Dea. Thomas Wright, of Wethersfield

Thomas Wright, son of Joseph Wright & Mary Stoddard, b January 19 1676, married first Prudence Deming second Abigail Churchill

Only child was Ebenezer by 1st wife

Not the same as Thomas Wright, of Middletown

Origins

Joseph son of Thomas 2 Wright by his first wife was born about 1639 and died December 17 1714 at the age of seventy five years. He married first December 10 1663 Mary Stoddard who died August 23 1683 and second Mercy Deming Curtis, widow of Joseph Curtis.

Children of Joseph and Mary baptismal dates

1. Mary April 15 1665 married a Mr Gris wold
2. Elizabeth November 18 1667 married John Curtis
3. Joseph February 14 1669 married Mary Dudley of Guilford
4. Thomas January 19 1676 married first Prudence Deming second Abigail Churchill
5. John May 19 1679 married Mercy Boardman
6. Jonathan mentioned below

Mentioned in his father’s will dated Feb. 14, 1711, is in part:

From https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LHT5-B89

"To my son Thomas Wright I give 1.4 acres of land in Wethersfields Great Meadow, bounded east on the Great River, west on highway, north on my son Joseph's land and south on land of John Deming, Sen'r. of Wethersfield; 3 acres in Dry Swamp bounded (in part) on land of Deacon Warner and Nathaniel Churchill; also half my pasture, bounded (in part) on land of John Curtis Jr., Sam Butler, and my son John Wright's land which sometimes since I gave him ...

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Wright_%28132%29
• From Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 310 GoogleBooks “Ebenezer Wright, the only child of Thomas (son of Deacon Joseph) Wright, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, by his first wife, Prudence, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah Deming, also of Wethersfield, was born in that town, October 2, 1706. ....”