“John Jones Wright 9th June 1819” [Wright-Jones Family Bible Record, Library of Virginia, accession number 25073.]

On 13 March 1841, Henry H. Boughan, as coroner for Essex County, led an inquisition taken at the public highway near Mrs. Elizabeth B. Allen’s (deceased) into the death of Henry, a slave the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Hundley, then and there lying dead. A jury consisting of James Semple, M G Wood, Jas Durham, John J Wright, Henry Crow, Z. M. P. Carter, Baylor W Hill, Johnson Games, Philip Coleman, Willis Brooks, Caleb A Noel and Wm S Croxton state that Henry came to his death on the 12th Day of March, that he had no marks of violence, and died by being chilled to death. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 24, page 589.]

“John J. Wright to Eliza J Noel July 6 1842” [Wright-Jones Family Bible Record, Library of Virginia, accession number 25073.]

1850 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia
Page 68A, Dwelling 40, Family 40
Wright, John, 31, male, physician, $6,000 real estate, born in Virginia
Wright, Eliza, 31, female, born in Virginia
Wright, Susan, 7, female, born in Virginia
Parker, Robert, 20, male, manager, born in Virginia