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Notes for Fretwell Wright

1714 Fretwell Wright, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Wright, was born on 14 of month 6. [1] [2]

1722 Mary Wright, wife of Fretwell and daughter of Joseph and Mary Eldridge, was born on 23 of month 7. [3]

1730 Elinor Wright, daughter of Jonathan Wright of Burlington, married Isaac Connarro on October 22. Witnessed by Fretwell Wright and Margaret Wright and others. [4]

1738 Fretwell Wright, tanner of Burlington County, married Margaret Ellis, spinster daughter of Rowland Ellis of Burlington, schoolmaster on August 2. [5] [6]

1741 Peter, child of Fretwell Wright was baptized at St Mary's Church, Burlington County. [7]

1743 Easter Wright, daughter of Jonathan Wright, and William Heulings were married on June 2, at the meeting house in Burlington city. Witnessed by Fretwell Wright and others. [8]

1745 Fretwell Wright, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in the city of Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey on April 15. [9]

1754 Fretwell Wright and sons Jonathan, Ellis, William, and Isaac were baptized on September 11, at St Mary's Church, Burlington County. [10]

1777 Fretwell Wright purchased land from Thomas Thorn. [11]

1778 John Abbott and Susannah Bullock of New Hanover Twp, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, married at Upper Freehold meeting 17th, 9th month, 1778. Witnesses Fretwell Wright and others. [12]

1797 Fretwell Wright died on 30 of month 12, and was buried on January 1, 1798 at Bordentown. [13]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 13, image 43, [AncestryImage].

[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 37.

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 13, image 43, [AncestryImage].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), 233, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 109.

[6] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[7] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 57, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), 293, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[9] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 422, [InternetArchive].

[10] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 60, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[11] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), Y4-362, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[12] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 114, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[13] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 13A, image 44, [AncestryImage].