Edward Wightman

Abt 1754 - Aft 1800  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Edward Wightman
  Birth	Abt 1754  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1800	Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont   [1]
  Person ID	I36843	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Titus Whitman,   b. Jan 1733, Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island d. Between Jun 1766 and 10 May 1779, Dutchess County, New York (Age ~ 33 years)
  Mother	Hannah Yeomans
  Marriage	1 Jan 1752	Stonington, New London, Connecticut   [1]
  Family ID	F21655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown wife of Edward Wightman)   d. Abt 1800, Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont
  Children	+ 1. William Wightman,   b. 30 Oct 1796, Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont d. 27 Mar 1877, Marion, Linn, Iowa (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F21654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was probably born in Exeter, Rhode Island. From George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (1632-1721/2) and Descendants (citation details below): Edward Wightman, called in the will of his grandfather John Wightman, of Hancock, Mass., "eldest son of my son Titus Whitman," was probably an infant when his parents removed from Rhode Island to Beekman's Precinct, Dutchess Co., N.Y. During the Revolution he served in the 14th Regiment of Albany County, N.Y. militia, which suggests that he had already left Dutchess County on or before the outbreak of the War. The location of his father's family at this latter time is not known; but most of their relatives were located at Hancock, Mass. and in southern Vermont around Manchester. Following the War, Edward's younger brother George, married a cousin in Manchester, Vt., and located there. The first Federal census of 1790 does not list Edward anywhere as head of a family; but the census of 1800 for Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vt., shows him there as head of a household. It is regarded as established, but without documentary proof, that Edward was the father of the three children given below. The facts, supplied in large part by a descendant of William, the second of the children, are as follows: The three children named below were brothers. Their birth place was Pawlet, Vt. (family record). When William was "about four years old" their mother died, and shortly afterwards the father gave all three away to be brought up in three different families. It is said that the father went away, married again, and had another family. The census of 1800 indicates the household of Edward of Pawlet as comprising one female, 26 to 45; and three children older than three little boys therein given as under 10. As Edward nowhere appears as head of a household in 1790, it seems unlikely that these older children were Edward's. They may have been the children of a housekeeper, possibly a sister. Edward is not given in Pawlet or elsewhere in Vermont in the next or any subsequent census lists. The three boys all grew up in the locality about Pawlet and Manchester, and two, if not all three, married there. David named his eldest son Edward. Children, born in Pawlet: i. David, b. abt. 1792. ii. William, b. 30 Oct. 1796. iii. Ezra, b. 30 Aug. 1798.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6074] George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (1632-1721/2) and Descendants: Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman, Whitman, Whytman, Wightman, Wyghtman by Mary Ross Whitman. Chicago, 1939.