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A Frontier Joke...Then Pistols for 2

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13477
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Abstract:
On 12 August 1788, Andrew Jackson and Waightstill Avery dueled in the Western Judicial District of North Carolina. The argument, which was about a joke related to the law reference book entitled Bacon's Abridgement, ended in a duel.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 13, Aug 1952, p3-4, por
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