General Joseph Dwight (1703—1765) was a military and civil leader and judge in the British American Province of Massachusetts Bay.
In 1756, he commanded a brigade of Massachusetts militia, at Lake Champlain, in the French and Indian War.
In 1752, he moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to act as Trustee of "the Indian Schools," a position he held when Jonathan Edwards was also at work there as a missionary (1751-8) to that settlement of whites and Christianized Ingenious.
Joseph Dwight remained on the bench as Chief Justice of the Berkshire County Court of Common Pleas until his death.
[3][4] Joseph Dwight built a house at Great Barrington which still stands, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.