Ann Bright

1662 - 1735  (72 years)

• Name	Ann Bright  [1, 2]
  Birth	24 Dec 1662	Saint Paul's Paris, Kent, Maryland   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1735
  Person ID	I9501	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Bright, *,   b. Bef 1645   d. Bef 18 Mar 1680, Kent Island, Maryland (Age < 35 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elezebeth Crips,   b. Bef 1650   d. Yes, date unknown
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 May 1662  [4]
  Family ID	F2351	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Price   d. Bef 1735, of Maryland
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Andrew Price   d. Aft 1735, of Maryland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Matthew Griffith,   b. Abt 1675   d. Abt 1713 (Age 38 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Mathew Griffith,   b. Abt 1712, Queen Anne County, Maryland, USA d. Aft 1735, of Lloyds Park, Queen Anne's, Maryland (Age > 24 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Griffith,   b. Bef 1714, of Kent Island, Queen Anne's, Maryland d. Aft 1735, of Kent Island, Queen Anne's, Maryland (Age > 23 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Benjamin Griffith,   b. Abt 1700, Kent, Maryland, USA d. Abt 1736, of Lloyds Park, Queen Anne's, Maryland (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Griffith   d. Aft 1735, of Maryland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Samuel Griffith   d. Abt 1734, of Queen Anne's, Maryland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  She was given custody of her niece, Mary Pondder, in a court for Kent Island, Maryland in about 1706. Candee Varville found Ann Bright's will who married a Griffith and Price. It was under her name Ann Price when she passed. It named heren by these 2 marriages. She also names Wm Gilgore who would be her nephew in this will. Maybe she raised him after Cicely died in 1717. Ann was wealthy based on her will. Ann had a daughter named Mary whose married name of Winchester was listed in Ann's will dated 1735. We therefore, do not currently know which of Ann's husbands she was a daughter of. Ann also bequeths money to Isaac Winchester her grandson and to Samuel Griffith, grandson who was not yet 15. The later was to receive the money when he turned 15. She named Mary Ann, d. of Samuel in her will. She gave Jacob Winchester and John Elliot 15 shillings each to buy mourning rings without stating the latter's relationshipAnn Evans Price was of considerable wealth when she wrote her will. She also included Elizabeth Woolahand in her will with no description of relationship. She also gives William Gilgore without a relationship listed, one small heifer. He was her likely nephew. She names "my five children" at the end of her will as Mary, John, Matthew, Benjamin (Griffith) and Andrew (Price). She doesn't name Samuel as one her children, but does in the body of the will. Therefore, it could suggest that Samuel was a child of Matthew Griffith (her past husband) by a previous wife.

  
  

• Sources

  [S215] Public Member Tree (www.ancestry.com). [S2266] Talbot County (MD) Judgement Records (N.p.: n.p., n.d.). [S2256] (Printed n.p.: n.p., n.d.), FHL microfilm. [S2257] "Maryland, Compiled Marriages, 1655-1850," database, Ancestry, ).