Judith DuBose
{{short description|American colonist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Judith DuBose
| image = File:Judith DuBose, Mrs Joseph Wragg.jpg
| caption = 1719 Portrait of DuBose by Henrietta Johnston
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| birth_date = 1698
| birth_place = Dockon Plantation
Province of South Carolina
British Empire
| death_date = 16 December 1769
| death_place = Charles Town, Province of South Carolina
| resting_place = St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery
| parents = Jacques DuBose
Marie DeGuè
| spouse = Joseph Wragg
| children = Elizabeth Wragg Manigault
| relatives =
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Judith DuBose (1698 – 16 December 1769) was an American Colonial heiress. Born into a prominent French Huguenot family of planters, DuBose married Joseph Wragg, a prominent slave trader in British North America.
Biography
DuBose was born at Dockon, her family's plantation near Charles Town.Harriette Kershaw Leiding, Historic Houses of South Carolina, p. 54{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD9RDwAAQBAJ&q=jacques+dubose+plantation+charleston&pg=PT116|title=Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929|first1=Roy Williams|last1=III|first2=Alexander Lucas|last2=Lofton|date=March 26, 2018|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=9781611178357|via=Google Books}} She was the daughter of Marie DeGuè and Jacques DuBose, a French Huguenot immigrant and wealthy planter.{{Cite web|url=https://dubose.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I45772&tree=DuBose1|title=Judith DuBose Abt 1698 Charles Towne, Carolina, British America Mar 1751 Charles Towne, South Carolina, British America: DuBose Forum|website=dubose.one-name.net}} After her father died, her mother remarried John Thomas.{{Cite web|url=https://south-carolina-plantations.com/berkeley/dockon.html|title=Dockon Plantation - Berkeley County, South Carolina SC|website=south-carolina-plantations.com}} She was named as one of her stepfather's heirs, along with her sisters, at the time of his death.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qp0KAAAAIAAJ&q=judith+dubose+wragg&pg=RA1-PA85|title=The South Carolina Historical Magazine|date=July 10, 1912|publisher=South Carolina Historical Society.|via=Google Books}}
She married Joseph Wragg, a British slave trader.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGo6fkaAdGEC&q=judith+dubose&pg=PA272|title=A Confederate Chronicle: The Life of a Civil War Survivor|first=Pamela Chase|last=Hain|date=July 10, 2005|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=9780826264947|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CgzDwAAQBAJ&q=judith+dubose+wragg&pg=PA40|title=American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia|first=Mary Ellen|last=Snodgrass|date=November 10, 2017|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442270978|via=Google Books}} One of their daughters, Elizabeth, married Peter Manigault, who was the wealthiest man in British North America. Another daughter, Mary, married the slave trader and merchant Benjamin Smith. A third daughter, Henrietta, married her first cousin, William Wragg.{{Cite magazine |last1=Whitaker |first1=Daniel Kimball |last2=Clapp |first2=Milton |last3=Simms |first3=William Gilmore |last4=Thornwell |first4=James Henley |date=July 10, 1843 |title=American Loyalists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imIAAAAAYAAJ&q=judith+dubose+wragg&pg=PA140 |magazine=Southern Quarterly Review |publisher=Wiley & Putnam |via=Google Books}}
She was painted by the portraitist Henrietta Johnston in 1719.{{Cite web |title=Judith DuBose Wragg |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_43.5.3_Gibbes |website=National Portrait Gallery}} The painting is on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
DuBose died in 1769 and is buried in the cemetery at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.