Richard Wright^[1]

1608 - 1691

• Born	1608	Wrington, Somersetshire, England   [2]
  Christened	Of, Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Jun 1691	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2]
  Notes	Constable for Plymouth. RICHARD AND HESTER WRIGHT'S CHILDREN RICHARD WRIGHT of Plymouth married, about 1644, Hestere Cooke, daughter of Francis 1 Cooke, the Mayflower Passenger, and they had six children, Adam, John, Esther, Isaac, Samuel, Mary; but the birth records of only two of these children, Esther and Isaac, have been found. Adam Wright 3, born about 1645, married, first, Sarah 3 Soule (John 2, George 1); married, second, Mehitable Barrows. He had six children by the first wife and four by the second wife. John Wright 3, died before his father, without issue, and apparently unmarried. Esther Wright 3, born at Plymouth, in 1649, married Ephraim Tinkham 3 (Rebecca 2 Brown, Peter 1), and had six children. Isaac Wright 3, born at Plymouth, 26 August, 1652, died in 1675 or 1676, without issue, and apparently unmarried. Samuel Wright 3, died before his father, without issue, and apparently unmarried. Mary Wright 3, married-Price. John Wright 3, in his will, dated 7 December, 1675, and probated 7 July, 1676, mentioned his father Richard Wright, his brothers Adam Wright 3, Isaac Wright 3 and Samuel Wright 3, and his sisters Esther and mary Wright. A receipt by esther Wright 3 and Mary Wright 3, for a legacy from their brother John, shows that they were both unmarried on its date, 9 June, 1676. This receipt is of especial importance as no record of the date of marriage of Ephraim Tinkham and Esther Wright 3 has been found. Their daughter Marth (Tinkham 4) Soule was born about 1678, according to the age on her gravestone* at Middleborough, Mass., and was born before any of the other known children of Ephraim and Esther Tinkham. As the estate of Isaac Wright 3 was settled 7 July, 1676, he died before that date, but after 7 December, 1675, when he was mentioned in his brother John's will. Samuel Wright 3, mentioned in John's will, evidently died before his father's will was made, but no settlement of his estate has been found. Richard Wright, the father, died at Plymouth, 9 June, 1691. In his will, made the day before he died, and printed in full in our fourth volume, he mentioned only his son Adam, his daughter Esther, and his widowed daughter Mary Price. Hester 2 (Cooke) Wright, the mother, died after 8 June, 1666, when she signed an agreement of heirs† of her father, francis 1 Cooke, and probably before 7 December, 1675, the date of her son John's will. We her print exhaustive abstratcts of all records relating to the estates of John Wright 3 and Isaac Wright 3, found on the Plymouth Colony Records. [2, 3]
  Person ID	I3620990	7_families
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2006

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Wright,   d. Bef 1643
  Married	8 Jan 1625	Saugus, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Elinor Wright,   b. Abt 1617, , , , England ,   d. 1661 > 2. Mary Wright,   b. 1618, , , England ,   d. 27 Sep 1660, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   3. Abigail Wright,   b. Abt 1620, , , England ,   d. Abt 1707
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2001
  Family ID	F1198656	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Hester Cooke,   b. Abt 1620, Leyden, Zuid, Holland ,   d. Aft 21 May 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Married	6 Nov 1644	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Children	> 1. Adam Wright,   b. 1645, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 20 Sep 1724, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2006
  Family ID	F1198655	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Christened - - Of, Seekonk, Bristol, Massachusetts Married - 8 Jan 1625 - Saugus, Essex, Massachusetts Married - 6 Nov 1644 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Died - 9 Jun 1691 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S12672] George Soule of the Mayflower, John E. Soule, Milton E. Terry, Robert S. Wakefield, (Plymouth, Mass. : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, c1999), 14 (Reliability: 3). [S7689] Francis Cooke of the Mayflower and his descendants for four generations, Robert S. Wakefield, (Plymouth, Mass. : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, c1987), 4 (Reliability: 3). [S311] Mayflower Descendant, (Wheat Ridge, CO: Search & Research Publishing Corporation, 1996), 24: 84 (Reliability: 3). [S407] Massachusetts, Plymouth, Plymouth - Vital Records to 1850, Lee Douglas van Antwerp (Main Author), Ruth Wilder Sherman (Added Author), (Camden, Me. : Picton Press, c1993), 655 (Reliability: 3). Richard Wright and Hester Cooke married [1644].