Person:James Wright (185)

James Wright was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land Records

• July 5, 1774, at Patent Deed 42/621 James Wright patented 346 acres of land in Botetourt County, Virginia. Genealogy.com

Court Records

• March 10, 1773, at Botetourt County, Virginia, Court Order Book 1772-76/147 the court found that James Wright was the father of a bastard child and should be ordered to pay maintenance for that child:

"The Church Wardens agst. James Wright reheard And It is the Opinion of the Court that the Defendant is the father of said Bastard Child Therefore It is Considered by the Court that the said James Wright pay to the Church Wardens annually the Sum of eight pounds for the Maintainance of said Child untill the Court shall think proper to bind her out."

• March 10, 1773, at Botetourt County, Virginia, Court Order Book 1772-76/148 James Wright and Peter Wright acknowledged liability to the crown for support of his bastard child Jane M. Mullin, daughter of Margarett M. Mullin:

"James Wright and Peter Wright come into Court and acknowledge themselves jointly and Severally indebted to Our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c in the Sum of twenty four pounds of their respective Goods Chattels Land and Tenements to be levied and to our said Lord the King rendered but upon this Condition that if the said James shall abide by and perform an Order of this Court directing him to pay to the Church Wardens annually the Sum of Eight pounds for the Maintenance of Jane M Mullin alias Wright a Bastard Child of Margarett M Mullin of which the Court hath adjudged the said James the Father then this recognizance to be Void." Genealogy.com

1. ↑ Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
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   December Court, 1804
   Deposition of John Martin, aged 61 yrs., to establish James Wright's Military survey, deposeth: in yr. 1775, he having settled near the plantation where "Col. James Garrard now lives," traveled the old Buffalo road near a spring where "James Wright now lives," and discovered a camp had been made, later in 1775 John Floyd told him he had made a Military survey at the place for one Huggard (Haggard) and others, etc.