 1751 - 1838 (87 years)
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| Name |
David WRIGHT |
| Birth |
26 Mar 1751 |
York Co., PA  |
| Gender |
Male |
 Military |
Revolutionary War [1] |
- Served during the Revolutionary War as a Private in Captain Robert Cluggage Company with Lieutenant Richard Brown in the First Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment commanded by Colonel Edward Hand from June 1775 to 1776.
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| Death |
Sep 1838 |
prb Fairfield Co., OH |
| Burial |
Jeremiah Kalb Farm Cemetery - Columbus, Fairfield Co., OH |
- This cemetery was declared the final resting place for Philip King, husband of Mary Wright King, in Mary's War of 1812 pension papers. Also, "A History of Northwest Ohio," by Nevin O. Winter, 1917, P. 1709, lists David Wright and James Wright as being buried in this cemetery.
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| Person ID |
I44 |
Main |
| Father |
? WRIGHT |
| Mother |
? ? |
| Notes |
- Children listed here are noted as per [S79] History of Bedford and Somerset Counties (PA) - Blackburn and Welfley - (1906 - Lewis Publishing Company.). Volume 2 - Chapter 7 - pages 80 - 132
- Despite speculation as to several possibilities, the parents of these Wright brothers has never been proven conclusively.
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| Family ID |
F14 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Sarah, b. Abt 1756 d. 21 Aug 1831, Fairfield Co., OH (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
1782 |
Bedford Co., PA |
| Children |
| | 1. John WRIGHT, b. Abt 1782, prb PA d. 1815, Franklin Co., OH (Age 33 years) |
| | 2. Sarah WRIGHT, b. 1783, prb PA |
| | 3. Polly WRIGHT, b. 1785, prb PA |
| + | 4. David WRIGHT, b. 17 Sep 1786, (?), PA d. Apr 1840, Mercer Co., OH (Age 53 years) |
| | 5. James WRIGHT, b. 1789, PA bur. Jeremiah Kalb Farm Cemetery - Columbus, Fairfield Co., OH |
| | 6. Joseph WRIGHT, b. 1792, PA |
| | 7. Rachal WRIGHT, b. 1799, prb PA |
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| Family ID |
F17 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Birth - 26 Mar 1751 - York Co., PA |
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 | Marriage - 1782 - Bedford Co., PA |
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 | Death - Sep 1838 - prb Fairfield Co., OH |
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| Notes |
- Lived in Quemahoning Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1776 at the time he enlisted in the army for service in the Revolutionary War. He returned to Bedford county after the war and continued to reside there until the sale of public lands in Ohio in 1801 when he moved to the Fairfield County, Ohio where he remained until his death in 1838.
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| Sources |
- [S53] Rev War Record, 29 Oct 1832.
Pension Record Application NARA Publication #M804 Pension #S49261
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