Richard Wright of Rehoboth, Podunk and 12 Mile Island

• Not a known father of unknown Sabin
• Not the same as Richard ‘the millwright’ Wright
• Disputed as son of Rev. Richard Wright & Frances Wright

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This Capt. Richard Wright is well documented as a founding planter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, listed with his his kinsman Robert Sharp on many town records of the planters. He is easily identified because of his daughter Abigails marriage to Robert Sharp who is also one of the founding planters of Rehoboth.

• The town of Rehoboth employed him to build the corn mill;
• Living at Seaconk 1644. chosen for Townsmen committee to decide controversies within the town;
• Receives first land allotment 1644 at Rehoboth. Nine pages of his activities at Rehoboth are attached.
• Continued from his daughter Mary's biography -- Richard Wright had five daughters:
  • Mary 1620 (married William Sabin); [NO - no daughter called Mary]
  • Eleanor/Elizabeth 1621 married James Clarke;
  • Ann 1622 married Thomas Burnham?,
  • Abigail bapt 1623 married (1) Robert Sharpe (2) _______ Clapp (3) Capt. Wm. Holbrook and
  • Sarah 1623 married Thomas Harris.
• Boston Church records dated 27 August 1630 show Richard Wright #89 and Margaret Wright #99 as members (Footprints of Our Past, Vol 2, no. 4.)
• Capt Wright laid out Col Humphrey's grant in Saugus (Lynn Nahant, Saugus Swampscott and Marblehead.) ......
• In 1646 Richard Wright returned to England and visited Lemington Priors Co Warwick.
• He visited in 1647 Elizabeth Whitehead of Leamington Prior, near Warwick, 90 mi nw of London. Powell has suggested that this trip was presumably to settle the estate of his father and mother. Who is Elizabeth?
• Richard Wright is acknowledged as the father in law of William Sabin in Sep 1654 when Wm SABIN of Rehoboth, husbandman, sold land to Anthony Perrey of Rehoboth which land he "had bought with others lands of my father-in-law Richard Wright." This statement is contained in a statement in a deed from William Sabin to Anthony Perrey dated 2 Dec 1672.

"The family name of William Sabin's first wife has heretofore been unknown, and the fact that she was the d/o of Richard Wright is here published for the first time." (Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in this Plymouth Colony township, privately printed, Rehoboth, MA. 1948, Vol. III). Richard Wright returned to Boston and owned land there in 1661. It is not known where or when Richard Wright died. There are two recorded deaths for Richard Wright. On the 9 July 1691 Richard Wright died at Muddy River, Brookline, MA. Another Richard Wright died in Plymouth being 83 years old (born 1608) in the Plymouth Church Records. Mary Wright died after the birth of her last children 27 Sep 1660 and before 22 Dec 1663 when William Sabin married his second wife, Martha Allen.

From The Family of Mary Wright as published in "The Descendants of William Sabin of Rehoboth, MA" compiled by Gordon Alan Morris and Thomas J. & Dixie Prittie. Richard WRIGHT of Lynn, Boston and Braintree, MA and of Seekonk, Plymouth Colony was probably born about 1598 in Stepney, Middlesex, England. Banks in his Planters of the Commonwealth says that Richard Wright came from Stepney, Co Middlesex, England but as that statement is unsupported by original soure record, it has not importance for the name was commin in England and Stepney had many inhabitants named Richard Wright (Early Rehoboth Families and Events). Joseph Powell who has collected information about Richard Wright offers the notion that Richard Wright was s/o Rev. Richard Wright, Fellow at Eton and rector of Everdon, Northampton, England from 1613-1638. His wife was Frances and his children were Richard born 1598 Theodore, John, Samuel, Nathaniel and Anthony. In Rev. Wright's will dated 1 Apr 1633 he left his home to wife, Frances....to son Richard "if he be in England." This would imply that at that time Richard Wright was either planning to leave England or had already absented himself to America. Powell further states that Capt. richard Wright married Margaret Adams ca 1619 and had one child.

The GREAT MIGRATION states: Richard migrated in 1630 to Lynn, MA; then Boston, next to Braintree in 1639, Rehoboth in 1643, Boston in 1649, Ipswich in 1652, Twelve Mile Island in 1662, and Podunk in 1666. He had returned to England in 1646 and back to N.E. in 1649. Change Date: 16 Sep 2007 at 09:22:27

Father: Richard WRIGHT b: ABT 1575 in Stepney, Middlesex, England Mother: Frances (WRIGHT) end of line b: ABT 1575

Marriage 1 Margaret ADAMS end of line b: 1599 in Stepney, Middlesex, England Children Has Children Mary Elizabeth WRIGHT b: ABT 1620 in Kirk Deighton, North Riding, Yorkshire, England Has No Children Eleanor WRIGHT b: 1621 Has No Children Ann WRIGHT b: ABT 1622 Has No Children Abigail WRIGHT b: ab6 1620/1623 in England ________________________________________________________

Captain Richard Wright, was

• born in circa 1598 Stepney, Middlesex, England and
• died after 15 March 1667/68.
• Note: 2 other Richard Wrights, similar dates and places.
• Parents: the son of Rev. Richard Wright (? -1633) and Francis ??

Family

origins

Richard Wright was born abt 1598 in England and came to New England with the Winthrop fleet in 1630. He was accompanied by three of his daughters and his mother, Margaret Wright. (His two daughters in depositions made seventy-one years later, said that they had come with "their father," with no mention of a mother.)

Powell states Capt. Richard Wright married Margaret Adam c 1619 and had one child named Mary before she died. On January 8 1625/26 a Richard Wright married in Stepney, Middlesex, England a Margaret (Unknown).

Harris and Prittie (1994) state that Richard Wright married a woman named Margaret in Stepney, Middlesex, England on Jan. 8, 1625/26, though they claim she was not the mother of his five daughters.

In "The Great Migration Series" Richard Wright's bio mentions three daughters with first wife and three more with second wife. There is no Mary mentioned and none of the daughters are said to have married William Sabin.

What Robert Anderson says about second wife: "(2) By about 1643 , possibly a widow Sabin, mother of William Sabin of Rehoboth [TAG 67:37].

From David Conover's Famous Cousins

• Married:
  • 1. in 1619 to Margaret [Adam?] born 1599
  • 2. in January 8 1625/26 Stepney, Middlesex, England a Margaret (Unknown). She would appear to be his second wife and not the mother of his five daughters. [1]
  • 3. bef 1643 in ?? to Mary Busche, widow of Richard Sabin

Children of Richard Wright and Margaret (Unknown)

• 1. Elinore Wright b. c 1621
• 2. prob Ann Wright b. c 1622
• 3. Abigail Wright+ b. 1623

Children of Richard Wright and Margaret, his 2nd wife

• 1. Sarah Wright b. c 1643
• 2. Elizabeth Wright b. c 1644
• 3. prob Ann Wright b. c 1645

There was no daughter Mary

Notes

from http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p70.htm#i3452

• Captain Richard Wright came over in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 from Stepney, Middlesex, England with his three daughters Elinore/Elizabeth, Abigail and Elizabeth along with a Margaret Wright.
• It is not known if this Margaret is his wife, mother or sister.
• The Boston Church records show Richard Wright #89 and Margaret Wright #99 as members at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 27 August 1630.
• He held the position of deputy for Lynn on 9 May 1632.
• He removed to at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in 1639.
• He "Richard Wright of Mount Wollaston, husbandman," leased the Braintree farm of Thomas Newberry, deceased, for a term of four years on 1 May 1639.
• He was member of a committee to value livestock on 13 May 1640 at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
• He held the position of commissioner to end small causes on 7 October 1640 at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
• He held the position of commissioner to end small causes on 2 June 1642 at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
• He married (Unknown) (Unknown) before 1643.
• Richard Wright removed to at Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, in 1643.
• He removed to at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1649.
• He removed to at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1652.
• He removed to at Twelve Mile Island, Massachusetts, in 1662.
• He leased Twelve Mile Island on the Connecticut from John Leverett between 1662 and 1666. He removed to at Podunk, Massachusetts, in 1666. He died after 15 March 1667/68.

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Find A Grave Memorial# 126865830

Richard Wright

• Birth: 1598 in Stepney, Greater London, England
• Death:  1644 in Massachusetts, USA
• "Richard Wright, b. c. 1598 Stepney, Middlesex, England, to Lynn, Mass., with the Winthrop Fleet 1630 bringing his mother Margaret and at least three daughters.
• He was of Boston and Braintree both before coming to Seekonk, Plymouth Colony, in 1643 and with his three sons-in-law all settled beside each other in the new Plantation which they helped to found and which later became Rehoboth.
• Wife unknown, b. and d. in England; order of children uncertain."
• "Elizabeth Wright (their daughter) b. c. 1619, Stepney Middlesex, England, came to New England with her father 1630, d. c. 1661, Rehoboth, Mass.,
  • d. 8 Feb 1687 Rehoboth, Mass., both he and his wife bur. Medfield, Mass.
  • He was in the first division of land 1643 at Seekonk (later Rehoboth), Mass., and was one of the founders as well as his father-in-law Richard Wright.
  • He is a French Huguenot.". (Sic: Richard Sabin was not Huguenot, and he was stepson, not son in law)

"Genealogy of the Gordon-Macy, Huddleston-Curtis, and Allied Families" by Jessie Gordon Flack and Maybelle Gordon Carman

The notes referred to by the authors - "Bowen, Richard LeBaren, 'Early Rehoboth', four volumes, printed privately at Rehoboth, 1945, III, 113,

• 'Richard Wright came from England in the first fleet with Gov. John Winthrop as servant to Col. John Humfrey (or Humphreys) bringing with him three daughters and perhaps other children and probably his mother, Margaret.
• His wife would appear to have been deceased for his daughters in depositions made seventeen years later said that they came with 'their father' with no mention of their mother...
• For a time Richard Wright and his family remained on the farm at Saugus, later we find him at Boston, then at Braintree and next at Seekonk as one of the organizers of the new township.'
• "Richard Wright of Braintree, Alexander Winchester (who had been servant to Mr. Henry Vane), William Cheeseborough and Walter Palmer were the real founders of Seekonk and of these Richard Wright was the dominant man."
• "ibid., 119, 1643 - In the first division of home lots at Seekonk, Richard Wright is No. 8 with 834 pounds, the righest man in town; he was to have a twelve acre lot at the northwest end of the ring of the town. His three sons-in-law each had 8 acre lots. Robert Sharpe's and Richard Wright's on the east, William Sabin's on the west and James Clarke's adjoining William Sabin's."

(Elinor Wright married James Clark; Abigail Wright married Robert Sharpe)

• "Rehoboth Town Meeting Records, Book I, p. 29 - The same book gives in all ten various grants or acreage in divisions of land at Rehoboth besided 'that Richard Wright built a cornmill and that no other be built in the country..."
• "Ibid., III, 121 - Richard Wright was the first 'committee' later caled deputy to be elected to represent Seekonk or Rehoboth, as it was newly named, to the Court at Plymouth....He was admitted a freeman on Oct. 28, 1645."
• "Ibid., 130 - William Sabin according to various references ran the mill for his father-in-law but eventually bought the mill from Richard Wright. The signatures of Richard Wright and William Sabin are found affixed to the Rehoboth Compact in 1644. Thirty men signed the document and this is the only signature for many of them."

"Plymouth Colony Deeds, III." "Tilton, G., 'History of Rehoboth, Mass." "Hartford Times, C-8136 (4) HMS. Aug. 3, 1964, and April 19, 1965." "New England Historic and Gen. Register, Vol. 37 and 99." "Savage, James, 'Genealogical Dictionary of New England,' Boston, 1860, IV, 658."

Family links: 

• Parents:
  • Richard Wright (1575 - 1638)
  • Frances Wright (1575 - ____) 
• Spouse:  Margaret Wright (1599 - 1675)*
• Children:
  •  Elizabeth Wright (1617 - 1701)*
  • Mary Wright Sabin (1618 - 1660)*
  •  Abigail Wright Holbrook (1620 - 1702)* 
• Burial: Unknown

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Name Wright, Elinor (Abigail) 

• • Born 1620 in Stepney, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England  
• • Gender Female 
• • Died 1707 in Scituate, Plymouth, Mass  
• • Father Wright, Richard,   b. 1598, Stepney, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1667, Connecticut  
• • Mother Adam, Margaret,   b. 1599, Stepney, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England ,   d. 17 Dec 1678, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts  
  • • Married 1617 in Stepney, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England  

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==comments==

"Banks, in his "Planters of the Commonweath," says that Richard Wright came from Stepney, Middlesex Co, England, but that statement is unsupported by original record; it has no importance; for that name was common in England and Stepney had many inhabitants named Richard Wright."

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Captain Richard Wright came over in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 from Stepney, Middlesex, England with his three daughters Elinore/Elizabeth, Abigail and Elizabeth along with a Margaret Wright. It is not known if this Margaret is his wife, mother or sister.Sep 10, 2019
Immediate Family: Son of Rev. Richard Wright ...
Also Known As: "Richard Wright of Lynn Boston ... Birthplace: Stepney Borough of Tower Hamlet, ... Death: after March 15, 1667; Roxbury, Suffolk, ...

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5. birth seen as 1598 in Stepney Borough of Tower Hamlet, London, England is unsupported.)