Maddox

 Joseph Maddox was a very important player in the lives of these Quaker families who left North Carolina and settled in Wrightsboro before the Revolutionary War.  I will let some of Maddox's descendants fill in the story of this family line.  However, I had posted something about Maddox that I particularly liked on my main blog.  I am repeating it here:

Jimmy Carter in his book The Hornet's Nest says the following about Joseph Maddock on page 45 of his paperback version:  " The acknowledged leader of the Friends was a man named Joseph Maddock, who operated a gristmill on a creek....All families in the area carried their grain to Maddock's Mill, knowing him to be an honest man--a rare thing for a miller--whose toll was always what he promised it to be.  As did other Quakers, he posted his fees for the various services he offered and considered it a violation of truth to bargain or to modify these charges for a particular customer.  Any busy farmer in the area who wanted to continue working at home could send a young boy or slave to the mill and be sure he would get back the right amount of flour, meal, or grits, ground the way he had ordered it.  Although silence often prevailed in the regular religious meetings, Maddock liked to talk, so it was natural that most farmers preferred to carry their own grain to the mill and catch up on the local news."