CLARISSA LEONARD WIGHT Daughter of Zephaniah Leonard, Esq. of Raynham, Mass. Wife of Rev. Henry Wight, D.D. of Bristol, Rhode Island Born Nov 9th, 1771 Died Sept 15th, 1864 in Lawrenceville, Ga "Asleep in Jesus, far from thee, Thy kindred and their graves may be. But there is still a blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep." Clarissa is part of a highly regarded, highly documented New England family. And she married into the same when joining with Rev. Henry Wight, D.D. in 1799. The following is from The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families by Edmund James Cleveland (1899). [Note: Not a complete transcription; I pared it down a bit.] Wight ancestry : Thomas 1 ; Samuel 2 , b. Dedham, Mass., Feb 5, 1639, suffered great loss in Philip's war, m. Hannah; Jonathan 3 , b. Sept 11, 1662, m. Margaret Fairbanks; Jonathan 4 , b. Oct 11, 1705, m. Sarah Plimpton; Henry 5 , b. May 26, 1752, of Bristol, R.I.; Rev. Henry 6 , of Bristol, Congregat...
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