Person:Abigail Wright (9)

Nov. 4, 1701 Abigail Holbrook, aged about 78, who dwelleth at Scituate but now of Roxbury, made oath that she was about 8 years of age when she came first to this country with her father, Richard Wright. [Register of Swansea, Suffolk Co. Court Files, original papers No. 5, 400; WA GRC, 1957, p. 248]

Will of Abigail Holbrook, widow, of Scituate^[1], dated 28 Nov 1702, probated 13 Feb 1707, mentions grandchildren Elizabeth Tilden, Elizabeth Crafts, William Sharp, Martha Buckmaster, Nathaniel Tilden, Joseph Tilden. Residue to two daughters Abigail Vorce [ Abigail Sharp m. Edward Voce] and Abigail Tilden [ Abigail Clapp m. Stephen Tilden]. Executor son-in-law Stephen Tilden.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Joseph Neal: 1769-c.1835 of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Portland, Maine : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945, 1945)
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   Richard Wright came to New England in the Winthrop fleet with wife and two daughters, one being Abigail, b. abt. 1622, m. (1) abt 1642 Robert Sharp, m. (2) Thomas Clapp of Scituate, m. (3) Capt. William Holbrook of Scituate.