Thomas Wright, of Scituate

• not a known child of Richard Wright, of the Plymouth Colony & Hester Cooke.
• Not the same as Thomas Wright, III

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Notes

History of Scituate, Mass., page 393, says that Thomas was probably a grandson of William Wright, who came in the Fortune in Nov. 1621. [However, that William Wright, (1595-1633), who married Priscilla Carpenter, had no known surviving children ...]

to 1831 by Deane, Samuel, 1784-1834

Publication date 1831 Publisher Boston, J. Loring

"THOMAS WRIGHT, or Right,

probably a grandson of William Wright, (who came to Plymouth in the Fortune 1621,) was in Scituate in the south part of the Town 1682. His children were Elizabeth bom 1683, Jane 1665, John 1688, Martha 1690, (wife of John Ford 1713) Mary 1691, (wife of Benjamin Woodworth 1719.) Thomas Wright deceased 1691, and his widow, Elizabeth, married John Sanders, and left one son Edward Sanders, who went to Duxbury.

John, the only son of Thomas Wright, married Lydia Taylor 1709, and had children, Mary 1713, and John 1716, which latter had a son John born 1745, who married Mary Woodworth 1769, and whose children were James bom 1769, John 1772, Mary 1780. James married Lucy, daughter of Abijah Brown, had daughters Mercy, Eleanor and 5lary, and died eariy. His widow married Thomas Ruggles 1813.

There was an Edward Wright, who married Lydia the widow of Nathaniel Rawlins 1664, and whose children were Mercy born 1666, Hannah 1668, Grace 1669, David 1670, Edward 1671, Joseph 1673. This family removed early.

Jesse Wright, a descendant probably of Thomas, and son of John 2d. lived in Scituate, and left sons Thomas, of Scituate, James of South Boston, and Hannah, the wife of Timothy Bobbins of Hanover."

Family

Spouse: Elizabeth d. after 1693

Children
+ 1. Elizabeth Wright, b. 2 June 1683, Scituate, MA. Married William Guilford,

	2. Jane Wright,   b. April 1685, Scituate, MA.  Married Benjamin Hanmore,

+ 3. John Wright, b. October 1688, Scituate, MA. Married Lydia Taylor.
+ 4. Mary Wright, b. 31 August 1691, Scituate, MA d . before 1755 (Age < 63 years). Married Benjamin Woodward,.

References

1. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K63D-XK4
2. https://figg-tree.org/rootspersona-tree/wright-thomas/
3. https://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I85066&tree=Schirado