L, CtNLHi, Nathaniel and Thomas Shaw Letters and Papers, portfolio 21. No addressee is given; the recipient was deduced from the fact that the letter was in the Shaw papers and from internal evidence. Wright was a refugee from Long Island who had taken up residence in Saybrook, Conn. In 1781 he was arrested for conducting an illicit trade with the enemy on Long Island. Frederick G. Mather, The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut [Albany, J.B. Lyon Co., 1913], p. 970.
