John WRIGHT, Sr.

1716 - Bef 1790  (< 73 years)

• Name	John WRIGHT
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	4 Nov 1716	Chester County, PA
  Gender	Male
  AFN	1CV5-2H
  Will	17 Sep 1789	Newberry County, SC
  Death	Bef 7 Jun 1790	Newberry County, SC
  Probate	7 Jun 1790	Newberry County, SC
  Notes	(1) Kerns, Wilmer L., Frederick County, Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1995, pp. 152-153: Children of John and Rachel (Wells) Wright were: a. William Wright was born Jan. 2, 1738 at Monocacy Valley, Prince George['s] County, Maryland. William married Leah Tansey at Cane Creek Meeting in Orange County, N.C., on 15th day, 5th month, 1758. b. Mary Wright was born July 24, 1739. She married Joel Brooks, son of Mathew and Elizabeth Brooks, Sept. 20, 1756. c. Joseph Wright was born Dec. 12, 1740 and died before 1789. He married a woman named Charity, and nothing further is known about him at this time. d. Margaret Wright was born Nov. 12, 1742. She married John Hammer and Joseph Hollingsworth. e. Charity Wright was born 12th day, 2nd month, 1745 in Prince George['s] County, Maryland and died Nov. 13, 1822 in Clinton County, Ohio. Charity was a Quaker minister. She married Isaac Cook, son of Thomas and Mary Cook. Isaac was born in 1743 and died Jan. 15, 1820 in Ohio. f. Rachel Wright was born Nov. 10, 1747. She married John Coate. g. John Wright was born Dec. 12, 1748 in Prince George['s] County, and died circa 1790 in Newberry County, S.C. He married Jemima Haworth, daughter of James and Sarah (Wood) Haworth, Oct. 10, 1768. Jemima was born in 1748 and died Aug. 14, 1828 in Highland County, Ohio. h. Sarah Wright was born Dec. 23, 1749 in Orange County, N.C. and died Nov. 18, 1789 in South Carolina. She married James Brooks. i. Hannah Wright was born Sept. 27, 1751 in Orange County, N.C. She married James Farmer (or Parmer). j. James Wright was born May 28, 1753 and died Oct. 19, 1812 in Clinton County, Ohio. He married Sarah Haworth, daughter of James and Sarah Haworth, Aug. 27, 1774. Sarah was born March 12, 1756, and died also in Clinton County, on Feb. 9, 1831. k. Susannah Wright was born April 16, 1755 in Orange County, and died July 30, 1830 at West Milton, Ohio. She married Isaac Hollingsworth (1737-1809) on Dec. 12, 1772 at Bush River Meeting (S.C.). Susannah was a Quaker minister. l. Elizabeth Wright was born Dec. 15, 1756. She married Gabriel McCool, son of James and Ann (Wright) McCool, on Dec. 15, 1773. m. Nathan Wright was born Oct. 7, 1758, and died circa 1805 in Newberry County, S.C. He married Elizabeth Jay in 1778. n. Keziah Wright was born in Newberry County, S.C. in 1763 and died before 1789. She married William Hanks. She moved to Ohio after the death of her husband. o. Isaac Wright was born June 13, 1764 in Newberry County, and died Feb. 20, 1844 in Howard County, Indiana. He married Susannah Haworth, daughter of Richard and Ann Haworth, Feb. 19, 1784, in Green County, Tennessee. Susannah was born July 27, 1777, and died in Howard County. (2) Hinshaw, William Wade, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. I [Reprint], Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994, pp. 369, 1053: CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING Union County, South Carolina Cane Creek Meeting was located on the Tiger River, in Union County, in the west-central part of South Carolina. A meeting for worship was authorized by Quarterly Meeting held at Cane Creek, North Carolina, in 11th month, 1775. A meeting had been established at Padgets Creek, in the same county, in 1774. These two meetings were attached to Bush River Monthly Meeting until 1789, when Cane Creek Monthly Meeting was established by action of New Garden Quarterly Meeting, with preparative meetings at Cane Creek and Padgets Creek. The first sitting of the Monthly Meeting was held the 21st of 11th month, 1789. The committee appointed by the Quarterly Meeting, to attend the opening, included John Sanders, William Stanley, Joseph Hiatt, Tristram Barnard, Barnabas Coffin and James Thornbrugh. Some of the women Friends who were early members of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, (names taken from the first pages of the women's minutes) included Keziah Bray, Elizabeth Comer, Elizabeth Cook, Martha Cook, Mary Cook, Prudence Cooper, Tamar Cox, Margaret Edmundson, Rebekah Fincher, Ann Hawkins, Edith Harlan, Lydia Highatt (Hiatt), Margaret Hunt, Sarah Lamb, Mary Marshall, Mary Milhous, Rebekah Milhous, Esther Parnell, Sarah Russell, Masse Sanders, Hannah Smith, Olive Smith, Mary Talbot, Phebe Whitson, Dinah Wilson. Only a few certificates of removal were received and issued by the meeting between 1789 and 1803. In 1803 the migration to the north-west began with a few families, who received certificates to Westland Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania. In 1804, a few more obtained certificates to Miami Monthly Meeting, Ohio. The migration became general in 1805, when more than twenty certificates, most of them for families, were issued to Miami. Four more were recorded in 1806. Three others, dated in 3rd month, 1807, but not recorded in the minute book, were received at Miami. When the people of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting removed to Ohio they took the records with them. The book of records of births and deaths was continued in use by Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting, Ohio, and remains in the possession of that meeting to this day. Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting was largely made up of former members of Cane Creek Meeting, South Carolina. The books containing the marriage records and the minutes of the women's meeting were returned to North Carolina Yearly Meeting after more than one hundred years. The book of minutes of the men's meeting has not been found. A copy of the Cane Creek-Caesars Creek birth records, containing also much collateral data, compiled by the late Kirk Brown, of Baltimore, is now in the care of North Carolina Yearly Meeting. From this book there is reproduced on the following pages all material which appears to have been in the original record book before it left South Carolina. Later births and other material, added in later years to complete these family records begun in the South, have also been included. To insure accuracy, all this has been checked with the original book, at Caesars Creek. Following these extracts from the birth records is an abstract of the women's minutes and the marriage records. * * * John Wright, s. James & Mary, b. 11-4-1716, Chester Co., Pa. Rachel Wright, dt. Joseph & Margaret Wells, b. 3-27-1720, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Ch: William, b. 1-2-1738, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Mary, b. 7-24-1739, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Joseph, b. 12-12-1740, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Margaret, b. 11-12-1742, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Charity, b. 11-13-1742, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Rachel, b. 11-10-1747, Prince George['s] Co., Md. John, b. 12-12-1748, Prince George['s] Co., Md. Sarah, b. 12-23-1749, Orange Co.[, NC] Hannah, b. 9-27-1751, Orange Co.[, NC] James, b. 5-23-1753, Orange Co.[, NC] Susannah, b. 4-16-1755, Orange Co.[, NC] Elizabeth, b. 12-15-1756, Orange Co.[, NC] Nathan, b. 10- 7-1758, Orange Co.[, NC] (2) WILL OF JOHN WRIGHT In the Name of God Amen, I John Wright senor being sick of body but of a perfect mind & memory do make this as my last Will and testament first I give and bequeath unto my beloved son in law Isaac Hollingsworth my sheomakers tools & one Certaen Cow & Calf. Item, I give & bequeath my Cordduroy Jacket & breeches to my Grand Child John Wright Son of Joseph Right Item, I give & bequeath unto Joab Brooks son of James Brooks 1 F.' of Broad Cloth & triming for a Coat Item, I give unto my Grandson Joseph Cook son of Isaac Cook my Double Drested Waistcoate Item, I give & bequeath unto my grandson Jefsie Wright son of John Wright my lining Waistcoate Item, I give unto William Wright son of Nathan Right my Waistcoat that has Sleeves to it Item, I give unto my Grandson William Hollingsworth son of Isaac Hollingsworth mybig Coate Item, I give unto Isaac Cook my sonin law the price of one Certain Cow I sold him which he has Never paid me for-Also my bed & bolster & Pillows, I give to his Daughter Rachel Cook also all my book Debts to be Collected by my Executors & my Lawful Debts payed & every Necefsary Charges & the Remainder if any to be made A General Distribution Amogst my Children-I also leave my beloved son Joseph Wright the Sole Executor of this my last will & testament this 17th day of September 1789 Signed Sealed Delivered & pronounced in Presents of- John Wright (Seal) Isaac Hollingsworth John Cato (his mark) Charity Cook Recorded in Will Book "A" Page 90. Proved June 7th, 1790. Test. W. Malone, Clk. Ct. (Recorded Date not Available). (Original Will Not in Files of Probate Judge).
  Person ID	I9925	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James WRIGHT, Sr.,   b. 1671   d. 15 Jul 1759, Frederick County, VA (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Mary DAVIS,   b. 2 Feb 1689   d. Bef 6 Mar 1764, Frederick County, VA (Age < 75 years)
  Marriage	1707
  Family ID	F4664	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachel WELLS,   b. 27 Mar 1720, Prince George's County, MD d. 23 Dec 1771 (Age 51 years)
  Children	1. Mary WRIGHT,   b. 24 Jul 1739, Prince George's County, MD   2. Margaret WRIGHT,   b. 12 Nov 1742, Prince George's County, MD d. 13 Nov 1822, Laurens County, SC (Age 80 years)   3. Charity WRIGHT,   b. 12 Apr 1745, Prince George's County, MD d. 13 Nov 1822, Clinton County, OH (Age 77 years)   4. Isaac WRIGHT,   b. 13 Jun 1764, Newberry County, SC d. 20 Feb 1844, Howard County, IN (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F4668	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024