Mehitable Cheney

1643 - 1693  (49 years)

• Name	Mehitable Cheney
  Birth	1 Jun 1643  [1, 2]
  Baptism	1 Jun 1643	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1693	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I42789	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	William Cheney,   b. Abt 1604   d. 30 Jun 1667, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Margaret,   b. Abt 1603   d. Jul 1686, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1623  [3]
  Family ID	F12753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Wight,   b. of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Bef 25 Sep 1690, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1663  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Joshua Wight,   b. 25 Jul 1679, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 14 Aug 1762, Windham, Windham, Connecticut (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F25019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Smith and Sandborn (citation details below) append the word "supposedly" to the death date that they give her.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3021] The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants 1635-1890 by William Ward Wight. Milwaukee, 1890. [S320] The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul, Now Mrs. William J. Young, Jr. by Edward Joy Paul. Milwaukee: Burdick & Allen, 1914. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.