Philemon wright biography

WRIGHT, PHILEMON, colonizer, farmer, businessman, militia officer, jp, office holder, and politician; b. 3 Sept. in Woburn, Mass., son of Thomas Wright, a farmer, and Elizabeth Chandler; m.  Abigail Wyman, and they had nine children; d. 3 June in Hull, Lower Canada.

Philemon Wright’s forebear arrived about in what would become Salem, Mass., and succeeding generations of the family spent their lives at Woburn, where they were engaged mainly in farming.

In Thomas Wright took as his first wife Patiance Richardson, who died four years later leaving him with two children. Philemon was born of his second marriage and was the fifth in a family of seven children.

Philemon wright biography

He was only 15 when he joined the rebels in the American War of Independence, and he apparently participated in the battle of Bunker Hill. Like the rest of his family he learned to farm, and around he owned three pieces of land.

He had a few debts, doubtless some savings, and, in addition to his p