Guilford Limner

Karen Cobb Carroll, Windows to the Past: Primitive Watercolors From Guilford, North Carolina in the 1820's, (Greensboro, NC: Greensboro Historical Museum, 1984), p. 18-9.

“George Albright, son of Daniel and Katy Loy Albright, was a fifth generation American. His ancestors first arrived in New York and later settled in Pennsylvania. George was born August 21, 1793, in Alamance County.  He married Martha (Patsy) Albright, born January 8, 1802, the daughter of John L. Albright. Their residence at 105-107 East Market Street in Greensboro was one of the hotels in the town.  In 1820 he and his young family engaged three free blacks and one person in agriculture, but he was still not listed as a landowner in 1829.
Albright was a well-respected man active within the community.  He served as Town Commissioner from 1832 to 1835 and was chairman of that group again in 1845 and 1849.  He again served in 1858, 1859 and 1863, and was Superintendent of Police in 1856.  Albright prospered and by 1840 owned 12 slaves and employed one free black.  Eleven persons in his household were engaged in manufactures and trade. His real estate holdings in 1850 were valued at $4,300 and by 1860 they had increased to a value of $19,500.  Patsy Albright died in 1864 and George Albright died four years later. At his death he owned at least six lots in Greensboro, including one on West Market Street which served in the 1860s as the office of the Greensboro Patriot.  He owned two shares in the North Carolina Railroad, and apparently extended a measure of credit at his hotel, for his estate papers include a list of "desperate" notes covering six pages.” - Karen Cobb Carroll, 1984