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Wright's daughter Mary was the wife of Asher Miner, married May 19, 1800.
Thomas Wright was born in county Down, Ireland, in 1747, and became a wealthy merchant and land owner of Wilkes-Barre.
He was a good-looking young Irishman, who, landing at Philadelphia about 1763, was soon in charge of a school at Dyerstown, two miles north of Doylestown. Securing a home in the family of Josiah Dyer, he taught the rudiments of English to the children of the neighborhood and made love to Mary, the daughter of his host.
One day they slipped off to Philadelphia and were married, which relieved the case of a deal of difficulty, for in that day Friends could not consent to the marriage of their daughters out of meeting.
Mr. Wright in a few years removed to Wilkes-Barre, and became the founder of Wrightsville, now the borough of Miner's Mills. He built a mill there in 1795, which has been in the possession of his descendants since.
Thomas Wright was one of the commissioners of Luzerne county, and was one at the time the early court house and jail was erected.
