Judith DuBose (1698 - 16 December 1769) was a Colonial American heiress. Born into a prominent

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family of

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, DuBose married

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, a prominent slave trader in

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Biography

DuBose was born at Dockon, her family's plantation near Charles Town.Harriette Kershaw Leiding, ''Historic Houses of South Carolina'', p. 54 She was the daughter of Marie DeGuè and Jacques DuBose, a French Huguenot immigrant and wealthy planter. After her father died, her mother remarried John Thomas. She was named as one of her stepfather's heirs, along with her sisters, at the time of his death. She married

, a British slave trader. One of their daughters,

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, married

Peter Manigault Peter Manigault (October 10, 1731 – November 12, 1773) was an attorney, plantation owner, slave owner, and colonial legislator native to Charleston, South Carolina. He was the wealthiest man in the British North American colonies at the time ...

, who was the wealthiest man in

. Another daughter, Mary, married the slave trader and merchant Benjamin Smith. A third daughter, Henrietta, married her first cousin, William Wragg. She was painted by the portraitist

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in 1719. The painting is on display at the

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. DuBose died in 1769 and is buried in the cemetery at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.

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