A history of Lodge no 61, F and A M., Wilkesbarré, Pa .. with a collection of masonic addresses .. . born at Wrightstown January 14th, 1754,was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Haines) Wright. In1779 he was married to Catharine, daughter of John Gar-diner, and in 1795 he, his wife, and their children removedfrom Wrightstown to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, wherethey settled upon a farm in Union township, about two milesfrom the present borough of Shickshinny, There they re-mained until 1811, when, with the exception of a daughter,Amy, who died in September, 1804, at the age of thirteenyears, a
A history of Lodge no 61, F and A M., Wilkesbarré, Pa .. with a collection of masonic addresses .. . born at Wrightstown January 14th, 1754,was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Haines) Wright. In1779 he was married to Catharine, daughter of John Gar-diner, and in 1795 he, his wife, and their children removedfrom Wrightstown to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, wherethey settled upon a farm in Union township, about two milesfrom the present borough of Shickshinny, There they re-mained until 1811, when, with the exception of a daughter,Amy, who died in September, 1804, at the age of thirteenyears, and a son, Joseph, who had married and establishedhimself in business, the family returned to New Jersey. Joseph Wright, the son above referred to, was born inWrightstown May 2d, 1785, and was, therefore, a boy ofonly ten years when he accompanied his parents Caleb andCatharine to Luzerne county. In i8o5-6 he taught a smallschool not far from his fathers home. In 1807 he removedto Plymouth, Luzerne county, where, in February, 1808, heopened a small retail store in his dwelling-house in the lower. 547 end of the village. According to Wrights HistoricalSketches of Plymouth the first store in Plymouth wasopened in 1774 by Benjamin Harvey, Jr.,* who kept it untilthe Fall of 1776, when he enlisted in the army, and the busi-ness was closed out by his father shortly thereafter; andfrom that time until Joseph Wright began business thereseems to have been no store kept in Plymouth. Mr. Wrightcarried on this business for several years, and then formeda partnership with Joseph Rogers and Benjamin Reynolds,of Plymouth, when a more extensive business was carriedon under the firm name of Wright, Rogers and Co. Thispartnership was dissolved by mutual consent May 6th, 1814,and soon thereafter Mr. Wright turned his attention to themore active and congenial occupation of farming, in whichhe continued for the remainder of his life. At a meeting of Lodge 61 held November 7th, 1814, thefollowing pe
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