When John Wright was born on 6 May 1726, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, David Wright Sr, was 48 and his mother, Mary Belden, was 38. He died on 16 September 1736, in his hometown, at the age of 10.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Middle English and Older Scots wriht, wright, wricht, writh, write (Old English wyrhta, wryhta) ‘craftsman’, especially ‘carpenter, joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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