Jefferson Historical Society Project

Al Johnson

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Al Johnson, with his sister-in-law, Mary Catherine, helps Karen to record more of the history of the Marrowstone Island area. Al's family were settlers on adjacent Indian Island, now a US Navy base. He tells stories and reminiscences about the characters of the bachelors who lived on the islands and helps to untangle the bloodlines and marriages of the many Johnson families, related and not. He describes the Native American encampment on the north end of Indian Island and recounts having seen their chief, The Prince of Wales.

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