Paul, There's an additional source for information on the Dwights. Gary Boyd Roberts has published (on line to members of NEHGS) a paper entitled Notable Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Especially via Grandsons of Northampton and Hadley. In the article, he states that there are 30 notable descendants Here's a brief clip: I now turn to the remaining Dwight descendants, thirty of whom, I think, are notable figures in American history, and sufficiently well enough known to merit an outline of their descent. These are Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft [Martha Wheaton Bowers], wife of the U.S. senator and Republican leader; Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, social leader, art collector and patroness, and builder of Fenway Court in Boston; the brothers William Morris Hunt and Richard Morris Hunt, artist and architect respectively; Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick [Pamela Dwight], wife of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick; Prior to this he lists other articles that he has prepared about the Dwight family noting that two were presidents of Yale. Bob