Jacob Job Wright

Birth: Dec., 1636 Sandwich Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA Death: Sep. 13, 1706 Oyster Bay Nassau County New York, USA

Family trees give Dec 1639 as birthdate. Marriage record claims 1636 and gives location as MD.

Job Wright's name occurs very frequently in the Oyster Bay town records, and he appears to have been very prominent and active in its public affairs. An entry in the records shows he was kind hearted and generous, as well as active. Under the date of March 1, 1676-7, the town records show a bill of sale from one Thomas Nicholas, of Newport, R.I., to Job Wright, for one Indian* boy. It is a tradition that this boy belonged to the local tribe of Indians, and had been captured during a foray, probably by a tribe from the east, the Narragansetts, as they were located in Rhode Island, and he had arranged with Nicholas to secure the boy's ransom. When the boy was received, it is said Job Wright set him free and returned him to his tribe. Such, and other kindly acts on the part of the townspeople toward the Indians, bore good fruit, and the appreciation of the Indians was shown in many ways. In an Indian deed of March, 1693, to which Job Wright, with others, was a party it recites "for and in consideration of ye many favors and Kindnesses by us ye said Indians received." (extracted from 'The Wright family of Oysterbay, L.I. with the ancestry of and descent from Peter Wright and Nicholas Wright, 1423-1923.')

• The word Indian is used rather than 'Native American,' in faithfulness to the original (antique) text.

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Parents:

 Peter Wright (1595 - 1663)

 Alice May Wright Crabb (1614 - 1685)

Spouse:

 Rachel Townsend Wright (1629 - 1696)

Siblings:

 Job Wright (1636 - 1706)

 Hannah Wright (1640 - 1674)*

 Mary Wright Andrews (1642 - 1688)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Quaker Cemetery of Oyster Bay Oyster Bay Nassau County New York, USA

Created by: greatgrands Record added: Mar 22, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 87188868 _________________________________

Name: Job Wright 1 2 3 4

Sex: M

Birth: DEC 1639 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 1 2 3

Birth: 1636 4

Death: 13 SEP 1706 in Oyster Bay, Nassau Co., Long Island, Ny 1 2

Death: 13 SEP 1706 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 3

Burial: SEP 1706 Long Island, NY 1 2

Father: Peter Wright b: 1595 in ENG

Mother: Alice Wright b: ABT 1600 in England c: in Quaker

Marriage 1 Susannah Harcourt

Marriage 2 Rachel Townsend b: ABT 1643 in NY

Married: ABT 1664 in NY 5 2

Married: 1688 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 3

Children

Anthony Wright b: BET 1657 AND 1686

Hannah Wright b: BET 1657 AND 1686
Jacob Wright b: BET 1657 AND 1686
Elizabeth Townsend Wright b: BET 1657 AND 1686
Rachel Wright b: 29 JUN 1689 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
Keziah Wright b: 29 MAY 1691 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
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