109. Jabez Wight
Minister at Norwich, New London, CT and later at Preston, New London, CT. Graduated from Harvard, 1721. See Sibley's Harvard Graduates by John Langdon Sibley.
As a child Ruth lived in Haverhill, Essex, MA, where at age four she saw her mother, who had lost her first husband and daughter in an Indian attack in 1697, save her second family by impaling an atacker on her bake spit. The family then moved to Stonington on the Connecticut coast. See History of Stonington by Richard A. Wheeler and History of Haverhill by George Wingate Chase.
388. Mary Wight
Mary reared their six daughters and four sons.
Amos graduated from Yale in 1737 and taught school, famed and served as town clerk, county surveyor and representative to the Connecticut General Assembly for three termsa fter the colonies declared independence. [Ref:Genealogy of the Geer Family in America by W. Geer and Florence E. Younge, and Yale Biog. Annals, 1745-1763 by F. B. Dexter.]
See attached sources.
Dunham Genealogy, Thomas' will
See attached sources.
410. Thomas Dunham Jr
VT Gazeteer, Vol v, Vital Records Hebron, CT,
Cheshire Co, NH History, Thomas' will.
See attached sources.
433. Thomas Ross III
He served as a corporal from Lancaster in 1775 in the Revolutionary War.
434. Samuel Ross
See attached sources.
131. Timothy Ross
See notes for wife Elizabeth.
Timothy Ross died and his widow, Elizabeth Thompson Ross, left Massachusetts and moved to Henniker, NH with her sons Jesse and Timothy and their families. Jess and Timothy were part of the original 31 families living in Henniker at the time of incorporation in 1768. The Henniker Historical Society has a file regarding the Ross families, and they are mentioned in the town's history. Timothy Ross is listed as buying his land in Henniker on March 16, 1765. It is also noted that the proprietors in Londonderry chose him and 3 others to survey roads for the town. Timothy and his wife, Kesiah, were two of the first members of the Congregational Church started June 7, 1769. They had no children.
Both Timothy and Jesse signed the petition on March 17, 1768 to incorporate the town of Henniker. In 1776 Jesse and Timothy signed the Association Test for Independence which read: "We the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies."
Brother Jonathan Ross also moved to Henniker to join his mother and two brothers. The town's records of 1776 show him as being enrolled in Capt. Aaron Adam's Training Band. The training band was a class of soldiers made up from all able bodied males between the ages of 16 and 50. Jonathan helped survey roads (1781) and was mentioned as being a "hog reeve" in 1780. Jonathan left Henniker in 1795. It is unknown where he went.
The Henniker records note that Jonathan was married to Phebe and that they had at least 6 children. Timothy held the title to the land. It is not known whether each family lived in their own cabins at first or if they lived together for a while. The property was near the Warner town line and Colleague Pond. This is located in the northern part of Henniker.
On December 17, 1785 Jesse's log cabin caught fire, and he burned to death. According to a letter in the Henniker file (dated 1960), the cellar hole could still be found on the land that the Rosses owned. It is also noted that after Jesse died, Timothy divided his lot and gave most of the land to his brother, Jonathan. On February 1, 1786, part of the lot was deeded to Lemuel Ross, Jesse's son. Lemuel farmed this land until May 1788 when he sold the land and moved to Turnbridge, VT. Both Elizanbeth and Kesiah, Timothy's wife, died in 1790. It is mentioned that some of the Rosses are burried in Henniker.
443. Jesse Ross
See notes for mother, Elizabeth.
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