Research Notes:
Job Wright and Rachel Townsend have been named as the parents of Rachel Wright, who was the second wife of Thomas Stokes. [1]
1686 On May 22, Isaac Horner, of West New Jersey, sold 5 acres in Oyster Bay, to Job Wright, of Oyster Bay. The lot was bounded on the west by home lot formerly Peter Wright's deceased, but now Job Wright's and on the north by home lot of Job Wright. The lot was formerly in tenure and occupation of Anthony Wright, deceased. [2]
1706 On September 6, Job Wright, of Oyster Bay, wrote his will. The will named wife Rachel, children Anthony, Jacob, Karich, Rachel, Hannah, and Elizabeth. [3]
1713 On 29 of month 3 (May), Kezia Wright, daughter of Job Wright, deceased, of Oyster Bay and wife Rachel, married John Burr, of Northampton, Burlington County, New Jersey. [4]
1715 On 1 of month 7, at Westbery [Westbury, Long Island?], Thomas Stokes of Waterford, Glouster County, New Jersey, married Rachel Wright, daughter of Job Wright, late of Oysterbay, deceased, and his wife Rachel. [5] [6] Rachel Wright was daughter of Job Wright and Rachel Townsend. [7] [8] [9]
"Thomas Stokes married (second) Rachel, daughter of Job and Rachel Wright, of Oyster Bay or Westbury, Long Island, who died February 18, 1742, having borne her husband eight children" [10]
We are researching Thomas Wright [11], who died 1705 in Burlington County, New Jersey. We seek information about the relationship, if any, of Job Wright to Thomas Wright.
Who was Mary Wright?
1663 On 30 of month 8, at Oysterbay, Samuel Andrews and Mary Wright married. [12]
[1] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_397, QR259, Liber B1-68, [AncestryImage].
[3] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_95, Queens County Clerk's Office Deeds & Wills, Liber A-173, [AncestryImage].
[4] "Records of the Society of Friends of the city of New York and vicinity," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 6 (1875), 97-107, 192-193 at 101, [InternetArchive], [AmericanAncestors].
[5] "Records of the Society of Friends of the city of New York and vicinity," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 6 (1875), 97-107, 192-193 at 101, [InternetArchive], [AmericanAncestors].
[6] George E. McCracken, "The Fields of Flushing, Long Island," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 113 (1959), 197-216, 267-289 at 267, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 303, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[8] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[9] Barclay White, "Early Settlements in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1870), 83-92, at 66, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[10] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 582, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[11] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Thomas Wright, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
[12] "Records of the Society of Friends of the city of New York and vicinity," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 6 (1875), 97-107, 192-193 at 97, [InternetArchive], [AmericanAncestors].