On this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, Royal Governor Sir James Wright fled the Executive Mansion to the safety of the HMS Scarborough anchored at the mouth of the Savannah River. The Georgia Provincial Congress would record in its Journal:
Governor Wright observed his parole of honor for a time, but after nearly four weeks of confinement broke it, and, escaping through a back door of his house, fled in the night time and made his way, under cover of darkness, to an armed British ship anchored in the harbor.
With Wright’s escape, royal government in Georgia came to an end.
Sources: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/georgias-governor-escapes-imprisonment-feb-11-1776-218915; https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/james-wright-royal-governor-of-georgia-arrested.html;
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