2. | Wright Samuel was born on 09 Apr 1670 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (son of Wright Edward and Upson Hannah); died about 15 Jan 1739 in Rutland, Worcester County, MA. Notes:
Captain Samuel Wright was prominent among the early settlers of Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He held the offices of selectman, assessor, clerk of the town and moderator of the meetings for many years, justice of the peace, deacon of the church, captain of the militia and surveyor and committee in dividing the lands of six miles square and recording the same in the proprietors' book, which he did in a very plain and legible hand. Many of the bounds and corners made more than one hundred and fifty years could still be found. Capt. Wright kept a tavern in front of the first meeting-house, on the opposite side of the street, where much of the first business of the town was done. (The old records show that the town would frequently during the session of its town-meeting vote to "adjourn for fifteen minutes," which was quite suggestive.) This house was taken down or removed before the Revolution.
Early Worcester County, MA Probate Records.
Esq. Samuel Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co. [ Case No. 67,824]
Samuel Wright, Esq. of Rutland left his entire estate, with the exception of specific cash bequests, to his son, William who was also to be the sole executor. The three sons of Samuel's deceased son, Cyprian, viz: William, Samuel and John, were to receive £10 each when they reached age twenty-one to make up for the part of Cyprian's share he had not received. To his daughters, Samuel left:
£25 in one year to Hannah Rice; £25 in two years to Mary Willard; £25 in three years to Dorothy Felps; £15 in four years to Abigail Willard, and 20 shillings to Isabel Frink, all bequests bringing the daughters up to their full shares. Samuel signed his will before John Fletcher, William Fenton and Hezekiah Fletcher on 30 June 1739, and it was allowed on 5 Feb. 1739/40
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Died:
15 Jan 1739/1740
Samuel married Stevens Mary in 1698 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA. Mary (daughter of Stevens Cyprian and Willard Mary) was born on 22 Nov 1672 in Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA; died on 18 May 1739 in Rutland, Worcester County, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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