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William Johnston, a Scottish-born merchant, lived in Hillsborough by 1767 and kept a store there with James Thackston, besides a plantation and store called Snow Hill about fifteen miles northeast of the town. During the Revolution he sat on the Hillsborough district committee of safety and represented Hillsborough in the Provincial Congresses of 1776.
Source: NCpedia: Johnston, William (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
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Letters to and from Governor James Turner in October 1804, 20 images. William Johnston is among the writers, and Mecklenburg County, Hillsborough and Orange County are named.
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Letter of 2 December 1783 from William Johnston, Orange County legislator and agent for the loyalist Edmund Fanning, to Adlai Osborn of Rowan County, about selling Fanning's Rowan lands to satisfy a judgment. Johnston also remarks on the death of former governor Thomas Burke. A photocopy. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.644.
Issue of Eno, the journal of the Eno River Association, published in 2001 and devoted to the Little River, the Eno tributary that runs along the Orange and Durham county line. Pieces cover the country above the Little River Reservoir, lore of the colonial Trading Path near the river, the eighteenth-century entrepreneur William Johnston, and the river's plants from Lewis's heartleaf to yellow-flowered trillium. 72 pages with illustrations.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
William Johnston Hogan's study of the Huntington silversmiths and their silver, chiefly Roswell Huntington, who lived from 1763 to 1836, and William Huntington, from 1792 to 1874. The Sir Walter Press of Durham published it in 1977 as a Philip Scott book, 136 illustrated pages with a bibliography and an index.
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