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George Mulholland Johnston

George Mulholland Johnston was a Hillsborough merchant with business connections across North Carolina. He married Eliza Mary Bond of Hillsborough around 1831 or 1832, moved with her and her aunt Mary Williams Burke to Alabama in 1834, and died there that September.

Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger Papers finding aid (#04443)

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George Mulholland Johnston ledger, 1829.

Johnston, George Mulholland (1800-1834) · 1829

An 1829 ledger kept by George Mulholland Johnston, 1800 to 1834, a single item in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4049.26. The ledger concerns merchants and commerce in Hillsborough and economic conditions in nineteenth century North Carolina.

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Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger papers, 1785-1868.

Weissinger, Eliza Mary Bond, 1805-1875 · 1785

Papers of Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger (1805-1875), 435 items in half a linear foot dated 1785 to 1868, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4443. Subjects include family and women's social life at Hillsborough and at Marion, Alabama, together with real property in the southern states and slavery.

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  1. Polly Burke leaves Hillsborough for Alabama In August 1834 Mary W. Burke sold most of her household goods and moved to Greensboro, Alabama, with her niece's family, part of a wider migration of Hillsborough people to Alabama. After her nephew-in-law died there she settled in Marion, where she taught again for many years. People: George Mulholland JohnstonSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Burke, Mary ("Polly") Williams

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