Excerpt from The Wight Family: Memoir of Thomas Wight of Dedham, Mass., With Genealogical Notices of His Descendants, From 1637 to 1840 Should any member of the family wish to trace back the history of the name of Wight into a period long antecedent to the settle ment of this country, and to learn the charac ters of some of those who have borne it in remote times, he will find much to gratify his curiosity in the sepulchral monuments inscribed with the family name at Carisbrook, at Cowes and at Ryde in the Isle of Wight the birth-place of Thomas Wight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.