Person:Ruth Wright (43)

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m. 24 Aug 1705
  1. Ruth WrightCal 1711 - 1791
m. 31 Dec 1730
  1. Prudence Talcott1734 - 1752
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Name[1] Ruth Wright
Married Name Ruth Talcott
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] Cal 24 May 1711 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 31 Dec 1730 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Colonel Elizur Talcott
Death[1][2] 21 Sep 1791 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[3] Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Talcott, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    759.

    "… Ruth Wright, born at Wethersfield, [24 May 1711], died at Glastonbury, 21 Sept. 1791, in her 81st year (gravestone), daughter of Daniel and Elinor (Benton) Wright."

  2. 2.0 2.1 459. Col. Elizur Talcott, in Talcott, S. V. (Sebastian Visscher). Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876. (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1876)
    156.

    "Ruth, the wife of Col. Elizur Talcott, died at the homestead, in Glastenbury, of old age, Sept. 12, 1791, at 6 o’clock p. m., aged 80 years, 3 months and 7 days. In her youth she was a remarkably handsome woman, tall, erect, with a fine, clear, light complexion, golden hair and black eyes, being an only child, she brought a large fortune to her husband, which she inherited from her father who was a man of wealth."

  3. Ruth Wright Talcott, in Find A Grave.