Wright Samuel^{[1, 2, 3]}

1670 - Abt 1739  (68 years)

• Name	Wright Samuel
  Birth	09 Apr 1670	Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 15 Jan 1739	Rutland, Worcester County, MA   [1]
  	15 Jan 1739/1740
  Notes	Captain Samuel Wright was prominent among the early settlers of Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He held the offices of selectman, assessor, clerk of the town and moderator of the meetings for many years, justice of the peace, deacon of the church, captain of the militia and surveyor and committee in dividing the lands of six miles square and recording the same in the proprietors' book, which he did in a very plain and legible hand. Many of the bounds and corners made more than one hundred and fifty years could still be found. Capt. Wright kept a tavern in front of the first meeting-house, on the opposite side of the street, where much of the first business of the town was done. (The old records show that the town would frequently during the session of its town-meeting vote to "adjourn for fifteen minutes," which was quite suggestive.) This house was taken down or removed before the Revolution. Early Worcester County, MA Probate Records. Esq. Samuel Wright of Rutland, Worcester Co. [ Case No. 67,824] Samuel Wright, Esq. of Rutland left his entire estate, with the exception of specific cash bequests, to his son, William who was also to be the sole executor. The three sons of Samuel's deceased son, Cyprian, viz: William, Samuel and John, were to receive £10 each when they reached age twenty-one to make up for the part of Cyprian's share he had not received. To his daughters, Samuel left: £25 in one year to Hannah Rice; £25 in two years to Mary Willard; £25 in three years to Dorothy Felps; £15 in four years to Abigail Willard, and 20 shillings to Isabel Frink, all bequests bringing the daughters up to their full shares. Samuel signed his will before John Fletcher, William Fenton and Hezekiah Fletcher on 30 June 1739, and it was allowed on 5 Feb. 1739/40 [2:4-6]
  Person ID	I51574	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Wright Edward,   b. Abt 1635, Ipswich, Essex County, England d. 07 Aug 1703, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Upson Hannah,   b. 1638, Of Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 18 May 1708, Of Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	18 Jun 1659	Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA   [1]
  Family ID	F23689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Stevens Mary,   b. 22 Nov 1672, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA d. 18 May 1739, Rutland, Worcester County, MA (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1698	Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA   [1]
  Children	1. Wright  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Wright Hannah,   b. Abt 1701, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 23 Apr 1741 (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Wright Mary,   b. Abt 10 Feb 1703, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA d. 27 Apr 1767, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Wright Dorothy,   b. Abt 07 Mar 1705, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 23 Feb 1787 (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Wright Abigail,   b. Abt 19 Feb 1707, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 19 Sep 1785, Petersham, Worcester County, MA (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Wright Isabel,   b. 03 Feb 1710, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 02 Mar 1772 (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Wright William,   b. 22 Dec 1712, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Wright Cyprian,   b. 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA d. 29 Jun 1739, Rutland, Worcester County, MA (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Wright James,   b. 1717   d. 29 Jun 1739 (Age 22 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F23684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S1211] Merged from BrianFreeman on 01-Jan-13 at 18:05. [S1215] D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, (J. W. Lewis and Company, Philadelphia 1889), p.1298. [S1213] Vital Records of Rutland, Worcester Co. MA, p.255.