Captain John C. Wright

John C. Wright
Born: 4 Nov 1716, East Nottingham, Chester County Pennsylvania
Marriage: Rachel Wells about 1737 in Hopewell Mm, Frederick, Virginia
Died: 1779, Newberry, South Carolina, USA at age 63

 General Notes:

The following is taken from "Early Settlement of Friends in the Miami Valley" by Luke Smith Mote....was written about the family of John and Rachel Wright, their two daughters, Susanna (Wright) Hollingsworth and Charity (Wright) Cook. Susanna Hollingsworth was the wife of Isaac Hollingsworth, one of the early settlers, and a younger sister of Charity Cook, both ministers of the gospel well known in early times here, and were acknowledged as such by Bush River meeting, years previous to their coming north. They were the daughters of John and Rachel Wright, of the afore-named place, Newberry County South Carolina. They were of a family of sixteen children born to the above named parents, all of whom attained mature age, were married and settled in life, and to whom common names only were given (seven sons and nine daughters), namely: Mary (Brooks); Charity (Cook); Margaret (Hollingsworth); Joseph; William; John; James; Hannah (Farmer); Rachel (Coats); Susanna (Hollingsworth); Elizabeth (McCoole); Sarah (Brooks); Nathan; Thomas; Kezia (Hanks); and Isaac.

At the request of this patriarchal father they all assembled at his house before his death....his sons and their wives, his daughters and their husbands, the grandchildren and great grandchildren, numbering in all 144.

He reached an advanced age in life, and was a regular attender of Friends meetings, making his home there with hsi daughter, Susanna, who lived no great distance from the meeting place. He generally walked there, back and forth. But one day she was hindered from going, and prevailed on her father to ride her mare. When meeting closed he walked home as usual, never calling to mind how he had come there. Upon entering he door his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was his quick response.

But to return again to the subject of those sisters, (Susanna and Charity), both rotund in form and feature, and mothers of large families, nevertheless they felt it their duty to surmount all hindrances, and "preach Jesus and him crucified." The elder Charity Cook's gife and calling led into extensive service, not only in this country, but abroad. She crossed the ocean twice on a religious visit to England and Ireland.

One time when her husband, Isaac Cook drove his stage wagon into Rahun's Creek, in high water, and drowned his horses, escaping himself by floating ashore on a chunk, she threw off her cloak and swam out, thus saving her life by learning to swim when a girl.

Susanna in stature was some taller than her sister. Her travels in the ministry were less extended, but her discourses were persuasive, and intermingled with much maternal solicitude. Her husband was a stalwart, over six feet in height, and the picture of uncompromising firmness, against all innovations whatever, and his course in life gave full evidence. One day before gthe close of tghe Revolutionary War, a British officer and his squad of cavalry rode up to his corncrib to take away his corn. " Big Isaac", as he was called, stepped in and intercepted their movements. The officer drew his sword to strike him, but nothing daunted, he caught the sword, and whirled him away, saying "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther," and the company left. His wife said she was looking for him to be cut down sometimes, the way he treated the military when they came on their premises. Susanna was a widow from 1809 to 1830, when she closed her useful life at the ripe age merging into her 76th year.

John married Rachel Wells, daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson, about 1737 in Hopewell Mm, Frederick, Virginia. (Rachel Wells was born on 3 May 1720 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM, Newberry, South Carolina 1.)

Captain John Wright

• Born 4 Jan 1717 in East Nottingham, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania
• Died 17 Sep 1789 in Bush River Newbury District, Province of South Carolina
• Son of James Wright Sr. and Mary Bowater
• Husband of Rachel Wells — married 1736 in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland

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Family

Rachel Wells (1720 - 1771) was the first daughter of Joseph Wells. Her mother, Rachel, died in childbirth or soon after, and she was named for her mother. That mother's surname at birth is unknown. Some have thought it was Marsh or other names, but I have checked out all that I encountered and found none to be correct. Her step-mother, Margaret Swanson, raised her, so is often mistakenly stated as her mother.

She became the wife of John Wright in 1736 in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland.

Their children

1. Joseph Wright
2. Charity Cook (born Wright)
3. John Wright
4. James Wright
5. Mary Brooks (born Wright)
6. William Wright
7. Elizabeth McCool (born Wright)
8. Rachel Coate (born Wright)
9. Sarah Wright
10. Isaac Isaac Joel Joel Wright
11. Nathan Wright
12. Hannah Wright
13. Susannah Hollingsworth (born Wright)
14. Joseph Wright
15. Margaret Wright
16. Carney Wright, RS

See: The Southern Friend, Journal of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society, Volume XIV, Number 1, Spring 1992. p 35. “The Maryland Ancestors of Rachel Wells.” By Richard M. Kelly. Link to page 1, Link to page 2 “Rachel Wells married about 1737 to John Wright, the son of James and Mary Wright, by whom she had 16 children ...”

See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32113214/mary-wright for discussion of his mother

Brief Biography

Note N69 from Todd Marshall:

John C. 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. 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. 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.

Biography

DAR Ancestor #: A130889. See source document for service details. http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full...

John C. Wright, Sr., born 04 Nov 1717 in Chester County, PA; died Abt. 08 Jun 1790 in Bush River,
Newberry County, SC.

• He was the son of James "The Immigrant" Wright and Mary Bowater. [Mary Davis was his mother NOT Mary Boatwater - see f/g # 32113214 "flower" by Margaret Ballinger Aug. 7, 2013]

He married Rachel Wells Abt. 1737 in Prince George County, MD. ( born 27 Mar 1720 in Anne Aundel County, MD; died 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River, Newberry County, SC)

Notes for John C. Wright:

• John and Rachel emigrated from England to Georgia in 1732 with General James Oglethorpe whose wife was a Wright. John and Rachel went to South Carolina, then to North Carolina and Tennessee.
• Basically, the Society of Friends did not believe in violence of any nature and members normally would not join the armed forces in times of war. But the church would allow each man to make his own decision. Among those who decided to fight was John Wright, father-in-law of Abraham Hollingsworth. John was the father of Margaret Wright. He reached the rank of captain while serving with William Thompson's Rangers and helped to defend Charleston Harbor on June 28, 1776. This battle was called "The Battle of Sullivan's Island" and the Americans scored a decisive victory.
• from FindAGrave: Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)
• John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.
• Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiersmen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first victory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

More About John C. Wright.:

• Alternate Dates: 12 Nov 1716, May be date of birth
• Residence 1: Prince George County, MD
• Residence 2: 29 May 1749, Carvers Creek MM, Orange County, NC
• More About John Wright and Rachel Wells:
• Marriage: Abt. 1737, Prince George County, MD

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Submission by Edward A. Mallang 3rd, 13 June, 2013

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32509209/john-c-wright

John C Wright

When John C. Wright was born on November 4, 1716, in East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, his father, James, was 48 and his mother, Mary, was 26. They already had 5 children. He married Rachel Wells in 1737, in Prince George's, Maryland. They had 17 children in 28 years. He died on June 8, 1790, in Bush River, South Carolina, at the age of 73, and was buried in Newberry, South Carolina.

(f/g) Birth: Nov. 4, 1716 Chester County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Jun. 8, 1790 Bush River Newberry County South Carolina, USA

Son of James & Mary Bowater Wright was born on 4 Nov 1716 in East Nottingham MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died before 8 Jun 1790 in Bush River MM, Newberry Co., South Carolina.

Research Notes: Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN,(Friends United Press, 1981).It is a biography of their daughter,Charity Cook,written and researched by a history professor.

Around 1725,he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland,Prince Georges Co.,MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM,Cecil Co.,MD first.Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproved. The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: "Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman". John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They lived near Monacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland now known as Frederick Co., VA.

The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is assumed that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM.

Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right.She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period.

What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County,North Carolina,which was over a distance of 300 miles.They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

John and Rachel moved near Camden,Kershaw Co.,South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786.Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John.Later,Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate.

By 1765 there was a decision among some Friends in the North Carolina Piedmont to move to South Carolina.Perhaps this was associated with difficulties growing out of the Regulator Movement. John and Rachel (Wells) Wright and family, including the family of their daughter, Charity, who had married Isaac Cook,were among the first to move to what became the large Bush River Friends settlement in Newberry County, South Carolina.

John was a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C.

At an elderly age, he lived with his daughter, Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings.The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion. When the meeting was over, he walked home. When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her."

According to this same family reunion provided by Julia Henry, it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters,4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records.

He wrote his will on 9/17/1789.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.

His death was about 1790.He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family,in the 1790 census.Before he died,he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time.

Will, 17 Sep 1789, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA. Probate, 8 Jun 1790, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA.

John married Rachel Wells,daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson,about 1738 in Hopewell Mm,Frederick County,Virginia. Rachel was born on 3 May 1720 in All Hallows Parish,Anne Arundel County,Maryland and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM,Newberry Co.,South Carolina at age 51.

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John Wright went to Cane Creek, N.C. by 1749, and on to Berkley Co., S.C. by 1768. He's said to be a Revolutionary War soldier, but never left the Friends (Quakers). His will was made September 17, 1789, Newberry Co., S.C. His wife Rachel was born 3 mo (May) 27, 1720, Prince George Co., Maryland the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. She died Dec 23, 1771, Bush River MM, S.C.

The following anecdote about John Wright is in the "Annals of Newberry", page 31: "John Wright, the father of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollingsworth, was a very aged man at the time of which I am about to speak, but principally accustomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, something prevented her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, he walked out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was the old man's reply."

This ancestor before his death, assembled his children and children at his bedside. When all were assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty-four.

In 1759 the Quaker Colony where the Wrights lived was atacked and James and his wife Mary were killed and scalped. Soon after his parents were killed our gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather John Wright, his wife Rachel, and their children, in frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. It was at this point the Quaker established the first college in North Carolina. The College still exists and is called Guilford. It is just one of many institutions of higher learning founded by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence of one Indian War ran head long into another. With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas, had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley, very near the Quaker Colony at Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)

John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiersmen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first victory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

John died in South Carolina September 17, 1789 and is buried in Newberry County.

Family links: 

Parents:

 James Wright (1671 - 1759)

 Mary Bowater Wright (1689 - 1764) 

Spouse:

 Rachel Wells Wright (1720 - 1771) 

Children:

 Mary Wright Brooks (1739 - 1789)*

 Charity Wright Cook (1745 - 1822)*

 Susannah Wright Hollingsworth (1755 - 1830)*

 Isaac (Joel) Wright (1764 - 1844)*

Burial: Bush River Cemetery Newberry Newberry County South Carolina, USA Created by: Tonya Sparks Record added: Dec 30, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 32509209 -tcd

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Birth: Nov. 4, 1716 Chester County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Jun. 8, 1790 Bush River Newberry County South Carolina, USA

Son of James & Mary Bowater Wright

was born on 4 Nov 1716 in East Nottingham MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died before 8 Jun 1790 in Bush River MM, Newberry Co., South Carolina.

Research Notes: Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN,(Friends United Press, 1981).It is a biography of their daughter,Charity Cook, written and researched by a history professor.

Around 1725,he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland,Prince Georges Co.,MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM,Cecil Co.,MD first.Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproven.The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: "Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman". John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They lived near Monacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland now known as Frederick Co., VA.

The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is assumed that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM.

Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right.She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period.

What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County,North Carolina,which was over a distance of 300 miles.They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

John and Rachel moved near Camden,Kershaw Co.,South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786.Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John.Later,Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate.

By 1765 there was a decision among some Friends in the North Carolina Piedmont to move to South Carolina.Perhaps this was associated with difficulties growing out of the Regulator Movement. John and Rachel (Wells) Wright and family, including the family of their daughter, Charity, who had married Isaac Cook,were among the first to move to what became the large Bush River Friends settlement in Newberry County,South Carolina.

John was a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C.

At an elderly age, he lived with his daughter,Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings.The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion.When the meeting was over, he walked home.When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her."

According to this same family renunion provided by Julia Henry,it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters,4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records.

He wrote his will on 9/17/1789.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.

His death was about 1790.He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family,in the 1790 census.Before he died,he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time.

Will, 17 Sep 1789, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA. Probate, 8 Jun 1790, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA.

John married Rachel Wells,daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson,about 1738 in Hopewell Mm,Frederick County,Virginia. Rachel was born on 3 May 1720 in All Hallows Parish,Anne Arundel County,Maryland and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM,Newberry Co.,South Carolina at age 51.

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John Wright went to Cane Creek, N.C. by 1749, and on to Berkley Co., S.C. by 1768. He's said to be a Revolutionary War soldier, but never left the Friends (Quakers). His will was made September 17, 1789, Newberry Co., S.C. His wife Rachel was born 3 mo (May) 27, 1720, Prince George Co., Maryland the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. She died Dec 23, 1771, Bush River MM, S.C.

The following anecdote about John Wright is in the "Annals of Newberry", page 31: "John Wright, the father of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollingsworth, was a very aged man at the time of which I am about to speak, but principally accustomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, something prevented her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, he walked out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was the old mans reply."

This ancestor before his death, assembled his children and children at his bedside. When all were assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty-four.

In 1759 the Quaker Colony where the Wrights lived was atacked and James and his wife Mary were killed and scalped. Soon after his parents were killed our gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather John Wright, his wife Rachel, and their children, in frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. It was at this point the Quaker established the first college in North Carolina. The College still exists and is called Guilford. It is just one of many institutuions of higher learning founded by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence of one Indian War ran head long into another. With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas, had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley, very near the Quaker Colony at Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)

John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiermen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first vistory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

John died in South Carolina September 17, 1789 and is buried in Newberry County.

Family links:

Parents:

 James Wright (1671 - 1759)

 Mary Bowater Wright (1689 - 1764)

Spouse:

 Rachel Wells Wright (1720 - 1771)*

Children:

 Mary Wright Brooks (1739 - 1789)*

 Charity Wright Cook (1745 - 1822)*

 Susannah Wright Hollingsworth (1755 - 1830)*

 Isaac (Joel) Wright (1764 - 1844)*

Son of James & Mary Bowater Wright

was born on 4 Nov 1716 in East Nottingham MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died before 8 Jun 1790 in Bush River MM, Newberry Co., South Carolina.

Research Notes: Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN,(Friends United Press, 1981).It is a biography of their daughter,Charity Cook,written and researched by a history professor.

Around 1725,he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland,Prince Georges Co.,MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM,Cecil Co.,MD first.Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproven.The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: "Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman". John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They lived near Monacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland now known as Frederick Co., VA.

The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is assumed that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM.

Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right.She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period.

What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County,North Carolina,which was over a distance of 300 miles.They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

John and Rachel moved near Camden,Kershaw Co.,South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786.Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John.Later,Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate.

By 1765 there was a decision among some Friends in the North Carolina Piedmont to move to South Carolina.Perhaps this was associated with difficulties growing out of the Regulator Movement. John and Rachel (Wells) Wright and family, including the family of their daughter, Charity, who had married Isaac Cook,were among the first to move to what became the large Bush River Friends settlement in Newberrty County,South Carolina.

John was a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C.

At an ederly age, he lived with his daughter,Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings.The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion.When the meeting was over, he walked home.When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her."

According to this same family renunion provided by Julia Henry,it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters,4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records.

He wrote his will on 9/17/1789.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.

His death was about 1790.He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family,in the 1790 census.Before he died,he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time.

Will, 17 Sep 1789, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA. Probate, 8 Jun 1790, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA.

John married Rachel Wells,daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson,about 1738 in Hopewell Mm,Frederick County,Virginia. Rachel was born on 3 May 1720 in All Hallows Parish,Anne Arundel County,Maryland and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM,Newberry Co.,South Carolina at age 51.

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John Wright went to Cane Creek, N.C. by 1749, and on to Berkley Co., S.C. by 1768. He's said to be a Revolutionary War soldier, but never left the Friends (Quakers). His will was made September 17, 1789, Newberry Co., S.C. His wife Rachel was born 3 mo (May) 27, 1720, Prince George Co., Maryland the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. She died Dec 23, 1771, Bush River MM, S.C.

The following anecdote about John Wright is in the "Annals of Newberry", page 31: "John Wright, the father of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollingsworth, was a very aged man at the time of which I am about to speak, but principally accustomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, something prevented her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, he walked out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was the old mans reply."

This ancestor before his death, assembled his children and children at his bedside. When all were assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty-four.

In 1759 the Quaker Colony where the Wrights lived was atacked and James and his wife Mary were killed and scalped. Soon after his parents were killed our gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather John Wright, his wife Rachel, and their children, in frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. It was at this point the Quaker established the first college in North Carolina. The College still exists and is called Guilford. It is just one of many institutuions of higher learning founded by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence of one Indian War ran head long into another. With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas, had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley, very near the Quaker Colony at Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)

John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiermen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first vistory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

John died in South Carolina September 17, 1789 and is buried in Newberry County.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via sister Mary Ballinger (born Wright) by SmartCopy: Sep 23 2015, 15:31:27 UTC

Son of James & Mary Bowater Wright

was born on 4 Nov 1716 in East Nottingham MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died before 8 Jun 1790 in Bush River MM, Newberry Co., South Carolina.

Research Notes: Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN,(Friends United Press, 1981).It is a biography of their daughter,Charity Cook,written and researched by a history professor.

Around 1725,he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland,Prince Georges Co.,MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM,Cecil Co.,MD first.Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproven.The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: "Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman". John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They lived near Monacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland now known as Frederick Co., VA.

The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is assumed that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM.

Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right.She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period.

What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County,North Carolina,which was over a distance of 300 miles.They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

John and Rachel moved near Camden,Kershaw Co.,South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786.Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John.Later,Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate.

By 1765 there was a decision among some Friends in the North Carolina Piedmont to move to South Carolina.Perhaps this was associated with difficulties growing out of the Regulator Movement. John and Rachel (Wells) Wright and family, including the family of their daughter, Charity, who had married Isaac Cook,were among the first to move to what became the large Bush River Friends settlement in Newberrty County,South Carolina.

John was a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C.

At an ederly age, he lived with his daughter,Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings.The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion.When the meeting was over, he walked home.When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her."

According to this same family renunion provided by Julia Henry,it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters,4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records.

He wrote his will on 9/17/1789.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.

His death was about 1790.He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family,in the 1790 census.Before he died,he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time.

Will, 17 Sep 1789, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA. Probate, 8 Jun 1790, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA.

John married Rachel Wells,daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson,about 1738 in Hopewell Mm,Frederick County,Virginia. Rachel was born on 3 May 1720 in All Hallows Parish,Anne Arundel County,Maryland and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM,Newberry Co.,South Carolina at age 51.

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John Wright went to Cane Creek, N.C. by 1749, and on to Berkley Co., S.C. by 1768. He's said to be a Revolutionary War soldier, but never left the Friends (Quakers). His will was made September 17, 1789, Newberry Co., S.C. His wife Rachel was born 3 mo (May) 27, 1720, Prince George Co., Maryland the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. She died Dec 23, 1771, Bush River MM, S.C.

The following anecdote about John Wright is in the "Annals of Newberry", page 31: "John Wright, the father of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollingsworth, was a very aged man at the time of which I am about to speak, but principally accustomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, something prevented her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, he walked out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was the old mans reply."

This ancestor before his death, assembled his children and children at his bedside. When all were assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty-four.

In 1759 the Quaker Colony where the Wrights lived was atacked and James and his wife Mary were killed and scalped. Soon after his parents were killed our gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather John Wright, his wife Rachel, and their children, in frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. It was at this point the Quaker established the first college in North Carolina. The College still exists and is called Guilford. It is just one of many institutuions of higher learning founded by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence of one Indian War ran head long into another. With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas, had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley, very near the Quaker Colony at Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)

John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiermen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first vistory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

John died in South Carolina September 17, 1789 and is buried in Newberry County.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via Rachel Wright (born Wells) by SmartCopy: Sep 23 2015, 16:23:33 UTC

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Son of James & Mary Bowater Wright

was born on 4 Nov 1716 in East Nottingham MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died before 8 Jun 1790 in Bush River MM, Newberry Co., South Carolina.

Research Notes: Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN,(Friends United Press, 1981).It is a biography of their daughter,Charity Cook,written and researched by a history professor.

Around 1725,he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland,Prince Georges Co.,MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM,Cecil Co.,MD first.Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproven.The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: "Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman". John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting. They lived near Monacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland now known as Frederick Co., VA.

The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is assumed that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM.

Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right.She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period.

What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County,North Carolina,which was over a distance of 300 miles.They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

John and Rachel moved near Camden,Kershaw Co.,South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786.Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John.Later,Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate.

By 1765 there was a decision among some Friends in the North Carolina Piedmont to move to South Carolina.Perhaps this was associated with difficulties growing out of the Regulator Movement. John and Rachel (Wells) Wright and family, including the family of their daughter, Charity, who had married Isaac Cook,were among the first to move to what became the large Bush River Friends settlement in Newberrty County,South Carolina.

John was a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C.

At an ederly age, he lived with his daughter,Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings.The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion.When the meeting was over, he walked home.When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her."

According to this same family renunion provided by Julia Henry,it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters,4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records.

He wrote his will on 9/17/1789.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.

His death was about 1790.He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family,in the 1790 census.Before he died,he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time.

Will, 17 Sep 1789, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA. Probate, 8 Jun 1790, ,Newberry Co., SC, USA.

John married Rachel Wells,daughter of Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson,about 1738 in Hopewell Mm,Frederick County,Virginia. Rachel was born on 3 May 1720 in All Hallows Parish,Anne Arundel County,Maryland and died on 23 Dec 1771 in Bush River MM,Newberry Co.,South Carolina at age 51.

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John Wright went to Cane Creek, N.C. by 1749, and on to Berkley Co., S.C. by 1768. He's said to be a Revolutionary War soldier, but never left the Friends (Quakers). His will was made September 17, 1789, Newberry Co., S.C. His wife Rachel was born 3 mo (May) 27, 1720, Prince George Co., Maryland the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. She died Dec 23, 1771, Bush River MM, S.C.

The following anecdote about John Wright is in the "Annals of Newberry", page 31: "John Wright, the father of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollingsworth, was a very aged man at the time of which I am about to speak, but principally accustomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, something prevented her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, he walked out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her." was the old mans reply."

This ancestor before his death, assembled his children and children at his bedside. When all were assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty-four.

In 1759 the Quaker Colony where the Wrights lived was atacked and James and his wife Mary were killed and scalped. Soon after his parents were killed our gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather John Wright, his wife Rachel, and their children, in frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony near present day Greensboro, North Carolina. It was at this point the Quaker established the first college in North Carolina. The College still exists and is called Guilford. It is just one of many institutuions of higher learning founded by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence of one Indian War ran head long into another. With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas, had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley, very near the Quaker Colony at Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family, moved through the hostile Indian territory of the Yadkin River country to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina. (Oh, how I would like to know how this family was able to move through country where hostile Indians had run out all whites!)

John and his family at last found peace at Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came, John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist. Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John Wright, was at the famous Battle of The Cowpens where an American army made up of rough frontiermen defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command of Banastre Tarleton to win the first vistory against Lord Cornwallis' army.

John died in South Carolina September 17, 1789 and is buried in Newberry County.