Sir James Wright's mother is traditionally said to be Isabella Pitts, a widow. According to "My Zeal for the Real Happiness of Both Great Britain and the Colonies: The Conflicting Imperial Career of Sir James Wright" by Robert G. Brooking this is actually an amalgamation of two different women, Robert Wright's wife Alice Johnson Pitt (d. November 1723), the heiress of John Johnson and widow of Baldwin Pitt, Esquire, and Isabella Bulman (d. 21 November 1752), the mother of his children, whom he married one week after the death of his first wife.