1720 Josiah Wright and Elizabeth Brock declared their intention to marry. Dated 7 of month 1 (March), 1719/20, at the Burlington meeting. [1] [2]
1720 Josiah Wright and Elizabeth Brock declared their intention to marry for the second time. Dated on 4 of month 2 (April), at the Burlington meeting. Elizabeth Burr and Grace Cripps were appointed by the womens monthly meeting at Burlington to attend the marriage of Josiah Wright and Elizabeth Brock. [3] [4]
1720 The marriage of Josiah Wright and Elizabeth Brock was reported to have been orderly. Meeting records dated 2 of month 3 (May). [5]
1730 Josiah Wright and Prudence Pauline, both of Burlington, were married on February 23. [6] [7]
1750 Josiah Wright and Anne Watson, both of Mansfield, were married on June 5. [8]
1754 Josiah Wright, of Mansfield, Burlington County, yeoman; dated his will on June 24. Wife, Ann. Children: David, Abednego, Susannah, Prudence, Elizabeth (wife of Antohny Allcut), Charity (widow of John Garwood), and Israel. Homefarm, bought of brother, Jonathan; personal property, Son, David, sole Executor. Witnesses: Enoch Fenton, William Fenimore, John Fenimore. Proved August 26, 1755. [9]
1755 Inventory, £70.19, by John Fenimore and William Hancock. Dated on December 10. [10]
1798 The estate of son Abednego Wright was partitioned in a New Jersey Supreme Court case on 14 February. The lands (62 acres) had been part of a plantation whereon Josiah Wright, deceased, (lived), "the father of Abednego". Abednego's heirs were his brothers and sisters, or the issue of those of his brothers and sisters who had pre-deceased him. Siblings who died before Abednego were: Israel Wright, Elizabeth Wright, wife of Anthony Alcott; Charity Wright, wife of Garwood; and David Wright. David Wright's children included Ann Wright, wife of Abraham Scott. [11] [12] [13]
1800 David Wright's sons William and Abraham and two children of Abraham were named in a land partition. [14]
Research Notes:
Josiah/Joseph Wright has been reported [15], with no documentation [16], to be a son of Thomas Wright. [17]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Women's Minutes, 1747-1799, 172, [AncestryImage].
[2] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 388, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, 389, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meetings, 1681-1747, 179, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meetings, 1681-1747, 180, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 167, left column, [HathiTrust].
[7] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 444, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[8] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 444, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[9] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 370, citing Lib. 8, p. 201, [InternetArchive].
[10] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 370, [InternetArchive].
[11] Burlington County, New Jersey Partitions, A-1, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Burlington County, New Jersey Partitions, A-2, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[13] Virginia Alleman Brown, Abstracts of Partitions & Divisions of the New Jersey counties of Monmouth, Mercer, & Burlington (Baltimore: Clearfield, 1993), 57, citing A-1.
[14] Burlington County, New Jersey Partitions, A-101, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 13, Joseph is reported to be the son of Thomas, but he magically becomes Josiah when he is married on pages 19-20, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Donald G. Armstrong, New Jersey Pioneers: Twenty-Four Families (Marco Island, Florida: Penobscot Press, 2014), 14.
[17] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Thomas Wright, married to Ann, perhaps the parents of Josiah Wright, [JRWolfeGenealogy].