John Johnston (1734 - 1816)

Born 17 Mar 1734 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Husband of Laurel Elizabeth (Locke) Johnston — married 17 May 1762 in Rowan Co, NC

Descendants

Died 4 Mar 1816 at age 81 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Birth and death dates only a guess.

Revolutionary War Vet 1775 - 1783

"John Johnston was a soldier who fought at the Battle of Colson’s Mill in North Carolina and the Battle of Camden in South Carolina."

"In 1796, Johnston received a land grant encompassing the space where Johnson’s Chapel and its cemetery sit. Johnston’s son, Matthew, decided he wanted to form a Methodist church on the site in 1803 and a log cabin housing the church’s original congregation was constructed, Johnson’s Chapel UMC member William Fisher, who is writing a history of the church, said.^[1]

He married his wife, Elizabeth Locke on May 17, 1762, in Rowan County, North Carolina.^[2] His wife was born in Pennsylvania in 1742 and died in 1815, one year before her husband, in Davidson, Tennessee.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Revolutionary War patriots honored at Johnson’s Chapel United Methodist Church
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF9F-1Q9?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=LC7V-3CG
3. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/John-Johnston-Major/6000000041235435720

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #8050264
• See DAR listing *http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A063993 for military info
• https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/patriots_nc_capt_john_johnston_rowan.html
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LC7V-3CG

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John Johnston emigrated from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania with his parents, John Johnston and Elizabeth (Campbell), and one sibling.