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Collection: JOHNSON, CHARLES E., COLLECTION P.r 67.1 - 6?^
Edenton and Raleigh, North Carolina
169U-1875
Physical Description: Letters, appointments, commissions, reports,
deeds, accounts, certificates, licenses, broadsides, petitions,
invitations, agreements, bills, lists of slaves and taxable property,
and estate records. black boxes.
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Acquisition: Gift of Colonel Charles E. Johnson, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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See Annual Report, 1908-1910, p. 8.
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Description: These are the papers of James Iredell, Sr., United States
Supreme Court Judge, James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina,
end Samuel Johnston, Governor of North Carolina, and other persons
related to these two families by marriage or descent.
Charles Johnson, colonial forebear of the donor of the
papers, was a neighbor and friend of the Iredells and Johnstons. He
was a member of the Scottish clan which included Governors Gabriel
and Samuel Johnston. A supporter of Charles Edward, he emigrated
to America after Culloden and settled in the Albemarle region at
Dandon Plantation. He represented his county in the State senate
and his State in Congress until his death in 1802., The donor of
the collection, his great grandson, was also related to the Iredells
by marriage; his mother, Frances Lenox Iredell, was the daughter of
James Iredell, Jr., and wife of Dr. Charles Earl Johnson.
James Iredell, Sr., was the son of Francis Iredell
of Bristol, merchant, and Margaret McCulloh. Other children of
the marriage were: Francis (December 21, 1752), Charles (1756),
Arthur (1758), and Thomas (December 8, 1761). The Iredells
were related to the McCullohs through their mother. Their
grand-uncle Henry McCulloh was Secretary of the Province of
Carolina, surveyor, and inspector and comptroller of revenue and
land grants. His son Henry Eustace McCulloh came to Carolina .
