- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Wrightsborough
- Creator:
- Davis, Robert Scott, 1954-
- Date of Original:
- 2003-12-09
- Subject:
- Cities and towns--Georgia
Extinct cities--Georgia
Quakers--Georgia--Wrightsborough - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, 33.48285, -82.48137
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the settlement of Wrightsborough, Georgia. The original charter of the colony of Georgia encouraged the settlement of Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends. Few Quakers, however, came to the province in the early years. In 1768 more than seventy families from the area of Orange County, North Carolina, began settling in a special reserve set aside for them by the Georgia colonial government. Located in present-day McDuffie County, the reserve and its town were named Wrightsborough, after Georgia's royal governor, James Wright. Although documents at the time describe these families as all being Quakers, minutes of the Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting and other records of the Quakers reveal that less than one-fifth of the landholders in this reserve were actually Friends.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/wrightsborough/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Wrightsborough," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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