The journal of these missionaries did not give the name of their host, but it was most likely the home of Peter and Jane Wright, who would have been the only settlers just across Dunlap Creek. They stayed the night and slept on bearskins like the rest of the family. After they crossed Dunlap Creek, at the end of the day they came to a house. Two Moravian missionaries give an account of the pioneer family life in their journal of 1749. Thomas Hughart believed to be an uncle of James owned land in 1760 on the southeast side of Jackson River near the holdings of Peter. His cousin Gideon Wright Jr., the son of Gideon and Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright married Margaret Urquehart or Urghartt (Hughart) in 1701. It is also possible that Peter was responsible for their move to Virginia.
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The Hugharts of Bath County, Virginia may have come from the Oyster Bay Colony. In 1748, Peter married Jane Hughart, the daughter of James and Agnes (Jordan) Hughart of the Cowpasture. (Chalkley´s Abstracts, Volume 1, page 48.) Lyman Chalkley as follows: Novem– Adam Dickenson, David Davis, Peter Wright, and Joseph Carpenter to lay off a road from Wrights mill to the Cowpasture near Hughart or Knox. It is not known the exact location of Wright´s Mill but it is very likely that it was at the waters edge near Covington High School´s Casey Field. As his crops grew he set out to build a grist mill to grind his corn and wheat. He immediately cleared and planted his fields. In fact, he loved to hunt, especially on what is now called Peters Mountain. There were plenty of game in the mountains around his homestead and he was a good woodsman and hunger. Once Peter had built his cabin, it was time to take care of other necessities. It seems only natural that he would brave the elements to forge into unknown territory. Peter came from a line of ancestors that were just such people. A settler that was fearless in the face of danger from the wild animals, harsh winters, and Indians.
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He had to be of the hardiest stock of settler. The pioneer that braved the exploration into this new frontier had to be as rugged as the mountains that he crossed. The terrain was a rugged wilderness and the Jackson River bottom land seemed to be the only practical location to settle. Peter built his small log cabin very soon after his arrival. Both Thomas and Joseph Carpenter´s surveys joined Peter´s lands. Joseph Carpenter settled just in the city limits on the opposite side of Jackson River at the mouth of Potts Creek and Thomas on the Cowpasture. Peter settled in what is now the principal part of Covington.
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He came in the company of his brother, Thomas, and, Joseph Carpenter, and associate and neighbor in New York. He came to the colonial Augusta County, Virginia (now Alleghany County) from Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York in the spring of 1746. Peter Wright the Pioneer of Pre-Municipal