Francis Wright

Erroneous Genealogies

Edward Wright of Concord is often conflated with Edward Wright of Sudbury:

1) Edward Wright of Concord had a father Francis Wright who owned a castle in England. His mother was Mary Wiggins. He did not have a mother named Dorothy (Unknown) Blandford. He married Elizabeth Mellow. He died on 28 Aug 1691. See Jacobus source below[1]

2) Edward Wright of Sudbury had an *unknown* father and a mother Dorothy (Unknown) Blandford. Dorothy of Sudbury did *not* have a son in Concord. Their family did *not* own a castle in Englnad. She was not the widow of Francis Wright in England who did own a castle. Edward Wright of Sudbury had one wife Hannah (Upson) Wright. He died on 7 Aug 1703. From Dawes-Gates Vol 1 p 679:[2]

Dawes-Gates:

"There are more misstatements 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 misreading 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."[1]

Sources

• 1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation. (New Haven, Conn., 1933), page 27. 'Elizabeth Mellowes ... married second, about 1653, Edward Wright, born at Castle Bromwich, co. Warwick, Eng., about 1626, died at Concord, 28 Aug. 1691. He was son of Francis and Mary (Wiggins) Wright link "At a court case in connection with Thomas Barrett's estate, Joseph Hillis (husband of the window Edward Mellowes) appeared, and a letter from Rev Peter Bulkeley was presented, addressed "Loving Cosens," in which he refers to "my Cosen Barrett here" [ Elizabeth (Mellows) Barrett]" The research was done by Clarence A Torrey and published by Donald Lines Jacobus,.
• 2 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 686

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GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001; @R1@

GEDCOM Source

GEDCOM Source

Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001; @R1@

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