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Jan Snedeker, B For insertion in OUR FAI\!ILY TIES ( 1960), by M. S. Wright, following title-leaf ERRATA Page 3 (contents list). Insert "Mudie, opp. p.26"; "Bergen Family, pp. 99-102"; "Gulick Family, p.103" Page 25, line 21. For "Pitlochie" read "Pitlurg" Addition to page 27 (an insert facing p.26), p.3, line 32. For "Col." read "Maj." Page 30. Death date of Robert Gordon is 1661 (not 1651) Page 34, line 38. For "1753" read "1757" Page 48, line 29. For "1776" read "1766" Page 51, line 13. For "1732" read "1737" Page 54. Dates (b. 10-13-1782, d. 11-18-1830) assigned to Margaret Everett, second wife of Isaac G. Snedeker, are those of the first ,vif e, Ann Sortor Page 55. Birth date of Milton Wright is 11-5-1901 (not 10-5-1901) Additions to page 68 (an insert facing p.68), p.2, line 8. Emma Doggett was daughter of Francis and Ann Dog­ gett Page 72, line 7. For "Carolina" read "Caroline" Page 97, line 1. For "Hagar" read "Hager" Our Family Ties SOME ANCESTRAL LINES OF MARCUS S. WRIGHT, JR. AND ALICE OLDEN WRIGHT Compiled by MARCUS S. WRIGHT, JR. SOUTH RIVER, N. J. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION 1960 MacCrelliah & Quiiµey Co 'Printers Trentcn. N«: w Jeraey Contents PAGE Foreword . 5 Introduction . 6 Biographies- Annie Snedeker Wright . 9 Marcus Stults Wright, Jr. 10 Alice OIden Wright . 13 Marcus Stults Wright III . 16 Walter Olden Wright . 17 James Schureman Wright . 18 Ancestral Lines of Marcus S. Wright, Jr.- Chambers . 21 Gordon . 24 Letts . 32 Rose . 34 Snedeke: . 44 Sortor . 57 Van Deventer . 63 Wright . , . 68 Ancestral Lines of Alice Olden Wright- Olden . 73 Schureman . 90 Appendix A: Letters of Annie Snedeker Wright . 99 Appendix B: Gravestone Inscriptions, Cranbury, N. J. 105 3 Foreword I wouLD like to acknowledge the kind assistance I have had in checking and compiling the data for this book. Miss Annie Wright was for many years a careful s_tudent of genealogy, particularly on the lines immediately connected with her family. Mrs. Dorothy Delaney has had wide and scientific experience in the field of genealogical research. Her constant assistance and critical advice have given me confidence to believe that this book is as accurate as is humanly possible. 1Iy thanks also to my good friend, Rev. James Flint Boughton, D.D., pastor of Conklin Iviethodist Church, South River, N. J., for his friendly inspiration and help in assembling the written matter. Mr. Donald .A. Sin­ clair, Curator of Special Collections, Rutgers University Library, has given valuable counsel, has edited the book and seen it through the press. I also acknowledge help from several others in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, whose aid has made this research as interesting and com­ plete as possible for the present. While this has been largely a "family" compilation, I realize that these families are among the most prominent and populous in our country. Each of them can be dia­ grammed in pyramidal form. At the top will be found the one progenitor and early ancestor who came to these shores and established his lineage. From generation to generation the families have increased in numbers, until after eight to ten generations there are many hundreds, and even thou­ sands, of persons who bear these good names. I have not attempted to trace back to the original ancestor each person living today who bears any one of these names. But we may be reasonably sure that all those who bear the names today will find that the original ancestors described in this book are the correct ones from whom they have descended. I do not consider it wrong to think of these good names as a source of pride. We are told by highest authority that '' A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." 5 Introduction SoME years ago my Aunt Annie Snedeker Wright visited us from New York City. She was a graduate of Hunter College and a well-educated young school teacher. Having no family of her own, she had become much interested in her ancestry. One day she showed me some materials she had gathered on the Snedeker family. At that time I wasn't any more interested in genealogy than I was in flying a plane upside down. But she was intelligent and persuasive, so I agreed to look at the family pages she had collected. Some years later I was in the hospital for a major opera­ tion. While convalescing, I began thinking of the pages Aunt Annie had given me, and to take some interest in look­ ing them over. The last thing she had said to me was, "I hope you will bring these pages up to date.'' But this was a large order, and I was quite busy, so I did nothing about it at that time. However, as the years passed I became in­ creasingly interested; and soon I was collecting books and Bibles, wills, headstone data, and important newspaper clippings. I found friends and relatives who told me fascinating things about the members of my family who had come to this country in the very early years of its founding. These names I had heard all my life. But now they began to live in my mind, and to represent persons I was pleased to meet, and that I would like for my children and friends to know. About this time I went to a very old graveyard at the First Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, N.J. It was the famous Brainerd Cemetery, named for David Brainerd, an early missionary to the Indians. There I found ancient headstones where lay several of my own kith and kin. This brought me nearer, and increased my interest and curiosity. Somehow it seems that in these more mature years of my life, the departed persons of my family have taken on a reality that I never knew in my younger and more casual years. I appreciate them more, and I would like to know them better. 6 Ancestral Lines 7 The chief reason for this genealogy is that my children and their descendants may know something of the good heritage that is theirs. For, after all, this may be one of our richest sources of health and well-being; and may de­ termine, much more than we know, our chances for happi­ ness, success, and good life. In this record we are not following the life-histories of all the brothers and sisters of each generation, but rather the direct ancestors and descendants of the Marcus S. Wright, Jr., family. In most instances, ho,vever, the brothers and sisters may be found in the family chart that accompanies each chapter. We are not making this a single branch of genealogy. Rather are we following a few outstanding persons in the ancestry of both ~Iarcus Stults Wright, Jr., and his wife, Alice Olden Wright. Our ancestries have much in common, in that they are both outstanding families that landed upon these American shores, and have had much to do with the development and progress of this great American Democ­ racy. Perhaps the person who has helped me most in this en­ deavor is Mrs. Dorothy Delaney, of Cranbury, N.J., who is a specialist in genealogy. With it all she has such a genius of understanding, and sharpness of mind in following the devious course of lineage, and such a contagious way of getting one interested in his fore bears, that I have become almost as interested as she is, in trying to recreate some of the strong and noble persons in my lines of descent. Despite much research, certain details relating to my direct line still remain undiscovered or-as in the case of one generation in the Snedeker family-problematical. It is hoped that readers who may have further information bearing on such matters will communicate with me. .Abbreviations. Excepting a few special cases to the contrary, certain frequently-recurring words on the following pages have been abbreviated regularly: born (b.), baptized (hp.), married (m.), died (d.), buried (bur.). The usual abbreviations for names of months have been used, except on the several family charts where space is particularly at a premium. In the latter case, the months have been indicated by number­ e.g., Jan. 23, 1790, has been written 1-23-1790. (For the sake of con­ venience, present-day numbers have been used for the months, despite the contemporary difference in practice under the Old Style calendar which prevailed in the Colonies until the early l 750's.) 8 Biographies ANNIE SNEDEKER WRIGHT To whose memory this book is dedicated To 11:rss ANNIE SNEDEKER V\TRIGHT, this book, containing background of the Snedeker and allied families, is hereby dedicated. The author, her nephew, 11:arcus S. Wright, Jr., hopes that in a small way it will serve as a monument to her memory. It was her love for history, research work, and the in­ formation she collected on the Snedeker and related f am­ ilies, that was the guiding spirit to the author. It gave him the inspiration to finish the job that Aunt Annie Wright was working on previous to her death. The facts she as­ sembled and transmitted in several letters to Marcus S. Wright, Jr., who thirty years later took up where his aunt left off, in tracing the history of the Garret Snedeker family to the present 1.farcus S. Wright, Jr., generation of 1960. 'I'he leads and information contained in the letters of Aunt Annie vV right to her nephew were checked through books and records at Rutgers University Library at New Bruns­ ,vick, Firestone Library at Princeton, Secretary of State's office and State Library at Trenton, N.J., family Bibles and other valuable archives materials, including genealogical records fron1 Long Island, N.Y.
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