WRIGHT, Peter [323] ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Gencircles : he had 11 children. He came to America in 1635.
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From http://home.supernet.com/~jlstokes/oyster.htm :
The brothers PETER, ANTHONY and NICHOLAS WRIGHT emigrated from England to Massachusetts as early as 1636+7. It is believed, although not positively proved, that they were of the very ancient, family of Wright in Norfolk, seated in that county from time immemorial, of which family was Thomas Wright, living in the reign of Henry VIII, father of John Wright, who died, seized of the manors of Tindalls and Rowses, in East Laxham, Norfolk, in the 32d year of the reign of Henry VIII. He had two sons, EDMUND, his heir, and NICHOLAS. They married sisters, daughters and co-heirs of Edmund Beaupre, of Beaupre Hall in Norfolk. From Edmund, by a second marriage with Jane, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Russell, brother of John, Earl of Bedford, descended the family of Wrights, now, or lately represented by John Wright, Esq., of Kilverstone Hall, near Thetford, in Norfolk. Nicholas, by his wife, Anne Beaupre, was father of five children, from one of whom, there is reason to believe, came the immigrant brothers above named.

They are found first residing at Lynn, then called Saugus, in Massachusetts, but shortly afterwards removed to Sandwich, Cape Cod, in the settlement of which place they all became active leaders, Acquiring lands and holding offices there of military as well as of civic trust. Here several of the children of Peter and Nicholas were born. In 1653 they joined the company led by the Rev. William Leverich, and came to Long Island, and united in the first purchase from the Indians of the territory, including the site of the present village of Oyster Bay. They all became large landed proprietors at that place, and were men of prominence and influence in the town. Anthony appears to have lived and died a bachelor, but both Peter and Nicholas left large families.

They were all, at an early period, active and zealous members of the Society of Friends. Anthony's house in the village of Oyster Bay was for many years the place of their meetings, both for worship and business, and he subsequently conveyed to them portions of his homestead for a burial+place and the erection of a meeting+house.
The record of this deed, though in a mutilated and imperfect state, is still preserved in the ancient book of minutes of the Society.
... Peter's children were Peter, born at Sandwich, Cape Cod, February 28th, 1651; Gideon, Job, Adam, Lydia, Mary, Hannah and Sarah.
The three daughters,Lydia, Mary and Hannah, inherited largely the self-reliant characteristics of their mother. They were noted for their religious zeal and for their endurance under persecution at the hands of the intolerant governor and magistrates of Massachusetts, who so cruelly executed their disgraceful laws against the Quakers; so much the more disgraceful and inexcusable, by reason, that the very men who fled from persecution in their native land, that they might find a place wherein to worship God according to their conscience, ,were the foremost to persecute and oppress those who happened to differ with them in religious faith . Thus it has been truly and tersely said, “ Laud was justified by the men whom he had wronged."
It may be difficult for us in this later and more enlightened age to comprehend or account for this inconsistency, but let it be some palliation for the reproach to remember, that while our ancestors fled from the fatherland in search of religious liberty, it was for “religious liberty in a peculiar sense that they contended, and they were severely faithful to the cause as they understood it. The true principles of religious liberty, in its wide and full comprehension, had never dawned upon their minds, and were never maintained by them.
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data from <http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/wrightoystrbayfamily.html> :
Children of NICHOLAS WRIGHT and MARGARET NELSON:
Named in will of Anthony Wright dated 20 May 1673; (*);
+1. Peter born about 1595; died 1663 from drowning while on a trip to Virginia; married 1636 in Massachusetts (*) Alice May; she died as widow of (*) Richard Crabb 1685.

Peter married Alice MAY [324] [MRIN: 148] about 1635 in England.^{1 2}