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Notes for Stephen Day, Sr.


"Stephen Day attended the Newgarden and Warrington MMs in Chester Co., PA and was part of an early group of Quakers who migrated south from Chester Co., PA to North Carolina between 1750 and 1770. During this time, Quaker in Pennsylvania were hungry for new lands, and losing their influence on the coast due to a large influx of people from other faiths, they decided to move south and west to the mountain valleys of NC. They went under the leadership of Capt. Joseph Maddock (b. Haddonfield, NJ) but moved to Warrington/Newark, Chester Co., PA. He and a group of early Quakers, Stephen Day possibly among them, established the Cane Creek Quaker Meeting in 1751 in Guilford Co., NC.

The Quakers were treated badly by the Governor of NC which forced them to move to Georgia. GA Pioneers Mag., #2 1965, PP 19: Note about Wrightboro: Site of Wrightsborough, Georgia's Quaker town, near Augusta and Thompson, GA, was selected in 1767 by Joseph Maddock, the leader of the group, who felt they could no longerexist under the intolerable conditions imposed by Gov. Tryon of North Carolina.

Stephen Day settled in Columbia County, GA and married Margaret Peggy Jones from the Quaker colony of Wrightsboro, GA."
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