Lois (Drake) Wright (1710 - 1793)

Born 15 Jun 1710 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Matthew Holcombe — married 20 Jan 1730 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1793 at age 83 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Born 15 JUN 1710. Windsor, Connecticut. ^[1]

Married

Husband Matthew Holcomb. Wife Lois Drake. 20 JAN 1729/30. Windsor, Connecticut. ^[2]

Husband Henry Wright.^[3] Wife Lois Drake Holcomb. ^[4]

The Drake Genealogy, p. 51, says she married and divorced Matthew Holcomb, and m. 2nd Henry Wright of Springfield, Mass, who d. about 1763. There are 4 children listed with her first husband - Matthew, Elijah, Eli, Lois - and 3 with her second - John, Moses, Sybel.

Hartford County Superior Court Divorce papers show her petition stated that she, Lois Holcomb of Windsor, had been about ten years lawfully married to Mathew Holcomb who then was of Windsor and they cohabited sundry years but for some years past he has absented himself and neglects to provide for her or their children; in addition he courted and married and for about 4 years has treated one Lydia Porter as his wife; she asked for divorce from sd Holcomb. It was granted. images 451-56

Died 3 OCT 1793 "suddenly" at the age of 83 at Windsor, Connecticut.^{[5] [6]}

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S44 Windsor VR 2:8
2. ↑ Source: #S1 Windsor VR 2:59
3. ↑ “Divorce Papers, 1712-1899, A-Z”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSPC-495Q-Q  : 17 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 008237553, image 254 & 531-548.
4. ↑ Source: #S16 Gay Frank B., & Drake, Harrie Beekman, The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Company, 1933), p. 51
5. ↑ “Windsor 1st Congregational Church Records, Vol. 1-3, 1639-1932, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-C92L-3  : 9 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007834252, image 250, Windsor, Connecticut, Volume 3, Page 91.
6. ↑ Source: #S9 Windsor Cong Ch Rec Vol 15, unpaginated, on FHL Film # 007834252 image 501 -- 1793, Octbr 3d - Widow Lois Wright -- suddenly -- AE 83

• Source: S44 birth certificate or record
• Source: S1 marriage certificate or record
• Source: S9 church record

• Siemiatkoski, Donna Holt. The Connecticut Valley Family of Little Miss 1565, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., June 1994) Vol. 27, Page 9.