Ancestry of
Emily Dickinson

American Poet

Ephraim Wight

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Emily Dickinson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 214 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Wight 
  • Mother:
  • Alice -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jan 1645 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Feb 1645 
  • Christening Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 26 Feb 1722/1723 
  • Death Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Morse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1667/1668 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Wight (Ahnentafel No:107 )

  Deborah Wight

  Ruth Wight

• Sources for Ephraim Wight

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Daniel Morse (m.1639), p. 3.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 103, Birth record for daughter Deborah Wight.
  • ³ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), 8-9.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 203.
  • ⁶ 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), 3, 9-10.