Samuel Wright

Abt 1738 - 1804  (66 years)

• Name	Samuel Wright
  Birth	Abt 1738	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 May 1804	St. Simons Island, Glynn, Georgia
  Person ID	I91	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2007

  
  

• Headstones		Wright, Samuel (taken 2006) GPS: 31° 13.150' N, 81° 23.250' W
  		Wright, Samuel (taken 2005) GPS: 31° 13.150' N, 81° 23.250' W

  
  

• Notes

  Samuel Wright served as an officer in the Georgia Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was a merchant and Vendue Master for the Port of Savannah at the time of his marriage in 1790 to Rebecca Bruce, the only child of James Bruce, a planter and resident of St. Simons Island. In 1791, they moved to Orange Grove Plantation, located on Dunbar Creek about two miles south of Frederica. Samuel Wright was elected Representative from Glynn County in 1791 and served in the Legislature as a Senator through 1798. He served as a Major in the Glynn County Militia Regiment, a Commissioner of Glynn Academy, Justice of Glynn Inferior Court and as a Commissioner for the Town of Frederica until his death in 1804, at age 66.