Nicholas Wright

  Notes and Events:

• Will: dated 10 Apr 1674. Proved at a court of sessions held at Jamaica for the north riding of Yorkeshire, on Long Island. the 13th, 14th, & 15th days of December, 1682.
Letters granted to Ann Wright, the widow, Jany. 15, 1682. [Lib. 2 of Wills (N. Y.), pp. 133, 134, 135.]

I, Nicholas Wright, aged sixty-five years or thereabouts, Being sick and weake, yett in perfect memory, Doe bequeave my Soule to the Almighty God that gave it me, and my Body to the Yearth from whome it came.


Imprimis, I make my Loving wife, Ann Wright, sole Executor of my movables, both within my house and without, both of kine, horse-flesh, and swine, together with my house and Lands which I now Possess, During her life, and to have the full Disposing of any Part or Parcell of it as she shall see cause for her use and reliefe whilst she doth live, only a Parte of my house Lott, from the North side of my Orchard to the highway next to my Sister Crab's, I have given to my sonne Caleb for his present use, it being the same Breadth to the reere of my lott; and after my decease and my wife's Decease, all the home Lott and orchard is to be my son Caleb's, with a right of Commons to itt; and my lands upon hog-Island to be equally divided between my three sonns, Caleb, John, and Edmund, and alsoe, my right of meadow at the south is to be equally divided between my before-men­tioned sonns ; and alsoe, my meadows lying on the East side the Beaver-swamp Creek, with my share of meadow in the home meadow, is to be equally divided between my sons Caleb and Edmund, and the share of meadow on the west side of the Beaver-swamp River I give unto.my son John, and further, that lott lying by Joseph Weeke's home Lott is to be Equally divided between my sonns John and Edmund.


And further, my lands by the way that Goes to Robt Williams' plantation, with common Privileges, is to be equally Divided amongst my three sonns before named; and the peece of Land Lyeing before my home Lott that was given to my sonne John by the towne, is to be my sonne Edmund's; in Lieu of this peece of Land I give my sonne John that peece of Land whereon he now lives, and my peece of swamp in the-mill-River Swamp is to be equally Divided Between Caleb and Edmund. All these Lands and meadows here mentioned, Excepting that parte to Caleb that is given to him, present, as to be all att my wife's Disposing During her Life, and this is my Last Will Testamt. Itt is to be understood, that peece of Land which is mentioned on the other side, that I give to my sonne John in lieu of that peece I had of him, Before my home Lott, that was given him by the towne; he is to have all that Lott whereon he now lives to him & his heirs for Ever, provided he pays five pounds att slatter-time [slaughter-time] next ensuing, in Peese or Pork, att merchants' Price, and to this I subscribe my hand.

NICHOLAS WRIGHT

• Note. After staying briefly in Saugus, Massachusetts Bay Colony, they moved to Sandwich Plymouth Colony in 1637, where Nicholas was an associate of Edmund Freeman. In the spring of 1653, he joined the company of the Rev. William Leverich in sailing to Oyster Bay NY on board the sloop DESIRE. In May 1677 he was one of the 14 freeholders in Oyster Bay.

Nicholas married Ann.