Note 11 — Chapter VIII

In the years 1723 to the 1790’s there are recorded for the Plymouth area some twenty-seven grants of land to the name Samuel Wright, in three generations. The land includes uplands, swamps, woodland and meadow, much of it in Plympton.

In 1784, 45-274 Samuel Wright bought from William Raymond, both of New Stamford, Vermont, forty-three acres at Bloody Pond in Plymouth.

In 1794, Samuel Wright bought property in the Boot Pond area. 88-222 shows that for thirteen shillings he purchased one-sixth part of one-half of the second share of the fifth great lot from the estate of Benjamin Wright, laid out to Benoni Lucas, whose daughter married John Wright, 1688-1744. The second share includes land on either side of the upper half of Boot Pond. In 1796, 84-184, Samuel Wright bought five-tenths part of one-half of the second share of the fifth great lot for twenty-five dollars. This land adjoined the land he bought the year before from Benjamin Wright’s estate. This land was bought from several children of John Wright, his heirs. The amount would be about eighteen acres.

Samuel Wright, in 1800, as shown in 88-241, during the time of his ownership of the homestead, sold to Nathaniel Carver, who served in the Revolution, for thirty-five dollars, land on the westerly side of Boot Pond which is land in the second share of the fifth great lot which he had bought some years before.

Another member of the Wright family who lived in the vicinity was Joshua Wright, born 1758, son of Joseph Wright, born 1721, who in turn is the son of Isaac Wright, son of Adam Wright, 1645-1724.