From Cuttlers' New England Families and Genealogical Memorial pages 1986 & 1991 -1192

The surname Wright belongs to a very numerous and ancient English family. The ancestry of the American family has been traced for several generations in England. The Wright coat-of-arms is described: Azure two bars in chief three leopards or. Crest: out of a ducal coronet or, a dragon's head proper.

This family can be definitely traced in England for four generations prior to the immigration to America of Thomas Wright, who came here some time before the year 1640. In old England, where family names were first assumed, who wrought metals was called Semith, and he who wrought in wood was called Wright, hence both are classed as names derived from occupations.

Thomas Wright, son of John Wright, was born in England, November 19, 1610, and died at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1670. He was the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the family. "Stiles' Ancient Wethersfield," vol. i, Page 317, says that:

Thomas Wright, the settler, came from Watertown before 1639. He had one homestead. three and one-half acres on the west side of High street, on which his house was built; probably before 1639; Robert Abbott, north, and Samuel Clark, south.
Another homestead was received in 1654, a house, barn and five acres of land, bought of Samuel Hale, on the west side of Back street, between Luke Hitchcock, north, and land belonging to Matthew Griswold, south.
He bought of Richard Belden a lot of twenty and a half acres in Westfield in 1654. He became by purchase the owner of a large part of the Great Island, thereafter known as "Wright's Island," which mostly he gave to his sons, Thomas and James, who bought other parcels of the island. Thomas had the north part and James the south part.
Vol. ii, page 851, of the same work, says: "Thomas Wright came first probably to Watertown, Massachusetts. Was of the Massachusetts court of assistance before the colonial government was established in Boston, and removed to Wethersfield, probably about 1639. He was recognized as a man of influence and high standing. A house lot of three acres is recorded to him in Wethersfield, December 11, 1640, but his principal estate was an island in the river called by the Indians 'Mannahannock' (Great Laughing Place); the Indians used to meet there and have games and wrestling, part of which ever since and is now owned by his lineal descendants."
Thomas Wright was a deputy to the general court of Connecticut in 1643, selectman in 1658, and later commissioner on town lines. He was made foreman, May 11, 1654, was constable in 1668-69, and on the court jury at Hartford during the latter year. He brought with him from England a wife and five children. He married (second) May 2, 1647, Margaret, widow of John Elsen, who had been killed by the Indians in the Wethersfield massacre of 1637. Before her marriage to Elsen she was the wife of High Hilliard, by whom she had three children-Ben, Job and John. She died in 1670-71. Her will, dated January 19, 1670, mentions her grandson William, son of Job Hillier, deceased; Margaret Woustan and Sarah Holamouth, daughters of her son, Benjamin Hillier, and the wife of her son, Thomas Wright.

Children by first wife of Thomas Wright:
James;
Joseph, born about 1639;
Thomas;
Samuel,
Lydia.

My line is of their son Samual Wright who married Mary Butler. Their daughter Hannah married Daniel Bordman (Boreman).

Note: Cuttler lists Hannah's sister Mary as being married to Daniel, while the Bordman genealogy has him married to Hannah.

See direct line to my NY Terrys

Other Interesting Information about the Wrights
Lines from England
From: New England Families and Genealogical Memorial

There is a history available on them, written 1860 by George William Wright titled:
The Wright family; descendants of the Wryta family of Bayeux, Normandy, to England in 1066, with some of the descendants in America of the Kelvedon line of Sir John Wright, of Kelvedon hall, county Essex, England, and of the Kilvestone line of Sir Thomas Wright, of Kilvestone hall, county Norfolk, England, with additional genealogies of the Turner, Belsher, Riley, Lingo, and Blakely families.
Call Number:
CS 71 .W92 1929

The Wrights have a long history and there is lots of information out there on the internet about them.