Born about in Isle of Wight, Virginia
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William C Godwin
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 99
in Isle of Wight, Virginia [uncertain]
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Contents |
Biography
William Goodwyn of Lower Parish, acknowledges receipt of legacies left to Eliz. Wright by will of her father Thomas Wright. 6 Sep 1666. Teste, John Marshall, Barnett Krudop.[1]
Family of Origin:
Elizabeth's mother was named Elizabeth ____ and her father was an early settler in Isle of Wight, VA named Thomas Wright. Thomas Wright died testate (probate in 1663) but his will has since been lost.
Children of Thomas and Elizabeth Wright:
- Ann, born c. 1646, married (1) c. 1666, Isle of Wight, VA Thomas Griffin; (2) c. 1682, Isle of Wight, VA, James Tallough, Sr
- Elizabeth, born c. 1648, married by 1666, Isle of Wight, VA, William Goddin (Godwin)
- George, born c. 1654, married, as her first husband, Violet ____; she married second ____ Driver
- Son, died by 1680
- Thomas, born c. 1660, married (1) c. 1690, Isle of Wight, VA, Elizabeth ____; (2) c. 1700, Isle of Wight, VA, Elizabeth Prime
- Sarah, born c. 1662
Children with William Godwin (ages and birth order approximate):
- William, born c. 1668, married Elizabeth _____
- Martha, born c. 1670, married, as her first husband, John Cotton, Sr.
- John, born c. 1672
- Sarah, born c. 1674
- dau. born c. 1678, married William Bridgers
- Mary, born c. 1680, married Arthur Whitehead, parents of Col William Whitehead
- Jane, born c. 1682
Research Notes
Removed erroneously attached son James.
Sources
- ↑ Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia: A history of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the Seventeenth Century, including abstracts of the county records. Will and Deed Book I. 1938 (microfilm date 7 May 1982), p. 545. Chicago: Chicago Law Printing Company.
Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina; ancestor biographies, Otter Bay Books, 2005, Chapter Six - The Godwin Connection pg 253-259
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Patsy Franklin for creating WikiTree profile Wright-7460 through the import of Franklin DAR_2013-03-11.ged on 12 Mar 2013.
- Unsourced family tree handed down to Susan Quinn.
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John Driver and Mrs. Violet Wright, relict of George Wright, married in 1702. W. & D. B. 2, page 433 & 471. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/IG6xMMZO4MIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA15&dq=giles+driver+prudence+richards "Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800" by Blanche Adams Chapman, reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Page 15 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/IG6xMMZO4MIC?hl=en&gbpv=0
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