Individual Details

1810 - only one Wright was enumerated in Lancaster, SC:
Jno. Wright, 1 male 16-26, 1 female, 16-25. No chldren listed. All other persons, 5 - but no slaves listed.
12 Wright heads of household were in neighboring York County

1820 Census. Lancaster Co, SC (has been alphabetized)
Shadrick Wright, 1m under 10, 1m 16-26. 1f under 10, 1f 16-26
Other Wrights:
Richard, 3 males under 10, 1 male 26-45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 26-45
John, 2 males under 10, 1 male 26-45. 2 females under 10, 1 female 26-45.
Alexander, 1 male, 16-26. 1 female 10-16, 1 female 16-26
Mary over 45. 1 male 16-18, 2 males 16-26 (one could be the same as the male 16-18). 3 females, 16-26, 1 female over 45 (Mary).

1830 Census. Lancaster Co, SC
Shadrick Wright 2m under 5, 1m 5-10, 1m 10-15, 1m 30-40. 1f under 5, 1f 5-10, 1f 20-30. No slaves.
Other Wrights: Alexander, age 30-40. Elizabeth age 30-40 [Richard's widow?]. James, age 30-40. John 40-50. John R. 30-40. Larkin, 30-40. Martha, 40-50. Mary 50-60. Thomas 20-30.

Said to be in Lancaster Co records: Shadrick indebted to Jackson Miller for $123.35 - levy on his house, lands, and goods. 16 Oct 1838.
(This would be about the time he decided to leave South Carolina)

1850 Russell Co, AL, Hh 287
"Thadwich" Wright, age 50, Farmer, $300, b. SC
Sarah, age 35, b. SC
Jackson, 16, b. SC [1834]
David 14, b. AL
John, 12, b. AL

Received patent on 3 Oct 1854. SE 1/4 of NE 1/4, Section 7, fractional Township 22, Range 5, lands subject to sale at Lebanon, AL. 39.91 acres, Clay County. Assignee of Abraham W. Alexander, Private in Capt Story's Company of Georgia Volunteers, Cherokee War. [Re the law of 1852 which made it legal to assign military warrants.]
Curiously the Bureau of Land Patents shows no other patents in this entire section. A topological map shows the area to be up against a mountain and along a stream. It is near the Talledega National Forest - perhaps became part of that and no other patents issued?

from Wikipedia:
"Before it was bought by the federal government in the 1930s, the area that comprises the Talladega was extensively logged and represented some of the most abused, eroded wastelands in all of Alabama. Pine forest regrowth now hosts a diverse eco-system."



A James Wright was in Russell Co - in 1850 he is listed with some 286 slaves although he himself is not in the census. He may be the James Wright, age 50 in Chesterfield, SC but born in New York. By 1860 he was in Russell Co, age 60, b. NY and his personal property shown to be $350,000 with $10,000 worth of real estate. Living with him in 1860 was James M. Wright, age 19, b. PA and Charles Wright, 24, b. NY. On Google Books I found a copy of Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 56, which can be downloaded. Beginning on p.69 is the case of Wright vs. Phillips et al and it is obviously resulting from the estate of this James Wright of Russell Co.
Facts reveals include that the intestate, James Wright, died in Alabama where he resided but letters of administration were granted in New York where most of the distributees resided. The administrators seized in New York, a large quantity of cotton which one of the distributees had sold without authority. The bill was filed 19 Oct 1875 by distributees of the estate Orville Phillips and others, residents of NY, Ohio, and Kansas, against W. H. Chambers, the administrator, William H. Wright, James Wright, and James W. Phillips, also distributees of the estate. James Wright Sr. of Russell Co, AL, died intestate in 1864, during the late war leaving a large estate in land, slaves, and more than 600 bales of cotton, and money in the hands of English factors [the Liverpool fund amounting to over $100,000]. Surviving him were between 12 and 20 collateral relations, none nearer than nephews and nieces. He left a natural son, who along with James M. Wright Jr., one of the nephews resided with the decedent at the time of his death. These two regarded themselves as entitled to his property at his death. The natural son and James Wright Jr. remained on his property and divided the 600 bales and when the war ceased in 1865, shipped them to market. The case is quite complicated and very long, but effectively sorts out and separates these Wrights from Shadrick and his family.

Birth	1800	South Carolina
Marriage		Living

Spouse	Living
Child	Andrew Jackson Wright (1828 - 1909)
Child	David Wright (1836 - )
Child	John Wright (1838 - )