bright_charles

File 4-8-193 Marlboro County, S. C.
Comments: Crooked Creek runs through Brightsville, which is in the northern part of Marlboro County, SC. See the 1839 Burr Map.

A deed for 136a of land on Crooked Creek to ELIZABETH PATE wife of JOHN W. STUBBS
Deed signed by the heirs of CHARLES BRIGHT
MARY BRIGHT - Widow
BASSETT C. BRIGHT - Son
LUDOWICK BRIGHT - Son
PARRINGTON BRIGHT - Son
MARY BRIGHT wife of JONATHAN ADAMS - Daughter
FRANCES BRIGHT PATE wife of JOHN BRICKHOUSE - Daughter And Mother of Elizabeth Pate Stubbs
CATHERINE BRIGHT deceased wife of JOHN SMITH
Her two children: WILLIAM BRIGHT SMITH - Grandson https://archive.org/details/johnstubbs17181700boswhttps://archive.org/details/johnstubbs17181700bosw
CAMPBELL SMITH - Grandson
ARTHUR BRIGHT - deceased Son
His child and heir:
DRUSILLA BRIGHT wife of GEORGE BULLARD - Granddaughter
DRUSILLA BRIGHT wife of SAMUEL GOODWIN - Daughter
ELIZABETH BRIGHT wife of SMITH W. DOZIER..also as DOUGE
GODFREY BRIGHT - Son

File U-8-193 - Marlboro County, S. C.

Comment: W. This Elizabeth Pate, wife of John Stubbs, is a daughter of Frances Bright by her first husband Thoroughgood Pate,
and in some way she had an inherited right in this land. Thomas "History of Marlboro" ...

See the following Marlboro County, SC deed (DB 6/p. 52):

10 Feb 1789--Samuel Ferebee and Sarah his wife and Griffith Douge and Frances his wife of Currituck to Charles Bright, yeoman of the same, land purchased jointly by them under the confiscation act, John Bennett's property, for 195 pounds, 129 acres and 3/4 in Moyock District, Nancy Douge's line, James Ferebee's corner, Goodman's corner, Silas Bright's line.

w/ William Ferebee
T.C. Ferebee

Registered 10 Dec 1789

Here is a comment by a BRIGHT researcher concerning this deed:

"John Bennett was apparently a loyalist during the Revolutionary War and his property was confiscated due to his collaboration. Interesting that two families jointly purchased part of the property and that both husbands and their wives had to execute the deed. Makes you wonder if they might have married John Bennett's daughters."

Series Number: S213192
Volume: 0043
Page: 00516
Item: 02
Date: 1814/03/09
Description: BRIGHT, CHARLES, PLAT FOR 34 ACES ON GREAT PEE DEE RIVER, MARLBOROUGH DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY WILLIAM G. FEAGIN.
Names Indexed: BRIGHT, CHARLES/FEAGIN, WILLIAM G./NEWTON, JAMES/HUCKEBY, THOMAS/HICKS, BENJAMIN/QUICK, THOMAS/
Locations: PEE DEE RIVER/MARLBORO DISTRICT

from "A History of Marlboro County", by Rev. J. A. W. Thomas.

CHAPTER XXVII.
BRIGHTSVILLE.
Brightsville, one of the upper townships in Marlboro, takes its name from Chas. Bright, who was the maternal grandfather of the late E . W. Goodwin.Mr. Bright emigratedto this county from Granville County, North Carolina, in the year 1796. "It is thought he was a Revolutionary soldier. He was filled with the true spirit of patriotism and ardent love of country which characterized the men of his day." Mr. Bright was married when he came to Marlboro, having a wife and five children. He first settled on Crooked Creek, 'near Bruton's Fork Church, then lived awhile on the stage road, near where Jackson Stubbs now lives, and in 1827 moved to what is now known as Goodwin's Mill. He purchased the mill and a large body of land from Drury Robertson in 1808. He was a man of indomitable energy. When he reached the place now bearing his name he had little or no money. When he died in 1830, at the advanced age of seventy years, he was the owner of thousands of acres of land and more than fifty slaves. Samuel Goodwin, the father of E. W. Goodwin, married the daughter of Chas. Bright. E. W. Goodwin, like his grandfather, was a man of great energy and perseverance. In addition to his mill and large farming interests, he successfully conducted a large mercantile business, arid amassed a considerable fortune. He died a few years ago lamented, respected and .loved by all who knew him. He represented the county in the Secession Convention.