QUAKER HERITAGE
(Society of Friends)
Site created in June 2004, updated January 2008 by Beverly Whitaker
My goals with this website are threefold:
1. To share our visit to the Wrightsborough Quaker historical site in Georgia.
2. To list the surnames in my own Quaker heritage.
3. To suggest links to helpful Internet sites about Quakers.
A Visit to Wrightsborough
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about our visit to this Quaker historical site in McDuffie County, Georgia.
The document contains 14 pages of photos and transcriptions of the many historical markers.
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Wrightsborough is the southern-most point of the migration of the Quakers in colonial America. Not everyone who lived in the community was a Quaker, but it began as a Quaker settlement in 1767, when some forty families of Orange County, N.C., led by Quakers Joseph Maddock and Jonathan Sell, migrated to Georgia. Although Wrightsborough survived as the village of Wrightsboro into the 1920s, the Quaker Meeting there faded out in 1805.
Quaker Surnames in Beverly's Heritage
| Armfield | Bates | Beals |
| Beeson | Benedict | Bond |
| Bowater | Clayton | Corbitt |
| Crofford | Edge | Grubb |
| Hammer | Harlan | Harrold |
| Haworth | Heald | Humphrey |
| Jay | Jones | Laughlin |
| Matthews | Michael | Mills |
| Moon | Pennington | Scarborough |
| Thornborough | Thornburg | Vestal |
| Williams | Wing | Wright |
Links to Quaker Resources
The Quaker Corner
Created by Joanne Todd Rabun with many great links, including:
Quaker Surnames and Heritage
Location of Quaker Monthly Meetings
"Quakers in Brief" by David M Murray-Rust (United Kingdom)
Index to Gilbert Cope's Collection
Archives, Quaker, at Friends University
The Religious Society of Friends
3 Sites by Sarah Shaw Tatounova:
Southern Quaker Genealogy
Wrightsborough, a Georgia Quaker Colony
Photos at Wrightsborough
Wrightsborough, A Quaker Colony 1768-1806
Wrightsborough, Georgia, 1998 by D. P. Stubbs
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