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Subject: Musco Wright ( b.c. 1750/51 ) in Virginia
Date: 4 Jul 2006 19:38:29 -0600

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I am searching for information concerning Musco Wright, ( parents unknown ) who was born in VA. in ca. 1750/51. He married Mary ( maiden name unknown ) some time after ca. 1768. Their children were named: Joseph Henry, Caleb, Martin, Ann, Thomas, Lewis, James, and William. Perhaps he named a few of them after his parents. Musco and Mary were gone from VA. by Jan., 1778.

Musco Wright was in the 10th Virginia regmt. in the 2nd. Brigade, 5th division, under Capt. Richard Stevens. Some of the Wright's in his unit were: Moses, Richard, Parsons, Thomas, William, Paul, John, and James, just in case some of them could have been his brothers. He was in Valley Forge in Feb. and Mar., 1778. He deserted. He enlisted with the First Battalion of PA. Loyalists in the King's American Regmt. on April 26, 1778. He enlisted in Philadelphia, and went south with the British and spent most of the war in Pensacola, Florida, and it is believed that his wife and children followed him there. In 1783, they went to Canada and took up land grants there.
It is believed that Musco was the product of 2 old VA. families: Musco and Wright, of St. Anne's Parish, Essex Co., VA., but it is also said that the 10th VA. regmt. soldiers came from the western part of VA. Musco Wright had connections to the Field and Grier families.
Any information about Musco Wright in VA. would be very much appreciated.
Jean Mayo

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