John Wright (1717 - bef. 1790)

Born 4 Jan 1717 in East Nottingham, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Wells) Wright — married 1736 in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland

Descendants

Died before 8 Jun 1790 before age 73 in Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

John Wright performed Patriotic Service in South Carolina in the American Revolution.

John Wright is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A130889.

Parentage The identification or possible misidentification of John Wright's mother is currently being researched by Quakers Project. T Stanton 24 Oct 2023.

John, son of James Wright and Mary his wife, was born 4 Jan 1717 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.^[1][2][3] His father was taxed in East Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania until 1726 at which time it is believed the family moved to Monocacy Valley, Federick County, Maryland.^[4]

His marriage to Rachel Wells is said to be in Prince George County, Maryland in 1736-1737.^{[citation needed]}

The family is documented in the Cane Creek (North Carolina) Monthly Meeting minutes as being among the thirty Quaker families there before October 1751.^[5] Their precise place of residence in Orange County, North Carolina is not documented in the minutes and Cane Creek meeting covered a very wide area. What is probably Rachel's transfer from Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting is recorded 5 Oct 1754.^[6] Transfers to Bush River Meeting do not appear to be found in Hinshaw.

A Camden, South Carolina deed is pointed to for suggesting he was in this settlement by 1760^[7] and the authors concluded while he was in Camden at that time he settled in Newberry.

The Bush River (South Carolina) Meeting Minutes as transcribed and indexed by Hinshaw contain almost no mention of John Wright. Page two of the original minutes states "Rachel Wright, a friend of the ministry, w. John, one of the first Beginers [sic] of a mtg at Bush River, d 12-23-1771, aged about 52 years."^[8] This would appear to place the family in the Newberry area by 1770, the year the meeting was established. And, the marriage record of son John Wright Jr and Jemimah Haworth dated 10 Oct 1768 clearly identifies John and Rachel Wright as of "Berkley County and Province of South Carolina" in 1768.^[9]

His death may be seen as 17 Sep 1789 but this is simply the date of his will. His date of death is nowhere recorded but is before 8 Jun 1790, the date of probate. His death nor burial appears to be recorded in extant minutes of the Bush River Monthly Meeting.

Will Abstract

Will dated 17 Sep 1789.^[10] Probate 8 Jun 1790. He named his wife,his deceased son, Joseph and Joseph's son, John; John and his son; Jesse; Nathan and his son William; his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth which he left his shoe-maker tools,cow and calf;Joab Brooks, son of James Brooks;Joseph Cook,his grandson and son of Isaac Cook;William Hollingsworth, grandson and son of Isaac Hollingsworth; son-in-law Isaac Cook and Isaac's daughter Rachel.The witnesses were Isaac Hollingsworth,John Coate and Charity Cook. His Executor was his son Joseph Wright.His will was written in Newberry Co., SC.

Land Records

Jas Wright & Jacob Roman chain carriers, for George Hume survyor, pilot John Wright. on Henry Aylor/Ealor survey 24 July 1779-19 Jan 1780; 120 a on brs. of Robinson River at foot of Banks Mt. adj warrant of John Covets and Michael Potz & on surv. himself & John Cubbage. (Joyner Vol 5:60 Surveys not Acted on.)

James Linn: 100 a. on Poto. surveyd 8 Feb 1754. Deed drawn in name of John Wright. (Joyner V5:49 Forfeited Plats)

James Sherley of Culpeper Co; wart in name of John Wright. survey for Sherley 16 Nov 1752-28 Oct 1754; 272 a on N fork Robinson R; adj. Timothy Terrell now Majr Rootes, John Shotwell, Finley McAlister. cc James and Christopher Yowell, Jr., Surveyor Richard Young. (Joyner V5:55 Forfeited Plats.)

Natl Gen Soc Quarterly (Jun, 1932) V20 #2 1780 Fairfax Quitrent List for Berkeley Co.

Wm Wright ......200 acres

John Wright......231

John Wright......100

James GLENN died in Frederick County, Virginia between 1753-1755. In his will, James states his wife Hannah was to receive half of all goods and chattels, and his son William was to receive half of the land. Should his wife and son die then his estate was to go to John WRIGHT'S first born. It appears the John WRIGHT mentioned in the will married Hannah GLENN before 1760 as John received a land grant in Frederick Co., VA near the Potomac River, and Hannah was said to be his wife. In Chaulkey's Scotch-Irish Records, it states John and Hannah had no children together, but John gave a gift of land to Hannah's Glenn grandchildren. He lived in the area of Frederick County that branched off into Berkeley County.

Research Notes

Profiles show his mother as Mary Bowater Davis Wright, all three show Davis as a additional surname but none of them connect that name with a spouse. (This appears to be a comment placed in the bio section before several profiles were merged, it has been moved to Research Notes until deletion is prudent.)

Note from Todd Marshall:

John Wright, son of James and Mary was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on January 28, 1716. He removed from Nottingham Monthly Meeting to Nonocacy MM in Prince George County, Maryland, where he married Rachel Wells. She was born in Anne Arundel county and was the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. Both John and Rachel became Overseers of the Men's and Women's Meetings of Monocacy in 1745.^{[citation needed]} They transferred to Hopewell. In 1749, with the seven minor children born to them by that time, the Wright's were granted a certificate to Carvers Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. [Note: find no record of a Carvers Creek meeting in Hinshaw or QuakerMeetings.com. Was this a preparatory meeting which predated Cane Creek and what is the citation for the certificate?] There they became charter members in 1751 of Cane Creek MM in Orange County, NC. They became parents of six more children during their time in NC. According to the Quaker Records from Historic Camden, S. C., by Kirkland and Kennedy, they were present in Camden District by 1760 when John Wright appears as a witness to a deed. The Annals of Newberry mention three more children born to John and Rachel after they removed to South Carolina. Reportedly, Bush River Monthly Meeting in Newberry County to which the Wright's belonged was established in 1770. However Cane Creek MM records Rachel Wright's transfer to Bush River in 1767. Their presence in SC prior to the time of Rachel's transfer suggests there was no meeting to which they might belong prior to 1767. It may also be presumed that the Wright's were instrumental in the formation of a meeting at Bush River. During the migration of southern Quakers to the Ohio Valley in the early 1800's, almost all of John and Rachel Wright's surviving children and grandchildren became a part of that movement. A good number of them, particularly the Hollingsworth and Cook descendants, became Hicksites and Wilburites when they separated from the Orthodox Quakers.

Sources

1. ↑ Hinshaw, Wm Wade, et al, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, I:369, Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, gives the date of birth as "11-4-1716"
2. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Chester, New Garden Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1746-1768, Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, records the date of birth as "4th day of the 11th mo 1716."
3. ↑ Hopewell Friends history, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia : records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings, Heritage Books, Bowie MD, 1998, p 487, transcription of Hopewell records, gives the date as 4th day 11 mo 1716, old style
4. ↑ Wayland, J.W., Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia, Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell; Two Hundred Years of History and Genealogy, Father's of the Colony, p. 27 (1936) Available on Google books here. Caution: some of the conclusions drawn in this publication are now under review due to additional evidence.
5. ↑ Hinshaw, Wm Wade, et al, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, I:343, Introductory remarks on establishment of Cane Creek MM.
6. ↑ Hinshaw, Wm Wade, et al, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, I:430
7. ↑ Kirkland, Thomas J; Kennedy, Robert Macmillan, Historic Camden, Columbia, SC, 1905, p 84
8. ↑ Hinshaw, Wm Wade, et al, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, I:1025
9. ↑ South Carolina, Newberry, Bush River Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1805-1820, Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, image
10. ↑ Index and Will, Vol 1, Books A, B, D, 1776-1814, Author: Wates, Wylma Anne; Probate Place: Newberry, South Carolina, image

See also:

• Joyner, Peggy Shomo, compiler, Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys 1653-1781 Vol 5: 60 Abstracts of the Northern Neck Surveys-Forfeited Plats, Surveys Not Acted On.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #32509209
• Source: S10 Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Repository: #R15
• Repository: R15 www.ancestry.com
• The Haworth Record published by Charles B Davis; Volume 2; issue 11 & 12; Page 126–27; Date: 1908; Section: A Few Questions; Quote: Did Mahlon, son of John, son of George Haworth of Quaker Point have any children? He married Mary, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Ann Murdock. Nancy Ann was daughter of James, son of James, son of Emigrant. Nancy Ann's husband, Isaac, was the son of John and Ann Murdock. Ann was the daughter of Isaac Wright who married Susannah, daughter of Richard and Anna (Dillon) Haworth. This Isaac Wright was believed to have been the eighteenth child of John and Rachel (Wells) Wright who emigrated from England to America settling near Bush river Friends meeting in Aiken county South Carolina. The records of the above church were destroyed by fire many years ago ...