Col. Jacob Wright, married 1st: Patty Reed, married 2nd: Elizabeth Howard. Age 85 years.
History of Washington, New Hampshire, 1768-1886, The 1976 Bicentennial Reprint, Washington History Committee, Washington, New Hampshire, 1976, p. 680
"Jacob Wright was born at Westford, Mass., in 1758. He entered the American army soon after the breaking out of the Revolution, and before he was seventeen years of age, as a substitute for his employer, and remained in the service a year. Soon after his discharge, he reenlisted, and remained in service five years. He participated in the battle of Bennington, and was one of the guard which escorted Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, from that place to Cambridge. He removed to Hancock, N.H., about the year 1782, and the next year removed to Washington, and settled on a tract of land at the south-west part of the town, which he purchased of Charles Barrett of New Ipswich, and which was then an unbroken forest. He at once set about clearing the land, and erected a rough house in which to live. He was married, March 10, 1785 to Patty Reed of Marlborough, Mass. His wife died Apr. 22, 1800 [her gravestone says 1830] and he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Howard) Davis at Fitzwilliam, in Nov. 1830. He was much interested in the state militia, and was, at one time, Colonel of the twenty-eighth New Hampshire reg't. He died July 10, 1844. His wife died Mar. 2, 1848."
History of Washington, New Hampshire, 1768-1886, The 1976 Bicentennial Reprint, Washington History Committee, Washington, New Hampshire, 1976, p. 680
"Jacob Wright was born at Westford, Mass., in 1758. He entered the American army soon after the breaking out of the Revolution, and before he was seventeen years of age, as a substitute for his employer, and remained in the service a year. Soon after his discharge, he reenlisted, and remained in service five years. He participated in the battle of Bennington, and was one of the guard which escorted Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, from that place to Cambridge. He removed to Hancock, N.H., about the year 1782, and the next year removed to Washington, and settled on a tract of land at the south-west part of the town, which he purchased of Charles Barrett of New Ipswich, and which was then an unbroken forest. He at once set about clearing the land, and erected a rough house in which to live. He was married, March 10, 1785 to Patty Reed of Marlborough, Mass. His wife died Apr. 22, 1800 [her gravestone says 1830] and he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Howard) Davis at Fitzwilliam, in Nov. 1830. He was much interested in the state militia, and was, at one time, Colonel of the twenty-eighth New Hampshire reg't. He died July 10, 1844. His wife died Mar. 2, 1848."
Col. Jacob Wright, married 1st: Patty Reed, married 2nd: Elizabeth Howard. Age 85 years.
History of Washington, New Hampshire, 1768-1886, The 1976 Bicentennial Reprint, Washington History Committee, Washington, New Hampshire, 1976, p. 680
"Jacob Wright was born at Westford, Mass., in 1758. He entered the American army soon after the breaking out of the Revolution, and before he was seventeen years of age, as a substitute for his employer, and remained in the service a year. Soon after his discharge, he reenlisted, and remained in service five years. He participated in the battle of Bennington, and was one of the guard which escorted Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, from that place to Cambridge. He removed to Hancock, N.H., about the year 1782, and the next year removed to Washington, and settled on a tract of land at the south-west part of the town, which he purchased of Charles Barrett of New Ipswich, and which was then an unbroken forest. He at once set about clearing the land, and erected a rough house in which to live. He was married, March 10, 1785 to Patty Reed of Marlborough, Mass. His wife died Apr. 22, 1800 [her gravestone says 1830] and he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Howard) Davis at Fitzwilliam, in Nov. 1830. He was much interested in the state militia, and was, at one time, Colonel of the twenty-eighth New Hampshire reg't. He died July 10, 1844. His wife died Mar. 2, 1848."
History of Washington, New Hampshire, 1768-1886, The 1976 Bicentennial Reprint, Washington History Committee, Washington, New Hampshire, 1976, p. 680
"Jacob Wright was born at Westford, Mass., in 1758. He entered the American army soon after the breaking out of the Revolution, and before he was seventeen years of age, as a substitute for his employer, and remained in the service a year. Soon after his discharge, he reenlisted, and remained in service five years. He participated in the battle of Bennington, and was one of the guard which escorted Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, from that place to Cambridge. He removed to Hancock, N.H., about the year 1782, and the next year removed to Washington, and settled on a tract of land at the south-west part of the town, which he purchased of Charles Barrett of New Ipswich, and which was then an unbroken forest. He at once set about clearing the land, and erected a rough house in which to live. He was married, March 10, 1785 to Patty Reed of Marlborough, Mass. His wife died Apr. 22, 1800 [her gravestone says 1830] and he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Howard) Davis at Fitzwilliam, in Nov. 1830. He was much interested in the state militia, and was, at one time, Colonel of the twenty-eighth New Hampshire reg't. He died July 10, 1844. His wife died Mar. 2, 1848."
Inscription
COL.
J. WRIGHT
a soldier of the
Revolution.
Died
July 10, 1844,
AE. 85.
PATTY,
Died
Apr. 22, 1830,
AE. 74.
ELIZABETH,
Died
Mar. 2, 1848,
AE. 87.
Wives of Col
J. Wright.
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