Dwight, Timothy, 1726 - 1777

Major Timothy Dwight was born at Fort Dummer, Vermont, the son of Colonel Timothy Dwight and Experience King and the husband of Mary Edwards, the daughter of Jonathan Edwards.  He graduated Yale College in 1744 and became a merchant in Northampton, Massachusetts.  There he served as a judge of common pleas (1758-1774), selectman (1760-1764), town recorder (1760-1775), and representative to the Massachusetts legislature.  A Loyalist during the American Revolution, he removed to the Crown grant at Nachez, Mississippi in 1776 to found a religious and industrial colony.  He died there in 1777.  Cutter, New England Families, Vol. III,  1002.