Thomas STUBBS was born 1690-1692 in Eldersfield, Worcestershire, England, and died 1739-1784 in Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. He married
Mary MINOR September 03, 1720 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, daughter of John MINOR and Esther UBRUM.
Our ancester,Thomas STUBBS, arrived in America some time prior to the year 1719, when his name first appears on the assessment list
of Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. His certificate of removal has not been preserved and a search of English Quaker records fails to reveal the location
of his former home. It is evident that he was one of a large number of young unmarried men who emigrated in the early days to try their fortunes in the NEW WORLD.
A vast migration of Pennsylvania Quakers began southward into Virginia and the Carolinas. This movement began about 1750 and continued for 30 years or more
whereas of the nine surviving children named in Thomas STUBBS' will the eldest daughter and three younger sons had already joined in the movement. The four STUBBS' children first settled
in Alamance County, in the Northcentral part of North Carolina and had their membership transferred to the Cane Creek Meeting about fifteen miles south of the present town of
Graham, North Carolina. This Meeting was formed in 1751 by former residents of Pennsylvania.
About 1768, the STUBBS' and many other families moved on to South Carolina, where some of them became affiliated with the Fredericksburg Meeting in
Kershaw County, and others with the Bush River Meeting in Newberry Georgia, where the Royal governor Sir James Wright, had set aside 40,000 acres for their use, in an effort to
stimulate migration to that colony. A town-site was named Wrightsborough, Georgia in honor of the Govenor. Sixty-seven families were awarded two lots in July 1770, and most of them also
took up farm land nearby. Other families arrived within the next few years and the Wrightsborough Meeting was set up in 1773.
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