. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. he present owner. The records of the transac-tions, prior to 1842 are in the Mecklenburg County courthouse; after that year in Union County. Thus we have the sworn testimony of fourteen persons,whose irreproachable character will be vouched for by per-sons now living, many of them unknown to each other andall agreeing in reporting the settled family traditions, thatAndrew Jackson was born in the McKemey cabin, March15, 1767; and the incontrovertible testimony of the countyrecords, that the McKemey place is and alway
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. he present owner. The records of the transac-tions, prior to 1842 are in the Mecklenburg County courthouse; after that year in Union County. Thus we have the sworn testimony of fourteen persons,whose irreproachable character will be vouched for by per-sons now living, many of them unknown to each other andall agreeing in reporting the settled family traditions, thatAndrew Jackson was born in the McKemey cabin, March15, 1767; and the incontrovertible testimony of the countyrecords, that the McKemey place is and always has been inNorth Carolina. Authority and References:—Governor Swains Tucker Hall Ad-dress; Partons Biography of Jackson; Appletons Encyclopedia;The North Carolina Argus of September 23, 1858; Registers BookXIV, page 202, and Book XI, page 38. The name McKemey wasspelled in various ways; the spelling here adopted is that on histombstone and is the version accepted by Farton. George McKemeycould not write, and consequently his name was spelled variously inhis OLD WILSON Andrew Jackson Lived for a Short Time in 1780, With theFamily of John Wilson who Married Margaret McKemey, aCousin of Jackson, and was the Father of Rev. John McKemeyWilson. This House is Six Miles East of Charlotte.
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