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James Wright (8 May 1716 – 20 November 1785) was an English jurist and colonial administrator who served as the last Royal governor of Georgia from 1760 till July 1782, with a brief exception in 1777 when the state was under rebel control.
James Wright: Governor: November 1760: 11 February 1776: Interregnum under revolutionary control from 1776 until 1778; see List of governors of Georgia (7) General Sir Archibald Campbell: governor: 29 December 1778: July 1779: Head of military administration [2] (8) Jacques Prevost: Provisional governor: July 1779: September 1779 (9) Lieutenant ...
Its only commanding officer was Major James Wright, son of Governor Sir James Wright. The Georgia Loyalists fought during the Siege of Savannah that same year, during which Captain Simpson was killed on 8 October. [ 1 ]
Governor Sir James Wright returned to Georgia on July 14, 1779, and announced the restoration of Georgia to the crown, with the privilege of exemption from taxation. Thus Georgia became the first, and ultimately the only one, of the thirteen states in rebellion to be restored to royal allegiance.
Governor James Wright wrote in 1766, thirty-two years after its founding, that Georgia had [21] No manufactures of the least consequence: a trifling quantity of coarse homespun cloth, wool [sic] and cotton mixed; among the poorer sort of people, for their own use, a few cotton and yarn stockings; shoes for our Negroes; and some occasional ...
James Wright (governor) (1716–1785), British colonial governor of the province of Georgia, and 1st Baronet, of Carolside J. Skelly Wright (1911–1988), American judge James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician) (1902–1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
The first four were Johnson, Perceval (now Wright), Ellis, and St. James (now Telfair) Squares, and themselves formed a larger square on the bluff overlooking the Savannah River. The original plan actually called for six squares, and as the city grew the grid of wards and squares was extended so that 33 squares were eventually created on a five ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]