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John C. Wright was the 5th child of James and Mary Wright.

He was born November 4th, 1716 in

East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The family moved around what seemed to be highly undeveloped,

and hostile areas from time to time. Leaving PA at a young age,

John Wright moved with his family to

Prince George County, Queene Anne, MD.

This is where John met his wife Rachel Wells who was born in

Prince George County, Queene Anne, Maryland on March 27th, 1720.

John's family moved from 1733-35 to Frederick Co., Va.,

and became members of the Friends Hopewell Monthly Meeting.

They lived near Monocacy Creek a few miles south of Frederick

which could have been Prince George's Co.,

at the time, but is now know as Frederick Co.

John and Rachel were married in about 1737 in Hopewell, Frederick County, VA.

 After 1745. On December 12th, 1748,

John Wright Jr. was born in Prince George County, Queene Anne, MD.

John and Rachel with 7 young children,

William through John Jr. moved to the Cane Creek frontier,

soon to become Orange Co., N.C., which was over a distant of 300 miles.

They received their letter to go to what was then Carvers Creek MM on May 29, 1749.

 They were charter members of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance Co, N.C.

 when it was established October, 1751.

Six more children were born to them in the Cane Creek area.

All thirteen are listed in the Cane Creek records.

In 1759, the family got news that their close family,

the parent's of John Wright, were killed and scalped by Indians.

In frustration and grief, moved to a Quaker Colony

near present day Greensboro, North Carolina.

It was at this point the Quakers established the first college in North Carolina.

The College still exists and is called Guilford.

 It is just one of many institutions of higher learning found by the Quakers in early America.

But poor John and his family, running from the violence

 of one Indian War ran head long into another.

With the aid of the French, the Catawaba and Cherokee, of the Carolinas,

had joined forces and were wiping out white settlements in the Yadkin River Valley,

very near the Quaker Colony of Greensboro where the Wrights had settled.

Still seeking a place of Peace our ancestor, John, and his family,

moved through hostile Indian Territory of the Yadkin River country

 to the Bush River Monthly Meeting Colony in South Carolina.

John and his family at last found peace at

Bush River near present day Newberry, South Carolina

until the advent of the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution came,

John apparently was fed up with being a pacifist.

Even though he was then in his fifties, he immediately joined the celebrated

American fighting group called Col. Thompson's Rangers as Pvt. John Wright.

Our ancestor, John C. Wright, was at the famous Battle of the Cowpens

where an American army made up of rough frontiersmen

defeated an Army of elite British regulars under the command

of Banastre Tarleton to win the first victory against Lord Cornwallis' Army.

He was a shoemaker, a Quaker, and a Private and Captain in the Army.

John Wright died in South Carolina September 17, 1789

and is buried in Newberry County. His wife Rachel died December 23rd, 1771.

Their 7th son, John C Wright Jr. continues our lineage.......go to the link below, "Wright Family History"!

Wright History - 1671-1759/1716-1789/1748-1797/1771-Present

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