Family Tree Maker - Cemetarian

1663
Immigration: 1654 Northumberland Co., VA
Note: transported by Nathaniel Pope, who married Ann Washington 2
Note: in a deposition, gave his age as 22 yeares or thereabouts
Occupation: described himself in an agreement with Mr. Hugh Lee of VA as
"Richard WRIGHT of London, merch't being homeward bound" 29 MAY 1656 VA
Note:
granted 2200 acres W. side of Potomac River -- 963-acre grant
to Col. John Mottrom 13 Aug 1650 due said Richard WRIGHT of
marriage to Ann, daughter of said Mottrom; 500 acres grant to
Thomas Wilkerson 10 Oct 1650, afterwards granted to Thomas
Brereton, and assigned 8 Jun 1658 to said Richard WRIGHT; 737
acres granted to said Wright for transportation of 15 persons
including Richard WRIGHT
Arrived Virginia 1655 & returned to England almost two years later, describing himself in a agreement
with Mr. Hugh Lee of Virginia as "Richard Wright of London, Merchant, being homeward bound (that
is to England) Northumberland County Record Book, 1652-1658 pg. 145; Tyler's Quarterly I, pb. 127."
He returned to Virginia, and in 1657, became administrator of Col. John Mottrom's estate. The
numerous references to Richard Wright, Gent; in the Northumberland and Westmoreland Records,
indicate that he was a man of much influence and character. In 1661 with his brother-in-law , Col.
Nicholas Spencer, he obtained a patent to 1100 acres of land at Piscattaway, on the Potomac, a part of
which later was acquired by the Washington's, embracing the site of the present famous Mt. Vernon. In
1658 he secured a patent to 2200 acres upon the Potomac, between Lower Machodoc River and Nomini
Bay, upon which his son, Francis Wright, settled. Richard Wright died in Chicacoan (called ÒCOANÓ
for short) between Aug. 16 and Dec. 16, 1663, being the dates of the making and proof of his will. His
will thus dated and proved appears in a much mutilated form in a Record Book in Northumberland
County; WILL OF RICHARD WRIGHT (Abstract). He gives to his wife Anne one half of his land at
Machodoc and Potomac Rivers---"that is the half that joins my brother Spencer (Nicholas Spencer, Esq.,
who married Frances Mottrom), with reversions at her death to his son Francis Wright; to wife two
negroes named. All of the English servants, negroes not otherwise bequeathed and rest of personal
estate in Virginia and Maryland to be divided into three equal parts, of which wife is to have one part
and his three children the other two parts. To his son Mottrom Wright all his land on Elk Run, Md. To
my --------land lying---------Francis -------for discharging education all my money in England. To
daughter-------land in the -----of the Potomac. To my brother--------land at --------To my brother
Nicholas Spencer, and my sister Mrs. Frances Spencer and Brother John Mottrom, each a rug. Brothers
Spencer and Mottrom overseers. Cousin Matthew Merriton of London (merchant?) Overseer in
England. The inventory of the personal estate of Mr. Richard Wright recorded March 10, 1663-43 was
appraised at 23,334 lbs. tobacco. The widow of Richard Wright, Anne Mottrom Wright, married 2dly,
David Fox, father of Hannah Fox, who married Anne's brother John Mottrom, Jr. After Fox's death in
1669 Anne married 3rdly, Col. St. Leger Codd, who died in Cecil County, Maryland, leaving according
to his will, proved in Lancaster County, Virginia, April 8, 1708 sons James, Berkeley, St. Legar, and
daughter Beatrice and Mary Paddison , (William and Mary Quarterly XVII, pg. 55). Issue of Richard
Wright and Anne Mottrom, his wife, named in the will above, Mottrom, Francis, who married Anne
Washington, Anne who married George Nicholas Hacke.
Notes for Ann Mottrom:
The widow of Richard Wright, Anne Mottrom Wright, married 2dly, David Fox, father of Hannah Fox,
who married Anne's brother John Mottrom, Jr. After Fox's death in 1669 Anne married 3rdly, Col. St.
Leger Codd, who died in Cecil County, Maryland. (William and Mary Quarterly XVII, pg. 55).
Anne Mottrom, daughter of Col. John Mottrom married Richard Wright (will dated Aug. 16, 1663;
proved Dec. 10, 1663), and had issue 3 children; Mottrom, Francis, and Anne ( Anne married George
Nicholas Hacke). After Richard Wright's death, his widow, Anne Mottrom, married David Fox, father
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