Ann Grainger

Born: 1742 Wilmington, NC

Died: 23 March 1797

FATHER

Joshua Grainger

MOTHER

Catherine

HUSBAND

1st. Captain Thomas Wright  d. July 1771

2nd. Charles Jewkes

CHILDREN

1. Ann Wright b. Abt 1759

2. Thomas Wright b. Abt 1761

3. Mary Wright b. Abt 1765

4. Joshua Grainger Wright b. 23 March 1768

                                          m. 02 June 1791 to Susan Bradley

Judge Joshua Grainger Wright and his wife, Susan Wright witnessed the will of his aunt, Catherine Grainger Young

From The Wrights of Wilmington by Susan Block pg 18 "Joshua Grainger's son, Joshua and his wife, Elizabeth Toomer Grainger had four daughters. The eldest daughter, Ann, was only sixteen when she married the forty-four year old Captain Wright in 1758. On Christmas Day of the following year the seventeen year old girl got quite a gift when Captain Wright purchased Nesses Creek, a 1,640 acre plantation located about 1/4 mile above Smith's Creek on the Cape Fear River. The couple moved to the area soon to be labeled Wrightsboro with their newborn daughter, Ann.
Nesses Creek Plantation was originally deeded to Humphrey Johnston, brother of Governor Gabriel Johnston, in 1728 by the Lord Proprieters. Johnston mortgaged the property the following year to Joseph Wragg of Charleston. Joseph Wragg and his family eventually foreclosed on the property and held it until the sale to Captain Wright in 1759, a transaction which conveyed not only a large tract of raw land, but a Tara-like house surrounded by lavish formal gardens."

Burgwin-Wright house in Wilmington

After her first husband, Captain Thomas Wright died in 1771 she married Charles Jewkes. The Burgwin-Wright  house shown above was built by John Burgwin. He was residing there in 1772. He and Charles Jewkes were partners in the firm of "Burgwin, Jewkes & London of Wilmington Merchants."
Because of Burgwin's English connections all his property except the house was confiscated while he was in England (1775 - 1778), That property seems to have been spared because Jewkes and his new wife, Ann Grainger Jewkes,  and stepchildren had moved in. When Burgwin returned he convinced the legislature of his loyalty and in January 1779 his citizenship and property were restorned. Mr. Jewkes died in 1795 and in 1799 Joshua Grainger Wright, Jewkes step-son, purchased the house from John Burgwin for 3,500 Spanish milled dollars.

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