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James Wright

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Wilbur Wright — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret -----   
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1723 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Jess
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jan 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Wright (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  • Notes: 

  • When looking at images of the original marriage record for James Wright and Abigail Jesse the date appears to have been originally written 18 Feb 1664 and then the Feb was overwritten with Jan.

• Sources for James Wright

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton, p. 16, Birth record for son Samuel Wright.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton, Marriage record for James Wright and Abigail Jesse.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, pp. 356, 358.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, p. 281.
  • ⁵ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, p. 1559, Marriage record for James Wright and Abigail Jess.
  • ⁶ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, Birth record for son Samuel Wright.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁹ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 842.