Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy --- Go to Genealogy Page for Benjamin Wright --- Go to Genealogy Page for Mary Page

Notes for Benjamin Wright and Mary Page

1732 Benjamin Wright and Mary Page were married on May 10 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [1] [2]

1739 Benjamin Wright voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [3]

1745 A deed of conveyance was recorded from Benjamin Wright to Joseph Steward. [4]

1748 The intestate account of Benjamin Wright, yeoman of Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, was settled on August 18. Mary Wright, widow, relinquished right of administration, and requests that Peter Rose, of City of Burlington, brewer, be appointed. Peter Rose provided bond as administrator on August 19. Jonathan Scott, wheelwright, and John Rose, brewer, both of same, fellow bondsmen. [5] [6]


Footnotes:

[1] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[2] New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1683-1802, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[3] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 187, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].

[4] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 548, citing Lib. 6, p. .127; Lib. 7. p. 93, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[6] New Jersey, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1670-1760, [AncestryRecord].