Joseph Dwight
Judge Joseph Dwight (1703–1765) Graduated from Harvard in 1722 [1] [2] and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in 1733 and was the first member of the Worcester Country Bar. [3] He was eleven times a member of the Massachusetts colonial council between 1731 and 1751, and its speaker in 1748-9. [2] [1]
In 1752 he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to act as Trustee of "the Indian Schools," which relation he held to them nearly or quite all the time that Jonathan Edwards was also at work there as a missionary (1751-8) to that settlement of whites and Christianized Indians.
He served as brigadier general of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, second in command of the colonial troops in the expedition against the French at Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, and commanded a brigade of Massachusetts militia at Lake Champlain during the French and Indian War. He married Mary Pynchon and they had nine children. [1] Their daughter Dorothy Dwight married Jedediah Foster (1726–1779). [4] [5]