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Updated: May 16, 2025

"Ole Ebenezer Johnson died s-s-several year ago." "Who was he?" cried the slave-dealer, with a little respectful interest. "Ebenez-z-zer Johnson," Parson Thomas replied, with a mild and credulous countenance, "was the wickedest man on the Eastern Sho' for twenty year.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times