Judith DuBose | |
|---|---|
 1719 Portrait of DuBose by Henrietta Johnston | |
| Born | 1698 |
| Died | 16 December 1769 Charles Town, Province of South Carolina |
| Resting place | St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery |
| Spouse | Joseph Wragg |
| Children | Elizabeth Wragg Manigault |
| Parent(s) | Jacques DuBose Marie DeGuè |
Judith DuBose (1698 - 16 December 1769) was a Colonial American heiress. Born into a prominent French Huguenot family of planters, DuBose married Joseph Wragg, a prominent slave trader in British North America.
DuBose was born at Dockon, her family's plantation near Charles Town. [1] [2] She was the daughter of Marie DeGuè and Jacques DuBose, a French Huguenot immigrant and wealthy planter. [1] [3] After her father died, her mother remarried John Thomas. [4] She was named as one of her stepfather's heirs, along with her sisters, at the time of his death. [5]
She married Joseph Wragg, a British slave trader. [6] [7] One of their daughters, Elizabeth, married Peter Manigault, who was the wealthiest man in British North America. Another daughter, Mary, married the slave trader and merchant Benjamin Smith. A third daughter, Henrietta, married her first cousin, William Wragg. [8]
She was painted by the portraitist Henrietta Johnston in 1719. [9] The painting is on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art. [9]
DuBose died in 1769 and is buried in the cemetery at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
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Charles Pinckney, also known as Colonel Charles Pinckney, was a prominent South Carolina lawyer and planter based in Charleston, South Carolina. Commissioned as a colonel for the Charles Towne Militia in the colonial era, he was widely known as "Colonel Pinckney". He had a rice and indigo plantation known as Snee Farm along the Wando River, about nine miles from Charleston, and a townhouse on Queen Street in the city.
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