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At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

They lived in Laurens, South Carolina for two years, where Andrew found work as a tailor.

Here he met his first love, Mary Wood, for whom he made a quilt.

After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, he returned to Raleigh.

As his master J. Selby refused to release him from his apprenticeship obligation, Johnson left and went to Mooresville, Alabama.

There Joseph Sloss taught him how to tailor frock coats.