| Name |
Sarah Elizabeth Casto |
| Born |
10 Mar 1769 |
Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt Apr 1851 |
Jackson County, West Virginia, USA [1] |
| Notes |
- Sarah Elizabeth Casto (b 10 Mar 1769, at Berkley Co, VA; d Abt Apr 1851 in Jackson Co, WV) m 27 July 1784 in Greene County, PA to Benjamin Wright Sr (b 1755, d Dec1829, Jackson Co, (W)Va; will probated 7 Jan 1830; s/o Jonathan Wright and Sarah Yard)
JCWR, her Will, 3/30/1851, prob 4/1857,4 grandsons: Daniel Wright, Phillip & Jonathan Shiveley, Joshua Wright, son Robinson, dau Ruhama Evans & Permelia Shiveley. Mentions Isaac McKown, Jonathan Hyre, Joseph Bennett. Witn: James & Elias Stone
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| Person ID |
I1560 |
WVPioneers |
| Last Modified |
26 Dec 2012 |
| Father |
David CASTO, b. 1721, New Jersey, USA , d. Abt 1770, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Phebe GANDY, b. CA 1736, New Jersey, USA , d. Abt 1770, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA (Age ~ 34 years) |
| Married |
17 Aug 1752 |
Cape May Courthouse, NJ |
| Notes |
David Casto traveled to Fairfield Township, Cumberland Co., South Jersey to accompany Phebe Gandy to a Baptist Church at Cape May Courthouse, NJ to be married. They were declared married on 17 August 1752 by Nathaniel Jenkins. They returned to Turkey Point and established a home at Downe Township north of Egg Island. A baptismal record for David and Phebe was found dated 1765 at the Dividing Creek Baptist Church, Downe Township, NJ. By this time, they had at least five children.
They traveled north to Salem, New Jersey, then took the Great Wagon Road at York , PA. They crossed the Potomac River into Hampshire Co. It is believed they had another daughter while at Hampshire (Berkeley) County. They traveled on to establish a claim at the mouth of Buffalo Creek on the Monongahela River. They both died about 1770 in Berkley County, WV.
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I believe this is what has been called the Billy Burris story. Pompey Leggit was the father of Thomas, about whom the story is written. Philippi is in what is now Braxton County, but it was 1738 before Augusta and Frederick counties were formed in what is now WV. Counties were formed as the population of an area grew large enough to need it's own government. Braxton was formed from parts of Kanawha, Lewis and Nicholas counties in 1836.
In "A While Ago Times", Volume 2, Page 12
At the end of a story titled "Thomas Leggit Story"
. . . Dr Leggett's great-great-great grandfather, Pompey Leggit, a man named William Burris, and others, whom Dr. Leggett named, did indeed establish a permanent settlement near present Philippi, West Virginia, in 1704; that William Burris, son of William and Mary Morgan Burris, born in Delaware in 1670, died in 1759 near the site of this settlement; and that his son, Enoch, and two stepsons, last name Casto, continued to live in that area until they died.
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| Family ID |
F149 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Benjamin Wright, Sr, b. 1755, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Dec 1829, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 74 years) |
| Married |
27 Jul 1784 |
Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Notes |
1840 Jackson, VA - is she the woman 60-70, living with Ruhanna & Ephraim Evans
1850 Jackson, VA , she is living with son Benjamin
"Jackson County in the Wars"
Revolutionary Soldiers
Wright, Benjamin Sr. He and his wife living in Mason county in 1820 census, both aged 45 and up, with 5 boys and 2 girls in family. Erected the first grist and sawmill at present Cottageville, long known as Wright's mill for Benjamin. He was a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Yard) Wright, of Pennsylvania. An article by Mrs Corinne Staats Fisher in the Jackson Herald states that he was a soldier of the Revolution, as, indeed, were most young men his age living on the Pennsylvania frontier at the time of the war. His son, Benjamin Wright, Jr, age 46 in 1850 census of Jackson county, was the first County Clerk of the new county in 1831. Benjamin Wright, Sr (heirs) owned 1015 1/2 acres of land in the county on Washington's and Fall Runs and Mill Creek in 1832, reference JC Land Book for 182.
This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek"
Wright Family
Benjamin Wright, who built the mill at what is now Cottageville, came from Greene County, Pennsylvania, about 1800. He married Sarah Casto, as his first wife, and later married a Flowers. Of his children, if the river story is to be credited, he had three daughters who married respectively, a White, Black and Brown. Of others, I find:
A daughter who married Squire Evans, for whom the town was named.
Benjamin Wright, Jr, who was the first Clerk of the County Court of Jackson County. Benjamin Jr had children: Ruenna who married Hart Rader, Dr. "Bib" Wright, of Ripley and a daughter who married Ed Butcher.
Another daughter of Benjamin Wright, Sr, married Joe Bibbee. To this, another historian adds a daughter who married Robert Shively.
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| Children |
| | 1. Daniel Wright, d. Bef 15 Nov 1827 |
| | 2. Jonathan Wright, b. Abt 1785, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Elizabeth Wright, b. 17 Jan 1787, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 26 Jan 1859, LaPorte, Indiana (Age 72 years) |
| | 4. Joseph Yard Wright, b. 15 Nov 1788, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 18 Feb 1850, LaPorte, Indiana (Age 61 years) |
| | 5. Mary Jane Wright, b. 8 Mar 1801, d. 18 Mar 1861, Meigs County, Ohio, USA (Age 60 years) |
| | 6. David C Wright, b. 1 Nov 1790, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. Millicent Permelia Wright, b. Abt 1793, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. Robinson Wright, b. 1 Jan 1796, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 18 Dec 1869, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 73 years) |
| | 9. Benjamin Wright, Jr, b. 1803, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 23 Oct 1875 (Age 72 years) |
| | 10. Ruhama Wright, b. CA 1806, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 11. Sarah Wright, b. Abt 1807, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 12. Charlotte Wright, b. Abt 1811, d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F574 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
West Virginia Pioneers
1769 - Abt 1851 (82 years)
