Bright, Charles 
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Born: 1756 (Currituck
County,
NC)
Died: March 27, 1830 (Brightsville,
SC)
Father
Mother
Biographical Sketch:
Other children:
Arthur
(Nov. 4, 1788 – Dec. 31, 1829) + Martha
Pate (June 17, 1790 – March
30, 1860)
=
Anna Eliza Bright +
Jackson
Stubbs; et al.
See 1820
Drusilla (Sep 13 1792 –
Sep 28 1866)
+
Samuel Goodwin (May 1 1785 – Feb
14 1872)
Parrington H. (1794 - >1830) + Charlotte
Easterling. Married ca. 1816. See 1820 1830a
1830b
Mary (1798 - >1830) + Jonathan Adams.
Married ca. 1816.
Basset Caleb (1802 - >1830) + Obedience
Adams. Married ca. 1818. See 1830a
1830b
Godfrey (1803 - >1830)
Elizabeth (1805 - ?) + Smith W. Doudge.
Married ca. 1820
Lodowick B. (1810 -
>1850). See 1840, 1850.
Catherine (? - < 1830) + John Smith = 2
children. See 1810a
and 1810b
Census Data:
NC 1784-87 State Census -- Charles Bright not found, but several other Brights are noted.
1790 Currituck County NC Census -- see p 477
1790 -- Currituck
County, NC.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1803959 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1803959Charles
Bright is not found in Anson, Richmond or
Robeson Counties, NC.
1800 -- Marlboro
County, SC
1810 -- Bedford County, VA. Not found in either Marlboro County, SC or Currituck County, NC
census.
1820 -- Marlboro
County, SC . Household residents
1830a1830b
-- note that "Charles Bright" still appears, although he died by the
time this census was taken.
Photo Index:
Notes:
All marriage dates are from Marlboro Probate Records.
Rev War: Fought in the Continental Line from NC as a sergeant.
Brightsville, SC was named for Charles Bright. See: Thomas,
J.A.W,
"A
History of Marlboro, South Carolina".
Deeds: 17Nov1813
Will of Charles Bright:
Hill, J.E., "Abstracts of Division of Estates of Stubbs and
Allied
Families of Marlboro County, S. C.", p. 109:
Charles Bright
his heirs:
A deed for 136 a 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
Lodowick 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
Campbell Smith-- grandson
Arthur Bright -- deceased son
His child and heir:
Drusilla Bright wife of George Bullard-- granddaughter
Elizabeth Bright wife of Samuel Goodwin-- daughter
Godfrey Bright-- son
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.
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."
History of Marlboro SC, by
Rev.
Thomas/BRIGHT/ADAMS, pp 181-182:
"Brightsville, one of the upper townships in
Marlboro, takes its name from the Chas. Bright, who was the maternal
grandfather of the late E. W. Goodwin. Mr. Bright was married when he
came Marlboro, having a wife and five children. He first settled on
Crooked Creek, near Bruton's Fork Church, then lived a while 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 ot
his mill and large farming interests, he successfully conducted a large
mercantile business and 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."
"Seventy years ago people did
not board a train at their doors and
travel at the rate of forty miles per hours. Railroad travel was then
unknown and unthought of. Transportation from place to place was
by means of stage coaches drawn by horses. The stage line from New
Orleans to New York used to pass through this county, and the road from
Cheraw to Laurel Hill, by Goodwin's Mill, was a part of the route.
About fifty years ago some railroads had been built, but a gap from
Camden, South Carolina, to Warsaw, North Carolina, had still to be
traveled by stage; and thus it is seen that the 'stage road' had some
importance attached to it at that day, and doubtless Charles Bright
though himself lucky in making a purchase of land lying alongside the
'stage road.' The stage road was established here about 1822, having
been moved from the road running through Adamsville."
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
Type:
Topics:
1830b