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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 ...
Governor Wright bitterly criticized the British military for not supporting the royal cause in Georgia. On June 4, 1782, he staged an elaborate celebration in Savannah to honor the king's birthday and to keep up the spirits of Georgia Loyalists. On June 14, 1782, however, Wright received orders from General Sir Guy Carleton to evacuate Savannah.
The Georgia Loyalists were a British provincial military unit, raised for Loyalist service during the American Revolutionary War. They were raised in August 1779 to provide a permanent garrison for the city of Savannah , with enlisted men contracted for two years service or upon the war's end.
Control of Georgia was formally returned to its royal governor, James Wright, in July 1779, [29] but the backcountry would not come under British control until after the 1780 Siege of Charleston. [30] American forces recaptured Augusta in 1781, but Savannah remained in British hands until 11 July 1782. [31]
In need of provisions, a Royal Navy fleet was sent to Georgia to purchase rice and other supplies. The arrival of this fleet prompted the colonial rebels who controlled the Georgia government to arrest the British Royal Governor, James Wright, and to resist the British seizure and removal of supply ships anchored at Savannah. Some of the supply ...
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Two years later, on March 25, 1765, Governor James Wright approved an act of the General Assembly creating four new parishes – St. David, St. Patrick, St. Thomas, and St. Mary – [10] in the recently acquired land, and it further assigned Jekyll Island to St. James Parish. [11] The Georgia colony had had a sluggish beginning.