Thomas Wight

- 1674

• Name	Thomas Wight
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Mar 1674	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I23203	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Family 1	Alice   d. 15 Jul 1665, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Mary Wight   d. 7 Mar 1693, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts > 2. John Wight,   b. of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts + 3. Thomas Wight,   b. of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Bef 25 Sep 1690, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts + 4. Ephraim Wight,   b. 27 Jan 1645, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 26 Feb 1723, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F13961	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Lydia Eliot,   b. Bef 1 Jul 1610   d. Bef 19 Jul 1676 (Age < 66 years)
  Marriage	7 Dec 1665	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F13962	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  At Watertown in 1637, then at Dedham shortly after.

  
  

• 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. [S4916] Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine ed. George Thomas Little, Henry S. Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs. 4 volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909. [S2929] Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008). [S3021] The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants 1635-1890 by William Ward Wight. Milwaukee, 1890., date only. [S4916] Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine ed. George Thomas Little, Henry S. Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs. 4 volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909., date only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., questions whether "December" is correct. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008)., questions whether "December" is correct. [S8252] Clifford L. Stott, "The English Origin of James1 Penniman, of Boston and Braintree, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist71:12, 1996.