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    1. [DOVER-L] Wrightsborough, GA
    2. Dennis Dover
    3. Marjorie mentioned Wrightsborough which was St. Pauls Parish in Georgia: Notes: Records of the Quakers at Wrightsborough, Georgia, Introduction Page 1 Wrightsborough Township was settled in 1767 by some forty families of Orange County, North Carolina, led by Quakers Joseph Maddock and Johnathan Sell. Many of the Quaker families in this migration had moved as a group from New Castle [in Delaware, but then under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania] and Chester County, Pennsylvania, to North Carolina in 1754-1755. Quarterly religious meetings were held alternatively between Cane Creek and New Garden, North Carolina prior to 1768. Notes: Settlement of Wrightsboro Colony in Georgia, Volume 10, Allen D. Candler Page 816, July 1769 Read a petition of John Dennis, Abraham Dennis, William Hickson, Richard Smith, Holland Middleton, John Dover, John Perkins, Ephraim Owen, Thomas Matthews, John Moore, Mordicai Moore, Thomas Moore, James McFarland, John Hill, James Hill, Ambrose Holliday, Richard Auston, Edward Eccles, and John Rogers, setting forth that they are desirous to obtain land out of the reserve made for the Quakers in Wrightsborough township in St. Paul's parish being some of them of that profession and others approved by them to become settlers there; they severally proved their family rights....granted to John Dover, three hundred acres.

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