1678 Robert Wright, son of Joshua Wright of ye falls, was born on 2 of March (month 2). [1] [2] [3]
1711 On 3 November, Robert Wright and Elizabeth Hierton made their second declaration of intention to marry, as recorded in the Chesterfield, Burlington County, monthly meeting minutes. [4] [5] [6] [7]
1711 On 20 December, Robert Wright and Elizabeth Hyerton, daughter of Obadiah Hyerton, were married in Burlington. Witnessed by Duglis Hyarton, Susanna Tayler, Joshua Wright, Joseph Wright, Elizabeth Wright, Samuel Wright, Rebeckah Wright, Mary Wright, Samuel Taylor, Elizabeth Fretwell, Benjamin Wright, Sarah Wright, Rachel Curtis, Frances Scholey, John Scholey, and others. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
1739 Robert Wright voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [14]
1742 The will of Robert Wright, of Chesterfield, Burlington County, was dated June 27, 1742 and was proved in probate court on July 15, 1742. An inventory was dated May 12, 1742 (before the date of the will). The will named wife Jane Wright and children Robert, Joshua, James, and Jane Wright and children-in-law [step-children] Isabel Ware, Andrew Ware, and John Ware. His wife, brother Samuel Wright, and nephew Amos Wright were named executors. [15]
[1] Hannah Benner Roach, "Seventeenth Century Birth Records in the Delaware Valley," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 27 (1966), 83-91, at 84.
[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 1.
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, bottom, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 130.
[5] "Marriages at Chesterfield, New Jersey, 1685-1730," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1885), 347-352, at 349, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Women's Minutes, 1747-1799, [AncestryImage].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Chesterfield Meeting, Intentions of Marriage and Certificates of Removal, 1685-1756, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[11] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 234, [HathiTrust].
[12] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 277, [HathiTrust].
[13] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 52.
[14] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 189, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Donald G. Armstrong, New Jersey Pioneers: Twenty-Four Families (Marco Island, Florida: Penobscot Press, 2014), 24.