Maj. David Wright

1749 - 1822  (72 years)

• Name	David Wright  [1]
  Prefix	Maj.
  Birth	14 Mar 1749	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Feb 1822  [4]
  Burial	Wrights Tomb, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont   [4]
  Person ID	I22370	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Wright,   b. 3 Mar 1714, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut d. 1795, Vermont (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Rachel Owen,   b. 30 Dec 1711, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
  Marriage	9 Jan 1735  [5]
  Family ID	F13505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Bailey,   b. 1752, Groton, New London, Connecticut d. 14 Jun 1814, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	19 Sep 1771	Hartford, Windsor, Vermont   [6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. David Wright,   b. 11 Feb 1775, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont d. 10 May 1817, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F13504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2019

  
  

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  Maj. David Wright

  
  

• Notes

  Served in the Continental Army. "[David Wright and Hannah Bailey] came up the Connecticut in a boat on their wedding journey, and a sister of either the bride or the bridegroom came with them. At one place where they stopped for the night, Major Wright told the people that the ladies with him were, unfortunately, both deaf; then he went back to the boat and told his wife and sister that the people in the house were deaf, and so he had them screaming away at each other at a great rate. At last one of the travelers asked her hostess how long she and her husband had been so deaf. She replied 'Why, we are not deaf; we thought you were.'" ["The Wright District", from The Old and the New, 1 Jul 1901.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2659] The Hazen Family in America by Tracy Elliot Hazen, ed. Donald Lines Jacobus. Thomaston, Connecticut: Robert Hazen, 1947. [S2749] Rev. Stephen Wright, "Genealogy of Lieut. Abel Wright, of Springfield, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 35:74, Jan 1881. [S2754] Find a Grave page for Maj David Wright, Sr., date only. [S2754] Find a Grave page for Maj David Wright, Sr. [S2758] William Arthur Owen, "John Owen of Windsor, Conn., and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:39, Jan 1929. [S2754] Find a Grave page for Maj David Wright, Sr., year only. [S3555] Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, on ancestry.com.