Ancestry of
Esther Williams

(c1745–1822)

Samuel Wright

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• • Great-grandfather of Esther Williams — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Henry Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Feb 1637 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 12 May 1638 
  • Christening Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 26 Feb 1716/1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Johanna -----
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Wright (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Robert Charles Anderson, in his The Great Migration series of books, say that there is “no further record,” after the baptism of Samuel Wright, son of Henry and Elizabeth Wright. This would cast some doubt on him being the same Samuel whose father was Henry Wright of Dorchester.

• Sources for Samuel Wright

  • ¹ American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 12, (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1899)), 94.
  • ² Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Providence: The Standard Printing Co., 1896, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 190-191.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 544.