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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.
2 works about George Mulholland Johnston are indexed here.
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People named in the same dated entries as George Mulholland Johnston, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
Works about or by George Mulholland Johnston. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Johnston, George Mulholland, 1800-1834.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Johnston, George Mulholland, 1800-1834.
Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows them all.
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13 records, 1812 to 1833, name George Mulholland Johnston as a party to the sale, gift, trust or other transfer of enslaved people. Each record lists the people named in it, with their ages and family ties.
51 deeds, 1806 to 1833, in the county’s deed books name George Mulholland Johnston as a party, from Mark Chilton’s published abstracts. Each links to the deed-book page at the Register of Deeds.
4 wills and papers in the county’s will books name George Mulholland Johnston, from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts. Each shows the role and the year.
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