MARY RDWARDS DWIGHT FAMILY 75 



some prize. Major Dwight paid for the one blank 

 ticket and would not take a cent of the large prize 

 money. This was worthy a son-in-law of Mr. 

 Edwards, the progenitor of a family of mighty men. 



Major Dwight was a merchant in Northampton, a 

 selectman, judge of probate for sixteen years and 

 was for several years a member of the legislature. 

 At the time of his death, 1778, he was possessed of 

 3,000 acres of valuable land in Northampton, and he 

 willed his wife $7,050, and each of his thirteen chil- 

 dren $1,165. At that time there were but five 

 painted houses in Northampton and but two were 

 carpeted. Of the fourteen children, thirteen grew 

 up, and twelve were married ; and their entire family 

 adds greatly to the glory of the family of Jonathan 

 Edwards. The oldest son. Dr. Timothy Dwight, 

 president of Yale, said with much tenderness and 

 force, " All that I am and all that I shall be, I owe 

 to my mother." She was a woman of remarkable 

 will power and intellectual vigor. She was but 

 seventeen when her first child was born and was the 

 mother of fourteen childi-en at forty-two. 



The first-born. President Timothy Dwight, S.T. 

 D., LL.D., born 1752, was one of the most eminent 

 of Americans. He learned his alphabet at a single 

 sitting while a mere child, and at four knew the cate- 

 chism by heart. He graduated from Yale at seven- 

 teen ; taught the Hopkins school in New Haven at 

 seventeen and eighteen ; was tutor in Yale from nine- 

 teen to twenty-five yeai's of age; wrote the "Con- 

 quest of Canada," which was reprinted in London, at 



