Ensign Samuel WRIGHT

Male 1634 - 1690  (56 years)


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  • Name Samuel WRIGHT  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Prefix Ensign 
    Birth 1634  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Feb 1689/90  [2
    Notes 
    • Excerpt from "The Wright Line": Samuel was an Ensing, was made Freeman in Wethersfield in 1657. He was a Selectmand in 1670-1. In the same year the Town gave him land to set his "shop" upon, m. Mary Butler, had ata least 8 children:

      Samuel Jr. - Serg., farmer, A Constable of Wethersfield in 1691 and Selectmand in 1704, m.#1 Mary?; m. #2 rebecca Crafts; m. #3 Abigail Butler Walker

      Mary - died young/didn't marry?

      Hannah - m. Daniel Boardman/Bordman, a Glazier

      Mabel - Died young/didn't marry?

      Sarah - died a child

      Alice - died young/didn't marry?

      David - his houe was 1 of 66 ordered fortified during the 1704 war, m. #1 rebecca Goodrich; m. #2 Mary Belding/Belden, a cousin

      Eunice - died a child
    Person ID I62898  Main Tree
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 

    Father Thomas WRIGHT, Sr.,   b. Abt 19 Nov 1610, Brook Hall, Delavon Manor, Essex County, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1670, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Mary CRANBROKE,   b. Abt 21 Sep 1609, Cranbroke, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1636 (Age 26 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 10 Aug 1629  South Wead, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F12132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary BUTLER,   b. 1639 
    Marriage 29 Sep 1659  [2, 4
    Children 
     1. David WRIGHT   d. 6 Sep 1752  [Birth]
    +2. Mabel WRIGHT   d. 11 Oct 1767, Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F33976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S00095] "The Wright Line (1610-1780)" by Ellen R. Baker.

    2. [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.

    3. [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley.

    4. [S03453] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Name: Name: NEHGS: 1995;;).