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Massachusetts Probate Rocords, Suffolk, Vol 5-7, p.245
22 Dec 1673
Will of Lydia Wight. Body to be decently buried according to the descretion of my loving husband & friends. Left to me by the will of my former husband, James Penneman - has been paid to my five daughters which are married - the sum of 20#'s each. 80#'s remains in my hands - the price of several parcels of land I sold to my son Samuel Penneman. My daughter Mary Penneman to have 20#'s and the 60#'s remainder - 10#'s to daughter Lydia Addams, 10#'s to daughter Sarah Robinson & 10#'s to daughter Bethiah Allen, 10#'s to daughter Hannah Hall, 10#'s to daughter Abigal Carie, 10#'s & my great kettle to daughter Mary Penneman. My wearing apparel & household stuffs at my husband Wight's house to be dividd equally to my six daughters. Son Samuel Penneman to be Exexutor - my loving cousins, Jacob Eliot and Theophilus Frary to be overseers. Signed: Lydia Widht. Wit: Edward West, E[phraim Wight.
27 July 1676. Witnesses appeared in court and attested to the will. Recorded.

Lydia was a sister to John Eliot "Apostle to the Indians"
John Eliot (c. 1604—21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
John Eliot was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England and lived at Nazeing as a boy. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge. After college, he became assistant to Thomas Hooker at a private school in Little Baddow, Essex. After Hooker was forced to flee to Holland, Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship Lyon and arriving on 3 November 1631. Eliot became minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church in Roxbury.
From 1637 to 1638 Eliot participated in both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy. Eliot disapproved of Hutchinson's views and actions, and was one of the two ministers representing Roxbury in the proceedings which led to her excommunication and exile.
The chief barrier to preaching to the American Indians was language. Gestures and pidgin English were used for trade but could not be used to convey a sermon. John Eliot began to study the Massachusett or Wampanoag language, which was the language of the local Indians. To help him with this task, Eliot relied on a young Indian named "Cockenoe". Cockenoe had been captured in the Pequot War of 1637 and became a servant of an Englishman named Richard Collicott. John Eliot said, "he was the first that I made use of to teach me words, and to be my interpreter. Cockenoe could not write but he could speak Massachusett and English. With his help, Eliot was able to translate the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and other scriptures and prayers.
Eliot translated the Bible into the Massachusett language and published it in 1663 as Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God. It was the first complete Bible printed in the Western hemisphere; Stephen Daye printed 1,000 copies on the first printing press in the American colonies.[

Christen	1 Jul 1610	Nazing, Egnland
Marriage	7 Dec 1665	Thomas Wight
Death	Bef 19 Jul 1676	Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Spouse

Thomas Wight ( - 1674)

Spouse

James Penniman (1599 - 1664)