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Orville Wright

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Samuel Wright

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Orville Wright — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • James Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Jess   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 May 1674 
  • Birth Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Apr 1734 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Yard Cemetery, Columbia, Tolland, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Sykes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1697 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Benoni Wright (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Samuel Wright's age at the time of death as 91. This appears to be incorrect as he was 61 at the time of his death. This may be due to a misreading of the age from his gravestone. Images seen of the gravestone have this section illegible and possibly buried in the ground.

• Sources for Samuel Wright

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for son Benoni Wright.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Death record for Samuel Wright.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/11/2014).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton, p. 16, Birth record for Samuel Wright.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 358.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 264.
  • ⁷ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, Birth record for Samuel Wright.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ¹⁰ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 843.