Category Archives: The Other Wrights

The ancestors of Janelle’s maternal grandfather Arthur Wright, have been in New England since the early 17th century, circulating between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. A summary of what we can figure out about Janelle’s New England roots New England is shown below. (As a reminder, there is no known connection between these Wrights andContinue reading “Another Remarkable Crossing of Family Paths in Colonial Connecticut”

Having discussed Sandford and Tuttle origins in early colonial Connecticut, we now turn to another founding family, the Wright branch of Janelle’s family. The ancestors of her maternal grandfather, Arthur Wright, came to New England as early as the mid 1630s, establishing homesteads in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. (As a reminder, there is noContinue reading “The Founding Wrights of the Connecticut Colonies”