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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Note concerning the deposition of Joseph Graham and the correspondence between Graham and Archibald D. Murphey [as printed in The North-Carolina University Magazine]
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December 1854
Volume 19, Page 967

The correspondence which we give below is closely connected with the preceding narrative. The facts stated by Gen. Graham are of great interest, and of the very highest authority. The letters of Judge Murphy well illustrate his earnest and laborious, though unsuccessful efforts to rescue the history of our State from oblivion. His memorial is itself now part of our history.