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Wilbur Wright

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Benoni Wright

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Wilbur Wright — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Sykes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Feb 1718 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Jan 1742 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Dan Wright (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Benoni Wright

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for Benoni Wright.
  • ² Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for son Dan Wright.
  • ³ Bailey, Frederic W., Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, 2nd Book, New Haven, Connecticut: Bureau of American Ancestry (1896), 42.
  • ⁴ Drury, Rev. Augustus Waldo, History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County Ohio, Vol. 1, Chicago-Dayton: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1909), 195.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 11.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.