Ezekiel Wright

Notes:

twin with Phebe.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Puritan

Notes:

Lived in London. He was the only child to come to America.

Nathaniel was a member of Mass. Bay Colony. Said to have owned 1/8 int. in the "Arabella", the Admiral ship of the Winthrop Colony. Note in "1st Families of New England" - Nathaniel Wright, N. Hampton, Feb 1690 requested protection of Mass. Colony.
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"Life and Times of Henry Burt of Springfield", Henry M. Burt and Silas W. Burt, 1893, pg 241
"...Deacon Samuel Wright, who was a companion of Henry Burt in the settlement of Springfield, and a son of Nathaniel Wright of London, England."

(disputed, proven incorrect as eplained by Michael Wright):
Our research of the English records has not improved the documentation trail substantially over what has been done before on the question of the Deacon's parents, other than to firmly rule out Nathaniel and Lydia (nee James) Wright as possible parents and reconfirm John Wright and Martha Castell as his most likely parents.

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Also, we have discovered that Bennett Greene was not Nathaniel Wright's mother, but his stepmother. Nathaniel was born in 1581. Lord (to be) John Wright's wife at the time (his first wife) was Elizabeth Linsell. In the 1634 Visitations, Nathaniel did list Bennett as his mother, but by his own baptismal record, the record of Elizabeth's death and the record of John Wright's marriage to Bennett, Nathaniel had to have been about 8 when Lord John married Bennett. Maybe Bennett was all he ever thought of as his mother, or maybe there were ulterior motives. There is good reason to suspect that this slight shading of the truth in his Visitations declaration was not accidental, but designed to insulate him from the King's wrath to a certain degree. In 1634 Nathaniel was likely on the Merchant/ Parliament side of the growing confrontation with King Charles I. As such he would have had need of every scrap of birthright prestige he could muster in the Visitations to try to maintain his economic position. The Greene family connection brought considerably more prestige, back into antiquity, than was offered by the Linsell family name. Between the Wright and Greene family heritage he could claim by birth on both sides of his family to be loyal to the King by tradition.
Michael C. Wright
1995 Carter Lake Drive
College Station, TX 77845
co-researcher: Ellen Baker
http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/e/jeffw100/DeaconSamuel.htm

Nathaniel married Lydia James on 28 Nov 1612 in England. Lydia (daughter of Edward James and Lydia Masham) was born in 1592 in of, Durham, England; died on 15 Aug 1643 in London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(extracted from a letter from Michael C. Wright to "Jeffrey" and published on his website at http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/e/jeffw100/DeaconSamuel.htm

Though our research is not yet completed on the matter of the Deacon's parentage, the best alternative candidate at this time remains John, Esq., Martha (Castell) Wright of London/ Havering/ Wrightsbridge, whom others (don Wright's group) have previously proposed. John Wright, Esq., born in 1569 to Lord John Wright and Elizabeth Linsell and was Lord John Wright's eldest son. He attended Cambridge University and then studied the law after admission to Grays Inn. By all accounts John Wright Esq. was a Puritan leaning Protestant. Lord John Wright was no doubt also a Protestant sympathizing Peer in the House of Lords (peerage granted by Elizabeth I, June 20, 1590). In 1612 John Wright, Esq. was appointed a clerk to the House of Commons and was no doubt a Puritan leaning Protestant who would perhaps have been a bit at odds with his father in the House of Lords over how to deal with the refusal of King James I to share any power of governance with Parliament. There is an existent Parliamentary document protesting some actions of King James I with John Wright's signature on it in his capacity as clerk of the House of Commons. Such a prominent display of animosity with the King by a recognizable family member would no doubt have disturbed even a Protestant Peer of the House of Lords! It is not possible to tell how well Lord John Wright and his eldest son got along. Because Lord John lived to a ripe old age, the fact that John Wright, Esq. never inherited the estates of Wrightsbridge and Dagenhams could perhaps mean only that John Wright Esq. was already too well established and advanced in years to be considered a suitable heir for such a large estate, or it could mean that there was a rift between them or it could have been that John Esq. simply disdained the family estate and its landed gentry style of living. In any case, he had homes in London and Havering and seems only to have been a visitor at Wrightsbridge, never its Lord.

His sons with Martha Castell were John (1599) Nathaniel (1604) Samuel (1606) and Robert (1609). Martha died in 1610 and he did not remarry until about 1618 to Fortune (Garaway) Blount, widow of Sir Edward Blount. By Fortune he had at least one known child, James. It is the Samuel baptized on June 29 or 30 (the Roman numerals look like they could be either XXIX or XXX) 1606, in the South Weald parish church of St. Peters. Just before this baptism we see in the parish record that Samuel's uncle, Samuel Wright (bapt. 1571), son of John Wright of the Bridge (Lord John Wright) and younger brother of John Wright, Esq. died and was buried in South Weald. It is very likely that Samuel was named after this uncle who had just died.
(snip)
Michael C. Wright
1995 Carter Lake Drive
College Station, TX 77845

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John, of Wrightsbridge, eldest son, received a confirmation of the Wright Arms from Clarence Cooke (King of Arms) on 20 June 1590. According to "Visitation of London & Essex".

John married Emfell (Elizabeth)* Linsell about 1568 in England. Emfell was born about 1539; died after 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vol 7, #4075 indicates that Edward was also married to "Pyatt" after 1583. Is Pyatt Lydia's mother?

Edward married Lydia Masham about 1589 in England. Lydia (daughter of Henry* Masham and Joan* Salter) was born about 1554 in of, Suffolk, England; died after 1593. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Dagenham's Manor. He inherited Wrightsbridge. 16 August 1558 is the date he made his will.

John* married Alice* (Ruche) Rucke on 13 Sep 1541 in England. Alice* (daughter of Robert* (Rooke) Rucke) was born in 1520 in Wrightsbridge, Essex, England; died after 1559 in Kelvedon, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ellen Bolt about 1539 in England. Ellen (daughter of William Bolt and Venables(..) Bolt) was born about 1513 in Sandbache, Cheshire, England; died after 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry* married Joan* Salter about 1553 in England. Joan* (daughter of John* Salter and Joan* Hovell Smith) was born about 1537 in of, Badwell Ash, Suffolk, England; died after 1555. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]