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Notes for Mahlon Wright and Mary Thorne

1745 Mahlon Wright, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Date: April 15. [1]

1783 Mahlon and wife Mary Wright were on a list of members of the Upper Freehold particular meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Date: 7 of month 5. [2]

The death dates of Mahlon and Mary Wright were reported in Chesterfield meeting records. [3]

1780 Will abstract [4]:

28. 37 of Wills
Mahlon Wright
of New Hanover Burlington Co. yeoman
Makes will 31 of 3 Mo. 1780
Wife Mary a house & lots of land being at the south east corner of my plantation adjoining my brother Davids meadow & the rest of my lands to be sold
Son Stacy L-100
Son Joel L-50
My son Isaac widow & children.
Sons John Stacy, Joel & daughters Ann, Mary & Ruth
Ex sons John & Stacy
Grand dau Mary Wright to be learned to read.
Wit
John Bullock _afferined 9 Feb 1786
Tho Emley
Isaac Bullock
Probate to both Ex's same date.


Footnotes:

[1] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 426, [InternetArchive].

[2] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Minutes, 1707-1842, 7, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 17A, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Cape May. Miscellaneous Records 1635–1936, 1775, IGN=009158264, image 140, [FamilySearchImage].