Samuel married Hannah HITCHCOCK on 30 Jan 1706/07 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Hannah (daughter of Luke HITCHCOCK and Sarah BURT) was born on 18 Mar 1682/83 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 24 May 1756 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Joanna LAMB on 22 Jul 1679 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Joanna (daughter of John LAMB and Joanna UNKNOWN) was born on 20 Sep 1651 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 8 Aug 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Luke married Sarah BURT on 14 Feb 1676/77 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Sarah (daughter of Jonathon BURT and Elizabeth LOBDELL) was born on 4 Sep 1656 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 9 Nov 1746; was buried in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 5 Sep 1683

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Lt. married Hannah WRIGHT on 16 Nov 1645 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Hannah was born in Aug 1626 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 16 Oct 1660. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 26 Oct 1660, Springfield, Hampden, MA

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Ellen Baker forwarded your query about the references for Deacon Samuel Wright and his children. Unfortunately, we have yet to find any vital statistic records for any of the Deacon's children except James, Judah and the infant Helped who died shortly after birth. The births of these last three children are recorded in the early Agawam (Springfield) MA. records which are located at the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum's Archive library in the Quadrangle area of downtown Springfield.

That Samuel Wright Jr. (or Sgt. Samuel Wright as he was known) was the Deacon's son there can also be no doubt. The Deacon was forced to acknowledge this son in official documents to the Springfield courts of those days for some misdeeds. (See Pynchon Court Records in "Families of the Pioneer Valley," Regional Publications, West Springfield, MA 2000).

Evidence of the relationship to the Deacon for the girls, Margaret, Hester (Ester), Lydia, and Mary is most strongly established by the wills left by the Deacon and his wife. All are named in both wills. And, although for Margaret and Lydia there are also Springfield VR for their marriages (Lydia married four times!) and other records for Margaret (See NEHGR Vol IX, p. 200), there is nothing for Hester or Mary in the official records,and we know of their marriages via mention in wills and death records.

So I source the wills first. The original handwritten wills, or shall I say officially transcribed wills, for the Deacon and Margaret are in the First Records Book of the Town of Northampton, MA. This record book is very fragile and is currently archived in the Hampshire County Clerk's office in Northampton, MA. It may be viewed by special request made to the County Clerk at the time of your visit. With their kind assistance, I have made a copy of all the pertinent Wright ancestry documents in it, including the two wills. I translated and transcribed both wills in their entirety for my publication.

In these wills, the Deacon makes mention of each of his children, Samuel, Margaret, Hester, Lydia, Mary, James and Judah. Margaret, his wife, does much the same in her will mentioning also Hester's husband, Samuel Marshfield, and son James' daughter, Helped, to whom she bequeathed her bed.

What is notable about these two wills is that neither the Deacon nor Margaret mention anything about Benjamin Wright or Hannah (Wright) Stebbins of Springfield who have been often assigned by previous researchers as his eldest children. What I think is most important is that there is no mention made of any of the children of Benjamin or Hannah (Wright) Stebbins, either. It is true that Hannah had died in 1661, prior to the Deacon (1665), and might not have been mentioned in his will (prepared 1663) for that reason. But Hannah's children were alive and husband, Thomas Stebbins, did not remarry until 7 years after the Deacon's death. So, if the Deacon was so diligent in bequeathing to each of his other children, and since he would have known at the time of making his will in 1663 that Hannah was dead, he would have known he had to make provisions for Hannah's portion to go to her children. Therefore, I think it is certain he would have named them in his will if they were his grandchildren. On the basis that neither he nor Margaret mention these potential grandchildren in their wills, I believe Benjamin and Hannah were not his children.

Nevertheless, Benjamin and Hannah have often been assigned as the eldest children of the Deacon, and thought I do not believe this is the case, I do believe they may have been niece and nephew to the Deacon or some other relation. Certainly I believe they were some member of the large Wright clan to which the Deacon belonged (originating from Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hatch, Co. Essex, England).

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John married Joanna UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Joanna Lamb

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"As eldest surviving son of Henry Burt, he began early in life to follow his father's pattern of public service. Even before his father's death, he was elected a Selectman, serving from 1657 to 1659; and after a considerable hiatus, again in 1676, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1687, 1689, 1691, and1697. He was Town Clerk from 1697 through 1700. He took his turn as fence viewer in 1660 and 1664; appraiser for town rates (we should call it assessor), 1663; surveyor of highways, 1652, 1655, and 1662; measurer of land, 1662 and 1663; and hayward, 1683. He was on the committee to arrange for building a new meeting house in 1674, and in 1669 was appointed with Miles Morgan to sit in the gallery to check disorderly youths during worship. He is often referred to as "Deacon" in the town records.
His record, we are happy to report, falls just a trifle short of perfection, for in 1665 he was one of sixteen men fined for absenting themselves from town meeting without sufficient excuse. Lacking our modern fines for petty traffic violations, the Town had to reinforce its finances in this and other ways. he was also one of ten men complained of for turning their cattle into a certain field contrary to order; and in the good company of John Holyoke, Widow Bliss, and others, his fence was found defective in 1678. But he made himself useful by keeping a bull which the selectmen hired in 1681 and 1682 to serve the lower end of town. The bullthereafter appears no more in town minutes, but whether he wore himself out in twoyears, or some other inhabitant produced a more virile specimen for thw town's use, we are not informed." Jonathon Burt wrote an eye-witness account of the burning ofSpringfield, MA, 10/5/1675 by Indians.

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Jonathon married Elizabeth LOBDELL on 20 Oct 1651 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas LOBDELL and Jane UNKNOWN) was born in 1631 in Northham., Devonshire, ENGLAND; was christened on 21 Aug 1631; died on 11 Nov 1684 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Parents may be Nicholas & Jane Lobdell. She had a sister Ann, B.ca 1634, d. 1684 in Springfield, MA and married Samuel Terry (d.1703 ae 98) on 5/16/1660 in Springfield. Came to the US in 1645 and was in Boston by 1650. Brother Simon resided in Hartford, CT in 1655; Springfield, MA in 1666 and Milford in 1671.