Information from the History of Warren County. [Spelling of towns, etc., is as found in the written history]
"JOSHUA WRIGHT. from whom Wrightsville derives its name, came to the site of this village in 1821 from near Rochester, N. Y. His house stood near the site of the present saw-mill. There were only two houses on the ground now covered by the village. ... JOSHUA WRIGHT died on the 19th of January, 1842, aged seventy years and four months.
From the time of his arrival here until his death he operated the grist-mill, and also ran the saw mill until it burned a year or two after he came, whereupon his sons, LESTER and JUDE, rebuilt and operated it for many years.
[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
[SON] JUDE WRIGHT, brother of LESTER, died on the 12th of March, 1871, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and twenty day.
[SON] QUARTUS WRIGHT, another brother of LESTER, ten years his junior, was also in the mercantile business in Wrightsville for some time subsequent to 1840. He and LESTER operated the saw-mill. QUARTUS now resides in Vineland, N. J., where he removed about 1864 or 1865, and since his departure his son, NEWTON WRIGHT has had sole charge and ownership of all the mills, both the grist and saw-mills. ...
CALVIN WRIGHT, son of JUDE, kept it for two years. A number of years later, in 1861, PHILO WRIGHT bought the property, and now owns and has charge of it. ...
ALBERT WRIGHT, also has a store here, which he has presided over about two years.
LESTER WRIGHT has been Postmaster, as have his sons, PHILANDER and PHILO. ..."
"JOSHUA WRIGHT. from whom Wrightsville derives its name, came to the site of this village in 1821 from near Rochester, N. Y. His house stood near the site of the present saw-mill. There were only two houses on the ground now covered by the village. ... JOSHUA WRIGHT died on the 19th of January, 1842, aged seventy years and four months.
From the time of his arrival here until his death he operated the grist-mill, and also ran the saw mill until it burned a year or two after he came, whereupon his sons, LESTER and JUDE, rebuilt and operated it for many years.
[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
[SON] JUDE WRIGHT, brother of LESTER, died on the 12th of March, 1871, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and twenty day.
[SON] QUARTUS WRIGHT, another brother of LESTER, ten years his junior, was also in the mercantile business in Wrightsville for some time subsequent to 1840. He and LESTER operated the saw-mill. QUARTUS now resides in Vineland, N. J., where he removed about 1864 or 1865, and since his departure his son, NEWTON WRIGHT has had sole charge and ownership of all the mills, both the grist and saw-mills. ...
CALVIN WRIGHT, son of JUDE, kept it for two years. A number of years later, in 1861, PHILO WRIGHT bought the property, and now owns and has charge of it. ...
ALBERT WRIGHT, also has a store here, which he has presided over about two years.
LESTER WRIGHT has been Postmaster, as have his sons, PHILANDER and PHILO. ..."
Information from the History of Warren County. [Spelling of towns, etc., is as found in the written history]
"JOSHUA WRIGHT. from whom Wrightsville derives its name, came to the site of this village in 1821 from near Rochester, N. Y. His house stood near the site of the present saw-mill. There were only two houses on the ground now covered by the village. ... JOSHUA WRIGHT died on the 19th of January, 1842, aged seventy years and four months.
From the time of his arrival here until his death he operated the grist-mill, and also ran the saw mill until it burned a year or two after he came, whereupon his sons, LESTER and JUDE, rebuilt and operated it for many years.
[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
[SON] JUDE WRIGHT, brother of LESTER, died on the 12th of March, 1871, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and twenty day.
[SON] QUARTUS WRIGHT, another brother of LESTER, ten years his junior, was also in the mercantile business in Wrightsville for some time subsequent to 1840. He and LESTER operated the saw-mill. QUARTUS now resides in Vineland, N. J., where he removed about 1864 or 1865, and since his departure his son, NEWTON WRIGHT has had sole charge and ownership of all the mills, both the grist and saw-mills. ...
CALVIN WRIGHT, son of JUDE, kept it for two years. A number of years later, in 1861, PHILO WRIGHT bought the property, and now owns and has charge of it. ...
ALBERT WRIGHT, also has a store here, which he has presided over about two years.
LESTER WRIGHT has been Postmaster, as have his sons, PHILANDER and PHILO. ..."
"JOSHUA WRIGHT. from whom Wrightsville derives its name, came to the site of this village in 1821 from near Rochester, N. Y. His house stood near the site of the present saw-mill. There were only two houses on the ground now covered by the village. ... JOSHUA WRIGHT died on the 19th of January, 1842, aged seventy years and four months.
From the time of his arrival here until his death he operated the grist-mill, and also ran the saw mill until it burned a year or two after he came, whereupon his sons, LESTER and JUDE, rebuilt and operated it for many years.
[SON] LESTER WRIGHT was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of August, 1804, and went to Otisco, N. Y., when an infant. At the age of six years he was taken by his parents to Genesse, N. Y., and when he was sixteen accompanied them to Wrightsville, as it has since been called. They reached here on the 16th of July. At that time there was hardly an acre of tillable land in one spot in the entire township of Freehold, as now constituted. Trees had been extensively felled, but the farmers had been more industrious to reap the profits of lumbering than of clearing land. ... " LESTER WRIGHT started the first store in the place about 1832, on the site of the present meat-market. As he was engaged during the working of the day in his mill, he attended the store only mornings and evenings. About 1837 he enlarged this branch of his business, and in 1840 built the large block now occupied by his son PHILANDER WRIGHT. ...
[SON] JUDE WRIGHT, brother of LESTER, died on the 12th of March, 1871, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and twenty day.
[SON] QUARTUS WRIGHT, another brother of LESTER, ten years his junior, was also in the mercantile business in Wrightsville for some time subsequent to 1840. He and LESTER operated the saw-mill. QUARTUS now resides in Vineland, N. J., where he removed about 1864 or 1865, and since his departure his son, NEWTON WRIGHT has had sole charge and ownership of all the mills, both the grist and saw-mills. ...
CALVIN WRIGHT, son of JUDE, kept it for two years. A number of years later, in 1861, PHILO WRIGHT bought the property, and now owns and has charge of it. ...
ALBERT WRIGHT, also has a store here, which he has presided over about two years.
LESTER WRIGHT has been Postmaster, as have his sons, PHILANDER and PHILO. ..."
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