 The Ancestors and Descendants Of William Wright of PA and NJ Submitted By: Rev. Richard E. Wright rewright@nep.net  Hello Don. I again visit your Footprints page where this past winter I found the Calendar of Wills in New Jersey and I strongly believe a good possibility of my Wright line. John Wright who died 1732 in NJ, had a youngest son, William. In 1755-56 a William Wright is part of the militia of PA Capt. John VanEtten. He drew men from the Minisink - both sides of the Deleware River around Water Gap. In this period one of his details was guarding the grist mill of Jost Dreisback; near the Lehigh River in western Northampton County, PA. In January several miles from this mill the Indians wiped out eleven families in Moore Twp; one being Nickel Heil. I believe this is where William met one of his daughters, Mary Elizabeth, and four to seven years later married her. A William Wright also served in the Frontier Guard of NJ in 1757-1758. In 1764 at Hecktown, PA, Dryland Union Church he and Elizabeth baptised, John in February. Later another son, Nicholas, at Salem Union Church, Moorestown. Elizabeth's father died in 1760; the widow remarried, Nicholaus Lieberman and he and Margaretha are the sponsers at this later baptism. William does not buy land because he is living with the Heil Family; but the two sons sell the homestead in 1785; that is when William Wright buys 50 acres near to the Heil farm. He deeds over the fifty acres to John in 1801. William most likely died in 1802. John the son sells the land and moves east to Bushkill Center area, buying farms and dies in 1818 without a will. But there is court record of the appoitment of guardians for the children; except the one who isage 21, Rudolph, who is one of the administers of the estate along with his uncle, George Stadler; the brother of Sussanna Stadler who signs off of the administration, the wife of John or Johannes Wright. I can not find any other William Wright living in the Minisink in this time period; but I can not find either a firm link to get William living on the west side of the Delaware. The question I have for you of course is if you know of any other direction for William Wright, born of Jan Reyt in1726? The John Wright who died in 1732 is the same as Jan Reyt who married Aertie Brass 11 April 1713 in Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, NJ. All of their seven children are baptised there as well. I am not sure when Jan moved west to Hardwick Patent; he could have had the children there, or some of them and returned to Hackensack for the baptisms. But the names in church records are identical with the names in the John Wright's will of 1732. Any help or pointers would be appreciated. I had an uncle who moved to CA around 1900; army in Spanish-American war. He stayed there, married, lived in Oakland; but had only one child, a girl. Can not seem to get a handle on her; nor Calvin Eugene Wright's widow. Got his death cert.; but his wife I have had no luck. The wife's name was Edith M.. Calvin died 21 August 1944 in Oakland. The daughter's name was Frances; she married a man with surname, Woldberg. I have have had no luck trying to find her as Frances Woldberg. If you have any clue on the Wrights: John 1732; John 1759 especially. By the way John the son of John Wright 1732; married an Alida (Dingman) Kuykendall; she was the window of Jacobus Kuyendall; John and Alida married in the Dutch Reformed Church in Smithfield Twp, PA in August 1747. She had three children with Jacobus; and the one living child with John Wright, Eve as in will of 1759. Thank you for your site. I appreciate it. REv. Richard E. Wright rewright@nep.net Please place in the Subject Line: WEBPAGE-HISTORY 
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