Deacon Samuel WRIGHT

1606 - 1665  (59 years)

• Name	Samuel WRIGHT
  Prefix	Deacon
  Born	29 Jun 1606	Wrightsbridge, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Education	1634 - Emmanuel College of Cambridge University
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	17 Oct 1665	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Buried	unknown   [1]
  Person ID	I42554	Main
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2020

  
  

  Family	Margaret STRATTON,   b. 1612, England ,   d. 25 Jul 1681, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)
  Married	Abt 1625	County Essex, England
  Children	+ 1. Sgt Samuel WRIGHT,   b. 3 Oct 1632, County Essex, England ,   d. 4 Sep 1675, Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts  (Age 42 years) + 2. James WRIGHT,   b. 1639, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts ,   d. 26 Nov 1725, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 86 years)
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F32148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 29 Jun 1606 - Wrightsbridge, Essex, England Married - Abt 1625 - County Essex, England Died - 17 Oct 1665 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Deacon of the Church in Northampton MA. Married Margaret ____ in 1632 in England. Came to New England in 1639 and settled in Springfield MA. Source: Anderson's Great Migration Directory. DEACON SAMUEL WRIGHT, 1606 TO 1665 Samuel Wright was born in 1606 in Wrightsbridge, Essex County, England. He attended Emmanuel College of Cambridge University like his father, graduating in 1624. And like his father, he became a dyed-in-the-wool Puritan. He married Margaret Stratton in 1625. Samuel and Margaret had four children together while they lived in England –Samuel Jr., Margaret, Hester (or Esther), and Lydia. About 1636, they sailed with these four children to America where they had four more – James, Judah, Mary and Helped. Their child: Hannah (Wright) Stebbins. —— The Wright family descended from the Normans who settled in Normandy in northern France before 1000 C.E. These peoples were Saxon Vikings that had originally come from northern Germany and the Jutland peninsula – "Norman" was Old French for "Norse men." After settling in France, these Saxons  invaded  the British Isles and set up small kingdoms such as Sussex, Wessex, and Essex. These medieval kingdoms united in 924 and called themselves "England." In 1066, the English throne passed to Harold Godwinson of Wessex who became King Harold II. William, Duke of Normandy claimed that the throne had been promised to him and gathered an army to invade England. This army was equipped in part by John Wryta of Bayeux, a renowned armorer and skilled craftsman in metal and wood. The army also included John's sons – John, Richard, William, Henry, and Thomas Wryta. William defeated Harold and became King William I (better remembered as William the Conqueror). For their part in the conquest, the Wrtya brothers were given lands in the old Saxon kingdoms of Norfolk, Essex and Sussex which, under Norman rule, became English counties. We don't know which of the Wryta brothers was the ancestor of Wilbur and Orville Wright. We do know however, that the Wright clan prospered in England. The surname morphed from Wryta to Wryte to Wrighte and finally Wright as the family grew and spread out over the British Isles. But hundreds of years later, the Wrights of Essex County were certain that they were Norman in origin and had descended from the Wryta family of Bayeux. ….. Samuel Wright and his family stayed for a while near the coast of Massachusetts, then in 1638 accompanied William Pynchon and other colonists to a Native American village named Agwam on the Connecticut River, where they settled the town of Springfield. Samuel was part owner of a toll bridge there and helped build a mill dam. In 1652 the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Springfield returned to England and Samuel was employed to “dispense the word of God in this place” for fifty shillings per month. It was during this time he earned the title “Deacon.” Deacon Samuel Wright left Springfield about 1656, traveled up the Connecticut River and settled Northampton, Massachusetts, where he built a mill and continued to serve as a deacon. He died in 1665 at age 59 “while sleeping in his chair.” http://www.wright-brothers.org/Information_Desk/Just_the_Facts/Wright_Family/Wright_Genealogy/Wright_Genealogy.htm [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 34523348.