WRIGHT Isaac

Male 1686 - 1766  (~ 79 years)


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  • Name WRIGHT Isaac 
    Birth Jan 1686  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Will 2 Jul 1760  [2
    • (To "son Joseph Wright .... the, westerly end of the dwelling house wherein he now liveth in consideration for his labour with me after be was of age. Also the one half of all my other real estate (excepting the easterly end of my dwelling house,) wherein I dwell"

      To "son Isaac Wright .... the easterly end of my dwelling house wherein I now dwell. Also the one half of all my other real estate to be equally divided between my son Joseph & him. Excepting the westerly end of my dwelling house which is above given to Joseph."

      To "daughter Mary Thomson" £6, 13s., 4d., "to be paid by my Excr out of my personal estate . Besides what I have already given her."

      To "daughter Rachel Wright" £13, 6s., 8d., "to be Pd by my Exr out of my moveable Estate."

      "Also my will is that if there should be any more of my personal estate left, after my just debts, funeral charges & legacies are pard, that it be equally divided amongst all my Children."

      "son Joseph Wright" was appointed executor.

      The witnesses were Benjamin Weston, Hannah Weston and Job Weston.

      On 7 April, 1766, the will was presented for probate by Joseph Wright, the executor, and allowed, on the oaths of Benjamin Weston and Job Weston, two of the witnesses, and administration was granted to Joseph Wright.

      An inventory of the estate was taken on 4 April 1766, by Gideon Bradford, Benjamin Weston and Jabez Newland. A pew in Meetinghouse" was valued at £1, 6s., 8d.. "the homestead farm with the buildings & fence thereon, & Cedar swamp & Iron Ore" £480. The total amount of the inventory was £544, 12s., 1d. Joseph Wright, the executor, and the three appraisers, made oath to the inventory, 7 April, 1766, before John Cushing, Judge of Probate.)
    _UID 18B1547489905B4BBE15938DD4B1A8F46485 
    Death 11 Jan 1766  Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • ("aged 80 years, wanting 8 days.")
    Person ID I87687  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 19 Feb 2007 

    Father WRIGHT Adam,   b. Abt 1645, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1724, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Mother SOULE Sarah,   b. Bef 1670   d. Bef 1707 (Age < 37 years) 
    Marriage Y  [3
    Family ID F34532  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family COLE Mary,   b. Abt 1697   d. 10 Jul 1759, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1719  [4
    Children 
     1. WRIGHT Susannah,   b. 9 Dec 1719, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. WRIGHT Joseph,   b. 16 Jun 1721, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. WRIGHT Mary,   b. 30 Jan 1726, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. WRIGHT Isaac,   b. 3 Sep 1736, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1796, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    Family ID F34548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1897] CD-Mayflower Descendant Legacy, Vol. 11; October, 1909; No. 4 Gravestone Records in the Old Cemetery Plympton, Mass.

    2. [S1897] CD-Mayflower Descendant Legacy, Vol. 21; April, 1919; No. 2 Isaac Wright's will.

    3. [S3354] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.817, ME 974.1 CO.

    4. [S5120] Book-VR Plympton, MA (Mayflower), Vol. 5; October, 1903; No. 4 p.158.