First name origin & meaning:
Old English: Fair
First name variations: DeWitt, Dwhite, Dwite, Dwyte
Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from Diot, a pet form of the female personal name
Dye. Reaney also suggests that this may also be an altered form
of Thwaite (see Thwaites).
- Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), Congregational divine, author, and
president of Yale College (1795–1817), was the dominant figure in
the established order of CT. He was born in Northampton, MA, a
descendant of John Dwight who came from Dedham, England, in 1635 and
settled in Dedham, MA, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the great
theologian of American Puritanism.
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