Manuscripts

Order binding Andrew Johnson as apprentice to James Selby, Wake County, North Carolina

Description: Handwritten 19th century copy made from the minutes of Wake County Court, February term 1822. Johnson is listed as "an orphan boy... 14 years of age," bound to learn the trade of a tailor. Item is undated; date is that of original minutes entry. (1 page)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1822 February 18
Call number: HM 8200
Creator: Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, George S. Hellman collection sale, November 1919. Collection had been given by Johnson's daughter Martha Patterson to her friend Laura Carter Holloway Langford, author of The Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents (1870). Langford apparently sold the material to New York collector George S. Hellman.
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Associated people: Johnson, Eliza McCardle, (1810-1876,); Johnson, Robert, (1834-1869,); Patterson, David Trotter, (1818-1891,); Patterson, Martha Johnson, (1828-1901,)
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