1Rev. Stephen Wright, Genealogy of Lieut. Abel Wright, of Springfield, Mass., NEHGR Vol. 35, pp. 74-75 (Jan 1881).
"1. Lieut. ABEL WRIGHT1 was found among the early settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, in the Connecticut Valley, who spent a mature life of seventy years there, from 1655 to 1725, when he died at the advanced age of ninety-four years. Where he came from or who were his parents, I have been unable to ascertain. There were other Wright settlers in the colonies before him in Eastern Massachusetts,--as Capt. Richard Wright, at Lynn, in 1630; John Wright, at Woburn, in 1641; Robert Wright, at Boston, in 1643, according to Dr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, besides others in various places of a later date than the above named. And at Wethersfield, Conn., below Hartford, there was a Thomas Wright as early as 1639, who had quite a family. Also Dea. Samuel Wright was an early settler at Springfield about the same year, 1639-40, who had a family of eight children, all named; but no Abel among either of these families is given in their records.
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ABEL1 WRIGHT married Dec.1, 1659, Martha Kitcherel, daughter of Samuel K. of Hartford, Conn., and had a family of thirteen children, of whom ten married (see names below).
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In 1708, July 26th, Indians came upon the town and despoiled his family, scalping his wife, who died in consequence on the 19th of October following. They also killed an infant of his son Henry, and captured his wife, who soon died after. But this venerable ancestor lived until 1725, for his tombstone record says: "Lieut. ABEL WRIGHT died October 29th, 1725, aged 94 years." His children were as follows:
2. i. JOSEPH, b. Sept. 1, 1660, and m. Sarah Osborne.
ii. MARTHA, b. Nov. 29, 1662; m. Thomas Marlow.
3. iii. ABEL, b. Sept. 25, 1664; m. Rebecca Terry, Sept. 16, 1691, and had thirteen children.
4. iv. BENJAMIN, b. March 14, 1667; m. Mary Chapin in 1694; had three children.
v. HANNAH, b. July 28, 1669; m. Joseph Saxton, Nov. 20, 1690, and had seven children :---Gershom,3 b. 1691; Hannah,3 1692; Joseph,3 1694; Mindwell,3 1696; David,3 1700; Ezekiel,3; and Charles,3 1708, at Enfield.
vi. HENRY, b. May 23, 1671, and d. young.
vii. SARAH, b. May 8, 1673; m. Thomas Chapin, Feb. 15, 1694, and had eleven children. She died July 26, 1770, aged nearly 98.
viii. MARY, b. March 9, 1675; m. Nathaniel Bliss in 1698.
5. ix. HENRY, 2d, b. June 8, 1677; m. Hannah Bliss, May 24, 1705.
6. x. SAMUEL, b. June 17, 1679; m. Mary Case, of Lebanon, Nov. 27, 1710.
xi. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 18, 1682, and d. June 17, 1683.
xii. JOHN, b. April 21, 1685, and d. soon.
xiii. ELIZABETH, 2d, b. Aug. 22, 1687; m. Ebenezer Dewey, of Lebanon, Nov. 8, 1709, and had Elizabeth,3 b. Oct. 7, 1710m and Ebenezer,3 Jr., b. Jan. 24, 1712.".