His baptism was recorded at St. John's Parish, Baltimore Co, MD and named his parents.

Additional proof comes in the form of a land conveyance whereby Bloyce Wright sold land previously owned by his father Thomas or grandfather Blois.

He died before the first Census was taken.

Dorothy Sparks says this about Bloyce Wright’s ancestry. Frances Bloyse was the daughter of Thomas and Frances Bloyse married 7 Dec 1669 Somerset Co. She married William Wright and their son Bloyse born 5 Mar 1681 Somerset died bef 31 Jan 1737 Bal Co married Sarah Holbrook died aft 1737. Their son Thomas born 29 Jul 1703 married 5 May 1735 Christiana Enloes daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth. Their son Bloyse married Mary Talbott.

(BAL Co land book AL E 351). In 1772, Bloyce and his wife Mary deed 215 acres Hickory Ridge to Nathan Johnson.

The biography of Blois (just as often spelled Blois or Bloyce) Wright is pretty well documented. Church records document his birth date, place and the names of his parents. That information is confirmed by Robert Barnes in Baltimore County Families which adds his date of death. His marriage was also documented in church records.

Robert Barnes says: “Bloyce was born 17 Nov 1735, son of Thomas and Christiana, died 1 Jan 1788. He married MaryTalbott 26 Nov 1757. His children were: Thomas, Prudence, Cassandra, Elizabeth, Bloyce, John T and William.”

In 1811, some of the heirs of Bloyce sold a tract of his land -- 116 acre Read’s Best Way -- to Thomas Ayres.

Bloyce had acquired this land in 1774 at the time of its patent from Hugh Read, the original patent holder.

The named heirs were: Bloys Wright, John Wright, Cassandra Sparks, Prudence Sparks and Elizabeth Sharpe. Spouses were named for all but Cassandra, meaning I assume her husband had died by then. The spouses were: Jane wife of Bloys, Mackey wife of John, Matthew husband of Prudence and Benjamin husband of Elizabeth. Prudence and Elizabeth and their husbands were said to be of Kentucky.

Note that the list of heirs includes neither Thomas nor William -- two additional children listed by Robert Barnes. I know that Blois had sons of those names, in fact Thomas was the oldest, because Thomas was appointed administrator of Blois’s estate when Blois died intestate and apparently accepted the guardianship for Bloys, aged 16, and William, aged 10 years. Why not John too, our ancestor, who was about 14? Moreover, when John T Wright acquired the patent to Wrights Prospect, originally surveyed for Blois Wright, all of his siblings -- including Thomas and William gave their approval.

There is also a very curious deed executed in 1818 whereby Thomas Wright, then of Baltimore County conveyed to William Wright, presumably his brother, 116 acre Read’s Best Way. I don’t know how that could be or how William Wright and Thomas Ayres ever sorted this out, but I think it does confirm that both Thomas and William were two additional children of Bloyce and Mary.

The records of St. John’s/St. George’s parish show the marriage of ”Bloyce Wright and Mary Talbott 26 Nov 1757.”

But who was Mary Talbott? Let’s start with her age. Blois Wright was born in 1735 and his baptism was recorded in the same parish records so it seems safe to assume that Mary too was born in the mid-1730’s.

There were two Talbott families baptizing children in that parish in the 1730’s -- Edmund Talbott Jr. and wife Mary and William Talbott and wife Mary. William and Edmund were brothers. Edmund specifically baptized a daughter Mary in 1737 and when he died in 1794, he mentioned daughter Mary Talbott in his will. Most people who have researched the Blois Wright family have concluded therefore that his wife, Mary Talbott, was the daughter of Edmund and they have assigned her that 1737 birth date. It does seem an easy conclusion to draw. But it simply doesn’t take account that Edmund, who was careful to name all his other married daughters by their married name, named his daughter Mary Talbott. I think Edmund’s daughter was a spinster.

William also had a daughter named Mary, we know that from his will. He also referred to her as Mary Talbott but in this case, that proves nothing, since his will was written prior to Mary Talbott’s marriage to Bloyce Wright.

A Mary Talbott married Thomas Ensor in 1770 and many people say she was William’s daughter. I have tried to see if I could prove or disprove that, with no luck. But I have some sense, not proven conclusively by any means, that William’s daughter Mary may have been too young to have married Bloyce in 1757 and more of an age where a 1770 marriage would be more reasonable. I also know that at August Court 1779, Matthew Talbott (son of William) and Thomas Ensor were appointed as securities for James Talbott who was settling the estate of John Clayton. Wouldn’t it make sense, these were James’ brother and brother-in-law?

I started my consideration of who Mary’s parents may have been by noticing that all of the Talbott’s baptized at St. John’s/St. George’s were of just three sets of parents: Edmund Sr. and Mary (with just one mention, Elizabeth Elinor in 1721), Edmund Jr. and Mary or William and Mary. I formed the opinion that it was basically only this Talbott family who ever was named in those parish records. I did notice Vincent Talbott’s marriage but I thought he was the anomaly -- the only interloper from the Anne Arundel family of Richard Talbott. But when I looked closer at all the different Talbott marriages, I realized that there were several who were definitely not Edmund Sr.’s family.

So, I have come to believe after considering what I think is almost every other conceivable theory that Mary was the daughter of John Talbott who was born in Anne Arundel County, the son of Edward who was the grandson of Richard Talbott of Poplar Knowle.

I base my conclusion and support it based on these things:

She named her son John Talbott Wright. Like the name Richard Colegate Talbott, who I believe was Mary’s nephew, I think John Talbott Wright was given the full name of his namesake, John Talbott. And while arguably there was another John Talbott worthy of consideration (the son of Edmund Sr. who moved to Virginia which I think rules him out), I have come to believe it was the John Talbott who married Prudence Colegate who was her father.

I think all the names Bloyce and Mary gave their children are quite telling. Their names were: Thomas, William, Bloys, John T, Cassandra, Prudence and Elizabeth. The name that jumps off the page for me is Prudence. Today, it seems like an unusual name but back then it was not that unusual. Still, if my theory is right, Mary Talbott’s mother was named Prudence. Is that more than coincidence? As to the other names: Thomas was Bloys‘ own father’s name and Elizabeth his sister. William was an important name to the Wright family.

Which leaves Cassandra. I cannot immediately say who Cassandra’s namesake may have been. I wonder if Mary may have had a sister named Cassandra, the mysterious Cassandra who married Joseph Parrish at St. John’s/St. George’s. But that’s just a guess. In any event, Cassandra is another name not thought of as popular now but which was more popular back then and the name Cassandra was a name that appears time and time again among the descendants of Richard Talbott. It could have had many sources but was definitely a family name of the Anne Arundel Talbott line.

Yet another argument is the interactions between the John Talbott family and the Bloys Wright family. John witnessed that one deed mentioned above, I think it had to be either Mary’s father John or her brother John -- of the Anne Arundel Talbotts. Then there’s that 170 acre tract on Carroll’s Manor. Can that possibly be a coincidence? The Talbott marriage chronologically before Mary’s in those parish records was Edward, who I believe was her brother. There is nothing conclusive here but it just seems that it is all more than coincidence.

To all that I add the Shelby County, Kentucky connection. In around the year 1800, to move from the comfort and closeness of family of Baltimore County, Maryland to a place like Shelby County, Kentucky was really a bold move. People often went in groups and those groups, I have observed, were often people with some familial connections. A man, his wife, his wife’s brother and his wife, that in-law wife’s brother and his wife and so forth. All the people weren’t all related to each other but everyone of them was related to someone else in the group. In some cases, one person went first and then word came back for others to come. And those who came had the same extended family connection.

So, I know that Rev Edward Talbott, grandson of John and Prudence Talbott moved to Shelby County in 1796. And I know that Cassandra (Wright) Sparks and Elizabeth (Wright) Sharpe and their husbands were living in Shelby County by 1811 when they -- as the children of Mary (Talbott) Wright agreed to the sale of Blois Wright’s property. I believe they were Rev Edward’s first cousins.

Lastly, I have made the Methodist argument elsewhere. Our mother was raised Methodist but in the late 1790’s and perhaps into the early 1800’s, this was a new and perhaps non-conformist religion. I believe Rev Edward Talbott may have first embraced Methodism in his family -- but he did it with enthusiasm and he may have been the reason it came to be the religion of John Talbott Wright and then William Wilgis and their descendants.

http://www.tntcarden.com/tree/ensor/EnsorDes.html

Evidently the name William Talbott Enor propagated many generations.

I don’t know when Mary died for sure but in 1811 the heirs of Blois sold his land and I suspect this sale was made after Mary died. Moreover, several of Blois’ heirs had moved to Kentucky and they executed a power of attorney to Blois Jr. in 1809 for him to be able to sell the land and execute the deed. I would guess that Mary died not long before that 1809 event.