Edward
Wright
I
Born about in England
Son of [father unknown] and Dorothy (UNKNOWN) Blanford
Brother of
Samuel Wright, Sarah (Blanford) Maynard [half], Hannah Blandford [half], John Blandford [half], Lydia Blandford [half] and Stephen Blandford [half]
Husband of
Hannah (Upson) Wright
— married
18 Jun 1659 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Hannah Wright, Dorothy (Wright) Moore, Sarah (Wright) Learned, Mary (Wright) Clapp, Elizabeth Wright, Samuel Wright, Abigail (Wright) Moore and Edward Wright
Died
at about age 69
in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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Biography
Edward Wright was the son of Dorothy (Unknown) Blanford also known as Widow Wright and an unknown father.[1] [2] [3] He arrived by 1639 and his origins are unknown.[3]
Edward Wright married Hannah Epson on June 18, 1659 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[4] [2]
The children of Edward Wright and Hannah Upson were all recorded in Sudbury except the second child with the name Elizabeth below:
- Hannah, b. Jan. 9 1660[4]; d. bef. 1708 and probably before her father.[2]
- Dorathy, b. Oct. 20, 1662[4]; d. at Sudbury Oct. 20, 1717; m. there Nov. 11, 1686, BENJAMIN Moore.[2]
- Sarah, b. Jan. 17, 1664 @ Sudbury, [4]; d. at Sherborn Jan. 25, 1736/7; m. 1689/90 as his second wife Benoni Learned (son of Isaac)[2]
- Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1666[4]; d. before 1753; m. at Sudbury July 28, 1690, Noah Clapp (son of Nicholas)[2]
- Elizabeth, b. Mar. 6, 1668[4]; d. May 12, 1669.[4][2]
- Samuel, b. Apr. 9, 1670[4]; d. Jan. 15, 1739- 40, at Rutland[4]; m. by 1705 Mary Stevens, daughter of Cyprian' and Mary (Willard) Stevens.[2]
- Abigail, b. Sept. 15, 1672[4]; d. before Dec. 171,4; m. by 1702 John Moore (son of Joseph).[2]
- Elizabeth, b. probably 1674-5 (not recorded); living, unmarried in June, 1708.[2]
- Edward', b. Mar. 18, 1677[4]; d. before 1708; m. about 1706 Hannah, residence Framingham who died a widow, May 18, 1708.[4][2]
- Martha, b. Dec. 25, 1681[4]; living unmarried in June, 1708.[2]
Capt. EDWARD WRIGHT died, intestate, at Sudbury, on August 7, I703, at the age of about seventy. The inventory of his estate totaled almost £200 and his widow HANNAH and eldest son Samuel were appointed administrators on September 6, 1703, and gave a bond of £370. As administrator, Samuel filed reports on July I and September 9, 1704.[2]
Widow HANNAH died May 18, 1708, and her children signed the following on June 15, 1708.[2]
"whereas Capt. EDWARD' WRIGHT of Sudbury died intestate, leaving an estate of lands, goods and chattels and leaving several children to possess and enjoy the same namely, Samuels, Edwards, DOROTHY", Sarahs, Marr, Abigails, Elizabeths and Marthas, and whereas our older brother Samuels of said town having a desire to purchase all our right and title in the estate, therefore we Edwards Wright, Sergt BENJAMIN Moore and DOROTHY his wife, Noah Clapp and Mary his wife, John Moore and Abigail his wife, Elizabeth Wright and Martha Wright all of Sudbury and Deacon Benoni Larnett and Sarah his wife of Sherborn ... convey to Samuels Wright all our right in the estate of our Honored father EDWARD WIUGHT, Captain, died seized of."[2]
Erroneous Genealogies
The first husband of Widow Dorothy Wright of Sudbury and father of Edward and Samuel is *unknown.* She did *not* have a son in Concord. Their family did *not* own a castle in Englnad and she did not have a husband named Francis. From Dawes-Gates Vol 1 p 679:
"There arc more mis-statements relative to this family than almost any other of early days, for our DOROTHY is erroneously assigned a husband she never had, a castle in England and a son Edward of Conord' who really sold that castle, but that man was not our EDWARD' who lived only at Sudbury. Through a mis-reading of the early script, EDWARD' is frequently recorded as having married Hannah Axtel2 (Thomas1) instead of HANNAH' UPSON. But what is really worse he is repeatedly shown in print as having three wives instead of but one and as being the composite of three contemporaneous men of that name, himself, the above-mentioned Edward of Concord and an Edward of Boston. Samuel2 (Edward1) is erroneously called son of a Thomas; and our Dorothy is made to marry Noah Brooks of Concord (who really had a wife Dorothy.) instead of marrying our BENJAMIN Moore, as a legal document proves that she did. The facts that Edward Wright of Concord actually owned land at Sudbury (though he never lived there) and that he and our EDWARD' of Sudbury both used for their children, contemporaneously the five names Sarah, Elizabeth, Edward, Martha and Samuel, explains in a degree, but docs not excuse, the published misinformation... Erroneous statements will be found in Pope's Pioneers, p. 516; J. H. Temple's Framinghauh 1887, pp. 754-5; Hubbard Thompson Memorial, L. K. Stewart, 1914, pp. 336-41; Vital Records of Sudbury, p. 157; New England Register XIX, 127; XXII, 143; LIII, 227 {and see 359); W. Barry's Framingham, 1847, p. 449; Hudson's Sudbury, p. 56, etc."[2]
Sources
- ↑ Richard Morgan Wright, Edward Wright of Sudbury, Massachusetts, three volumes (Baltimore, Maryland, 2012).
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company, 1931) Vol 1 The Wright Family p 679
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640 (Boston, Massachusetts. New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 2015) p 386
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 Vital Records of Sudbury Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (New-England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1903) Pages 157, 192, 290, and 331.
- Barry, William. A History of Framingham, Massachusetts, including the Plantation, from 1640 to the Present Time (James Munroe, Boston, 1847) P.449
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edward by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edward:
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Categories: Sudbury, Massachusetts | Puritan Great Migration
Jim Lhamon
I intended to add a PGM maintenance category to the profile, but system show there is a draft (with changes) in process.
When you are satisfied with your work, hope you post here so that someone can check to see if we need to add the maintenance category.
Thank you. --Gene
S
Family Search shows his father's name as Rev. Francis Wright IV 1590 – 1639 • LVS7-GRP but then the Life Sketch disputes this with the following statement!
"The name of this person is ____ Wright. That's right we don't know who he is. We only know about the widow Dorothy Wright mother of Edward Wright who arrived with no husband in New England. We don't know Dorothy's maiden name either. So please don't add information like parents and maiden names because we don't know any of this!
Widow Dorothy Wright ca. 1615-1703 of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1. Dorothy (---) born about 1615 and died 1 March 1703 at Marlborough, Massachusetts. Before 1635, she married a Mr. Wright in England. He is not the Francis Wright of Castle Bromwick nor the Edward Wright of Sudbury and Concord. Dorothy married secondly on 10 March 1642 at Sudbury, Massachusetts John Blandford who died at Sudbury on 23 October 1687. By Mr. Wright Dorothy had two sons: Edward and Samuel.
2. Edward Wright was born about 1635 and died 7 August 1703 at Sudbury, Massachusetts. He married there on 18 June 1659 Hannah Upson, born about 1638 and died 18 May 1708 at Sudbury, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Upson. This Edward Wright is conflated with the Edward Wright of Boston. Pope combined the two men in his work. Edward and Hannah had nine children: Hannah, Dorothy, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel, Abigail, Edward, and Martha."
At least we seem to be able to resolve the marriage of Edward and Hannah Upson, with the names of their nine children!
edited by [Living Watts]
I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to add Rev. Francis Wright as his father?
You point to a familysearch.org tree as a source for this profile's father being Rev. Francis Wright. But that "tree" cites no primary sources (nor do you) and they point to an Ancestry.com "tree" which is, in turn, unsourced.
In order to add relationships to pre-1700 profiles, we need more reliable sources. FWIW, they had ten children, not nine. The additional child is the second unrecorded Elizabeth who was named in a deed.