Person:John Wright (289)

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Minutes of Menallen Monthly Meeting (Quaker) on file Friends Library Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

"Ann Griffith, dt. Thos. & Eve, m. John Wright, son of Sam & Gertrude"

Immigration of The Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 by Albert Cook Myers, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902, p. 395:

John Wright was the son of Samuel Wright who married 9 mo. 4, 1754, at Huntington Friends' Meeting, now Adams County, Gertrude Wierman, daughter of William and Gertrude (Sietman) Wierman. Samuel died probably about or prior to 1781, and Gertrude married secondly, William Ferguson, widower, of Menallen. She died in 1802, having had 8 children by her first husband: John Wright married Ann Griffith; Hannah, died unmarried; Rachel, m. 6 mo. 13, 1781, at Menallen Meeting, James Hodgson, son of John and Martha Hodgson, of Berkeley County, Virginia. Child: James.; William Wright, married Agnes Tanger. Children: Agnes and Margaret; Jesse, married first, Alice Hammond, and had one child, Samuel; married secondly, Catharine Davis, and had one child, Jesse (married Elizabeth Mantz. Children: Eliza and Jane); Benjamin Wright married first, Hannah Hendricks. Went to Kentucky and married a second time; Samuel Wright married Eve Latchew. Children: Hannah married Nathan Harris and removed to Salem, Ohio, Jane married Daniel Minnich; William; Jesse married Susanna Pittendorff; Phebe married Ferguson.

Samuel Wright, father of John Wright, was the son of John Wright and wife Elizabeth, from Castleshane, County of Monaghan, Ireland. Settled in Menallen Township., York, now Adams County, Pennsylvania as early as 1748, members of Warrington M.M. They had nine children: Mary; Samuel; Rachel; Joseph; Alice; Benjamin; John; Joel; and Jonathan..

(See Immigration of Irish Quakers for further details on these other lines.)

1. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Ancestral File. (Internet).

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2. ↑ Griffith, Sara Leslie. Ancestry World Tree Project: Griffith - L'Hommedieu - Young Genealogy.. (e-mail: genealogy@@pal2pal.com).

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3. ↑ Kevin Howley <khowley@@aol.com>, 215-893-9343. Blackburn Family Association, Inc.. (www.blackburn-tree,org - 608 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146).

   608 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146, Kevin Howley <khowley@@aol.com>, 215-893-9343, www.blackburn-tree,org

4.   Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 17601-5529, [email protected]

5.   CWeaver391@@aol.com