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for North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal Vol. 5 Issue 2, May 1979
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The article recounts Parson William G. Brownlow's newspaper report of an "uncomplimentary" discovery concerning two brother, Mathew and James Johnson and first cousins to President Andrew Johnson. The two were involved in 1845 of the murder of Josiah Holloman. Andrew Johnson at the time was a rising young politician at the time, whom Brownlow carried derogatory references in his Tennessee newspaper, "The Jonesbough Whig".
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The research contained in this article is the result of a search for the identity of Henrich Schmidt, a German immigrant born about 1755 and related resources unearthed in the Greensboro City Library.
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The author provides a summary map and portraits connected to the British invasion of North Carolina in 1781. Lists of Prisoners are primarily from the British Records file in the N.C. State Archives.
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This newspaper commenced sometime in 1848 in Wadesboro. Due to a great deal of records lost to courthouse fires in Anson County, the compiler notes the information abstracted here of great benefit to researchers. Because the county borders South Carolina, a number of related notices for that state also appear in the information provided.