How are you related to Mercy Wright?

Connect to the World Family Tree to find out

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Mercy Wright (Deming)

Also Known As: "Mercy (Deming)", "Curtis", "Wright"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Death: after December 17, 1714
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Place of Burial: Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Deming and Honor Deming
Wife of Joseph Curtis, of Wethersfield and Deacon Joseph Wright
Mother of Meribah Curtis; Joseph Curtis; Henry Curtis; Mary Ann Deming; Sarah Andrus and 4 others
Sister of Sgt. Jonathan Deming; Sarah Moody; Hannah Wright / Beckley; Rachel Morgan; Samuel Deming and 4 others
Half sister of Sgt. John Deming

Managed by: Erica Howton
Last Updated:

About Mercy Wright

Not the same as Mercy Wright


Mercy Deming

  • Birth: 1651 - Of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Parents: John Deming, Honour Treat
  • Married: Joseph Curtis, Joseph Wright
  • Death: after Dec 17 1714 - Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn

Parents: John Deming , Immigrant Ancestor b: 1615 in Village of Shalford, Braintree Parish (Essex) England & Honor Treat b: 19 MAR 1615/16 in Village of Pitminster, Taunton Parish (Somerset) England. Note: "Daughter Wright" is mentioned in the will of John Deming dated 26 June 1690 probated 21 November 1705.

Married

  1. on 8 Feb 1684 in Wethersfield CT to Joseph Curtis d 1683
  2. on 10 March 1685 in Wethersfield CT to Joseph Wright d 1714

Children with Joseph Wright

  1. Benjamin Wright (1686 -).
  2. Nathaniel Wright (1688 - bef 1774). Married Ann Deming.

Sources

  1. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Page 198
  2. Prindle, Paul W. Honor Treat, Wife of John Deming: Mother of which of his children?. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (1987), 62:140. The author estimates her birth year as 1658, and her sister Mary's as 1655 (based on an 1888 source). That would make Mary 15 at marriage and Mercy 16, which seems a bit young.
  3. Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967, 1969), 2:853. '... Mercy ... who survived him [her husband].'
  4. Will including codicil, dated 9 December, 1714 of JOSEPH WRIGHT, LS. Witness : George Kilbourn, John Goodrich, Jr. "I, Joseph Wright of Wethersfield, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament : I give unto my wife Mercy £20 in country pay of this Colony, to her and to her heirs forever, and the use of what part of my dwelling house she shall think needful for her, and that during her widowhood. ..."

Links

view all 14

Mercy Wright's Timeline

1656
1656
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
1674
March 10, 1674
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1675
January 10, 1675
Weathersford, Connecticut, United States
1676
September 2, 1676
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
1677
September 2, 1677
Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
1679
September 23, 1679
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
1680
November 24, 1680
Wethersfield, (Present Hartford County), Connecticut Colony
1682
November 29, 1682
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony