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The Mysterious Frenchman: Alexander Calizance Miller in America, 1797-1831

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28663
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Alexander Calizance Miller’s origin was an intriguing mystery to his contemporaries at the beginning of the nineteenth century as it has been to his descendants ever since. In 1797 he left France with the help of Captain Miller, whose name he bore. He became friends with prominent leaders of Wilmington, North Carolina, and married Mary Brown, a general’s daughter.