), journalist, married Abigail Alsop (1765–1846), the sister of Richard Alsop
      Richard Alsop
      Richard Alsop was an American merchant and author.Richard Alsop was born January 23, 1761. His father was also named Richard Alsop...
      
       (1761–1815)
      • Theodore Dwight
        Theodore Dwight (author)
        -Life:Theodore Dwight was born March 3, 1796 in Hartford, Connecticut.His father was Theodore Dwight of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Abigail Alsop , the sister of Richard Alsop ....
        
         (1796–1866), author, married Eleanor Boyd.
    • Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813) married William Walton Woolsey (1766–1839)
      • Mary Anne Woolsey (1793–1871) married Jared Scarborough and then George Hoadley (1781–1857)
        • Elizabeth Dwight Hoadley married General Joshua Hall Bates
          Joshua Hall Bates
          Joshua Hall Bates was a lawyer, politician, and general in the Union Army during the early part of the American Civil War...
          
            (1817–1908)
        • George Hoadly
          George Hoadly
          George Hoadly was a Democratic politician. He served as the 36th Governor of Ohio.Hoadly was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 31, 1826...
          
           (1826–1902), governor of Ohio
      • John Mumford Woolsey (1796–1870) married Jane Andrews
        • Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
          Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
          Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.-Background:...
          
           (1835–1905), author published What Katy Did
          What Katy Did
          What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, which was published in 1872. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s...
          
          as "Susan Coolidge"
        • Elisabeth Dwight Woolsey (1838–1910) married Daniel Coit Gilman
          Daniel Coit Gilman
          Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
          
          
        • William Walter Woolsey (1842–1910), plantation owner, married Catherine Buckingham Convers, daughter of Charles Cleveland Convers
          Charles Cleveland Convers
          Charles Cleveland Convers was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio Senate for two years and a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court for a short time.-Biography:...
          
          , and then Bessie Gammell
          • Gamel Woolsey
            Gamel Woolsey
            Gamel Woolsey was an American poet and novelist.-Life:Woolsey was born on the Breeze Hill plantation in Aiken, South Carolina, as Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey, but in later years took her middle name, which she shortened to "Gamel" .Her father was plantation owner William Walter Woolsey...
            
             (1895–1968), author, married Gerald Brenan
            Gerald Brenan
            Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village...
            
            
      • Theodore Dwight Woolsey
        Theodore Dwight Woolsey
        Theodore Dwight Woolsey was an American academic, author and president of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.-Biography:Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York City...
        
         (1801–1889), president of Yale 1846–1871, married Elizabeth Salsbury and then Sarah Pritchard
        • Theodore Salisbury Woolsey
          Theodore Salisbury Woolsey
          Theodore Salisbury Woolsey was an United States legal scholar, born at New Haven, Connecticut, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School . In 1872 he was an initiate into The Skull and Bones Society...
          
           (1852–1929), legal scholar
          • Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr.
            Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr.
            Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr. was a United States Forest Service employee, forestry researcher, professor at Yale University and author of books and articles related to forestry and forest regulation. In 1917 Woolsey was offered the position of Major in the U.S...
            
             (1880–1933), forestry professor
• Abiah Dwight (1704–1748), married Samuel Kent
  • Abiah Kent (1724–1782), married John Leavitt (1724–1798), Esq., brother of Jemima (Leavitt) Ellsworth
    Oliver Ellsworth
    Oliver Ellsworth was an American lawyer and politician, a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States. While at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the word National from the motion made by Edmund...
    
    
    • Thaddeus Leavitt
      Thaddeus Leavitt
      Thaddeus Leavitt was a Suffield, Connecticut, merchant who invented an early cotton gin, as well as joining with seven other Connecticut men to purchase most of the three-million-plus acres of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio from the government of Connecticut, land on which some of his family...
      
       (1750–1826), merchant, Suffield, Connecticut
      Suffield, Connecticut
      Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It had once been within the boundaries of Massachusetts. The town is located in the Connecticut River Valley with the town of Enfield neighboring to the east. In 1900, 3,521 people lived in Suffield; and in 1910, 3,841. As of the...
      
      , married Elizabeth King
      • Thaddeus Leavitt Jr. (1778–1828), married Jemima Loomis (1779–1846)
        • Jane Maria Leavitt (1801–1877) married Jonathan Hunt Jr.
          Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Representative)
          General Jonathan Hunt was a member of the United States House of Representatives and the prominent Hunt family of Vermont. He was born in Vernon, Windham County, Vermont, and graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1807. Afterwards, Hunt studied law and was admitted to the bar...
          
           (1787–1832)
          • William Morris Hunt
            William Morris Hunt
            William Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...
            
             (1824–1879), painter, married Louisa Dumerique Perkins
            Thomas Handasyd Perkins
            Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, or T. H. Perkins was a wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune...
            
             of Boston
          • Jonathan Hunt, M.D., (1826–1874) physician
            Physician
            A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
            
             in Paris
            Paris
            Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
            
            , France
            France
            The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
            
            
          • Richard Morris Hunt
            Richard Morris Hunt
            Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
            
             (1827–1895), architect, married Catherine Clinton Howland (1841–1880), sister of Joseph Howland
            Joseph Howland
            Joseph Howland was an American Union Army general, politician and philanthropist.-Early life:...
            
            
          • Colonel Leavitt Hunt
            Leavitt Hunt
            Col. Leavitt Hunt was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East...
            
             (1831–1907), pioneer photographer, attorney, inventor, farmer, married Katherine Jarvis
            William Jarvis (merchant)
            William Jarvis was an American diplomat, financier and philanthropist best known for introducing the merino breed of sheep into the United States from Spain.-Biography:...
            
            
            • Jarvis Hunt
              Jarvis Hunt
              Jarvis Hunt was a "renowned Chicago architect" who designed a wide array of buildings, including train stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses and other structures....
              
               (1863–1941), architect, Chicago, Illinois
    • Captain John Leavitt
      John Leavitt (Ohio settler)
      Capt. John Wheeler Leavitt , born in Suffield, Connecticut, was an early settler of Ohio's Western Reserve lands, where members of his family had bought large tracts from the state of Connecticut, and where Capt. Leavitt became an early innkeeper, politician and landowner in Warren, Trumbull...
      
       (1755–1815), co-founder, Leavittsburg, Ohio
      Leavittsburg, Ohio
      Leavittsburg is a census-designated place in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,200 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
      
      , farmer, innkeeper
      • Humphrey H. Leavitt
        Humphrey H. Leavitt
        Humphrey Howe Leavitt was an Ohio attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio and as a United States District Court judge.- History :...
        
         (1796–1873), Ohio
        Ohio
        Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
        
         politician, United States District Court
        United States district court
        The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
        
         judge
        • John McDowell Leavitt
          John McDowell Leavitt
          Rev. Dr. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D. was an early Ohio lawyer, Episcopal clergyman, poet, novelist, editor and professor. Leavitt served as the second President of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and as President of St...
          
           (1824–1909), Episcopal
          Episcopal Church (United States)
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           clergyman, university president
          • John Brooks Leavitt
            John Brooks Leavitt
            John Brooks Leavitt was a New York City attorney, author and reformer. As member of the "Good Government" movement, Leavitt crusaded against Tammany Hall municipal corruption, demanding in 1897 the indictment of United States Senator Thomas C. Platt on charges of extorting bribes from the New York...
            
             (1849–1930), New York City
            New York City
            New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
            
             attorney, author and civic reformer

Captain Henry Dwight (1676–1732), farmer, merchant and judge, married Lydia Hawley (1680–1748).
Their descendants were:

• General Joseph Dwight (1703–1765), judge in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
  Great Barrington, Massachusetts
  Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,104 at the 2010 census. Both a summer resort and home to Ski Butternut, Great Barrington includes the villages of Van...
  
  , married Mary Pynchon, and then Abigail (Williams) Sargeant (1721–1791), half-sister to Ephraim Williams
  Ephraim Williams
  Ephraim Williams Jr. was a soldier from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War. He was the benefactor of Williams College, located in northwestern Massachusetts.-Early life:...
  
   Jr.
  • Joseph Dwight, Jr. (1744–1826) married Lydia Dewey (1745–1811)
    • Solomon Dwight (1769–1813) married Veina Foster
      • Elijah Dwight (1797–1868) married Olive Standish (1795–1874), descended from Myles Standish
        Myles Standish
        Myles Standish was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. One of the Mayflower passengers, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception...
        
        
        • Jeremiah W. Dwight
          Jeremiah W. Dwight
          Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight was a U.S. Representative from New York, father of John Wilbur Dwight.-Life:Born April 17, 1819 in Cincinnatus, New York, his father was Elijah Dwight and mother was Olive Standish , descended from Myles Standish...
          
           (1819–1885), New York State politician
          • John Wilbur Dwight
            John Wilbur Dwight
            John Wilbur Dwight was a U.S. political figure. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1902 to 1913. He also served as House majority whip between 1909 and 1911. He then became House minority whip from 1911 to 1913.Dwight was born May 24, 1859 in...
            
             (1859–1928), New York State politian
  • Pamela Dwight (1752–1807), married Judge Theodore Sedgwick
    Theodore Sedgwick
    Theodore Sedgwick was an attorney, politician and jurist, who served in elected state government and as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, a US Representative, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts. He served as the fifth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives...
    
     (1746–1813)
    • Theodore Sedgwick (1780–1839), lawyer and diplomat, married Susan Anne Livingson
      Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick
      Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick was a 19th Century American writer specializing in children's novels. She is also painted a watercolor-on-ivory portrait of an ex-slave who came to work for her family....
      
       (1788–1867)
      • Theodore Sedgwick
        Theodore Sedgwick (writer)
        Theodore Sedgwick was an American law writer.He was born at Albany, New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1829. In 1858, he became United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the son of Theodore Sedgwick II and Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick , a writer,...
        
         (1811–1859), lawyer and author
    • Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1785–1831), anti-slavery lawyer, married Jane Minot (1795–1859)
      • Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1857), married Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (1829–1899)
        • Henry Dwight Sedgwick
          Henry Dwight Sedgwick
          Henry Dwight Sedgwick III was an American lawyer and author.-Early life and career:Sedgwick was in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery . On his paternal grandmother's side, he was part of the New England Dwight family...
          
           III (1861–1957), lawyer and author, married Sarah May Minturn (1865–1919), daughter of Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr.
          Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr.
          Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr. , was an American shipping magnate of the mid- to late 19th century.-Life:Robert Bowne Minturn was born February 21, 1836 in New York City.His father was Robert Bowne Minturn and mother was Anna Mary Wendell...
          
          
          • Robert Minturn Sedgwick (1899–1924), married Helen Peabody (1890–1948)
            • Henry Dwight Sedgwick V (born 1928)
              • Kyra Sedgwick
                Kyra Sedgwick
                Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress.Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010...
                
                 (born 1965) married Kevin Bacon
                Kevin Bacon
                Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
                
                
              • Robert Sedgwick
                Robert Sedgwick (actor)
                Robert Sedgwick is an American actor. He is sometimes credited as Rob Sedgwick. He is the younger brother of award-winning actress Kyra Sedgwick....
                
                , actor
          • Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967), rancher, married Alice Delano de Forest (1908–1988)
            • Edie Sedgwick
              Edie Sedgwick
              Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick was an American actress, socialite, model and heiress. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the 1960s...
              
               (1943–1971), actress and model
        • Ellery Sedgwick
          Ellery Sedgwick
          Ellery Sedgwick was an American editor, brother of Henry Dwight Sedgwick.-Early life:He was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery , grand daughter of William Ellery...
          
           (1872–1960), editor and publisher
    • Catharine Sedgwick
      Catharine Sedgwick
      Catharine Maria Sedgwick , was an American novelist of what is now referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood.-Biography:...
      
       (1789–1867), novelist
    • Charles Sedgwick (1791–1856), clerk of Massachusetts Supreme Court, married Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801–1864)
      • Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1820–1880) married William Minot II (1817–1894)
        • Charles Sedgwick Minot
          Charles Sedgwick Minot
          Charles Sedgwick Minot was an American anatomist.-Life:Charles Sedgwick Minot was born December 25, 1852 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His mother was Catharine "Kate" Maria Sedgwick and father was William Minot II...
          
           (1852–1914), anatomist
  • Henry Williams Dwight (1757–1804), married Abigail Welles (1763–1840), descended from Thomas Welles
    Thomas Welles
    Thomas Welles is the only man in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary. In 1639, he was elected as the first treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, and from 1640–1649 served as the colony's secretary...
    
    
    • Henry Williams Dwight (1788–1845), lawyer and politician
    • Edwin Welles Dwight (1789–1841), author and minister
• Captain Seth Dwight (1707–1774), farmer, married Abigail Strong (1710–1780)
  • Ensign Josiah Dwight (1747–1796) married Tabitha Bigelow (c. 1740–1796)
    • Seth Dwight (1769–1825), merchant, married Hannah Strong (1768–1813)
      • Harriet Dwight (1792–1870) married James Dana
        • James Dwight Dana
          James Dwight Dana
          James Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:...
          
           (1813–1895), geologist
      • Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
        Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
        Harrison Gray Otis Dwight was an American Congregational missionary.-Biography:Harrison Gray Otis Dwight was born on November 22, 1803 in Conway, Massachusetts...
        
         (1803–1862), missionary to Turkey
        Turkey
        Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
        
        , married Mary Lane (1811–1860)
        • Henry Otis Dwight
          Henry Otis Dwight
          Henry Otis Dwight, LL.D. , was an American Congregational missionary.-Biography:He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, the son of Harrison Gray Otis Dwight. He entered Ohio Wesleyan University but left in 1861 to serve in the Civil War. He was business agent at Constantinople of the American Board...
          
           (1843–1917), missionary to Turkey, married Mary A. Bliss
        • Sarah Hinsdale Dwight, missionary married Edward Riggs, the son on Elias Riggs
          Elias Riggs
          Elias Riggs was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist born in New Providence, New Jersey. During his missionary activities in the Ottoman Empire he contributed greatly to the Bulgarian National Revival, and organized the first translation , and worked on editing, printing and...
          
           (1810–1901)
    • Josiah Dwight Jr. (1772–1826) married Sarah Hartwell (1772–1822)
      • Morris Dwight, M.D. (1796–?) married Minerva Bryant (1800–?)
        • Colonel Augustus Wade Dwight
          Augustus Wade Dwight
          Augustus Wade Dwight was a lawyer who became an officer in the American Civil War. He served in 21 battles and was wounded three times, the last wound being fatal.-Life:...
          
           (1827–1865) died in American Civil War
          American Civil War
          The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
          
          
• Colonel Josiah Dwight (1715–1768), merchant and judge, married Elizabeth Buckminster (1731–1798)
  • Thomas Dwight
    Thomas Dwight (politician)
    Thomas Dwight was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.-Life:Thomas Dwight was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 29, 1758....
    
     (1758–1819), politician, married Hannah Worthington (1761–1833)
  • Clarissa Dwight (1762–1820) married Major Abel Whitney (1756–1807)
    • Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786–1869), merchant, married Sarah Williston (1800–1833)
      • Josiah Dwight Whitney
        Josiah Whitney
        Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University , and chief of the California Geological Survey...
        
         (1819–1896), geologist
      • William Dwight Whitney
        William Dwight Whitney
        William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary.-Life:William Dwight Whitney was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on February 9, 1827. His father was Josiah Dwight Whitney of the New England Dwight family...
        
         (1827–1894), liguist, married Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of Roger Sherman Baldwin
        Roger Sherman Baldwin
        Roger Sherman Baldwin was an American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became the 17th Governor of Connecticut and a United States Senator.-Early life:...
        
        
        • Edward Baldwin Whitney
          Edward Baldwin Whitney
          -Life:Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwight Whitney of the new England Dwight family. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of US Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin....
          
           (1857–1911), judge, married A. Josepha Newcomb, daughter of Simon Newcomb
          Simon Newcomb
          Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of...
          
          
          • Hassler Whitney
            Hassler Whitney
            Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, and characteristic classes.-Work:...
            
             (1907–1989) mathematician
  • Josiah Dwight, Jr. (1767–1821), merchant, married Rhoda Edwards (1778–1864), granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards
    • Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801–1864) married distant cousin Charles Sedgwick (1791–1856), see above
• Edmund Dwight (1717–1755) married Elizabeth Scutt (1724–1764)
  • Jonathan Dwight (1743–1831) married Margaret Ashley (1745–1789)
    • Jonathan Dwight Jr. (1772–1840), merchant and politician, married Sarah Shepard (1774–1805)
      • Jonathan Dwight, 3rd (1799–1856), merchant, married Ann Bartlett
        • Jonathan Dwight 4th (1831–1910), civil engineer, married Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck
          • Jonathan Dwight
            Jonathan Dwight
            Jonathan Dwight V was an American ornithologist.-Life:Jonathan Dwight was born December 8, 1858 in New York City. His father was civil engineer Jonathan Dwight , grandfather Jonathan Dwight , great grandfather Jonathan Dwight , and great-great grandfather also named Jonathan Dwight , all part of...
            
             5th (1858–1929), ornithologist
      • William Dwight (1805–?) married Elizabeth Amelia White
        • General William Dwight
          William Dwight
          William Dwight, Jr. , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:William Dwight was born July 14, 1831 in Springfield, Massachusetts...
          
          , Jr. (1831–1888), in American Civil War
          American Civil War
          The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
          
          
      • Thomas Dwight (1807–?) married Mary Collins Warren, daughter of John Collins Warren
        John Collins Warren
        John Collins Warren , of Boston, was one of the most renowned American surgeons of the 19th century. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure...
        
        
        • Thomas Dwight
          Thomas Dwight
          Thomas Dwight was an American physician, anatomist and teacher.-Life:Thomas Dwight was born on October 13, 1843 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was also named Thomas Dwight , part of the New England Dwight family...
          
           (1843–1911), physician, anatomy
          Anatomy
          Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
          
          author and teacher
    • Edmund Dwight (1780–1849), merchant and philanthropist, married Mary Harrison Eliot