I come from James Wright and Mary Bowater through one of their sons (don't have his name in front of me right now) and his wife, Rachel Wells. I would love to learn what you have about them. Thanks for your willingness to help. Joan Benton In a message dated 12/19/2011 1:44:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, vivm2007@woh.rr.com writes: Happy Holidays everyone, I have finally decided to work on get my genealogy data back online. I have a wide assortment of stuff I have collected over the years and I came across one today that may be of interest to some of you. I will continue to post more but it will be as time allows and could take years. LOL I try to put up all the original documents that I have gathered over the years. I have a search engine at the top of major pages so if you search on your family name, you should get whatever I might have on your family. A lot of these Chester Co Pa families migrated to Bush River. http://all-my-stuff.com/gene/Localities/Pennsylvania/chester_county_biograph ies_abstr.htm This link has the search engine http://www.all-my-stuff.com/gene/start.htm Enjoy. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I was working on this family a few months ago and it is still not clear to me but holds a lot of interest. Linda Coate Duddick makes a good case for Mary Bowater but I am not sure if it is her work or from somewhere else. I know that I have copied it but do not have a source and it is repeated around the web. I checked Hopewell Quaker records and she definitely was there. Her will is as follows: "I, Mary Wright, of Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia, being aged and sickly but of a sound and well disposing mind and memory do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking and disanulling all other wills that have heretofore been made or done by me. First, my will is that my body be decently buried and that all my just debts and funeral charges that I leave to be defrayed at the discretion of my executors hereafter named. Secondly, I give and bequeath and demise to the proper use and behalf of him the said Thomas Wright his heirs and assigns forever. Thirdly, I give and bequeath all and singular of my wearing apparel unto my seven daughters, vis., Mary, Hannah, Martha, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, Lidia to be equally divided among them. Fourthly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Pickering, one brass mortar. Fifthly, I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Wright all and singular of my stock and household goods. I also will that what money remains after my decease, from the land sold on Middlefork is to be equally divided among my ten children, vis. James, Isaac, Mary Hannah, Martha, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, Lydia and John. Lastly, I ordain and constitute my well beloved daughter, Mary Ballinger, Jesse Pugh and William Pickering sole executors of this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this 5th day of the 8th month, 1760. Signed, sealed and acknowledged by the said Mary Wright to be her last will and testament in presence of us. Signed: Mary Wright Witness: Elizabeth Powell, Elinor Rogers, Susanna Bevin. (This was proved March 6, 1764 in Frederick Co., VA) (C-696)" She signed her son in laws will as a witness This also protects any dower rights of their daughter. He is conjectured to be the parent of James Jr. McCool. His will is provided by Sandra Ferguson as follows: James McCool of Backcreek, near Opekon, will recorded 9th 2nd Mo 1751. "To well beloved wife Ann McKool, all goods and personal estate and all property to be used in bringing up our small children." The witnesses were James Wright and Mary Wright , Ann's parents. 5 I have a good bit on this family and don't mind sharing but I think I will put in separate posts so it makes it easier for additional insight from others as I still have a lot to earn. Also, I could do it off line but I guess it is good for this info to go into the archives for others. On 12/19/2011 8:09 PM, MattyBFam@aol.com wrote: > I come from James Wright and Mary Bowater through one of their sons (don't > have his name in front of me right now) and his wife, Rachel Wells. I > would love to learn what you have about them. > > Thanks for your willingness to help. > > Joan Benton > > > In a message dated 12/19/2011 1:44:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > vivm2007@woh.rr.com writes: > > Happy Holidays everyone, > > I have finally decided to work on get my genealogy data back online. I > have a wide assortment of stuff I have collected over the years and I > came across one today that may be of interest to some of you. I will > continue to post more but it will be as time allows and could take > years. LOL I try to put up all the original documents that I have > gathered over the years. I have a search engine at the top of major > pages so if you search on your family name, you should get whatever I > might have on your family. A lot of these Chester Co Pa families > migrated to Bush River. > > http://all-my-stuff.com/gene/Localities/Pennsylvania/chester_county_biograph > ies_abstr.htm > > This link has the search engine > http://www.all-my-stuff.com/gene/start.htm > > > Enjoy. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

There is a lot already on the internet and since I am not sure what you already have I won't post it all here but this is where I personally stand with this family and what I have discovered so far. This is the first generation out of Va. Wrights were firm Quakers but I do not think the Wells were or there were definitely two Wells families that got confused. The Wells have a big family taboo. Rachel Wells parents Joseph Wells and Margaret Swanson may or may not be the siblings of George Wells and Susannah Swanson. Susannah Swanson was married to James Ward and had children. She names one Wells Ward. She has is reprimanded by Queen Anne's vestry for co habitation with George Wells and they later married. That should be St Barnabas Church not Quaker. I have not actually found the record myself to confirm or deny the record. The affair is attested to because Nathan Ward descendents DNA are a perfect match with other descendents of Thomas and Susannah Plummer (another Quaker name). But there is not questions about this Joseph being the brother of George because DNA is not matching. Since I have not researched Joseph Wells/Margaret Swanson's children for very long, is there a possibility of an adoption, first unknown marriage or something that could explain this. So much location and matching surnames just makes it seem so apparent that this would be a two brothers married two sisters so a lot of research still needs to be done. It is obvious why George and Susannah would now be outside the Quaker church and it appears that Joseph and Margaret raise their children at Cane Creek ( I actually visited there for three days this summer but need a lot more time). This land deed also ties this group together. Prince George's Land Records 1710-1717 - Liber F -folio 428 o Indenture, 10 Dec 1714 From: James Ward, planter of Prince George's County, and Susannah his wife lately called Susannah Swanson To: George Wells, planter of Prince George's County For 2 pounds of tobacco James Ward and Susannah his wife acknowledged the right of George Wells to ownership of a parcel called Swansea's Lot Signed: James Ward (seal), Susannah Ward (seal) Witnessed: Richard Rose, William Housbin (mark) I have not looked into what other Wells families that Joseph could belong with if he is not a son of Thomas and Susannah Plummer. Here is Thomas's will. Proves he has a son Joseph and not at all happy with George! I have it somewhere which other descendent's have proven matches but it is not at my fingertips. Wells, Thomas, Sr., planter,Prince George's Co.,26th Sept., 1718; 5th Jan., 1718/19. To wife Frances, dwelling plantation, "Strife," and adj. tract "Something," in all 218 A., during life; at her decease to four sons, Thomas, Robert, Nathan and Joseph. Shd. all of sd. sons, Thomas, Nathan and Robert, die without issue, lands to descend to son Joseph; shd. he die without issue, to 4 daus. equally, viz.: Frances, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth, and their hrs. To sd. daus., personalty. To son George, 5s. To wife Frances, extx., and hrs., house and lot in Queen Ann's Town and residue of estate. Test: Richard Duckett, Wm. John Black, Thomas Howell. 14. 724. MARYLAND CALENDAR OF WILLS: Volume 4 This comes from the website of Tod Marshall. I corresponded with him breifly. My orignial interest in this was Rachel Wells. http://todmar.net/ancestry/wright_main.htm son of James and Mary was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on January 28, 1716. He removed from Nottingham Monthly Meeting to Nonocacy MM in Prince George County, Maryland, where he married Rachel Wells. She was born in Anne Arundel county and was the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Wells. Both John and Rachel became Overseers of the Men's and Women's Meetings of Monocacy in 1745. They transferred to Hopewell. In 1749, with the seven minor children born to them by that time, the Wright's were granted a certificate to Carvers Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. There they became charter members in 1751 of Cane Creek MM in Orange County, NC. They became parents of six more children during their time in NC. According to the Quaker Records from Historic Camden, S. C., by Kirkland and Kennedy, they were present in Camden District by 1760 when John Wright appears as a witness to a deed. The Annals of Newberry mention three more children born to John and Rachel after they removed to South Carolina. Reportedly, Bush River Monthly Meeting in Newberry County to which the Wright's belonged was established in 1770. However Cane Creek MM records Rachel Wright's transfer to Bush River in 1767. Their presence in SC prior to the time of Rachel's transfer suggests there was no meeting to which they might belong prior to 1767. It may also be presumed that the Wright's were instrumental in the formation of a meeting at Bush River. During the migration of southern Quakers to the Ohio Valley in the early 1800's, almost all of John and Rachel Wright's surviving children and grandchildren became a part of that movement. A good number of them, particularly the Hollingsworth and Cook descendants, became Hicksites and Wilburites when they separated from the Orthodox Quakers. From Abstracts of Old Wills, John Wright Sr will dated 9/17/1789 proved 6/8/1790. Wife (no name). Ch: Joseph (dead)-to his son John; John to his son Jesse; Nathan to his son, William; and to my son-in-law, Isaac Hollingsworth, to have my shoe-makers tools and one certain cow and calf. Other legatees, Joab Brooks, son of James Brooks; Joseph Cook, my grandson, (son of Isaac Hollingsworth); Isaac Cook, my son in law to have the price of a cow which he never paid for; Rachel Cook (daughter of Isaac Cook. Exrs: Joseph Wright, my son.