Frances Wright

1742 - Aft 1784  (42 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Frances Wright  [1, 2]
  Birth	1742  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft Feb 1784
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. Elizabeth Wright,   b. Aft Sep 1738   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Taliaferro Stribling + 2. Dorothea Wright,   b. Abt 1740, Alexandria, Fairfax Co, Virginia, USA d. 10 Jun 1782, Winnsboro, Fairfield Co, South Carolina, USA  (Age 42 years) ▻ John Winn,  m. 17 Aug 1758 + 3. Frances Wright,   b. 1742   d. Aft Feb 1784  (Age 42 years) ▻ Capt. Nimrod Ashby,  m. 30 Nov 1759 ;   John o' Bannon,  m. Abt 1765
  Person ID	I98946	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2000

  
  

  Father	Francis Wright,   b. Mar 1710   d. Bef 27 Sep 1742, Prince William County, Virginia, USA (Age 32 years)
  Mother	Anne Massey,   b. 19 Mar 1720   d. Bef 1752 (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	7 Dec 1737
  Family ID	F39938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Capt. Nimrod Ashby,   b. Abt 1736   d. 29 Jun 1764, near Furman's Fort, so. branch Potomac River, Virginia, USA (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1759	Faquier Co, Virginia, USA   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Miriam Ashby   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Frances Ashby,   b. Abt 1760   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Martin Ashby,   b. 1760   d. Aft 1790 (Age 31 years) + 4. Thomas Bryan Ashby,   b. Abt 1762   d. Aft 1791 (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F39936	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 2	John o' Bannon,   b. Abt 1738   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1765
  Family ID	F39937	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

• Notes

  - 1752 - Removed to Frederick Co, VA after her father's death & by 1754. - Filed a petition to court for recompense re: the death of her husband Nimrod. - Nimrod had advanced his own credit to procure uniforms & supplies for his men. - 1742 - Guardian was Thos. Stribling; Wm. Stribling overseer of her estate. - (Probably) lived in Frederick Co, VA between father's death & her marriage. REF: Dr. Justin M. Glenn, 2554 Marston Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312 (authoring a work on the descendants of Col. John Washington): Frances Wright (b. 1742; m. [1st, on Nov. 30, 1759) Capt. Nimrod Ashby [commissioned justice of the peace of Fauqujer Co., Va., 12/1/1762; this commission was renewed on 5/26/1764. Sometime within the next few weeks both Ashby and his hunting companion, William Furman, were killed by a band of ca. 20 Delaware Indians when the two men were hunting near Furman's Fort on the South Branch of the Potomac. Fauquier County Order Bk. 2:312 appointed a male guardian for his "orphan" children on 6/28/1764. Frances survived him and m. [2nd, ca. 1765) John O'Bannon [tentatively styled "Jr." by J.A.W. According to Sundberg-Gott's recent study of the O'Bannon family, however, he was probably the son of William O'Bannon, and thus the 1st cousin, once removed of Lt. Presley Neville O'Bannon, USMC, hero in the capture of Tripoli during the war against the Barbary Pirates]. She died post Feb., 1784). Children (by her 1st husband): Martin Ashby (b. 1760; m. Mir[i]am ___; he d. post 1790). Thomas Bryan Ashby (b. ca. 1762). [See esp. the following records of Fauquier Co., Va.: Marriage Bk. 1:1, Will Bk. 1:241 and 247, Deed Bk. 10:216, and Court Order Books 1:212 and 2:312; PEYTON, Hist. Augusta Co.,117; RITCHIE, 39; J.K. Gott, "The O'Bannon Family," pp. 9-34 in SUNDBERG-GOTT; J.A.W., Outline, 12113. HAYDEN, 450-451, adds a third child--Miriam Ashby; this is extremely dubious, for she is nowhere cited in any of the extensive abstracts of relevant Fauquier Co., Va. records collected by PP in J.A.W., U.G.S., #4, PP correspondence, 10/9/1959. HAYDEN, 450-452, is apparently accurate, however, in indicating that Capt Nimrod Ashby's younger brother, John Ashby, was the greatgrandfather of the celebrated cavalry leader Gen. Turner Ashby, CSA]

  
  

• Sources

  [S195] Genealogy & History, Washington, DC, Query 11586. [S20] Washington Ancestry & Records of McClain, Johnson & Forty Other Colonial American Families, (Chart: The Ancestry of Mourning Adams Garner, pp 54-55, Vol I , , Repository: 3 volume set).