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John Wright, of Alleghany County, VA
- H. John Wright, of Alleghany County, VAAbt 1761 - Aft 1830
- W. Catherine PersingerAbt 1769 - Aft 1809
m. 12 Oct 1785
Facts and Events
John Wright was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Advisory
Some Ancestry Member Trees claim that John Wright was the son of Peter Wright (abt. 1712-1793) and his wife Jane Hughart, but this is in error. A Rootsweb Article looks at the four different John Wright's in the Augusta/Botetourt/Rockbridge area, and discusses the records separating them.
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 6, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Wright, John - entered service 1780 in 12th Virginia Regiment; granted Pension 1819 in Botetourt County, Virginia, per County Court Clerk Henry Bowyer, gave power of attorney in Alleghany County, Virginia, 1829 to agent to apply for Bounty Land Warrant per County Justice of the Peace John Persinger & granted Bounty Land Warrant #1499; Jacob Persinger made affidavit there then, per County Court Clerk Oliver Callaghan. F-S41384, R2650.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of John Wright S41384 VA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 13 Sep 2014.
At a Court held for the County of Botetourt in the State of Virginia the 9th day of June 1818 John Wright an inhabitant of this County & Citizen of this State, personally appeared before this Court being a Court of Record, and made oath that he served as a Soldier in Capt’n. Andrew Wallace’s Company of the 12th Virginia Regim’t. commanded by Colo. James Wood on Continental establishment in the army of the Revolution, that he served therein three years, the term of his said inlistment, when he was regularly discharged by Colo. Wood, which discharge accompanies this statement, that he afterwards became a substitute for eighteen months in the Virginia line & was attach’d. to Colo. Henry Lee’s Legion, and at the expiration of that term was discharged, which discharge he has lost. That afterwards he inlisted in Colo. [Charles] Armand’s Legion & continued therein untill he was discharged at the end of the war of the revolution, which discharge also accompanies this statement and finally that he is now in such low circumstances as to need the assistance of his Country for support
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I. John Wright aged Sixty Eight years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty I enlisted for the term of “during the war,” and served in the regiment No. [blank] under the command of Colonel Armond of the Virginia line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the [blank] regiment, commanded by Colonel Armond I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore, [power of attorney follows] [27 April 1829]
(Signed) John Wright
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the Act entitled “an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution” approved on the 15th of May 1828 I, John Wright of the County of Allegehaney in the State of Virginia, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service untill its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain [blank] Company in the first Partizan Legion under Colo. Armand of the Cavalry line. And I also declare that I afterwards received no certificate (to the best of my recollection) for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of may 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the 15th of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this 25th of November 182[8] Before me Ja. McDowell Jun’r a Justice of the Peace.
(Signed) John Wright
[The following was addressed to Hon. John Floyd, Congressman from Virginia, who referred it to the Secretary of the Treasury.] Memo: John Wright, the applicant for a pension rec’d. one in the year just preceding the passage of the act which limited pensions to those whose property was of less value than [blank] dollars [act of 1 May 1820 interpreted as limiting property to $200]. His pension was discontinued under the restriction of that act, his property having been valued to a trifle over the prescribed limit. Since then he has become and, is now, nearly destitute. The fact of his Revolutionary services will appear from his Discharges which were forwarded on his first application & which, are, it is presumed, on file in the War or Treasury Office. of these he had two, having enlisted first for three years and, at the end of that enlistment, for the war. The law requiring two witnesses to his services and his identity would have been complied with but for a casualty; Colo. McDowell of Rockbridge, wrote his first petition & put him in the way of getting his pension, from which act, Wright having conceived of him as more capable to make his renewed application than any other man, has actually walked about sixty miles to his House to procure his aid in this behalf: thus seperating himself from his acquaintances who could have established the identity required. Should this defect of witnesses vitiate his application Dr. F. will please inform me by letter. Let it be recollected that the service is attested by proof upon record so that the casual default of one witness as to the other point be viewed as less weighty in excluding his claim.
Jas McDowell Jun’r./ Nov. 25, 1828
NOTE: Wright’s discharges were not found in the file.
http://revwarapps.org/s41384.pdf
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The second John Wright was John Wright (Alleghany County). This John Wright was born in about 1761. He was also a Revolutionary War veteran and served in Captain Andrew Wallace's Company of the 12th Virginia Regiment and in other units in the war. This John Wright married Catherine Persinger on Oct 12, 1785, at Botetourt County, Virginia. He resided from at least 1805 until 1818 at Botetourt County, Virginia, and from 1822 to at least 1830 at Alleghany County, Virginia
John Wright (Alleghany County) owned land on Potts Creek in a part of Botetourt County that later became Alleghany County. Peter Wright, Jr., the son of 1793 Peter Wright of Botetourt County, Virginia, also owned land on Potts Creek. I suspect these two were related, but cannot find the connection. As will be set forth below, John Wright (Alleghany County) who married Catherine Persinger was not the son of 1793 Peter Wright of Botetourt County.
The 1810 Census for Botetourt County, Virginia, listed one John Wright with one male over 45 and seven other males age 0 to 26 and one female over 45 and four other females age 0 to 26 in his household. This looks like seven sons and four daughters, but none of these children have as yet been identified.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VAALLEGH/2003-05/1051974010
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