Family
Very little is known about the subsequent fate of his wife and children, though it is known that his son, John, and grandsons, George (1632–1722) and Valentine, emigrated to Quidnesset, Rhode Island about 1655. George Wightman, and hence Edward Wightman, is the ancestor of some people living in the United States under the names "Wightman," and some called "Whitman," (though not including the poet Walt Whitman).
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