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From: "Britta B. Harris" <>
Subject: Re: HENDRICKS family of Berkeley County
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 06:17:20 -0600


Wright family in Bourbon Co.Ky. Just last evening,I received an e-mail in
response to a query I made in Monroe Co. Mo. about the family of Elizabeth
Harris and Andrew Wright. They were married in Bourbon Co. about 1818. I
will have to check my records. The respondent stated that Andrew Wright
was born in Monroe Co., but he must have had a connection to the Wrights in
Bourbon Co...who , like many Bourbon Co. residents, moved to Missouri. You
may want to contact this Wright descendant at . I am
interested in knowing about this Wright family connection in Old Frederick
since it might offer a clue to another family I am researching..Barlow.
Since many families travelled together and intermarried, it would help to
know the path of their migration. Thanks. Britta

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> From: Michael E Wright <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: HENDRICKS family of Berkeley County
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 1997 9:27 PM
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:40:31 -0600 (CST) Jennifer Harrison
> <> writes:
> >Michael,
> >
> >Can you tell me more about the Wrights who moved to Bourbon Co., KY in
> >1792?
> >I've been trying to prove a marriage between Sarah Wright and Thomas
> >West,
> >is the same Thomas West who ended-up in Bourbon Co. (the part that
> >became
> >Nicholas Co.). This marriage took place in Old Frederick Co. in 1790.
> >Christian Streit performed the marriage.
> >
>
> Jennifer,
>
> My WRIGHT family consisted of William and wife Martha, daughters Hannah,
> Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, Sally and Jean, sons James, William, Robert,
> John and Hugh. Elizabeth, Mary, Sally and Jean married in KY as did John
> and Hugh. Robert and Margaret married in Berkeley County. Hannah married
> a MELVIN, place unknown. Marriage information on James and William in
> unknown. Robert and Margaret used the same clergy in their respective
> marriages, Moses Hoge, who went on to become a prominent member of the
> Presbyterian Church in VA.
>
> In the late 1700's there was a migration of folks from the area around
> Berkeley County to Bourbon County, KY. This was due to one Thomas
> Swearingen of the general area around Berkeley County enticing folks to
> go to KY to buy land from his military tract which he received for Rev.
> War service.
>
> BTW, my father's maternal grandmother was a WEST. Her family arrived in
> the area around Shelby County, IL in the mid 1800's. I haven't started
> tracing them yet so I don't have much information. There are a number of
> WEST families in Shelby and Moultrie counties in IL today.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> Michael E. Wright
>
>
>
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