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He was a Vestryman, Justice of Fauquier Co. Court, VA, Sheriff and Patriot. His
active public career started in Prince William County Courthouse at Dumfries,
VA. He was a judge before 1743. He was a prime mover of Fauquier Co. being
established from the Western end of Prince William Co., VA as of 4 April 1759.
He last appeared in Court in 1779. He made his will 1 June 1785. It was proved
27 Feb 1792. He was over 80 years old when he d. He is bu. on his 1000 acre
estate, called "Pine View" near Liberty, VA.
DAR Supplemental Application 637068, submitted July, 1990 for approval as a Revolutionary War ancestor. Approval was received for John Wright, Sr. as a Revolutionary War ancestor on 31 Aug 1993. Any direct ancestor of John Wright, Sr. is elibible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. See Tyler's Quarterly Genealogical Magazine, Vol IV, No. 3, and "The Washington-Wright Connection." (See pages 210 through 144?244).
See Fauquier Families 1759 to 1799 by John P. Alcock John Wright 59M.Sr., 78Br-Capt.82-89H.91H.M1-1,1759. On first commission of peace, RR1770 236 a.-Capt 1 4-269,1771. He (or other John) sheriff W 2-219, 1785, pr M 10-38, February 1792, by George Maddux and William Kerns. Wife Elizabeth; sons James exec, William, John; daughters Elizabeth parlow, Mary and Rosamond Wright; granddaughter Betsey Wright, dau of James; other wit John Nelson and Francis + Latham.
Virginia Public Service Claims, Fauquier Cover Brlt p. 21. Cert 1 Lists p. 15. Commis P. 312. Tylers Quartely IV p. 239.
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See Heritage of Yadkin Co South Carolina p. 678:
Elizabeth (Bronough) Darnall, was the Daughter of Jeremiah Bronough and the
widow of Waugh Darnall.
Elizabeth Darnall BRONOUGH-861 Her bro. was Jeremiah Darnall who m. Catherine Holtzclaw, dau. of Jacob Holtzclaw. Her uncle, or father's brother, was Morgan Darnall.
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John, surveyor and Captain, in the VA Militia, doubtless was born upon his
grandfather's thousand acre estate of Leesylvania between Powell's run &
Neapsco Creek, near the Potomac river in Prince William County. Prince Wm Co was formed from Stafford County around that time (1721/1731). This was while his grandfather, who had come to Leesylvania about eight or nine years before from the "great house" in Westmoreland Co., was living thereon with all of his family. John's Uncle Frances inherited and sold Leesylvania. After that time, John must have lived upon his father's new estate called "Pine View", near Liberty, (Lirty) from 1741, when he was a boy until after he m. in 1741. John completed the sale of his all of his estate 24 October 1774 in Fauquier Co., VA and soon after departed therefrom with his family, through the gap in the Blue Ridge, for the long Indian trail between the ridge and the Cumberland mountains, which, by the treaty of Lancaster, had become the best and chief highway overland to the south from northern Virginia, MD and PA. He settled in Surry County, Province of NC. John became of record in Surry Co., NC, in the following February. His farm adjoined those of Ellsberry and Riley. See DAR
Supplemental Application for John Wright, Jr. who served in the Revolutionary War.(#637068 submitted July 13, 1990.) See Tyler's Genealogical Magazine, Vol.IV, No. 3. John left the Episcopal Church in VA and joined the Baptist Church. Most of his children were Baptists. John Wright enlisted in the 4th North Carolina Regiment under Captain Smith's Company in 1771 and served until September 1777 when he was released as a casualty. Also served under Captain Reese. He was active in defending his country and mustering men to serve. Several of his sons served. He also furnished supplies. He is listed on the honor roll at Valley Forge from the state of NC. His will was proved May 1790, 22 days before his death. See Washington Ancestry by Hoppin and McClain. His family Bible contained genealogy of his family. Thomas used it when proving his Revolutionary War service for pension. Also see, "A Study of the Wright Families", Kansas City DAR, 1975. John's burial stone has been located on his farm in Surry Co. NC, now called Yadkin.
LDS Ancestrial file has dob as 1732, ID NO.:G1B0-JB.
REF: THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981: John Wright III was born Oct. 30, 1728, in Prince William ( now Fauquier) County, Virginia. He as the eldest son of John Wright II and Elizabeth (Bronough) Darnall. She was the daughter of Jeremiah Bronough and the widow of Waugh Darnall. John Wright III lived with his parents at "Pine View", Prince William County, until his marriage to the co-heiress, Ann Williams, daughter of Jonas Williams and Honour-----?. The parents of John and Ann had adjoining estates. Honour Williams was a widow at the time of her daughter's marriage and John III moved to her estate as manager. John's siblings were William, James, Elizabeth, Rosamond and Mary. John Wright was probably educated in the practice of law. It does not appear that he practiced this profession. He was commissioned as Official Surveyor of Fauquier County, VA on the 23rd of April 1771. This is recorded in Deed Book No. 4, page 165, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. He was about 43 years of age when he passed tests at William and Mary College. The titile of Captain is often used in reference to John Wright and it refers to his being commissioned as a Field Officer in the Commonwealth of Virginia shortly before May 29, 1762. He was a private in the American Revolution, serving in the 4th North Carolina Regiment under Capt. Smith. There is only one record of his service in the National Archives and it states that he enlisted in 1771 and was "omit't" in Sept. 1777" as a casualty. The ROSTER OF NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, pg. 77, No. 2060, lists Private John Wright's claim for 84 months of service under Capt. Reese. John Wright died on Oct. 30, 1789, on his birthday. He is buried either on his land or in the churchyard of Flat Rock Creek Baptist Chapel (Flat Rock Baptist Church) which is a little more than a mile east of his estate. Perhaps he was buried in the yard of a much closer Elsberry Chapel. John Wright was one of the organizers of the Flat Rock Chapel and was ordained a Deacon there on the 10th of June 1783. The record of John's death appears on the page from a Bible belonging to his sons, Thomas Wright whose heirs, when applying for arrears due Thomas for his service in the War of 1812, tore it from the Bible and sent it to the U.S. Pension Office to show proof of their legitimate births and the marriage of Thomas to Mary Clanton. The Bible page is preserved in the National Archives File No. 11899. The entry reads "Father departed this life Oct. 30, 1789". John's will is dated Oct. 8, 1789, Will Book 3, page 160, Surry County , North Carolina. John Wright and Ann went to Surry County (now Yadkin) in the autumn of 1774.
John was absent from court in 1773 when he was sued for $100 by Thomas
Marshall. It has been presumed that John was in North Carolina at the time
staking out land and building a home for his very large family. John was adventurous, bold and outspoken, strongwilled, and bent on having his own way. There is nothing to show that he was over-zealous about religion until his last year in Fauquier County when he was converted to the Baptist faith and was the first of his family to leave the Episcopal Church. This may have contributed to his moving his family to Surry County (now Yadkin). On Oct. 30, his birthday, the family departed through the Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The lon trail led southward to the Yadkin River, then to the "Bigg Branch of the North Fork of Hunting Creek" , (The Northern Fork is now called Flat Rock Creek) to Buck Shoal at Deep Creek. John claimed 1900 acres by "Settlers Rights" and reported the fact to the Entry Taker. He applied for a survey grant at a later date. By 1779 he had five separate tracts in Surry County (now Yadkin). John Wright settled near good neighbors, the Elsberrys and the Husbands who had come to the area about the same time. Two of his daughters and their families came with John and Ann to the new home North Carolina.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): John Wright III (b. ca. 1730; m. [1753) Ann Williams [b. 1735/1736; d. Oct., 1825). By 1771 he was capt. of the Fauquier Co. militia and on April 23 of that same year was commissioned the official surveyor of that county. He sold the last of his property in Fauquier Co., Va., on 9/21/1774, and soon led his family through the Blue Ridge Mountains Gap to the long Indian trail that led southward to the Yadkin River in N.C. He thence headed to the southwestern part of Surry Co. [now Yadkin Co., N.C.), where he settled by Feb.,1775 at the township of Buck Shoals on Deep Creek. Initially laying claim to 1900 acres by "Settlers Rights", he owned five
separate tracts of land in the Surry Co. by 1779. A patriot during the Rev. War, in 1777 he enlisted in Smith's Co., 4th N.C. regt.; he was soon listed as "omitted," however, in a roster dated 9/1777. He has been identified [wrongly, no doubt] by Ritchie [in CASSTEVENS, p. 678] with the John Wright listing a claim for 84 months service under Capt. Reese in the Roster off N.C. Soldiers in the American Rev. [p. 77, #2060]. This identification is ignored and tacitly contradicted by Hoppin's meticulous research on the family. In any event, "our" John Wright was an organizer of "Petty's Meeting House," where he was ordained a deacon June 10, 1783. This church, which subsequently became the Flat Rock Baptist Church, still holds services in Hamptonville, Yadkin Co., N.C. Its old "Minute Book," containing much genealogical information on this large Wright family, has survived and a copy is kept in the Wake Forest U. Library in
Winston-Salem. According to Hoppin's analysis of Surry Co. Order Bk. 2:221, "our" John Wright was one of fifteen men who appeared before the court on 11/12/1787 to be sworn in and empowered to practice ~s attorney-at-law. Among the fourteen other fledgling lawyers to appear with him that day was 21 year-~~~:
Andrew Jackson, future seventh president of the U.S. John's granddaughter Nancy [Riley) Clark recorded in her 1849 diary that "while serving in the war he took a violent cold that settled on his lungs and eventually caused his death." He d. Oct. 30, 1789, and Nancy Riley Clark left this account of his passing:
while on his death bed he suffered much, but bore it all with Christian patience and was perfectly resigned to the will of God. When dying, and gone to all appearance, had ceased to breathe, his wife screamed out of anguish of her heart. She could not give him up. He opened his eyes and said, my dear, it
is you that keeps me here.' His oldest son then took his mother out of the room and begged her not to make a noise. He then closed his eyes in death ...).
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THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
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LDS Ancestrial File, ID: G1B1-FX, 18 Nov 1740, York, VA, to 29 Aug 1805,
Fauquier Co. VA, wife Mary.
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Could have been born in Newton Co, Missouri.
SRCE for TN birthplace is the "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, and in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO. This srce gives birth year as "ABT 1829, Tennessee"
SRCE for Wanda, MO birthplace is LDS Family Center. If Joel was born in MO, then probably all his younger siblings were born there too.
Norma Fern (Willard) Millwee says the Elizabeth buried at the Mt. Zion Cem, near Sweetwater/Christopher, Benton Twnshp, Newton Co, MO is Joel Stephen's daughter-in-law named Elizabeth, but I have her as his sister ( as of 27 Apr 1996). That he had a sister is indicated in the "Six Bulls series listed above.
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The family story is she was born in Howell Co, TN & that the county was named after her family, but there is no such county in TN; however, there IS a Howell Co, MO, & her children were born in MO + her husband moved from TN to MO (or was born in MO, sources disagree) so my guess is she is from Howell Co,
MO, & that it is named after her family.
OR, the LDS family center places her born in Indiana, no county given (there is no Howell CVo, IN). LDS Family Center gives her death place as Rocky Comfort, McDonald Co, MO.
Lori Garner Elmore gives death place as Stella, MO.
LDS Family Center:
Rachel Elizabeth Howell on 5/23/1852. She was b 6/4/1831 in Indiana, she d 5/17/1929 in Rocky Comfort, Mc Donald, Mo. Her father was James B Howell and unknown as of yet mother.
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Garner Family References:
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cbowen1@san.rr.com, 619/274-55999
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Mid-Continent Library, Independence, MO
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J.H. Garner
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J.H. Garner
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good to very good
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J.H. Garner
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Hardcopy notes of Lori Garner Elmore.
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PPCY19B@prodigy.comm
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jquiroz@swbell.nett
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wleague@mindspring.comm
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Pedigree descendant tree from John Washington of Whitfield, Lancaster to President George washington with siblings, marriages & some cousins.
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J.H. Garner LIbrary
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From records of Northumberland, Westmoreland, Richmond, Prince George, Stafford, Prince William, Fauquier, & Fairfac cos VA, & some from assorted other cos in VA & MD
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after Dec 13, 1997, web address will be: www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6222, e-mail: Cbmeye1@ibm.nett
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wrightd1@csinet.nett
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Mid-Continent Library, Independence, MO
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Neosho, Newton Co, MO Library, Genealogy Section
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Compiling a genealogical history of the descendants of Col. John Washington
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760-727-7912, pedigree charts with sources sent to J.H. Garner Nov 1997
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Harold Garner said father was one of five (?) Garner bros. who came into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia abo 1790(?).
Lori Elmore says he was born in Tennessee in 1807 & died 22 September 1880.
The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, and in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
From GARRY SPENCER 383-4288 or 383-4404
Garner, John N. (1847) Rutherford County - Record Book 14 - page 170
Garner, Obadiah (1822) Rutherford County - Record Book 5 - page 176
Garner, Thomas (1853) Warren County - Will Book 3 - page 188
Garner, William S. (1859) Shelby County - Will Book 3E - page 88
GarDner, Jane (1808) Williamson County - Will Book 1 - page 33
GarDner, Jane (1818) Williamson County - Will Book 2 - page 388
GarDner, Jane (1819) Williamson County - Will Book 3 - page 15
GarDner, Mourning (1828) Sumner County - Loose Records
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+----notice the spelling
Lori Elmore gives her birth in 1808 in Tennessee.
The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, and in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
From: GARRY SPENCER 383-4288 or 383-4404
I found the following in a TN will index book:
GarDner, Mourning (1828) Sumner County - Loose Records
2nd cousin 4x removed of President George Washington.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Frances Wright (b. 1742; m. [1st, on Nov. 30, 1759) Capt. Nimrod Ashby [commissioned justice of the peace of Fauqujer Co., Va., 12/1/1762; this commission was renewed on 5/26/1764. Sometime within the next few weeks both Ashby and his hunting companion, William Furman, were killed by a band of ca. 20 Delaware Indians when the two men were hunting near Furman's Fort on the South Branch of the Potomac. Fauqujer County Order Bk. 2:312 appointed a male guardian for his
"orphan" children on 6/28/1764... HAYDEN, 450-452, is apparently accurate, however, in indicating that Capt Nimrod Ashby's younger brother, John Ashby, was the greatgrandfather of the celebrated cavalry leader Gen. Turner Ashby, CSA]
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Frances Wright (b. 1742; m. [1st, on Nov. 30, 1759) Capt. Nimrod Ashby [commissioned justice of the peace of Fauqujer Co., Va., 12/1/1762; this commission was renewed on 5/26/1764. Sometime within the next few weeks both Ashby and his hunting companion, William Furman, were killed by a band of ca. 20 Delaware Indians when the two men were hunting near Furman's Fort on the South Branch of the Potomac. Fauquier County Order Bk. 2:312 appointed a male guardian for his
"orphan" children on 6/28/1764. Frances survived him and m. [2nd, ca. 1765) John O'Bannon [tentatively styled "Jr." by J.A.W. According to Sundberg-Gott's recent study of the O'Bannon family, however, he was probably the son of William O'Bannon, and thus the 1st cousin, once removed of Lt. Presley Neville O'Bannon, USMC, hero in the capture of Tripoli during the war against the Barbary Pirates]. She died post Feb., 1784). Children (by her 1st husband):
Martin Ashby (b. 1760; m. Mir[i]am ___; he d. post 1790).
Thomas Bryan Ashby (b. ca. 1762). [See esp. the following records of Fauquier Co., Va.: Marriage Bk. 1:1, Will Bk. 1:241 and 247, Deed Bk. 10:216, and Court
Order Books 1:212 and 2:312; PEYTON, Hist. Augusta Co.,117; RITCHIE, 39; J.K. Gott, "The O'Bannon Family," pp. 9-34 in SUNDBERG-GOTT; J.A.W., Outline, 12113. HAYDEN, 450-451, adds a third child--Miriam Ashby; this is extremely dubious, for she is nowhere cited in any of the extensive abstracts of relevant Fauquier Co., Va. records collected by PP in J.A.W., U.G.S., #4, PP correspondence, 10/9/1959. HAYDEN, 450-452, is apparently accurate, however, in indicating that Capt Nimrod Ashby's younger brother, John Ashby, was the greatgrandfather of the celebrated cavalry leader Gen. Turner Ashby, CSA]
Poss. of Prince William Co, VA SRCE: Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck, VA, p. 108.
Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds & Wills No. 4, Page. 1
"Wrights Conveyance to Halbert": To all Christian People to whom these presents shall come, Francis Wright and Anne his wife send greeting to our Lord God everlasting, Know ye that I Francis Wright of the County of Westmoreland in Virg. Gent. and I the said Anne daughter of Col. John Washington of the County aforesaid dec. now wife to the said Francis Wright for good causes and considerations as thereunto moving & more especially for the sum of four thousand pounds of tobacco in cask to us in hand delivered and wherewith we do acknowledge ourselves satisfied and paid have granted, bargained and sold, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents do grand, bargain, sell, alien enfeoff and confirm unto Michael Halbert on hundred acres of land situate in Westmorld County in Virga. at the head of Madox, granted to the said John Washington devolving and dissending to Anne his daughter, now wife to the said Wright by hereditary right together with all buildings, fences, orchards, woods, rivers, waters, privileges members and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining..To have and to hold the said messuages or hundred acres of land with its members and appurtenances above recited to him the said Michael Halbert his heirs and assigns forever, and the said Francis Wright and the said Anne his wife do for themselves, their heirs, Executors and Admrs to and for either and every of them covenant, promise, grant and agree to and with the said Michael Halbert his heirs and assigns that the said hundred acres of land now is and from time to time and at all times hereaftr shall be and remain free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted and discharged of and from all and all manner of former bargains, sails, guifts, grants feofment, jointures, dowers, titles of dowers, leases and from all and all manners of other titles, claims, charges and incumbra nces of any manner of person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming the said messuage or hundred acres of land with its members and appurtenances aforesaid. In witness whereof we the said Francis Wright and Ann Wright have hereto put our hands and seals this 25th day of February in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, James the second Annoque Dom: 1685 Francis Wright (seal) Anne Wright (seal) John Wright (The son of Francis and Anne who signed twenty-two after his parents did.) Signed , Sealed and delivered in the presents of us: Thomas Baker, Thomas Marshall, Ann Read March the 31st, 1686. Acknowledged in Court by Francis Wright and then recorded P.Tho. Marson, D.C.C.P. Westmorld:ss: At a Court held for the said County the 26th, day of March 1707. John Wright, Gent. son and heir apparent of Francis Wright Gent..,: party to this present conveyance by subscribing his
name to the same and by himself in person acknowledge and voluntarily disclimed any right, title or interest in the to the land and premises in the said conveyance contained or to any part or parcel for divers and especial considerations at this time him thereunto moving. Test Ja: Westcomb, Cler. Com. Pred. Record : Primo die April 1707 Pr. Eundm Clerum (Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Book entitled Deeds & Wills No. 4, pg. 2). Wright & c to Halbert, Bond Know all men by these presents that I Francis Wright of the county of Westmorld in Virga. do acknowledge and confess myself to be indebt to Michael Halbert his heirs, Exors. Admrs. in the full and just sume of ten thousand pounds of good tobacco in cask to be paid upon all demand after the date of these presents and to the performance hereof well and truly to be done I do bind myself my heirs and assigns firmly by these presents and in testimony to the truth hereof have hereto put my hand and seal this 25th , day of Febr y. 1685. Test Ja: Westcomb, Cler. Com., Pred. The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Francis Wright his heirs and assigns do from time to time and at all times hereafter save defend and keep harmless the said Michael Halbert his heirs and assigns in the quiet and peacable possession of one hundred acres of land which he holds in right of Anne his wife and now by deed of feofment from the said Wright and Anne his wife granted sold aliened and confirmed to the said Michael Halbert his heirs and assigns for a valuable consideration RecÕd according to all the parts members and claims and things mentioned in the aforesaid deed of feofment bearing date with these presents and shall and will make such further assurances in law as by the said Michael Halbert and his learned conusel in the law shall be devised, or advised, then this obligation to be void and of none effect, otherwise to stand in full force and virtue. Francis Wright seal) John Wright Signed, Sealed & delivered in the presents of us. Tho: Baker, Tho: Marshall Westmorld: ss: At a court held for the county the 26th day of March 1707 John Wright, Gentl., son and heir apparent of Francis Wright, Gentl. party to the within Bond in open Court acknowledged to himself a party to the said bond by subscribing his name thereto and the penalty therein specified enure and be good and valid to all entents and purposes therein declared against him his heirs, Executors and Admrs to the Benefit and advantage of the therein named Michael Halbert according to the true meaning and purpose of the said bond. est: Ja: Westcomb Cler. Com. Prd. Recordate: primo die Aprilis 1707 Pr. Eundm Clerum It will be universally admitted that the justices of a county were its ablest and wealthiest men. Thus Francis Wright early found himself dealing with affairs of international and great historic importance. As a justice the scope of his authority within Westmoreland was broad, to uching almost every phase of human activity, judicial, social, commercial and religious. On Jan 11, 1687-8 (page 626 of the court order book), relinquishing for the day his justiceship, he prosecuted several actions as an attorney, winning verdicts for his clients, save in the case of William Burnham Plt., vs. William Kemp. The Plt. by his Atturny Wright, the Atty. of John Jefferies & Comp. did arrest the Deft. to this Court , & not appearing to prosecute is non-suited and ordered to pay fifty pds of Tobacco with Costs. As attorney in Virginia for the English house of John Jefferis & Co., Francis Wright held a favor. On one day the justices were trying offenders, the next day ordering military preparations, the building of highways, the levying of taxes, the settling of estates and suits, and the administering of public affairs in general, two items of which from the record will suffice for quotation: (Westmoreland Order Book 1675/6 to 1688/9, pg. 644) Court of 30 May 1688 Order for Arms & necessaryes for the militia. The Court takeing into Serious Consideration how improbable it is in this time when tobacco is of little value, for the inhabitants of this County to provide themselves Armes & other necessaries for the Compleating & setting forth of two companyes of ffoot & one troope of horse----doe unanimously agree & Order: That each of the captaines of the ffoot companyes doe forthwith send for England and cause to be bought over to this County in Virginia for the use of the soldiers under his Comand thirty-five lock musquetts, thirty Catouch boxes with girdles and thirty good broad sliceing swords with belts, and that the Capt. of the horse ...doe cause to bee brought over.... thirty bridles & saddles with furniture belonging to them, thirty pair of pistolls with holsters , and thirty hangers or scymeters with belts wch Armes the soldiers will take from their officers & pay for them etc. (Page 679) Court of 30 Oct. 1688 Order concerning killing woolves. His Majties Justices for this Countie being deeply sensible of the great furrease of those pnicious Vermine Woolves, which prey not onely on Sheep & hoggs, but alsoe on Cattele & colts, & being incessentlie importuned by the Inhabitants to take some speedie Care for their Deminution, the designe & difficulty of their totale exterpitation being thought Invincible, Doe Order that three hundred pounds of tobacco be paid for any woolf or woolves destroyed within the limits of this county. Between the sessions of the court of Jan. 31, 1688, and Jan. 29, 1690, Justice Francis Wright was honored by the Governor and Council of Virginia with a commission as sheriff for the county of Westmoreland. this commission is not recorded; the first evidence of the appointment appears to-wit: (Order Book from 1690 to 1698, pg. 6) Court of Jan. 29, 1690: Minor vs. Wright. Order granted Mr. John Minor according to Law agent Mr. Francis Wright, Sheriff & c., because he had not the body of John Wright at this Court to answer the sd Minor in an Accon on the Case according to his return. This John Wright was not the sherriff's son, then aged under eight years, but the overseer of Upper Machotick, a man of unhappy record for many years and of no relationship to the sheriff as will be shown hereinafter. The latter caught the offender for beating to death a horse, and produced him at the next session of the court, Jan. 30, 1690. Page 10 of the record of this session also bears the entry: Mr. Francis Wright to be under ranger for Westmoreland County in behalf of the Lord Culpeper, thus having double authority as the chief executive officer of the county. (Ibid) Order of Court, Feb. 26, 1690: Wright sworn Sheriff. Mr. Francis Wright sworn High Sheriff of this county for this yeare, and Capt. Lawerence Washington assumes to indemnifie the Court and to enter into bond with the sd. Wright for the due performatnce of the trust according to the Govenors order. Clark & Pope Undersheriffs. Mr. William Clark & Nathanial Pope haveing first to ok the Oaths were sworn Under Sheriff & Deputy to the sd. Mr. Francis Wright. Nathaniel Pope (Jr.) was the uncle of both the said Wright and Washington. At this same session of the court Francis Wright was also recorded ( pg. 24 d) as one of the Justices Sworn to King William & Mary, showing that, though acting as sheriff, he continued to hold his commission as justice. The sheriff was obliged to collect all taxes and serve as treasurer of the county, in addition to attending court, serving all processes and being responsible for all prisoners. Francis Wright was succeeded as sheriff on the last Wednesday in May, 1692, by Capt. Lawrence Washington who chose Mr. John Washington, Jr. , under sheriff. (page. 62 of Order Book from 1690 to 1698). The Wrights and Washingtons were largely managing public affairs at this time, somewhat as an intimate family matter. an amusing incident it must have been to both men when, on July 28, 1692, ( page 70 of the same book), Washington was forced by law to sue his brother-in-law Wright for five hundred and ten pounds of tobacco due from Abraham Blagg because Wright, when sheriff, had not the body of the sd Blagg at this Court to answer the sd Washington. Wright paid, as a preliminary to recovering later by suit, the amount from Blagg. Automatically Justice Wright resumed his seat upon the bench, serving there altogether over a period of thirty years. Of the numberous instances in which he figures in the court records only a few further items need to be quoted: (Westmoreland Court Order Book from 1690 to 1698, pg. 118) Mr. Francis Wright is appointed Surveyor of the Highways for that precinct comonly known by the name of the Secretaries (Secretaries Neck: so called after Wright's uncle, Nicholas Spencer, secretary of the Colony of Virginia) . Ordered that he immediately Cause the Roads within the said precinct to be well & sufficently cleared & the bridges & swamps therein to be amended & repaired According to Law (page 132) Court of 25 april 1694. Mr. Francis Wright is by the Court appointed to take the list of Tythables for the upper Precincts of Copeley parish. (pg. 172d) Court of 27 March 1695. Mr. Francis Wright, Justice Francis Wright, Gentl. came into court in his proper person & acknowledge a Deed of Sale of Land....to be the just right & Inheritance of Capt. Lawrence Washington. (pg. 173) die Mercury 24 aprilis 1695. The Court being adjourned Over till this day, Col. Peirce & Mr. Wright being Sick...adjourned till the last Wednesday in May. (pg. 199) 26 Marty 1696. This day being so extreame Rainy that the Court did not meet. Only Capt. Lawrence Washington & Mr. Francis Wright being present....adjourned. (pg. 200). Court of 27 May 1696. present Capt. Francis Wright ( and the Ï other) Justices....... a Proclamacon of a Day of thanksgiving to bee kept & Solemnized the second day of June next for his Majestie King William deliverance from a horrid conspiracy intended against his royall person published. Thus was reflected in loyal Protestant Virginia the resentment against Catholicism for its intimation that a Protestant monarch could be violently removed if the interests of the Catholic church required it and, as well, as fervent Thanksgiving that the attempt of James II to recover the throne of England had failed. Suffragettes were also out of favor in those days, to wit: (pg. 242). Court of May 26, 1697. Capt. Francis Wright, Justice It is Ordered that a Ducking Stoole bee forthwith provided and fixed in each parish of this County as soon as conveniently may be, one of which is appointed to bee at Capt. Lawrence Washington's Mill dam in Washington parish. And at Col. Isaac Allerton's Mill Dam in Copeley parish.
VIRGINIA SS (A dedimus for Adminstrg the oaths to the Justices & ANNE, by the Grace of God Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith & To FRANCIS WRIGHT, Alexander Spence, Willoughby Allerton, Lewis Markham, Charles Ashton, Henry ashton, Caleb Butler, John Sturman, Benjamin Berryman, Gerrard Hutt, George Weedon, Joan Elliott, Andrew Munroe ( Ancestor of James Monroe, President of the USA), John Bushrod & Burditt Ashton, Gentl. GREETINGS KNOW YE that whereas we have constituted and appointed you Justices of the peace for Westmoreland County wee do authorize and appoint that, the commission being read as usual any two of you the said FRANCIS WRIGHT, Alexander Spence, Willoughy Allerton, Lewis Markham, Charles Ashton, Henry Ashton, Caleb Butler and John Sturman, having first taken the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, the Test together with the oath for duly executing the office of Justice of the peace, which the said Benjamin Berryman and Gerrard Hutt, or any two in the Commission above named, are hereby required, authorized and empowered to give and administered to you you administer unto (sic) the above said Justices and every of them in the Commission above named, the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the oaths of Allegiance and supremacy, the Test together with the oath of duly executing the office of Justice of the peace, of the performance of which you are to make due return to our Secretaries office on the Sixth day of the next General Court. WITNESS our trusty well beloved Francis Nicholson Esq. our Lt. & Governor Gentl. of our Colony & Dominion of Virginia at the City of Williamsburg under the seal of our Colony this 26th day of April in the second year of our reign Annoq. dn 1703 Nicholson (seal) A Dedimus for administering the oaths &c to the Justices of the Peace for Westmorld County. WESTMORLD: SS AT a Court held for the said County the 26th day of May Anno Regni Reginae Anna nunc Ang & Soc: The Commission being read as usual Benjamin Berryman and Gerrard Hutt Gentl. administered the several oaths appointed to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy together with the oath for duly executing the office of Justice of the peace to Francis Wright and Lewis Markham Gentl. who administered the said several oaths to Charles Ashton, Henry Ashton, Caleb Butler, John Sturman, Benjamin Berryman, Gerrard Hutt, George Weedon, John Elliott, Andres Munroe, John Bushrod and Burdet Ashton Gentl., who severally subscribed the Test according to the tenor of the above Commission.Pr. Mandat. Cur. Test. Ja: Westcomb Cle. Com. Prd. This commission did not empower Justice Wright to try a case of murder. This fact is emphasized in the record on page 218 of the Westmoreland Order Book 1698-1705 of the holding of a court of Oyer and Terminer. Jan. 13, 1703-4, instancing that Francis Wright and six other men were commissioned by the government of Virginia, to hold a special court for the trail of Tom, a negro slave for killing his master James Orchard. Contrary to the expectations of the sheriff, who procured the commission from the governor, Justice Wright declined to preside at this murder trial, and his name is absent from the death warrant signed by nine other justices, one of whom was Andrew Monroe. At this period Major Wright was the chief justice, otherwise designated President of the Court. It is, therefore, not unexpected that he was soon afterwards selected to represent Westmoreland and the colony of Virginia as a special judgein a case of wide importance for the peace of the colony and the protection of the inhabitants from Indians. Nineteen of the leading men of Virginia were commissioned for this investigation and trial. After the five colonial dignitaries, the first gentleman named was Col. William Tayloe of Richmond county whose great estate still remains in the Tayloe family, with its famous mansion (wherein Major Wright was then, as doubtless, before and afterwards,and honored guest), after two hundred and fifty years of uninterrupted possession by the Tayloes. Francis Wright's name follows that of Tayloe in the formal order of precedence, based upon the personal position of the persons named, customary in official colonial documents of that time. (County Clerks office, Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia. Order book No. 3 Att a Court Held Att the house of Col. William Tayloe the 7th day of Sept. 1704 for the Examination of the Prisoners apprehended and taking Evidences Relating to the murder of John Rowley, two women and a child certain witnesses were examined; but the Justices of Richmond County not being empowered to try cases of life and limb by their commissions from King William and Queen Mary of England, the Governor and Council of Virginia, in view thereof and also realizing the great importance of this case, of a massacre by Indians, as having a most serious bearing upon Indian affairs in general and upon the peace of the immediate future, and having been informed that there was a conspiracy under way between Indians of several tribes to attack the white men, appointed four members of the Council of Virginia, the Speaker of the House of Burgesses and fifteen judges in the Northern Neck of Virginia to investigate the case and try the captured Indians at a special court ordered therefor. One of these special judges was Francis Wright, then a justice of Westmoreland County. The case was sufficiently important and of a present interest to warrant a presentation now of the substance of it, as the selection of Francis Wright as one of the judges in so important a matter may be considered as a compliment to his ability and position, he not being a resident of the county wherein the Indian trouble occurred. VIRGINIA SS ATT a Session of Oyer and Terminer begun att Richmond County Court house on Thursday the fifth day of October in the third yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Anne bythe Grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland Queene, Defender of the ffaith & c. and in the yeare of our Lord 1704, by Virtue of her Majesty Special Commision for Tryall of all Treasons, petty Treasons, ffelonies, Burglaryes, Murders, Thefts, Robberyes, Larcenyes, Ryots Fouts or unlawfull Assemblyes, Batterryes and Trespasses Committed made or done by any Indians in the said County of Richmond, and Especially of and Concerning the death and Murder of John Roley, Katherine Roley, William Roley, and Mary Webb, or any of them----TO John Lightfoot, Robert Carver, Phillip Ludwell and John Smith Esq. of the Council, Peter Beverley Gent., Speaker of the House of Burgesses, William Tayloe, Francis Wright, George Mason, John Cattlett, George Tayler, Samuel Peachey, William Underwood, Alexander Doniphan, John Deane, David Gwyn, John tarpley, Thomas Beale, William Robinson, Charles Barbe r and Joshua Davis, Gent. PRESENT Robert Carter Peter Beverly, Gent. John Smith Speaker of the house of Burgesses Esq. of the Council William Tayloe John Deane Francis Wright David Gwyn Gent. John Cattlett John Tarpley George Tayler Thomas Beale Samuel Peachy William Robinson William Underwood Joshua Davies Alexamder Doniphan Whereof the Prisoners at the Barr ( to witt Long Tom and Young Toby severally said and Acknowledged that they were Guilty, Old Mr. Thomas, Bearded Jack, Jack the fiddler, Tom Antony and George severally pleaded Not Guilty and for Tryall put themselves upon God and the Country. Then follows the long details of the trail, which, for lack of space we omit. This service by Major Francis Wright, as a special justice of a superior court of law and equity, has caused him to be accepted by the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames as an eligible ancestor. On March 25, 1707, Francis Wright of Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia Gentl. and John Wright son and heir - apparent of the sd Francis Wright sold to thomas Goff of Richmond County, planter, for five thousand pounds of tobacco, two hundred acres in Washington parish ( Deeds & Wills No. 3, pg. 4); also the same father and son on Oct. 8, 1709, for eight thousand pounds of tobacco, sold to John Washington 171 1/2 acres. (Deed book No. 2, pg. 153). Under the old colonial laws a husband often sold real estate that his wife had inherited, and sometimes sh ÿe failed to sign the deed; this left rights remaining to her children. The following deed by Anne (Mottrom) Wright's son, Francis Wright, forty-nine years after his father, Capt. Richard Wright, had sold the Nomini estate to his
(the latters) brother-in-law, Col. Nicholas Spencer (acting-governor of Virginia in 1683), renounced his inherited claim and confirmed the title to his cousin, Francis Spencer, thus emphasizing again the honorable and commendable character of the Wright Family. The subjoined deed also recounts three generations of the pedigree and defines the location of the great house in which Francis Wright and his son John resided (Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Deeds and Wills No. 7, page 230:) Wright's Sale to Spencer THIS INDENTURE made this 30th day of August in the yeare of Our Lord God One thousand Seven hundred and Eleven. BETWEEN Francis Wright of the parish of Cople in the County of Westmoreland on the One part, and Francis Spencer of the parish and County aforesaid on the other part. WITNESSETH that Whereas Richard Wright father of the aforesaid Wright formerly ( to Witt) the 18th day of August in the Yeare of Our Lord 1662 sold and conveyed Over unto Nicholas Spencer Esq. father of the aforesaid Francis Spencer a certain tract of land lying scituate on Nomony Bay containing nine hundred acres of land more or less Contained in certaine bounds in the said Deed menconed, which said Land was the Just right and inheritance of Anne, the daughter of Col. John Mottrom, and wife of the said Richard, and mother of the said Francis Wright; and forasmuch as the said Anne did not joyne in the said sale nor was any party to the said deed, nor did not pass her right in the said land as the law requires, and that by means thereof the same is descended & come to the aforesaid Francis Wright as heir at Law to his mother; therefore, he the said Francis Wright as well for and in consideration of the sum of Seven thousand pounds of good sound merchantable Tobacco in Cask to him in hand by the said Francis Spencer already paid and satisfyed, the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, and thereof and from every part and parcell therof he doth acquitt exonerate and forever discharge the said Francis Spencer his heirs, executors admrs. and assignes, as alsoe for divers Other good causes and consideracons him the said Francis Wright thereunto especially moveing, hath given granted release (etc.)....unto the said Francis Spencer the same in his actual possession now being, all that his the said Francis Wright his right and title of in and to the aforesaid tract of land Containing nine hundred acres bounded......(vizt) BEGINNING at a marked white Oake standing on the maine branch of King Copssco Pond at the head thereof by the road side that leads from the house of the said Wright to the said Spencer's, running thence a straight Course to a marked red Oake standing by a swamp or branch that issueth out of ArmsbyÕs Creek, and near the now dwelling house of Samuel Chamberlin, and thence down the said swamp Cove and Creek to the head line of the whole dividend of land of the aforesaid Wright or Mottrom, thence along the said head line and the water Courses of Nominy Bay to the mouth of King Copssco Pond, and up the said Pond according to the meanders thereof to the first menconed beginning white Oake.......TO HAVE AND TO HOLD etc)....forever (etc.)...Francis Wright (seal) Sealed and delivered in presence of D. McCarty, Nath. Pope. Westmorland SS At a Court held for the said County 29th day of August 1711 Francis Wright gentl...came into Court and acknowledged the above instrument to be his proper act and deed (etc).......Test Tho: Sorrell Dpty Cler. Com. Prd. Recordate sixto die Septembris 1711 Major Francis Wright, while sitting as president of the court in 1712 was again honored by the (acting) governor of Virginia with an appointment as sheriff, twenty years after his first shrievalty: (Westmoreland Orders & C 1705-1721, page 185d) At a Court held for the ds. County the 25th day of June 1712 Present Francis Wright Benj. Berryman Andrew Munroe Henry Ashton Burdett Ashton Richard Watts John Chilton Joseph Bayly Court Proclaimed Gentl. Justices & c. Wright Sworn Sheriff. Francis Wright Gentl: produced into Court a Commission form under the hand of Alexander Spotswood Esq her Majesties Lieut: Governor of Virginia appointing him Sheriff of Westmld county during her Majesties pleasure. And haveing first Engered into bond According to Law for his faithfull management of the office of Sheriff he took and oath of Sheriff of the County aforesaid accordingly. We may note the condescension, appreciation and sympathy of the colonial legislature of Virginia towards Sheriff Wright as expressed in its order that he be discharged paying Fees into the colonial treasury, doubtless partly in appreciation of the ill gentleman's action in voluntarily sending to the colonial capitol his under-sheriff to make a correction in the election return previously forwarded. Francis Wright did not live to complete his term as sheriff, but was able to carry out the collection and disbursement of taxes for the same year, 1712, to wit: (Westmoreland Orders & c. 1705-1721, pg. 200d. Court of 27 Nov. 1712) Upon Mocon of Francis Wright, gentl. Sheriff of this county of colleccon of the sd County Levy for this present year is granted him. Major Henry Ashton and Mr. John Chilton assuming to be his Securities for his due & true payment of the same according to proporccon. And it is ordered that each Tythable person in the County doe pay him the Sum of thirty pounds of Tobacco, and in case of their Refusal, that he make distress as the Law directs. And that he pay each Creditor in the aforesaid County his just Share & porporcon as the same is raised and Levyed on his behalfe: Following numerous entries in the court order book of a similar or minor nature, there stands on page 214 the record of the las recorded official act of Major Francis as sheriff of Westmoreland, to-wit: Court of 27 May 1713 Damorvel vs nup vic . p. Cox It was comanded Francis Wright gentl. late Sheriff of the said County that he should sumon Charnock Cox to answer Samuel Damorvel of a Plea on the Case for Eighteen thirty eight pounds of Tobacco due by acct. And the Sheriff return cepi crop. But for that the Defendent failed to appeare and noe baile being returned. Upon Mocon of the said Plaintiff Condiconal order passed against the said Sheriff According to Law. And upon the Sheriff's Mocon and attachment is granted him against the defendants Estate Returnable acccording to Law. DSET
The long intimate friendship between the Wrights and Washingtons suffered a mutual loss in the death of Capt. Lawrence Washington in March, 1698, whose will, naming his deceased sister Anne and her husband Francis Wright, conveys an esteemed impression of the social and intellectual position and material independence of these allied families. The Washingtons at this time resided along Pope's and Mattox ( Appomatox) creeks in the northern part
of Westmoreland near where the national memorial to the family: (Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds & Wills No. 2 pg. 133, etc) ÒItem I give and bequeath to my sister Anne Wright's children, one man Servant a piece of four or five years to serve or Three Thousand pounds of Tobacco to purchase the same, to be delivered or paid to them when they arrive to the age of twenty years old Item I give that land which I bought of my Brother Francis Wright,
being 200 acres lying near StorkeÕs Quarter, to my son John WashingtonÓ (etc) 11th day of March, Anno Dom. 1697-8. The Pulpett cloth of velvet bequeathed to Appomattox church by Lawrence Washington was stolen in 1715 and made into breeches, as was related in full by the present author in the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. XXVII, No. 1.
Anne (Washington) Wright had died before the date of his will, March 11, 1697-8, hence no bequest to her, and hence the reference of the testator to being buried by the side of my Father and Mother & neare my Brother and Sisters, in the family burying ground on the original Washington estate near Pope's Creek in Washington parish , Westmoreland, where now stands the tall granite shaft erected by an act of Congress. The death of Anne (Washington)
Wright, when aged under thirty-eight, is also established the deed of sale, executed by her only son John Wright and his father, of land she had inherited from her father Col. John Washington, viz: (Montross, Westmoreland county, Virginia. Book entitled Deeds & Wills No. 4 Page. 175)
Arrived VA 1655 & returned to England almost two years later, describing himself in a agreement with Mr. Hugh Lee of Virginia as "Richard Wright of London, Merchant, being homeward bound (that is to England) Northumberland County Record Book, 1652-1658 pg. 145; Tyler's Quarterly I, pb. 127." He returned to Virginia, and in 1657, became administrator of Col. John Mottrom's estate. The numerous references to Richard Wright, Gent; in the Northumberland and Westmoreland Records, indicate that he was a man of much influence and character. In 1661 with his brother-in-law , Col. Nicholas Spencer, he obtained a patent to 1100 acres of land at Piscattaway, on the Potomac, a part of which later was acquired by the Washington's, embracing the site of the present famous Mt. Vernon. In 1658 he secured a patent to 2200 acres upon the Potomac, between Lower Machodoc River and Nomini Bay, upon which his son, Francis Wright, settled. Richard Wright died in Chicacoan (called ÒCOANÓ for short) between Aug. 16 and Dec. 16, 1663, being the dates of the making and proof of his will. His will thus dated and proved appears in a much mutilated form in a Record Book in Northumberland County; WILL OF RICHARD WRIGHT (Abstract). He gives to his wife Anne one half of his land at Machodoc and Potomac Rivers---"that is the half that joins my brother Spencer (Nicholas Spencer, Esq., who married Frances Mottrom), with reversions at her death to his son Francis Wright; to wife two negroes named. All of the English servants, negroes not otherwise bequeathed and rest of personal estate in Virginia and Maryland to be divided into three equal parts, of which wife is to have one part and his three children the other two parts. To his son Mottrom Wright all his land on Elk Run, Md. To my --------land lying---------Francis -------for discharging education all my money in England. To daughter-------land in the -----of the Potomac. To my brother--------land at --------To my brother Nicholas Spencer, and my sister Mrs. Frances Spencer and Brother John Mottrom, each a rug. Brothers Spencer and Mottrom overseers. Cousin Matthew Merriton of London (merchant?) Overseer in England. The inventory of the personal estate of Mr. Richard Wright recorded March 10, 1663-43 was appraised at 23,334 lbs. tobacco. The widow of Richard Wright, Anne Mottrom Wright, married 2dly, David Fox, father of Hannah Fox, who married Anne's brother John Mottrom, Jr. After Fox's death in 1669 Anne married 3rdly, Col. St. Leger Codd, who died in Cecil County, Maryland, leaving according to his will, proved in Lancaster County, Virginia, April 8, 1708 sons James, Berkeley, St. Legar, and daughter Beatrice and Mary Paddison , (William and Mary Quarterly XVII, pg. 55). Issue of Richard Wright and Anne Mottrom, his wife, named in the will above, Mottrom, Francis, who married Anne Washington, Anne who married George Nicholas Hacke.
The widow of Richard Wright, Anne Mottrom Wright, married 2dly, David Fox, father of Hannah Fox, who married Anne's brother John Mottrom, Jr. After Fox's death in 1669 Anne married 3rdly, Col. St. Leger Codd, who died in Cecil County, Maryland. (William and Mary Quarterly XVII, pg. 55).
Anne Mottrom, daughter of Col. John Mottrom married Richard Wright (will dated Aug. 16, 1663; proved Dec. 10, 1663), and had issue 3 children; Mottrom, Francis, and Anne ( Anne married George Nicholas Hacke). After Richard Wright's death, his widow, Anne Mottrom, married David Fox, father of Hannah Fox, who married Major John Mottrom (second of the name). Fox died in 1669, when the widow Anne Mottrom, in 1670 married Col. St. Legar Codd, who died in Cecil County, Maryland, leaving, according to his will, proved in Lancaster, April 8, 1708, sons James, Berkeley, St. Legar, and daughter Beatrix and Mary Paddison.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, & that all the siblings except the youngest were born in TN. It in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
LDS Family Center lists Missouri as birthplace of all siblings.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, & that all the siblings except the youngest were born in TN. It in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
LDS Family Center lists Missouri as birthplace of all siblings.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, & that all the siblings except the youngest were born in TN. It in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
LDS Family Center lists Missouri as birthplace of all siblings.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, & that all the siblings except the youngest were born in TN. It in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
LDS Family Center lists Missouri as birthplace of all siblings.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, and in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
SRCE: The "Six Bulls" series, vol. 24, by Larry James, at the Neosho, Newton County (Missouri) library genealogy department, lists the birth/death dates given in this genealogy, and in turn lists its sources as the 1850 Census of Newton County and cemetery records of the Old Civil War Cemetery, located in Newtonia, Newton Co, MO.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Martin Ashby (b. 1760; m. Mir[i]am ___; he d. post 1790).
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Thomas Bryan Ashby (b. ca. 1762). [See esp. the following records of Fauquier Co., Va.: Marriage Bk. 1:1, Will Bk. 1:241 and 247, Deed Bk. 10:216, and Court Order Books 1:212 and 2:312; PEYTON, Hist. Augusta Co., 117; RITCHIE, 39
Mottrom Wright, son of Richard Wright and Anne Mottrom, his wife, married Ruth Griggs, daughter of Robert Griggs, of Lancaster County, and 2nd wife and widow of his Uncle John Mottrom. (Dec. 12, 1684, mention is made in Northumberland County Records that Mottrom Wright had married the daughter of Mr. Robert Griggs.) Mottrom Wright died in the parish of St. Dunstan's-in-th-East, Middlesex County, England (now county of London) in 1700, and the following is an abstract of his will. WILL OF MOTTROM WRIGHT Mottrom Wright, of Milend, St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, Merchant. To my daughter Frances 100 pounds and 700 acres of land on north side of Rappahannock Creeke in Virginia. To my son Mottrom Wright 600 pounds and all my lands in Virginia except the said 700 acres. to my cousin John Wright of Potomac River in Virginia 50 pounds of England. To each and every other of my children born of the body of my wife Ruth Wright, 20 shillings apiece and no more. The rest and residence to my two children Frances and Mottrom; if they die to go to my cousin John Wright. My son Mottrom to be brought up in the church of England. Executor Mottrom Wright. Overseer Capt. John Purvis. Witnesses: J. Sharpe, A.M., James Besouth, Hannah Bradley, Thomas Quilter. After the death of Mottrom Wright, his widow Ruth married Robert Gibson. Mottrom Wright, Jr. died without issue, and most of his property went to his sister Frances, who married Joseph Belfield. Cousin John Wright was the son of Major Francis Wright, who married Anne Washington. Genealogies of Virginia Families From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, VOLUME III. Heale-Muscoe
Mottrom Wright, son of Richard Wright and Anne Mottrom, his wife, married Ruth Griggs, daughter of Robert Griggs, and widow of his uncle John Mottrom. He died in England, in 1700. (Virginia Magazine XIII., 201), leaving issue: Mottrom; Frances; and other children, whose names are not known, but who probably died without issue.
Mottrom Wright, Jr. died without issue, and most of his property went to his sister Frances, who married Joseph Belfield.
Mottrom Wright , Jr. died without issue, and most of his property passed to Thomas Wright Bellfield, son of Frances Wright.
After the death of Mottrom Wright, his widow Ruth married Robert Gibson.
Date of birth from LDS Ancestrial File.
LDS File has two daughters Rosamond, one born abt 1734, another daughter born Abt 1749, will proved 23 Sep 1811.
Fauquier County Marriage Bonds by John K. Gott: Bondsmann Joseph Duncan.
LDS Ancestrial file has dod 1805, For a James Wright born Abt 1740, Fauquier Co VA. Another James Wright, Capt., born Abt 1743, (ID # B7LV-2L).
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
Thomas Wright was born on Feb. 18, 1758 to Ann Williams Wright and John
Wright III on his maternals grandmother' (Honour Williams) estate in Prince
William County, Virginia, that part which became Fauquier County in 1759.
In 1774, John Wright III, together with his family, departed through the Gap
in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the long Indian trail between the Ricge and
the Cumberland Mountains. The trail let southward to the Yadkin River in
North Carolina, then southwesterly from "Bigg Branch of the North Fork of
Hunting Creek" to the southwest corner of Surry County, now the County of
Yadkin to Buck Shoals at Deep Creek. It was here that the family settled.
In June 1776, at the age of eighteen, Thomas Wrigh volunterred for service to
help quell the Cherokee Indian uprisings . He served as private under the
command of Capt. Jacob Feree. After helping build Fort Defiance on the
Yadkin River, he received a verbal discharge, and returned home on Aug. 1776. A few days later, he volunteered again under Capt. Ferree, in Col. James
Martin's North Carolina Regiment, for further serrvice against the Cherokees.
He served three months and was verbally discharged. In the Spring 1780, he
volunteered as a minute man in the Revolutionary War, to help keep the Tories
in check. He served whenever called upon, under several different captains,
until the surrender of Cornwallis. His Revoluntionary War File No. is R.11,899. In February, 1833, Thomas Wright, who ate that time was senior magistrate for
the Surry County Court, applied for a military pension. He was placed on the
roll as a Revolutionary pensioner, entitled in seventy dollars per annum.
His Friend, Congressman Lewis Williams, attested to his character in his
letter to the Commissioner of Pensions, "In support of this claim, I must say
that the applicant, Thomas Wright is a respectable, as worthy, as reputable
as a man as any in the United States". Thomas Wright entered public life, as a member of the House of Commons in the General Assembly from 1800 to 1803. He was then elected to the Senate in 1807, serving a one year term. He was re-elected in 1810 and served continuously until 1817. It was between two of his various periods of enlistment for military service that Thomas Wright married Mary Clanton, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Clanton, of Surry County, on Jan. 7, 1780. This information was recorded on the leaf of Thomas Wright's bible, found among his pension papers. In December of 1778, Thomas Wright obtained a warrant for four hundred acres of land on the south fork of Deep Creek. Record of the survey was dted Sept. 27, 1779, Grant 576, issued Oct. 30, 1783. (File No. 577, Deed Book 53, Pg. 102, Dept. of State, Raleigh, NC). According to this record, it is believed that Thomas and Mary Clanton Wright settled down on a farm adjoining John Wright III's at the close of the Revolution. Unlike many of John Wright III's other children, Thomas maintained his residence in Surry County throughout his life. He was a prominent membr of Flat Rock Baptist Church, which was originally know as Petty's Meeting House. Thomas Wright died on June 22, 1840. His will, recorded in Surry Co., Will Book 4, pg. 175, dated June 1, 1838 names his eight children:
John Wright was born Sept. 23, 1781
Daniel Wright was born Aug. 13, 1784
Lucy Wright was born Oct. 27, 1786
Amelia Wright was born March 22, 1789
William W. Wright was born Feb. 26, 1791
Nancy Wright was born April 22, 1795
Thomas B. Wright was born Aug. 29, 1797
Polly Wright was born July 18, 1804.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Williams Wright, apparently the youngest son of John Wright III and Ann Williams, was born April 5, 1779 in Surry ( now Yadkin) Co., NC. There was already a son, William, in the family who was named for his father's brother in VA. So he was given his mother's maiden name. The tradition of have a William and Williams in the descendants families has become evident in the numerous lines. In his father's will dated Oct. 8, 1789, Williams was bequeathed 275 acres which included the homestead in Surry Co., his mother to have lifetime tenance on all but 100 acres. Williams died the same year that his mother died and probably never enjoy much of his inheritance. The Flat Rock Baptist Church Membership Roll shows Williams Wright for the year 1803 only. Williams was in Logan Co. KY, Aug. 1814 when he sold for $100 the land he inherited from his father, to William Brittain, his brother-in-law and husband of Rosanna/rosey Wright. According to the division of the estate of Williams Wright (Feb. 14, 1831
Madison Co. AL, probate record 5-313), he and Sarah had the following
children:
1. Elizabeth ( may have been known as Judy Eliza ) Wright
2. Williams Wright married first Alice B. Hewlett in 1841, married second
Emma Battle in 1859.
3. Lucinda Wright
4. John Wright, born 1807, married Mollie Stiger/Steger;
5. Nancy Wright who married Thomas McCrary/Creary
6. Cynthia Wright
7. Matilda Wright;
8. Harriett Wright, born May 21, 1821, died Dec. 6, 1853 , married James
William Woodruff. He was born Nov. 28, 1813, and died April 23, 1897.
Another record shows another daughter, Sally Wright, born Dec. 26, 1805, who
died Oct. 16, 1895. If she was a daughrer, why was she not mentioned in the
division of the estate in 1831.
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Agatha Wright was born about 1759/60, probably at the home of her widowed
Grandmother Honour Williams in Prince William County, VA. In 1759 that part
of Prince William County was formed into the new county of Fauquier. Agatha Wright came with her parents to Surry County (now Yadkin) in 1774. She was married in 1775 in Surry County, to Isaac Elsberry of Buck Shoals Township. He was born about `1751 Cecil County, Maryland. He was the son of
John Elsberry whose tract of land joined a tract that John Wright had claimed
in 1773. The Wright family was of the Baptist faith and the Elsberrys were
Methodists. When Isaac was 48 years of age, shortly after Sept. 26, 1803, with his wife , Agatha and their large family, they crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains to Ashe County,then over the Appalachians to the vicinity of Winchester, Clarke County, KY. Clarke County borders on Fayette County where so many of the Wrights and Rileys had gone previously. Agatha's sister, Frances had married Gerrard Riley; sister Sarah had married Ninian Riley, Jr.; Isaac's sister Sarah had married, Aug. 12, 1797, to John, another of the Riley brothers. Ninian Riley, Sr. and wife , Elizabeth were among those who left Surry and took the trail to KY. It was necessary for Agatha to part from her home of 26 years, her aging and widowed mother, some of her sisters and brothers, the grave of her father and the land she knew so well, to follow her husband and family. About 1805/6 Agatha and Isaac moved from KY to Clermont County, Ohio and settled on the East Fork of the Little Miama River. Isaac died there in 1813. His will is dated April 12, 1813, and proved Sept. 11, 1813. After her husbands death, Agatha moved to Xenio, Ohio, where she spent the remainder of her life in the home of her son, the Honorable Williams
Elsberry, lawyer, judge and legislator. She died about 1845/6 at the age of
85 years.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Amelia Wright was born about 1762 in Fauquier County, VA., the daughter of John Wright III and Ann Williams. She was about twelve years of age when she migrated with her parents to Surry ( now Yadkin) County, NC, in 1774. She died April 28, 1843 at Wilkesboro, NC.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Lucretia/Lucy Wright was born July 7, 1765, in Fauquier Co. VA the daughter of John Wright III and Ann Williams. She was about nine years of age when she accompanied the family to Surry Co. NC. With her husband and family and some of the Frosts and other neighbors Lucy migrated to Madison County, Al. about 1817. they both died there and are buried on the side of the road near Blucher's Ford. William died Sept. 26, 1834, and Lucy died Aug. 16, 1842. On the tombstones also are inscribed the birth dates of their thirteen children, all born in Wilkes County, NC.
REF: THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981: Daniel Wright was born Sept. 27, 1759, in Fauquier County, Virginia, the year the county was formed from Prince William. He was the son of John III and Ann Williams. He came south with the family in 1774. Daniel was a Captain in the North Carolina Line during the Revolution. His was a Company of Mounted Infantry. (See: Pension Certificate No. 13268, File N. W10016). The Yadkinville County Historical Land Grant map shows that he received a Grant in 1789 on Rocky Branch Creek about three miles from his father's land. Daniel Wright died in Madison County May 24, 1838. Nancy died in Madison County June 23, 1833, according to Wright W. Frost and July 21, 1833, in Sumner County , Tennessee, according to Clara Wright Forrest's records. WASHINGTON ANCESTRY, Vol. I, page 453, by Charles A. Hoppin, states that Daniel and Nancy were the parents of twenty-four children, so stated by a great-grandson, Dr. William R. Wright of Jackson, Mississippi, on Dec. 8, 1919. We have found the names of nine children only:
1. Thomas Wright, born Dec. 15, 1782 Surry County North Carolina, died Feb.
14, 1844, in Laurens County, South Carolina. He owned a plantation near
Young's Store in Laurens County. He was married Sept. 22, 1812, Laurens
County, SC to Nancy Simpson, born Dec. 22, 1794, died March 19, 1880. She
was the daughter of Col. John Simpson and Mary Wells. They had twelve
children, all born in Laurens County, SC.
2. Daniel Wright, No further information
3. Nancy Wright married Mr. Shackleford. No further information.
4. Lucinda/Lucy Wright married Mr. Wyche. No further information.
5. Elizabeth/Betsy Wright deceased before July 2, 1837. She married Thomas
McCrary. He married second, Nancy Wright who was his first wife's cousin and daughter of Williams Wright and Sally Mitchell. Elizabeth and Thomas had three daughters. He died Aug. 31, 1865.
6. Amelia Wright, no further information
7. James Wright, no further information
8. John Wright, born Sept. 19, 1790, in Surry County (now Yadkin) and died
January 2, 1847, in Tate County, Mississippi. He married May 5, 1819, to
Mary Yarrell Wood, born Oct. 31, 1803, and died 1865 in Tate County. There
is a record of one chold; there may have been others.
9. William Wright married Nov. 9, 1804, Betsy Hanes.
Daniel Wrights will dated July 1837 names only JOhn, Thomas, Daniel, Nancy
Lucinda and deceased Elizabeth.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): RITCHIE, 64-67; RITCHIE, Supi, 36;453-454; CASSTEVENS, 679; DAR P.1., 764; J.A.W., Outline, 12121-49) Daniel Wright (b. Sept. 27, 1759; served in Rev. War, Capt.,
N.C. Continental line & militia; m. [Jan. 24, 1782) Nancy Young [b. July 7, 1762; d. June 23g 1833); they res. in Surry Co., N.C., and later Laurens Co., S.C., before finally settling in Madison Co., Ala.; he d. May 24, 1838; they allegedly had 24 children). [HOPPIN, W.A., 1:452-453; RITCHIE, 68-70 and Sup2, 83;
MATHES, TQ 8 (1927) 194-198, citing Capt. Daniel Wright's Rev. War pension record as vol. 14, Senate Doc. 514, 23rd Congress, 1st session, 1833-1834; LB-
NSDFPA, 29:380-381 and 30:235; FGS by RCH; J.A.W., Outline, 12121-5)
Named for his father's brother in VA.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Rosanna Wright was born in 1782 in Surry Co. (now Yadkin), NC. She was the daughter of John Wright III and Ann Williams. Her tombstone shows her birth year as 1784. She died Oct. 29, 1856, Hamilton, Shelby Co. Tx. William and Rosanna are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery. The graves are marked with a tall monument with inscription for each on the sides. In her father's will dated 1789, Rosanna is called Rosey. She was to receive 160 acres. Rosey was about seven years of age when her father died. Rosanna/rosey Wright and her husband, Rev. William Brittain, left Surry Co. in 1824 and migrated to Madison Co. AL . In Sept. 1827, they went to Pulaski Co., AK. On Jan 18, 1837, they moved on to Shelby Co., TX, where they finished out their lives. They were the parents of nine children, all born in Surry Co., NC.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Margaret Wright was born about 1774 the year her family migrated from Fauquier Co. VA to Surry (now Yadkin) County, NC. She was the daughter of John Wright III and Ann Williams. According to the Flat Rock Baptist Church Membership Roll, she was on the Roll for the year 1789 and does not appear after that. In her father's will she is called Peggy and was to receive Ten Pounds, and also to share in the division of land bequeathed to her mother.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant): Margaret( she spelled her last name Write), and Samuel Marsh left Surry County in 1810. By this time they had eight children. Land transactions recorded in the University of KY Library, Lexington, KY, show that Samuel Marsh bought land June 10, 1811, in Harrison Co. KY. (Deed Book 3, pp. 353 and 354). They settled near New Liberty, Harrison Co., KY, where two more children were born. It appears that Samuel died in Harrison Co. about 1815. There is a record regarding the Samuel Marsh heirs dated May 13, 1817. Margaret was left alone to rear her large family. She was living in 1821.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
Isaac Elsberry of Buck Shoals Township. He was born about `1751 Cecil County, Maryland. He was the son of John Elsberry whose tract of land joined a tract that John Wright had claimed in 1773. According to the Yadkin County Historical Land Grant Map, Isaac Elsberry had two Land Grants, one on Miller's Creek, a tributary to the South Fork of Deep Creek (C-3) in 1778 and the second on Rocy Brance (C-2) in 1779. Isaac had a sister, Elizabeth who married Latham, a sister Catherine who married-Maxwell and a brother, John Elsberry Jr. About 1805/6 Agatha and Isaac moved from KY to Clermont County, Ohio and settled on the East Fork of the Little Miama River. Isaac died there in
1813. His will is dated April 12, 1813, and proved Sept. 11, 1813.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
John Elsberry was born in 1776 in Surry Co., NC and drowned in the Little
Miami River, Clermont Co. Ohio, between 1820/21. His body was never
recovered. He was a shoemaker. He married Feb. 26, 1799, in Surry Co. to
Pamelia/Mill Husbands. She was born 1773 and died 1849/50, and is buried in
Laurel Methodist Cemetery near Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio. She was
the daughter of Robert Husbands. The Elsberrys and the Husbands took
different sides in the Revolutionary War. The Elsberrys were Patriots and
the Husbands were Tories. The Husbands disapproved of the marriage mostly
because of John's trade. John and Milly had ten children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. She was born 1773 and died 1849/50, and is buried in Laurel Methodist Cemetery near Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Robert Husbands. The Elsberrys and the Husbands took different sides in the Revolutionary War. The Elsberrys were Patriots and the Husbands were Tories. The Husbands disapproved of the marriage mostly because of John's trade. John and Milly had ten children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Robert Martin was born Aug. 1, 1767, in Fluvanna County, VA and died Dec. 1, 1842 at Wilkesboro, NC. He was the son of Benjamin Martin and Dinah Harrison. Dr. Martin left a will in
Wilkes County (Will Book 4, Pg. 297, dated Sept. 11, 1842, and proved the
following Nov.).
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. William served as a Private from North Carolina in the Revolutionary War and was pensioned. (Pension File No. 7070)
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
WRIGHT FAMILY OF ENGLAND AS RECORDED IN BURKE'S COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
This WRIGHT family is one of remote antiquity in the north of England and
has been settled for centuries in the county of York. JOHN WRIGHT, of Plowland, in Holderness, wedded at the close of the 14th century, Alice, daughter and co-heir of John Ryther, son and heir of Gilbert Ryther, the son of Sir William Ryther who was a knight.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. He was born 1772 (Census Record) and 1774 ( according to his tombstone inscription) and died Sept. 16, 1850, in Shelby Co., TX. William and Rosanna are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery. The graves are marked with a tall monument with inscription for each on the sides. William Brittain was an ordained Baptist Minister and served for a time at the Flat Rock Baptist Church. (See: Dr. Paschell's Hist. of the Baptist Church). He received for his services, an annual stipend of $12, a great coat and food for himself and family. He operated a large farm with the help of his children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. In the Census of Surry Co. 1810, Samuel is listed as being 50 years old or older. So he was born about 1760 or earlier. It is possible that he came from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Surry County. On the Yadkin Co. Historical Land Grant Map there is a John Marsh with a Grantin 1787 (B-1). Was John the father of Samuel?
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant): Margaret( she spelled her last name Write), and Samuel Marsh left Surry County in 1810. By this time they had eight children. Land transactions recorded in the University of KY Library, Lexington, KY, show that Samuel Marsh bought land June 10, 1811, in Harrison Co. KY. (Deed Book 3, pp. 353 and 354). They settled near New Liberty, Harrison Co., KY, where two more children were born. It appears that Samuel died in Harrison Co. about 1815. There is a record regarding the Samuel Marsh heirs dated May 13, 1817. Margaret was left alone to rear her large family. She was living in 1821.
REF: THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981: Thomas Wright, born Dec. 15, 1782 Surry County North Carolina, died Feb. 14, 1844, in Laurens County, South Carolina. He owned a plantation near Young's Store in Laurens County.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
REF: REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Served as cpl., Co. I, 34th Miss. Inf., CSA, which fought in the Army of Tenn. from Chickamauga to Atlanta and later in Hood's disastrous Tenn. campaign, with the remnants finally surrendering in N.C.
REF: REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): 0. P. Wright was nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the Civil War and is not listed in the fairly complete roster of Confederate soldiers found in the CICS and RCS. According to official Miss. state records [see Wiltshire], however, he did serve at least briefly in the 23rd Miss. Inf., CSA. This regt. was captured at the surrender of Ft. Donelson and later fought at Vicksburg and finally in the Army of Tenn.'s campaigns in Ga., Tenn., and N.C.).
Wister and Lucy were Brother-in-law and Sister-in-law.
Living in 1835.
Dr. Medlock from "Genealogy of the Wright Family" also has son Richard B. 1730? not mentioned in father's will.
LDS File has two daughters Rosamond, one born abt 1734
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Amelia Wright. A shadowy figure, she is not to be confused with "Amelia W. Holding, consort of Richard
Holding and daughter of Capt. William Wright, died Feb. 18, 1846 in the 39th year of her age"; see P.P. [to J.A.W., 2/21/1955 in J.A.W., UGS #3) who notes the
tombstone records collected by Mrs. Gandrud frail the Holding Place, Triana Rd., Madison Co., Ala.).
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): Rev. James Thomas Marsh, born Jan. 3/13, 1793, died Sept. 17, 1840, in Clay Co. MO and buried Mt. Memorial Cemetery, Liberty, MO. He married on May 20, 1817, in Fayette Co., KY, Martha/Patsy Riley, born Oct. 28, 1800, in Cynthiana, KY. died January 10, 1882, in Clay Co. MO. and is buried beside her husband.(Tombstone Inscription). Patsy was the daughter of Ninian Riley, Jr., and Sarah Wright. In 1827 James and Patsy migrated to Clay Co. MO, and settled on Bear Creek nine miles north of Liberty. We have much information on Patsy's family but could not identify Rev. James Marsh until recently. It is most interesting to learn that he was a son of Margaret/Peggy (Wright) Marsh who was a sister of Sarah (Wright) Riley, being daughters of John Wright III and Ann Williams. We suspected there was a connection between Samuel Thomas Marsh and Rev. James Marsh.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright):
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): He lived near Holt, MO. He was buried at Plattsburg, MO and later the remains were moved to Mt. Zion Cemetery between Plattsburg and Holt. He married Frances-----? and had two or more children.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): Susan Marsh, born about 1810 , in Surry Co. NC, married Frederick Kneaves who died in Illinois. With her brother Samuel's help she took the body back to KY. She had two young children at the time of her husband's demise.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): . Samuel Wright Marsh born Feb. 14, 1814 in Harrison ( now Owen Co.) KY. He died Dec. 19, 1892, in Gentry Co. MO aged 78 years, ten months and five days. He is buried in the Berlin Cemetery, Gentry, MO. He bought land and settled near Kearney, Clay Co. MO., close to some of his Wright, Riley, and Allnutt kin. He married first on July 17, 1843, Emily (thomason) Hadley, born June 6, 1818, in Todd Co. KY and died about 1872. They had three daughters. In 1854, he owned land in Clinton Co., MO. northeast of Lineville until the War Between the Sates. In 1860, because of his Union sympathy, he sold his land and freed his slaves then moved his family north to Gentry Co. near Berlin. Samuel Write Marsh married second on Nov. 30, 1873, Tempa Ferguson. She was born May 31, 1841, in Green Co., Indiana, the daughter of Dr. Overton Baker Ferguson and Mary Long. Samuel and Tempa had four children.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): John O'Bannon [tentatively styled "Jr." by J.A.W. According to Sundberg-Gott's recent study of the O'Bannon family, however, he was probably the son of William O'Bannon, and thus the 1st cousin, once removed of Lt. Presley Neville O'Bannon, USMC, hero in the capture of Tripoli during the war against the Barbary Pirates].
REF: Carla Orcutt: On October 14, 1700 at Stafford County court before John Washington, Gentlemen Justice, Dade Massey, aged 21, and William Garner, age 20, deposed that on October 10, 1700 they were at the house of Captain Richard Fossaker in Saint Paul's Parish where Richard Wright lay upon his death bed and he said it was his will that Mary Ellis hav his son William and Gilbert Alsop have his son Richard and that Alsop should administer upon his estate. Gilbert Alsop acted as Wright's administrator and return an inventory of it on April 8, 1701. William Wright (circa 1700-1789) married Rosamond (Rosanna), surname unknown, and the births of their five children are of record in The Register of Overwharton Parish. After her death on March 16, 1753, William Wright married Mary Brent on Oct. 18, 1753; she predeceased him. In his old age he moved to Fredericksburg and the Virginia Herald of Octo. 15, 1789 announced his death: "DIED; ON MONDAY LAST, MR. WILLIAM WRIGHT, AGED 89 YEARS". His last Will and Testament remains of record.
REF: Carla Orcutt On October 14, 1700 at Stafford County court before John Washington, Gentlemen Justice, Dade Massey, aged 21, and William Garner, age 20, deposed that on October 10, 1700 they were at the house of Captain Richard Fossaker in Saint Paul's Parish where Richard Wright lay upon his death bed and he said it was his will that Mary Ellis hav his son William and Gilbert Alsop have his son Richard and that Alsop should administer upon his estate.
Gilbert Alsop acted as Wright's administrator and return an inventory of it
on April 8, 1701.
REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): HAYDEN, 450-451, adds a third child--Miriam Ashby; this is extremely dubious, for she is nowhere cited in any of the extensive abstracts of relevant Fauquier Co., Va. records collected by PP in J.A.W., U.G.S., #4, PP correspondence, 10/9/1959.
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John Wright and Ann Williams were married in 1753, Fauquier County, Virginia.
Ann outlived him by thirty-six years and died at age 90, Oct. 1825, in Surry
County.
The marriage of Ruth Griggs, daughter of Robert Griggs, to Mottrom Wright would be perfectly legal now, but at the time to marry the widow of one's uncle came within the degrees of affinity prohibited by the law. No one appears to have objected to the marriage, however, but after at least 10 years of marriage, Mrs. Wright's conscience became unnessarily sensitive on the subject, and there is a record in Lancaster County of a bond dated Oct. 2, 1684; according to which Mottrom Wright agreed to live separate and apart from his wife, paying her suitable alimony and schooling the daughter Frances he had by her.
Married Joseph Bellfield, of Richmond County. (Deed in Lancaster, March 9, 1725.).
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It was between two of his various periods of enlistment for military service that Thomas Wright married Mary Clanton, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Clanton, of Surry County, on Jan. 7, 1780. This information was recorded on the leaf of Thomas Wright's bible, found among his pension papers.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. n Jan. 12, 1786, in Surry Co., Amelia was married to Dr. Robert Martin. Her brother John Wright, Jr. signed as bondsman.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. On January 25, 1783, Lucy, as she was known all of her life, was united in marriage with William Eli Petty born March 13, 1764, in either Stafford or Fauquier Co., VA. Mr. Charles A. Hoppin states that Lucy married Rev. William Petty. Mrs. Frost, who is a descendant, has evidence from a family Bible, court and tombstone records to prove the Rev. William Petty was the father of William Eli Petty, the Patriot who married Lucy Wright.
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On Jan. 24, 1782, Daniel Wright was united in marriage to Nancy Young,
daughter of Thomas Young of Iredell County, North Carolina. She was born in
Virginia July 7, 1762. Nancy had a sister Susan, who married Major William
Gill, Aide to General Washington (See: DAR Patriot Index).
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. There is a Marriage Bond in Surry Co., dated March 15, 1803, that shows Rosanna Wright married William Brittain.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Margaret/Peggy was united in marriage March 24, 1792, in Surry Co. to Samuel Thomas Marsh. Her brother, Thomas Wright, signed the Marriage Bond.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. She was born 1773 and died 1849/50, and is buried in Laurel Methodist Cemetery near Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Robert Husbands. The Elsberrys and the Husbands took different sides in the Revolutionary War. The Elsberrys were Patriots and the Husbands were Tories. The Husbands disapproved of the marriage mostly because of John's trade. John and Milly had ten children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Williams Elsberry, born June 17, 1783, in Surry Co., NC died in Xenia, Ohio, date not available. He was a lawyer, judge and legislator. He married Dec. 3, 1813, in Xenia, Green County, Ohio, Elizabeth McKee Miller, they had one child who died young.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
He was married Sept. 22, 1812, Laurens County, SC to Nancy Simpson, born Dec. 22, 1794, died March 19, 1880. She was the daughter of Col. John Simpson and Mary Wells. They had twelve children, all born in Laurens County, SC.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981 John Wright, born Sept. 19, 1790, in Surry County (now Yadkin) and died January 2, 1847, in Tate County, Mississippi. He married May 5, 1819, to Mary Yarrell Wood, born Oct. 31, 1803, and died 1865 in Tate County. There is a record of one chold; there may have been others.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Sarah/Sally Martin, born Sept. 5/15, 1794, in Surry Co. died July 13, 1864, in Wilkes Co. NC. She married March 28, 1815, in Surry Co. to William Williams Wright, born Feb. 26, 1791, died Dec. 4, 1870 in Wilkes Co. NC. Both are buried on the Wright Homestead, Hunting Creek, Wilkes Co. Sarah and William were first cousins. He was the son of Thomas Wright and Mary Clanton. Thomas was a brother of Amelia. Sarah and William were parents of seven children all born in Surry Co.
Sarah/Sally Elsberry, born about 1780, Surry County, NC died 1858, Buchanan County, Missouri. She was married Aug. 12, 1797, in Surry County to John Riley, born 1778 in Maryland, died 1855, Buchanan County, Missouri. He
was the youngest of Ninian Riley, Sr., and Elizabeth Taylor.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. He married Eunice Morris and they lived and died in Springfield MO.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Susannah Elsberry, born in Ashe County NC. She married Benjamin Morris, brother to Eunice Morris.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. William Martin, born ABT 1788, in Surry Co. and married about 1805 to Matilda Mitchell. They went to Madison Co. AL.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Williams W. Martin, born about 1790, in Surry Co. died abotu 1840 before his father's will was wirtten. He married Mary--? and had issue. They went to Franklin Co., Tennessee.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Diana Harrison Martin, born abot 1792, in Surry Co. died about 1837. She married her first cousin Eli William Petty, born Dec. 26, 1786, and died July 1854. He was the son of William Eli Petty and Lucretia/Lucy Wright. Lucy and Amelia were sisters. Eli and Diana settled in Franklin County, Tennessee and had issue.
HE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Ameila/Matilda Martin, born Jan. 2, 1800, in Wilkes Co., NC and died Sept. 19, 1877. She married on Jan. 4, 1825, Samuel Powell Smith, a Baptist Minister. He was born ca. 1805 in Rowan Co. NC. They were the parents of nine children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. John Wright Petty, born Feb. 28, 1791, died Sept. 25, 1876, married on March 19, 1817, Ann Harris. She was born Jan. 18, 1798 and died June 13, 1869. They went to Madison Co. AL. They had thirteen children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Zachariah Petty, born May 28, 1793, died July 8, 1854, in Madison Co. AL. He married on Jan. 2, 1823, Rebekah Shackleford who was born Laurens County, SC, the daughter of Richard Shackleford and Ann Roberts. Zachariah and Rebekah are the great-great-grandparents of Mrs. Wright W. Frost.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): He married first on July 17, 1843, Emily (Thomason) Hadley, born June 6, 1818, in Todd Co. KY and died about 1872. They had three daughters.
SRCE: Harold C. Marsh, Nashville, TN (a descendant of Samuel Thomas Marsh & Margaret "Peggy" Wright): Samuel and Tempa had four children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Daughter, name not preserved, born 1803/4 died 1846/7, married Thomas J. McKee, born 1801 in NC. Eventually the family went to Pulaski Co., AK (1830) and on to Hopkins Co., TX (1850) where he is shown with six children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. James S. Brittain, born 1806, died between 1850 and 1860, in Shelby Co., TX. He married Sarah/Sary---? about 1835, probably in White Co., AK. She was born 1816 in KY. Both died Shelby Co., TX. They had eight children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Cynthia Brittain, born 1809, died Feb. 1869, in Shelby Co., TX. She married Nov. 13, 1827, in Madison Co., AL , Lihue Wilburn, born 1801 in Georgia, son of W.W. Wilburn and Frances----? Lihue and Cynthia went to Shelby Co., TX in Jan. 1837. They were the parents of eight children. Cynthia died in Feb. 1869 and Lihue married again and reared a second family.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. John William Brittain, born May 10, 1810, died Jan. 18, 1888 , in Hamilton Co., TX. He married about 1839, probably in White Co., ARK to Lorinda Smalleys, born Sept. 17, 1818, in Ark. and died Oct. 18, 1885, in Hamilton Co., TX. Both buried Hamilton Cemetery. They were the parents of nine children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Williams Martin Brittain, born 1812/15, died March 13, 1880, in Shelby Co., TX. He married Elizabeth Ann/Betsy Haley, born 1828, died Feb. 2, 1901. Both are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery. She was the daughter of Richard Haley, R., and Serena McCreary who were both born in NC. Williams and Betsy were the parents of ten children.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Thomas Franklin Brittain, born Jan. 7, 1815/17, and died June 22, 1892, in Hamilton, TX. He married first on March 13, 1843, Jane L. Latham, born April 25, 1827, in Tx, and died Nov. 22, 1859, in Hamilton. Both are buried Hamilton Cemetery. There were eight children by the first marriage.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Thomas F. Brittain married secon on January 17, 1861. Nancy Thomas Scruggs, born Sept. 30, 1833, in AL, died Nov. 4, 1919, and buried in the Patroon Cemetery, Shelby Co., TX. She was the daughter of Jesse T. Scruggs and Mary A.J. McGuire. Five children by the second marriage.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Elizabeth Brittain was born in 1818. Surry Co., N.C. Her death date is not avilable. She married probably in Arkansas, first Rayborn B. Haley. He died before Sept. 29, 1847, in Leon Co. TX. There were six children by first marriage.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. She married second John Cummings in Leon Co. He was born in 1799 in SC. There were four children by second marriage.
THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981. Robert T. Daniel Brittain, born April 1822, in Surry Co., NC., died Dec. 10, 1893. He married Narcissa Sarah A. (Jordon) Schooler, born 1828, in SC. She was the widow of Ricer Andrew Schooler by whom she had two daughters. Robert adopted the girls and they died young and are buried in the same plot with William and Rosey Wright. Robert died without issue. He and Narcissa are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery.
Had five children.
REF: Carla Dorcutt: Had 14 children of which 9 lived.
"History of Pittsylvania Co, VA" by Carter Clement, p 284, list of Tithables 1767, James Garner & Thomas Garner
"Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution" by John H. Gwathney, p 298, Thomas Garner, 13th VA Regiment, Continental Line
VA tax records from "VA magazine of History" Wm & Mary Coll Quarterly, & "Tyler's Quarterly", p 304, Thos Garner, p 324
"Garner-Keene Families of Northern neck VA" by Ruth Ritchie & Sudie R. Wood
Eleanor Harris, researcher at TN State Library, comm. by Mary C. Bowen 1981-84
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