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Last name Wright
First name William
Display name William Wright
Birth date 1788
Death date 1865
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Sadsbury Friends meeting
Bio notes Isaac Coates dined with him near York, Pennsylvania, in 1799. Granted a certificate from Sadsbury to marry Deborah Parrish in Philadelphia in 1800. One of the earliest Underground Railroad conductors, lived in Wrights Ferry (Columbia), Pennsylvania.

Mentioned in:

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Joel Swayne Diary