Catherine Wright - Was Catherine Durlin Wright a patriot?

Started by Kathryn Bux on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
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Surry Co Court Minutes
p.40 17 Feb 1782. Zachariah Martin, named overseer in room of Hezekiah Wright, deceased.
p.45 17 Aug 1782 Account of estate of Hezekiah Wright. He was possessed of 350 acres of land at the time of his death. [I think there's a good possibility that this grant had not been issued for this land, or the land had been under confiscation, and it's the same as the 350 acres granted to son Gideon on 5 Dec 1798] On application Catharine Wright, widow & relict of Hezekiah Wright, deceased, who has taken up arms against this and the United States, for a maintanence of herself and children. Ordered she be allowed rent said husband's plantation; also everything now in her possession. [I believe this could indicate the children were all minors, if she's being allowed to use everything. The 1840 census gives son's Gideon's age as 60-70 and the 1850 census indicates he was born 1771, so he certainly would have been a minor in 1782.]
p.98 18 Aug 1786 The orphans of Hezekiah Wright vs. Thomas Poindexter.

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