1681 On 2 of month 7 [September], Thomas Wright was born in West Jersey. [1] Thomas was born in Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County. [2]
1686 On 2 March, Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Humphrey and Sarah Parker of the Strand of the Green, Chestwick parish, Middlesex, England, was born. [3]
Thomas Wright, son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Empson) Wright, inherited three hundred acres of land from his father. [4]
1706 On 7 November, Thomas Wright and Elizabeth Parker made their second declaration of intention to marry, as recorded in the Chesterfield, Burlington County, monthly meeting minutes. [5] [6] [7] [8] Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Parker. [9] [10] [11]
1727 Thomas Wright and James Starkey made inventory for the estate of John Horner, New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [12]
1737 John Taylor and Lydia Wright were married on February 16, 1736/37, at Springfield Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Thomas and Elizabeth Wright and others. [13]
1737 On 29 August, Thomas Wright, perhaps this one, was named in the estate inventory of Joseph Steward of New Hanover Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [14]
1757 On 9 of month 12, Elizabeth Wright died. [15]
1762 On February 24, Thomas Wright, of New Hanover, Burlington County, yeoman, dated his will. Son, Ezekiel, a part of my plantation, and he is to pay to his 4 sisters, Sarah Norris, Margaret Bullock, Elizabeth Bullock and Jemima Thorn, £20 each. Son, Amos, the rest of my lands, and he is to pay to his sister, Lydia French, £20, and to his sister, Deborah Foxe's children, William, Jonathan, George, Elemuel and Sarah Fox, £4 each when 21. Daughter, Sarah Fox, my spice box. Residue to daughters, Sarah Norris, Lydia French, Margaret Bullock, Elizabeth Bullock, Jemima Thorn, and the 5 children of my daughter, Deborah Fox, viz., William, Jonathan, George, Elemuel and Sarah Fox. Executors: sons, Amos and Ezekiel, and my son-in-law, John Bullock. Witnesses: Alexander Kimmings, Joseph Kirby, William Harris, Jr. Proved April 15, 1769. [16]
1769 On 30 of month 3, Thomas Wright died in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [17]
1769 On April 12, the inventory of Thomas Wright, £242.9.9, made by Alexander Kimmings and Joseph Kirby. [18]
[1] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 711, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 26, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 26, [GoogleBooks].
[4] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 711, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Chesterfield Meeting, Intentions of Marriage and Certificates of Removal, 1685-1756, 2, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 130.
[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 44.
[8] "Marriages at Chesterfield, New Jersey, 1685-1730," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1885), 347-352, at 348, [GoogleBooks].
[9] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 711, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 26, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 4 (1910), 1546, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[12] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 238, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[13] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 67, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 457, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[15] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 26, [GoogleBooks].
[16] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 491, [InternetArchive].
[17] Larry C. Wright, Wrights’ 400 Years (1984), 26, [GoogleBooks].
[18] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 491, citing Lib. 14, p. 46, [InternetArchive].