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  1. Mary WRIGHT: Birth: 1642 in Sauges,Mass.. Death: ABT 1699/1700


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a. Note:   e (1923)pp 47, 62: Peter Wright, the eldest of the three brothers, was born in county Norfolk, England, in the last decade of the 16th Century, coming to America in 1635, with his brothers Anthony and Nicholas Wright. He was married before coming to the New World, his wife being Alice, but her maiden name unknown. The early.records say: "Aug 1635. Among the list of passengers on the ship "Thomas", Henry Tavener, Master, to go to Virginia, was Alice Wright, aged 21 years." (List of Emigrants. Hotten p. 12b.) The lists given by Hotten are known not to be full or complete, and many came of whose names no record whatever was made, and while we have the name of Alice Wright, none of the lists given contain the names of Anthony, Peter or Nicholas Wright. As has been stated Peter Wright came to Saugus in 1635, and in 1637, we find him, with his two brothers settled at Sandwich, in Plymouth Colony. "Peter Wright had removed to Sandwich in 1638. My con­jecture is that this was the brother of Nicholas, and in his 114S. collection for new edition Farmer had noted that he had a son Adam, born 20 March, 1650, who probably settled at Oyster Bay." (General Dictionary of First Settlers in New England. Savage. Vol. 4, p. 658; Plymouth Records. Vol. 3, p. 11.) Peter Wright and his entire family were ardent members of the Society of Friends, and all prominent in their councils, his daughters particularly so. These daughters had apparently inherited strong and a self reliant character from their parents, and spirit of the times, and all were noted for their religious zeal, and great endurance under persecutions and punishment at the hands of the intolerant governor and magistrates in Massachusetts Colony, who so harshly and cruelly executed their disgraceful laws directed against all the Quakers, so much more dis­graceful and inexcusable by reason that these very men who had probably fled from injustice and persecution in their native land, and had come to the New World to find a place wherein they might worship God, according to their conscience, were the foremost in the persecution and oppression of those who unfortunately happened to differ with them in their con­science, or form of religious belief. Peter Wright died at Oyster Bay between December 13, 1660, and September 14, 1663, intestate. It is strange that nowhere among all the old records, probate, church, town or state, is there any mention of the exact date of the death of such a prominent townsman and large property holder as Peter Wright but all are silent. [end quotes from Perrine]
Note:   The following is taken from "The Wright Family of Oyster Bay, L.I." by Howland Delano Perrin


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