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About Ephraim Wight
GEDCOM Note
1 _UPD 18 OCT 2017 17:00:27 GMT -0600 2 AGE 0 2 AGE 77
<p>Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 11WN-P7P</p><p><p></p></p><p>Ancestral File Number:<AFN> GNQ6-9H</p>
Ephraim moved with his family to Medfield about 1650, but his name occurs on the Dedham tax lists. Ephraim was made a freeman on 8 October 1672. He and his brother, Henry, were appointed executors of their father's will, which was probated in 1674. Ephraim was the residuary legatee of his father's estate, and received also by special devise the homestead on Green Street. His name appears among the Medfield proprietors in 1675. His house seems to have escaped the ravages of King Philip's Indians in February 1676, although the residence of Thomas Wight, his brother, adjoining was burned. Ephraim's subscription of "2 bushelles of Endian corne" for building the "new brick college" at Cambridge occurs with many others. In 1697, he and his wife appear among the members of the Parish Church, Medfield. Ephraim was also interested in Medway property. He was one of twelve citizens of Medfield who accepted the offer of that town "to give 50 acres of land whre it may be most convenient for the encouragement of any that would adventure to build a gristmill upon Charles River. This was the first mill built at Rockville, in Medway. When the Black Swamp of Medway was laid out in 1702, 7 rods and 4 feet fell to Ephraim. He never resided in Medway, his son Nathaniel being the first Wight to reside within the limits of that town. Ephraim's mental condition late in life is to be inferred from the fact that Nathaniel Partridge and Thomas Boyden, husbands of his daughters Lydia and Deborah, "protested against the so-called will of our honored father, knowing him to be a religious, good man, but not capable to make a will these 7 years and past." Notwithstanding this protest, the will which was made 27 September 1717, was probated in March 1722-23. The original Wight Homestead went to his son, Daniel.
GEDCOM Note
!Birth/Chr: James Savage Vol IV p542, Marr-Death Medfield, MA VR p182,241. Children: Births-Medfield, MA VR p103-105. Savage Vol IV p542.
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Ephraim Wight's Timeline
| 1645 |
January 27, 1645
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Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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February 8, 1645
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Dedham, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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February 8, 1645
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Dedham, Norfolk Co., MA
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February 8, 1645
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Dedham, Norfolk Co., Ma
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| 1646 |
February 8, 1646
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Medfield, Norfolk, Ma
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| 1669 |
March 14, 1669
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Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1670 |
January 13, 1670
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DEDHAM, MA.
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| 1672 |
January 25, 1672
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Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1675 |
August 22, 1675
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Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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