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Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Descendants of Gideon and Hezekiah WrightThe brothers have been assigned by old research to the family of John Wright of Oyster Bay, New York, but Y-DNA has proved any relationship to John Wright is incorrect. There also is not an Oyster Bay Wright family that had sons named both Gideon and Hezekiah, nor is there a Zadock Wright - given names used often by Gideon's descendants. Y-DNA of descendants of Hezekiah matches that of Wrights in Flushing, New York - but no actual relationship can be found. Y-DNA persists for many generations, so there may well be no connection on this side of the Atlantic. It is likely, but not proved by any actual document, that Gideon and Hezekiah had a sister, Miriam, who used the characteristic names of this family and was near the brothers in North Carolina. The wives of Gideon and Hezekiah, are by tradition "sisters" - neither of whom has any actual proved surname. There is no proof they were sisters. The use of the name "Durlin" among Hezekiah's descendants. would suggest his wife had a similar surname - perhaps, Durling or Darling. The ladies were placed in a family in Oyster Bay by the same faulty early research - but there is no family in which they can be placed there.
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