Brief Life History of Mercy
When Mercy Wright was born in 1698, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Wright, was 23 and her mother, Mercy Wardwell, was 25. She married John Wilson on 21 June 1716, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 14 February 1759, in her hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Family Data Collection - Births
- Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850
- Mary in entry for John Wilson, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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Name Meaning
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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