Robert N Grant

Because of the numerous persons with the surname Wright and similar given names, and to keep track of these different people, the author has adopted the convention of distinguishing Wrights by listing them with their date of death and place of death, the two most commonly available pieces of information. Thus the William Wright who died in 1809 at Franklin County, Virginia, is identified as 1809 William Wright of Franklin County, Virginia. Evidence identifying William Wright is presented in this ten-part analysis which reviews some of the information known about William and John Wright, William's wife Mary (Grant) Wright, documentary evidence, handwriting, suggestive evidence, family naming evidence, and contrary identifications and why they are probably not correct. Additionally, there is a summary in chronological order of the information known about William Wright of Franklin County and Mary (Grant) Wright in northern Virginia.

The author has amassed a bounty of information about Wrights in southern Virginia. This volume contains appendices to Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia: Birth Records, 1853 to 1896; Marriage Records, 1769 to 1913; and, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782 to 1850. These appendices present source records for persons named Wright by county and by type of record with the identification of the person named and their Wright ancestor to the extent known. The identification of a person or their ancestor by year and county indicates their year of death and county of residence at death. If no state is listed after the county, the state is Virginia; counties in states other than Virginia will have a state listed after the county.