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Ruth Harding (Wight)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
Death: November 05, 1747 (59)
Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
Place of Burial: Millis, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ephraim Wight and Lydia Wight
Wife of Abraham Harding and Abraham Harding, III
Mother of Seth Harding; Deborah Penniman and Abraham Harding, IV
Sister of Lydia Partridge; Esther Wight; Ephraim Wight; Miriam Morse Wight; Nathaniel Wight and 3 others

Managed by: Lori Lynn Wilke
Last Updated:

About Ruth Harding

GEDCOM Note

!Marr: Medfield VR p183


https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wight-29
Ruth (Wight) Harding (1688 - 1747)

Ruth Harding formerly Wight
Born 20 Jul 1688 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Ephraim Wight and Lydia (Morse) Wight
Sister of Lydia (Wight) Partridge, Hester (Wight) Daniels, Ephraim Wight, Miriam (Wight) Allen, Nathaniel Wight, Daniel Wight, Bethia (Wight) Bullard and Deborah (Wight) Boyden
Wife of Abraham Harding — married 2 Dec 1715 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Seth Harding, Job Harding, Ichabod Harding, Deborah Harding, Ruth (Harding) Wight and Abraham Harding IV
Died 5 Nov 1747 at age 59 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Baymap
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Profile last modified 30 Jul 2021 | Created 22 Sep 2010
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Contents

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1 Biography
1.1 Name
1.2 Birth
1.3 Marriage
1.4 Death
1.5 Children
1.6 Death
1.7 User ID
1.8 Data Changed
1.9 Reference
1.10 Event
2 Sources
2.1 Acknowledgements
Biography

Name

Name: Ruth /Wight/
Given Name: Ruth
Surname: Wight
Name: Ruth /Harding/
Given Name: Ruth
Surname: Harding
Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Ruth /Wight/.

Birth

Birth:
Date: 20 JUL 1687/8
Place: Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Could not parse date out of Birth Date (20 JUL 1687/8)

Birth:
Date: 20 JUL 1688
Place: Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Source: #S551
Page: 105
Marriage

Abraham Harding married Ruth Wight in Medfield on 2 December 1715[1]

Death

Ruth died November 5, 1747[2]

Children

Abraham and Ruth had, in Medway:[3]

Ruth, b. Nov.2, 1716, died Jan. 6, 1716-7
Seth, b. Dec. 1, 1717
Job, b. Oct. 25, 1719, married Dorothy Ellis in 1748, died Jan. 25, 1754 in his 34th year
Ichabod, b. May 31, 1722, married Hannah Bullen, died Oct. 3, 1794 in his 73rd year
Deborah, b. Oct. 1, 1724
Ruth, b. Nov. 16, 1726, died 10 days later
Ruth, b. July 13, 1728
Abraham, b. Dec. 7, 1730, married Abigail Adams in 1757

Death

Death:
Date: 5 NOV 1746/7
Place: Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Could not parse date out of Death Date (5 NOV 1746/7).

User ID

User ID: 73FE3454C9E14940AA6B46E1E9AE821D9E74
User ID: E23D50E1732D493DA315B31A230715A4DEA0
Data Changed

Data Changed:
Date: 25 JAN 2011
Prior to import, this record was last changed 25 JAN 2011.

Reference

Reference: 1620
Event

Event:
Type: Endowment (LDS)
Note: SUBMITTED
While processing relationships in the gedcom some additional information was found which may be relevant.

Could not parse date out of 2 DEC 1714/5.

@F492@ FAM
Husband: @I3233@
Wife: @I3238@
Child: @I3240@
Marriage:
Date: 2 DEC 1714/5
Place: Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Sources

↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 145
↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 314
↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to the year 1850, pp. 67-72, 314
The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 18, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database) [1].
Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 10, 24, Google Books (Digital Library).
Famous Kin [2]
Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of randys ancestors-10generations.ged on 10 March 2011. This person was created through the import of rfedele.ged on 22 September 2010.

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Ruth Harding's Timeline

1688
July 20, 1688
Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
1724
October 1, 1724
1730
December 7, 1730
Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts
1747
November 5, 1747
Age 59
Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
1747
Age 58
Millis, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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