'Tradition, in which is, it is said, always the seed of truth, tells us that Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall was the son of an eminent divine of Daganhams, Essex. ...
"Before Lord William Vaux died he sold the manor of White Notley to John Wright of Kelvedon Hatch. John Wright, whose wife was Agnes, died May 9, 1509, possessed of White Notley and the advowson of Upminster Church, holden of the manor of Hoohall in Co. Suffolk. His son John, was of full age." (Morant's Esx., p. 121.)
This "son of full age," whose father was Rev. John Wright of Upminster Church, appears to be the Sir John to whom arms were granted June 20, 1509--but little more than a month after his father's death, who inherited his estate and later purchased Kelvedon manor.'
This information should be treated with some suspicion, as it is based on Morant's The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, written in the 18th century, which presumably would have been known to the authors of History of the Wright Family, who are descendants of Samuel Wright (1722-1789) of Lenox, Mass. with lineage back to Thomas Wright (1610-1670) of Wethersfield, Conn. and showing a direct line to John Wright, Lord of Kelvedon Hall, Essex, England, published in 1913. The latter book says that the John Wright who died in 1551 was "the earliest known progenitor of the family", indicating that the authors likely discounted the tale of the Rev Sir John Wright (-1509), his wife Agnes and his father Sir Henry. It is possible that these people lived, but at a later time, as another History of Essex (possibly relying in part on Morant) clearly confuses later generations of Wrights with earlier ones.
