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HEADS OF FAMILIES AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790 RECORDS OF THE STATE ENUMERATIONS: 1782 TO 1785 VIRGINIA HEADS OF FAMILIES ---- VIRGINIA, 1782. AMHERST COUNTY

Name of head of family: Wright, Isaac
White: 11
Black: 12
Wright, Isaac 10 1 4
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from Dan Wright's RootsWeb : accessed 2/15/2005

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The names of Isaac's children are given in his will. Isaac Wright was first mentioned in Amherst deeds in 1761. He also left a will in Will BK 4:465,496,515. He wrote it on 17 Feb. 1803 and it was probated 21 Sept. 1807. The executors were Richard L. Ellis, Jno. Ellis, Nelson Crawford, Thos. H. Ellis, Jno. Shelton. Isaac was last mentioned in Deed Bk K:491 when he sold land on 10 July 1805.

Isaac Wright's wife , Susannah Ellis, was the daughter of Charles Ellis, b. 1719 and Susannah Harding who married in 1739. Her birth and death dates and the locations are given in the 1849 Ellis Memorandum by Thomas Harding Ellis, and also more Ellis family history is given in Meade's Old Churches and Ministers of Virginia, Vol II, pp. 461-462. Isaac's birth in King William Co. Va. in the Memorandum. Isaac's son-in-law William Pryor was a Revolutionary soldier who has a pension claim declaration in Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Vol II, p.491. Also see Amherst Co. Deed Bk K, p. 491.

(*Error in "Ellis Family of Virginia, by T.H. Ellis, 1849- the book shows Nelson Wright as marrying Miss Sherrold & John as marrying Jane Houston. Must have been a reversal.)

His son Jesse Wright is said to have married Miss Peyton and they went to KY.
From the Ellis Memorandum.
John E. Wright, his son, said to have married Miss Houston and they were in Lincoln Co. KY in 1825. (error?)
His daughter, Mary who married Henry Brown, required her father's consent at the time of the marriage, 20 Oct. 1788, so she was under 21 years of age then.
His son, Nelson Wright, appears as an orphan (under 21) on 21 Dec. 1807, in Amherst Co. Will Bk 4:491, guardian bond, Abram Carter and William Ware, guardians. Nelson as an adult left Amherst and went to KY. (see error note)
All of the wives, Misses Peyton, Goff, Lawless, Givens, Houston, and Sherrold, names were given by T. H. Harding, Ellis Memorandum.
See Deed Bk E:613,617 for them.
His daughter Nancy also required her father's consent at her marriage.
His son, Bennett, went to Ky.
His son, Maurice, went to Ky., also Isaac, Jr. went there.
His daughter, Susannah, required her father's consent for marriage in 1793. She removed to Ohio.

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Isaac was born in King William County, Virginia. The family moved to
Louisa County, Virginia, in 1742 when Isaac was about two years old and then to Albemarle County, Virginia in 1744 when Isaac was about four. The family, including Isaac, moved to Amherst County, Virginia, in 1761.

Isaac's father, Francis, bequeathed his land in Amherst County, VA, to Isaac. Phillip Peyton was his neighbor.

Isaac left a will dated February 17, 1803, and it was probated on September 21, 1807. The will gives the names of Isaac's children.
The names of the wives of Isaac's sons were given in the Ellis Memorandum by T. H. Harding in 1849.
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THE DEEDS OF AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1761-1807, BOOKS A-K
AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, 1748-1763, BOOKS 1-3

Compiled by: The Rev. Bailey Fulton Davis, 1979
Southern Historical Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 738
Easley, South Carolina 29641-0738

Amherst Deed Book D, p. 166
3 Jan 1774 WM. PRYOR & wife MARGARET, AC, to PHILIP THURMOND, AC, for L114-11, 395 acres on the blue ridge; branch of Irish Creek. Wit: RODERICK MCCULLOCH, DAVID CRAWFORD, ISAAC WRIGHT, WM. CRAWFORD.

Amherst Deed Book E, p. 429
20 Sep 1783 SAML. SHACKELFORD & wife NANCY (signed ANN), AC, to PHILLIP THURMOND, AC, for L1000, two tracts. 1) 632 acres. Lines: CHAS. TALIAFERRO. Part of 3553 acres on Horsley pat. to LUNSFORD LOMAX SR, in 1764, and by him and his wife JUDITH, to LUNSFORD LOMAX, JR on 13 Jan 1767. Wit: CHAS. ELLIS, SHEROD MORE GALASPIE, VALENTINE PAYTON, JNO. PAYTON, ISAAC WRIGHT, PETER CARTER, JOSIAH ELLIS. Memo: 14 acres joining FRANK POWELL sold out of the land to THOMAS POWELL TAYLOR.

Amherst Deed Book E, p. 570
28 Oct 1784 JOS. EDWARDS & wife NELLY, AC, to PHILLIP THURMOND, AC, for L300. 1) 331 acres N. fork Horsley. Lines: Col. LOMAX, a Naked Hill. 2) 450 acres on Horsley. Lines: NICHL. CABELL, JOS. MILSTEAD. Wit: JNO. PARKS, WM. GALASPIE, WM. THURMOND, SHEROD MORE GALSAPIE, ISAAC WRIGHT, JNO. POWELL.

Amherst Deed Book G, p. 363
22 Apr 1794 PHILIP THURMOND & wife JUDITH, AC, to ISAAC WRIGHT, AC, for L3000, 3 tracts on Horsley. 1) 422 acres. Lines: CHAS. TALIAFERRO, WIDOW CARTER. 2) 104 acres adj. – both sides Horsley. 3) 70 acres adj. both tracts. Lines: JOB CARTER, LUNSFORD LOMAX.
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From Wilburn Dennis Wright:

Isaac Wright was the second son & fifth child born to Francis E(dward) Wright & Mary Hawkins, ca.1740, in King William County, Virginia. Isaac Wright married Susanna Ellis, d/o of Charles Ellis & Susanna Harding, ca.1763, in Amherst County, Virginia.
On June 7, 1761, at Amherst County, Virginia, Deed Bk. A/61, Isaac Wright 466 acres of land from George Carrington, in Amherst County. This purchased of land by Isaac Wright, was used to help determine his birth. If he was eighteen years of age at the time of purchase of real property, then his date of birth was before 1744, or ca.1740. On December 7, 1771, at Amherst County, Virginia, Deed Bk. C/278, Isaac Wright, sold a negro slave Hannah, to Peter Carter.
The will of Isaac Wright was dated, February 17, 1803, & probated on September 21, 1807, at Amherst County, Virginia, Will Bk. 4/465, and provided the names of all his children & wife.
Buried in the family burial ground of the Dawson Family, Amherst County, Virginia. Susanna (Ellis) Wright, his widow, died in Kentucky at the home of their son, Maurice (Morris) Wright, in ca.1821.