1851 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, p. 7:
Wright Theodore, M, Married, 35, born Up Canada, W Methodist, Farmer;
Arabelah, F, Married, 33, born Up Canada, W Methodist;
Charles, M, 15, born Up Canada, W Methodist;
Robert, M, 10, born Up Canada, W Methodist;
Sarah A., F, 6, born Up Canada, W Methodist;
Judson, M, 2, born Up Canada, W Methodist;
Lighton Robert, M, 5, born U States, W Methodist.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, p. 593-594:
Thomas L. Wright, one of the prominent representative farmers of Colchester South, County Essex, belongs to one of the old pioneer families, the founder of which was Henry Wright.
Henry Wright was born and reared in England and in young manhood emigrated to America with a brother, locating at Rutland, Pennsylvania, where the brother remained permanently. Henry married in that State Mary Klingensmith, and when troubles arose between the Colonies and the Mother Country he decided to remove to English soil. With his family he located first on Grosse Ile, but later removed to Malden, when he learned the former land did not belong to Great Britain, and still later he moved to the lake shore, where he took up land in Lots 80 and 76. He and his wife were buried on this farm. They were the parents of the following children: William married Betsey Lipps; Philip married (first) Miss Dowler, and (second) Delilah Malott; Henry married (first) Miss Hitchcock, by whom he had one daughter, Deborah, who married Matthew McCormick, and he married (second) Hannah Lipps; Thomas married (first) Jennie Little, (second) Mary Leighton, and (third) Abbie Larabie; Betsy married John Brush; Mary married Asa Wilcox; Mattie married Samuel Watson; Katie married Henry Lipps.
Philip Wright, the grandfather of Thomas L. Wright, was born Jan. 5, 1775, at Rutland, Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Grosse Ile, later to Malden, where he married a Miss Dowler, who died leaving one daughter, Anna, born March 30, 1796, who became the wife of Capt. John McCormick. Philip Wright married (second) Delilah Malott, born June 30, 1786, on Grosse Ile, and to them came these children: Lucy, born Nov. 28, 1802, became the wife of Isaac Ferris; Catherine was born Nov. 18, 1804; Peter, born Sept. 30, 1806, married Betty Snider; William, born Nov. 14. 1808, was twice married, first to Miss Buchanan, and died in the States; Sarah, born Nov. 12, 1811, is the widow of Charles Larabee and still survives at the age of ninety-three with faculties unimpaired; Philip S., father of our subject, is mentioned below; Theodore, born Nov. 10, 1816, a local Methodist minister, married Arabella Leighton, and they live at Ludington, Michigan; Ebenezer, born Sept. 20, 1818, married Eliza Stockwell; Mary Christine, born Oct. 16, 1820, married Thomas Leighton and died at Wyandotte, Michigan; Susannah, born Dec. 9, 1824, died in the States...
Theodore
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Sarah A. Wright ca 1844-
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