Thomas Wight

- Bef 1690

• Name	Thomas Wight
  Birth	of Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 25 Sep 1690	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I42788	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Wight   d. 17 Mar 1674, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Mother	Alice   d. 15 Jul 1665, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F13961	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mehitable Cheney,   b. 1 Jun 1643   d. 1693, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1663  [2]
  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

  He and his family were burned out in an attack by native Americans in 1676 and Thomas petitioned the General Court, 8 May 1677, for relief from his taxes.

  
  

• Sources

  [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.