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- This Jonathan Sell (the 2rd in a line of 3 Jonathan Sell's) was born in the Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough, Georgia. His father (the 1st Jonathan Sell) was one of the 2 primary founders of this settlement and the Wrightsborough Quaker Monthly Meeting (MM) in 1757 after originally coming to the Cane Creek MM in the early 1750s from Delaware. He along with Joseph Maddocks and several other religious pacifist Quaker families from the Cane Creek MM (located in current day southern Alamance County, NC) established the Wrightsborough settlement. I believe this move was an attempt to get far away from the initial rumblings that became the "Regulator Movement" in North Carolina which was the beginning of the Revolutionary War in the south. This is actually the theme of the "Sword of Peace", an outdoor dramatic play performed in Snow Camp, NC every summer at the original site of the Cane Creek MM. By the 1780s opening of lands for settlement in the "Ohio Territory", with most of the residents having left Wrightsborough, Jonathan and parts of his family moved back to NC to the Deep River MM and Muddy Creek MM area in the joining corners of Guilford, Forsyth and Davidson Counties. It appears these Jonathans were the fathers of all Sells in this area and many areas of the mid-west. [1]
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1776 - unknown
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