When Margaret Jane Wright was born in 1807, in Ohio, United States, her father, Robert Wright, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Ellis, was 25. She had at least 4 sons and 7 daughters with David Henthorn. She lived in Adams Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Malaga, Monroe, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died in 1880, at the age of 73.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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