John C. Wright, *

1716 - 1790  (72 years)

• Name	John C. Wright  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	4 Nov 1716	East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA   [15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 17 Sep 1789 and 8 Jun 1790	Bush River, Newberry, SC   [15, 27, 28, 29]
  Burial	Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America   [15]
  Person ID	I14761	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	James Wright, * I-FTD9427,   b. Aug 1671, County Monaghan, Northern Ireland d. 15 Jul 1759, Hopewell (Society of Friends) Community, Frederick County, Colony of Virginia (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Bowater Or Davis, *,   b. 2 Dec 1689, London, City of London, Greater London, England d. Bef 6 Mar 1764, , Frederick, Virginia, USA (Age < 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	26 Feb 1707	East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA   [30]
  Family ID	F5250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachel Wells, * Minister,   b. 27 Mar 1720, Prince Georges County, Maryland d. 23 Dec 1771, Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, USA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1737	Hopewell M.M., Frederick, VA, USA
  Children	1. Barbara Wright,   b. Apr 1766, , Newberry, SC d. 1789, Miami, Ohio, United States (Age 22 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Thomas Wright,   b. 8 Aug 1761, Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States d. 30 Apr 1835, , Randolph, IN, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Keziah (Kerial) Wright,   b. 1763, , Newberry District, SC d. Bef 1789, Miami, Ohio, United States (Age < 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Margaret Wright,   b. 12 Nov 1742, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 13 Nov 1822, , , SC, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. William Wright,   b. 2 Jan 1738, Monocacy Valley, Prince George, MD d. 1793, Orange County, North Carolina, United States of America (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Joseph Wright,   b. 12 Dec 1740, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 8 Jan 1794, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Mary Wright,   b. 24 Jul 1739, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 12 Jan 1789, Cedar Grove, Orange, North Carolina, USA (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Isaac Wright,   b. 13 Jun 1764, Bush River, SC or Tennessee d. 20 Feb 1844, New London, Howard, IN (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Rachel Wright,   b. 10 Nov 1747, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 2 Sep 1790, , , SC, USA (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Hannah Wright,   b. 27 Sep 1751, Cavor Creek, Orange, NC d. Aft 1822, Orange, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States (Age > 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   11. Sarah Wright,   b. 23 Dec 1749, Cavor Creek, Orange, NC d. 18 Nov 1789, Bush River, Newberry, SC (Age 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   12. Nathan Wright,   b. 7 Oct 1758, , Orange, NC d. Aft 1805, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age > 48 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   13. James Wright,   b. 28 May 1753, Cane Creek, Orange, NC, USA d. 19 Oct 1812, , Clinton, OH, USA (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   14. Charity Wright, * Minister,   b. 13 Nov 1742, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 13 Nov 1822, , Warren, OH, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   15. Elizabeth Wright,   b. 15 Dec 1756, , Orange, NC d. 1850, , Frederick, Virginia, USA (Age 93 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   16. Susanna Wright,   b. 16 Apr 1755, , Orange, NC d. 31 Jul 1830, West Milton, Miami, OH, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   17. John Wright,   b. 12 Dec 1748, , Prince George, MD, USA d. 18 Nov 1797, , , Tennessee, USA (Age 48 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  Much information can be gleaned about this family from a book by Algie I. Newlin entitled CHARITY COOK, A LIBERATED WOMAN, (Friends United Press, 1981). It is a biography of their daughter, Charity Cook, written and researched by ay professor. Around 1725, he and his family moved to the northern part of Maryland, Prince Georges Co., MD possibly living at Goose Creek MM, Cecil Co., MD first. Rachel's family lived in Prince George's County and they probably met there. John's only wife was Rachel Wells. Some sources list a second wife named Susannah but this has been disproven. The first half of John and Rachel's children were born in Prince George's County Maryland according to Newlin's book: [UL:Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman:UL]. John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., VA and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting according to Lewis Wright. (C-588, 610) Possibly the confusion here comes from the changing names of territories. They lived near Monacacy River a few miles south of Frederick which could have been Prince George's Co., Maryland at the time, but is now known as Frederick Co., Maryland. The marriage records of John and Rachel Wells Wright can not be located, and it is thought by some that they were burned with the Hopewell meeting records. Marriage is therefore approximated as 1737, a year before their first child's birth. Both John and Rachel were appointed overseers of their respective male and female Monthly Meetings in Monocacy in 1745. They were charter members of the Fairfax MM. Rachel Wells Wright is a very interesting person of her own right. She was a Quaker minister. This involved travel and stamina on her part. She was a very sturdy woman attested by the trials she endured plus the fact that she had three of her children in just a two year period. What is even more astounding is that during this same two year period, John and Rachel Wright with 7 young children, William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier, soon to become Orange County, North Carolina, which was over a distance of 300 miles. They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on 29-5-1749. They were charter members of of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co., North Carolina when it was established 10m-1751. (C-575) Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area. All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records. John and Rachel often lived in new, rather unsecured settlement areas. It appears that they moved near Camden, Kershaw Co., South Carolina in 1761/1762 to the Wateree Meeting in Camden, South Carolina, later to become the Bush River Monthly Meeting area that they helped establish. (C-250) He sought a land patent for land on Beaverdam on Sep 17, 1769 with an addition joining it in 1786. Parts of both of this land he granted to his son in law Big John. Later, Big John and Rachel then sold it to their son, Wright Coate. According to Lewis Wright, John was a Ship Captain by trade. (C-610, 615) However, in his will, he bequeathed his shoemaking tools. Medlin's "Quaker Families of South Carolina and Georgia also states that John was a shoemaker by trade. He never tended to live on the ocean either, so I'd say the Ship Captain must apply to some other John Wright. (C-265, 866) John was also a member of the first and second Provincial Congress of S.C. (C-588) At an ederly age, he lived with his daughter, Susannah. He used to walk to and from the Quaker meetings. The family reunion in 1908 recalled that his daughter prevailed on him to take her horse on one occasion. When the meeting was over, he walked home. When he got there she asked him where the horse was and he replied "Dad, me Sue, I forgot her." According to this same family reunion provided by Julia Henry, it states that he and his wife had seven sons and ten daughters, 4 of whom apparently aren't in the Quaker records. He attended his grand-daughter, Sarah Cook's wedding in 1785. He wrote his will on 9/17/1789. He named his wife, his deceased son, Joseph and Joseph's son, John; John and his son; Jesse; Nathan and his son William; his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth which he left his shoe-maker tools, cow and calf; Joab Brooks, son of James Brooks; Joseph Cook, his grandson and son of Isaac Cook; William Hollingsworth, grandson and son of Isaac Hollingsworth; son-in-law Isaac Cook and Isaac's daughter Rachel. The witnesses were Isaac Hollingsworth, John Coate and Charity Cook. His Executor was his son Joseph Wright. His will was written in Newberry Co., South Carolina. (C-866, 2082) His death was about 1790. He was living with his son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth's family, in the 1790 census. Before he died, he supposedly gathered all of his descendants which numbered 144 persons at the time. (C-945)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1777] John Wright-Rachel Wells family group sheet supplied 9 Sept. 1995 by Lewis Wright lwright@tcgcs.com (C-610). [S123] CD 102 (Automated Archives). [S1778] Algie Newlan, Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman (Friends United Press). [S1779] Lewis Wright to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Dec. 20, 1995 directly from Hinshaw's Quaker Encyclopedia from lwright@tcgcs.com In possession of Dudick. [S124] Richard M. Kelly, The Maryland Ancestors of Rachel Wells THE SOUTHERN FRIEND: JOURNAL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY; Vol. XVI Spring-Autumn 1994, Numbers 1-2 p. 35-63. [S2877] Wright, James, CD-102. [S2878] Wright, James, Testator Last Will and Testament Frederick Co., VA. [S2917] Family History. [S2879] Dorothy Clarke to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Aug. 8, 1987 At 217 Moore Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 In Linda Coate files (C-272). [S1745] Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2004 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,7832::0. [S3415] John Wright, Sr. and Rachel Wells Family Group Sheet sent in 1987 by Ralph W. Sanders, Jr. at 248 Japonica Ave., Camarillo, CA 93010. [S2090] Bush River Quaker Records (on Microfilm housed in Columbia, SC, Archives and History Library). [S3416] Lewis, Karen, Email from lewiskk@rcn.com (2006). [S186] Eileen Davis and Judith Ireton, comps, Quaker Records of the Miami Valley of Ohio (McDowell Publications, 1980). [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2012 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,60525::0. [S54] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2014 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,2189::0. [S1067] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2004 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Source number: 1597.258; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1, 1,7836::0. [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree, 1,1030::0. [S1918] Ancestry.com, U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2013 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,3753::0. [S111] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S111] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. [S315] Ancestry.com, U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). [S86] John W. Wayland, comp, Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934, Frederick Co, Virginia (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975). [S1780] Wilmer L. Kerns, Ph.D., Frederick Co., Virginia Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830 (c1995, Gateway Press). [S2880] Lewis Wright to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated 1 Oct. 1995 at lwright@tcgcs.com In possession of Dudick at 648 Ulverston Dr., Gahanna, OH 43230. [S3417] Quaker Records, Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (www.ancestry.com). [S3418] South Carolina, Find A Grave Index, 1729-2012 (www.ancestry.com). [S3376] Wright, Lewis to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Sep. 7, 1995 at lwright@tcgcs.com In possession of Dudick at 648 Ulverston Dr, Gahanna, OH 43230. [S3050] Paul B. Edwards to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Sept. 2, 1996 at 441 Milwaukee Ave.,Burlington, WI 53105 In Linda Coate files (C-799). [S1474] Buckley, Dan, Email dated 2000+ at BUC@GBSO.NET.