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The dispute at the Cane Creek monthly meeting started in 1761 when fifteen year old Charity Wright was disciplined for having premarital sex with Jehu Stuart. The women's meeting disowned her and the men at Quarterly Meeting upheld the disownment because she had allowed herself to be defiled. Charity refused to apogize. Charity's mother, Rachel Wells Wright, was disciplined for objecting to her daughter's discipline and the family moved to South Carolina. When Rachel requested a certificate to join a local meeting, the Cane Creek members argued about whether they should issue the certificate. Rachel appealed to the Quarterly Meeting who ruled in Rachel's favor. Some members of the Cane Creek Meeting vigorously disagreed with the Quarterly Meeting. These members included Herman Husband, Isaac and Hannah Vernon, John and William Marshall, Thomas Branson, Joseph Maddock, Jonathan Sell, Juliatha Cox, Mary Moffitt and Phebe Cox. The dissenters continued their rebellion by attending disowned Herman Husband and Amy Allen's wedding. One result of the dispute was the settlement of Friends in Wrightsboro, Georgia.
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