Dear Jayne, This reply to your email is being sent to the Wright and Amherst lists as well for convenience. The Augustus Wright of your list is 1776 (year of death) Augustus Wright of Amherst County, Virginia (place of death). He married Alice or Alcey Ball and had the following children: 1. 1847 Robert Wright of Madison County, Alabama, 2. William Wright, 3. John Wright who married Susannah Bibb, 4. Susannah (Wright) Mays, 5. Mary (Wright) Pamplin, 6. 1838 Augustine or Austin Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, 7. Sally (Wright) Edmunds, and 8. Jane or Jenny (Wright) Edmunds. I have collected a substantial amount of information on this family, including a very interesting will contest. Augustine's will gave his land to his youngest son Augustine Jr., a minor, and the land could not be divided until the minor came of age. Alsey married Samuel Edmunds after Augustine's death. Samuel wanted to buy Augustine's land so he could raise the joint families on that land, rather than on his own land. Samuel had Augustine's will altered by the schoolmaster John Doleman, who had written the will for Augustine. The payment for altering the will was two cotton shirts. The purpose was to cause the will to fail to be admitted to probate so that Augustine would die intestate. Under the primogeniture rule, the land would then pass to Augustine's oldest son Robert and Samuel Edmunds could then buy the land from Robert. And that is exactly what happened. Achilles Wright and Parmenos Wright (see below) testified that the will presented in court by Alsey (Ball) (Wright) Edmunds had been altered and was not the will they had witnessed. The will was rejected and Alsey was appointed administrator of Augustine's intestate estate. The land went to the eldest son Robert Wright and he sold it to Samuel Edmunds. Forty two years later Augustine Jr. sued his older brother Robert, thinking Robert had altered the will to get the land. Alsey (Ball) (Wright0 Edmunds testified that she could not read or write and presented Augustine's will for probate without knowing it had been altered. John Edmunds, a son of Samuel Edmunds, testified that his father had told him the story of the altered will and said only Alsey, Samuel, and the schoolteacher knew what had happened. Jane (Edmunds) Mays testified that the schoolteacher told her that he had altered the will and that when she told her father Samuel Edmunds what Doleman had said, her father said he would kill her if she told anyone while he was alive. I have not found the disposition of this case, but since the only party still living who might be liable was Austin's mother Alsey, I suspect Austin dismissed the case. Lindsay Wright in your list was a son of Jesse Wright and Susannah (Harper) (Welch) Wright and married Elizabeth Wilcher on Aug 27, 1799, at Amherst County, Virginia. I lose track of this family in Amherst in 1804 and would much appreciate any information on where they went and their descendants. Achilles Wright in your list was 1825 Achilles Wright of Oldham County, Kentucky. He was born probably before 1748, married Nancy _____, and moved to Henry County, Kentucky in 1811. I think he was a brother of 1776 Augustus Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, and a brother of Parmenos Wright, based on their witnessing Augustine's will, but cannot yet prove that. 1825 Achilles and Nancy had the following children: 1. George Wright who married Elizabeth Landrum, 2. 1824 Samuel Wright of Kentucky, 3. Patsy (Wright) Lane, 4. Mildred (Wright) Gatewood, 5. Nancy Anne (Wright) Johnson, 6. Lucy (Wright) Mays, 7. Polly (Wright) Campbell, 8. Elizabeth (Wright) Martin, 9. 1831 Nelson Wright of Henry County, Kentucky, and 10. James Wright, who possibly married Lucy Crisp. The Bennett Wright in your list was probably 1876 Bennett Crawford Wright of Randolph County, Missouri. He was a son of 1807 Isaac Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, and Susannah (Ellis) Wright and grandson of 1767 Francis Wright of Amherst County, Virginia, and Mary (Hawkins) Wright. He was born in November 1785 at Virginia, married three times, and went to Kentucky in 1811 and Missouri by 1840. I would be happy to exchange information on these families. Best wishes, Robert N. Grant 15 Campo Bello Court Menlo Park, CA 94025 RNGrant@prodigy.net "Barry N. Dunn" wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to the list. Is there anyone researching Wrights of Amherst > Co., VA, Henry Co., KY or Clark Co., IN. Some of the Wright names were > Augustus, Lindsey, Achilles, Bennett/Burnett. > > In particular would like to find a marriage record for Augustus b ca > 1800 VA. Wife's name was Martha or Patsy. Living in Clark Co., IN > 1850. > > Bennett/Burnett Wright b ca 1817 KY. Married Zilpha Mead. Living in > Henry Co., KY in 1850 and Clark Co., IN 1860 & 1870. > > Any help appreciated. > > Jayne Dunn > > ==== WRIGHT Mailing List ==== > All commands such as SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, are to be sent to: > WRIGHT-L-request@rootsweb.com > If you have trouble with these commands contact the Listowner, > Jerry Wright Jordan, at jjordan2@ix.netcom.com