Hey Carole, There's a problem with those Quaker settlers of Wrightsboro. Most of them fled the frontier and backcountry warfare that arose in the 1770s of Georgia. Wrightsboro was basically abandoned during the Revolutionary War. There was a John Ruddock at Wrightsboro in the 1770s. He didn't stay in Georgia. He went back to North Carolina. We know this because one of Ruddick / Ruddock researchers tracked him back out of Georgia. And I know this because this fellow was looked at as a possible ancestor of the Reddicks in Burke and Screven Counties (he wasn't). Why do I bring this up on the list. Well, not all who came to Georgia stayed in Georgia... Dale ____________________________________ Carole Drexel wrote: > Sharon, did you ask me if it was possible that Francis Jones came from North > Carolina? I think I've just found strong circumstantial evidence that he > did, as part of the people that Joseph Maddock and Jonathan Sell petitioned > His Excellency James Wright for 7 Feb 1769. > > > > >From "Quaker Records in Georgia: Wrightsborough 1772-1793, Friendsborough > 1776-1777", compiled by Robert Scott Davis, Jr. as a special publication of > the Augusta Genealogical Society, Inc., 1986, > > > > p. 20. At a Council held n the Council Chamber at Savannah on Tuesday the > 7th, February 1769, Present. His Excellency James Wright Esqr. In Council > > > >