Judith DuBose

Judith DuBose
1719 Portrait of DuBose by Henrietta Johnston
Born	1698 Dockon Plantation Province of South Carolina British Empire
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 an American Colonial heiress. Born into a prominent French Huguenot family of planters, DuBose married Joseph Wragg, a prominent slave trader in British North America.

Biography

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.

References

1. Harriette Kershaw Leiding, Historic Houses of South Carolina, p. 54
2. III, Roy Williams; Lofton, Alexander Lucas (March 26, 2018). Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781611178357 – via Google Books.
3. "Judith DuBose Abt 1698 Charles Towne, Carolina, British America Mar 1751 Charles Towne, South Carolina, British America: DuBose Forum". dubose.one-name.net.
4. "Dockon Plantation - Berkeley County, South Carolina SC". south-carolina-plantations.com.
5. "The South Carolina Historical Magazine". South Carolina Historical Society. July 10, 1912 – via Google Books.
6. Hain, Pamela Chase (July 10, 2005). A Confederate Chronicle: The Life of a Civil War Survivor. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826264947 – via Google Books.
7. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (November 10, 2017). American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442270978 – via Google Books.
8. Whitaker, Daniel Kimball; Clapp, Milton; Simms, William Gilmore; Thornwell, James Henley (July 10, 1843). "American Loyalists". Southern Quarterly Review. Wiley & Putnam – via Google Books.
9. "Judith DuBose Wragg". National Portrait Gallery.