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James WRIGHT
(1676-)
Mary BOWATER
(1688-Bef 1764)
Joseph WELLS
(1697-After 1804)
Rachel UNKNOWN
(-1720)
John (C.?) WRIGHT
(1716-Between 1789)
Rachel WELLS
(1720-1771)
Margaret WRIGHT
(1742-1822)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. John HAMMER

2. Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH

Margaret WRIGHT 2 3 4 5 6 7

  • Born: 11/12/1742, , Prince George, MD, USA 8
  • Marriage (1): John HAMMER on 11/3/1758 in Bush Creek, Newberry, SC
  • Marriage (2): Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH on 6/4/1768 in Bush River M.M., SC, USA 1
  • Died: 11/13/1822, , , SC, USA at age 80 7
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bullet  General Notes:

Margaret was listed as Margaret Hammer, daughter of John and Rachel Wright when she married her 2nd husband, Joseph Hollingsworth in 1768. I have seen a couple 2nd hand sources that believed she married an Abraham Hollingsworth between these two men, but obviously this has to be incorrect as she was listed by her widowed surname of Hammer in her marriage to Joseph Hollingsworth. Both of her parents were witnesses to their Quaker marriage in the Bush River Quaker records. In fact, she had a long list of family members in the right hand column of the record listed in this order, John Wright (father), Rachel Wright (mother), William Wright (brother), Isaac Cook (brother-in-law), John Coats (brother-in-Law, Big John married to Rachel Wright, her sister), John Wright , Leah Wright (sister-in-law married to her brother, William Wright), Charity Cook (sister), Mary Ball (???), Jos. Wright (brother), Mary Coats (??? The Wife to Marmaduke was not a known kin to Margaret Wright though some DNA evidence is now stating that Marmaduke and Big John's descendants were related), Sarah Brooks (sister), and Charity Wright (sister-in-law). 1


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Margaret married John HAMMER on 11/3/1758 in Bush Creek, Newberry, SC. (John HAMMER died before 1768.)


bullet  Marriage Notes:

CD-100 and 102 disagree on Margaret's spouse. The first says it's Hammer, the second says it's Joseph Hollingsworth. The marriage date also differs by a month in these two sources. (C-588)

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Margaret next married Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH, son of George HOLLINGSWORTH and Hannah McCOY, on 6/4/1768 in Bush River M.M., SC, USA.1 (Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH was born in 1735 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA and died in 1799 9.)


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Sources


1 Bush River Quaker Records (on Microfilm housed in Columbia, SC, Archives and History Library).

2 CD 102 (Automated Archives).

3 Algie Newlan, Charity Cook, A Liberated Woman (Friends United Press).

4 John Wright-Rachel Wells family group sheet supplied 9 Sept. 1995 by Lewis Wright lwright@tcgcs.com (C-610).

5 Lewis Wright to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Dec. 20, 1995 directly from Hinshaw's Quaker Encyclopedia from lwright@tcgcs.com In possession of Dudick,.

6 Wilmer L. Kerns, Ph.D, Frederick Co., Virginia Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830 (c1995, Gateway Press).

7 J.F. Bron to Dudick Letter dated Feb. 1999 at 711 E. Osceola Ave., Lake Wales, FL 33853 (C-1991).

8 Quaker Montly Meeting Records (photocopy made by the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College).

9 William Medlin, Quaker Families of S.C. & Georgia (1983) (Ben Franklin Press).

Homepage by Linda Coate, lcoate@ancestrees.com (c1997-2008)


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