Son of Thomas Johnson and Jane (Johnson) Johnson
The first representative of the name concerning whom there is definite information was Daniel Johnson, who was probably born in Virginia, while his father, whose name was possibly Edward, came over from England in the latter part of the seventeenth century, between 1660 and 1680. " Daniel Johnson married Ann Anderson. During the Revolutionary war, in the years 1779-1780, when the British were making such aggressive campaigns through the Carolinas, Daniel Johnson refugeed from the hostile British and Tories, and with one of his sons went to the home of a brother living in North Carolina, leaving his wife and daughters on the estate with the negro slaves as their only protection. The British Tories raided the estate, confiscated all the movable property and drove away the cattle. After the battle of Cowpens the British were driven across Broad River and Daniel Johnson returned home. The following spring, the enemy having been re-enforced, again took the aggressive, and Daniel Johnson was once more forced to leave his home and was a refugee until the surrender of Yorktown on October 19, 1781, Soon after the war Daniel Johnson moved to South Carolina, bought a large amount of land, and died in 1783, His wife died during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Their children were Thomas, Bartholomew, Jane, George, Nancy, Levi, and Sarah. Levi Johnson, son of Daniel, was born June 21, 1767, and married March 12, 1790, Sarah Stell. Their family were: George, born in 1791; Nancy, born in 1794; Abraham, born in 1798; Susannah, born in 1802 : Ephraim Malone, born December 20, 1803; and Fannie, born September 12, 1806.[1]
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