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John Johnstone (1665 - 1720)

Maj Gen John "of Stapleton" Johnstone aka Johnston
Born in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 1687 in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlandmap
Husband of — married 1698 in Stapleton Tower, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 54 in Johnstone, Strathclyde, Scotlandmap
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Biography

Betty Matthews sent me this info many years ago Virtually all my Johnstone information is from "The Johnstone Papers", complied by James D. Johnstone of Georgetown, SC. These papers are available on microfilm through the Mormon Church. It included a letter from Gilbert (Jr.) to his daughter Susannah. I have a rather poor copy of it which is below. "My grandfather John Johnstone of Stapleton, officer in Scotch regiment in French service, married Elizabeth, her father Gabriel Belchier, French Protestant. Their children were 1 John, he and only son died in north Britain. 2. Gabriel, Governor of North Carolina. 3. Gilbert, my father. 4. Samuel lived in Onslow N. Carolina. 5. Elizabeth married Thomas Keenan our house Armagh. My fahter married Caroline, her grandfather George Johnstone Armagh 1724. Children, Gilbert, Henry, Caroline, Gabriel, Robert, William, Isabel, John. I married Margaret Warburton north Carolina 2d June 1750. Children, Hugo, Gilbert, Jean, Isabel, Henry died Catawba County, son James col. in war. Caroline married William Williams, son William. John lived in Yadkin County, now Bertie, NC. Gabriel married Janet McFarland, son Francis killed, lieut. Mother and Aunt Francis died Brompton. My father to Ireland after 1715. Got my lands through George Gould. Barfield tories burned my house to cellar. Was at Culloden with father, he wounded. Came Cape Fear 1746. My father died 1775. Marion, two Horrys and Francis Huger met Folsome and Giles my house. All chose Marion bar Folsome. Hugo took my men with Marion 1780 all horsemen. Franics Huger and James often at my house. John Rutherford a tory. Writ by my hand for Susanna 8th day March 1790 Gilbert Johnston, Gent." (Folded and addressed on back) "To Susanna Johnston by Stephen"


This family line has long claimed to be of the Annandale Johnstones. In 1830 there was a Peerage case regarding the issue of the Annandale Johnstones.[1] The Johnstone and Kenan families of South Carolina have long claimed to be decendents of the Annandale Johnstones,[2] also Thepeerage.com has another marriage for Major General John Johnstone to Catherine Christine von Ahlefeldt, daughter of Count Detlev Sievert Graf von Ahlefeldt, a Polish nobleman.[3] An interesting line and worthy of inclusion and further investigation. E.H.D

John Henry Goodinge Johnstone's Petition claiming the Earldom of Annandale
House of Lords Journal Volume 62: 29 April 1830 Pages 257-277[4]

J. H. G. Johnstone's Petition claiming the Earldom of Annandale, &c.
The Earl of Shaftesbury (by His Majesty's Command) presented to the House A Petition of John Henry Goodinge Johnstone Esquire, late of Pembroke Place, in the County of Middlesex, now of Bonnington Bank near Edinburgh, to His Majesty; praying His Majesty, "That it may be declared and adjudged that the Petitioner is entitled to the Honors and Dignities of Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount of Annan, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale, and such other Honors and Dignities as are in the Family;" with His Majesty's Reference thereof to this House.
Which Petition and Reference were read by the Clerk, and are as follow; (viz t.)
To The King's Most Excellent Majesty, &c. &c. &c.
"The humble Petition of John Henry Goodinge Johnstone Esquire, late of Pembroke Place, in the County of Middlesex, now of Bonnington Bank near Edinburgh,
"Sheweth,
"That by Royal Letters Patent granted by His Majesty King Charles the First, dated the 20th June 1633, James Johnstone of Johnstone was created Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, with the Limitation to himself and his Heirs Male for ever.
"That the said James Lord Johnstone was, by subsequent Royal Letters Patent granted by King Charles the First, bearing Date the 18th March 1643, created Earl of Hartfell, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Moffatdale and Evandale, with Limitation to himself and his Heirs Male for ever.
"That on the Death of James Earl of Hartfell he was succeeded by his Son James, the second Earl of Hartfell, upon whom, on the 13th February 1661, His Majesty King Charles the Second conferred the new Titles and Dignities of Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount of Annan, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale, as appears from His Royal Letters Patent of the above Date, whereby the Honors and Dignities are granted to the said James Earl of Hartfell and his Heirs Male; whom failing, to the eldest Heir Female, without Division, procreated or to be procreated of his Body, and to the Heirs Male to be procreated of the Body of the said eldest Heir Female bearing the Name and Arms of Johnstone; whom all failing, to the nearest Heirs whatsoever of the said James Earl of Hartfell in all Time coming. On this Occasion no Resignation was made of the former Honors.
"That on the 3d April 1662 James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell obtained a Charter from the Crown of the Lands, Lordships, Baronies and others therein specified, in which various Resignations of these Subjects are recited, and the whole are of new granted in Favour of the Earl himself, and the Heirs Male procreated or to be procreated of his Body; whom failing, to the Heirs Female, without Division, procreated or to be procreated of his Body, and the Heirs Male to be procreated of the Body of the said eldest Heir Female bearing the Name and Arms of Johnstone; whom failing, to the nearest Heirs and Assignees whomsoever of the said James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell. This Charter contained a Clause of Novodamus for erecting the Estates into a free Barony, Lordship, Earldom, Regality and Justiciary to the Grantee and his Heirs and Assignees aforesaid, to be called, in all Time coming, the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell, and Lordship of Johnstone, with the Title, Stile and Dignity of Earl, according to the Dates of the former Patents granted to him and his Father.
"That James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell married Lady Harriet Douglas, Daughter of William first Marquis of Douglas. He died in 1672, leaving Two Sons, William who succeeded him and became first Marquis of Annandale, and John, commonly called Lord John Johnstone, from whom Your Petitioner is lineally descended.
"That William the eldest Son succeeded his Father in the Estates and Honors of Annandale, and on the 24th June 1701 was raised to the Dignity of a Marquis by King William, with the Title of Marquis of Annandale, Earl of Hartfell, Viscount of Annan, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale, with a Limitation, as expressed in the Patent, to him, "et hæredibus suis masculis quibuscunque illi in suis prædiis et statu omni tempore futuro successuris." It does not appear that on this Occasion there was any Resignation of the former Honors.
"That William Marquis of Annandale was twice married; 1st, to Sophia Fairholm, Daughter and Heiress of John Fairholm of Craigiehall; and 2ndly, to Charlotta Vauden Bempde, Daughter of John Vauden Bempde Esquire.
"That by the first Marriage he had a Daughter Henrietta, and Two Sons, James and William; Henrietta was married to Charles Hope, afterwards created Earl of Hopetoun; William died in 1722 unmarried and without Issue; and James succeeded his Father as Marquis of Annandale.
"That by the second Marriage he had Two Sons, George the last Marquis of Annandale, and John, who died in the Year 1742 unmarried and without Issue.
"That upon the Death of Marquis William, the Estates and Honors devolved upon his eldest Son James, who became second Marquis of Annandale, and, having gone Abroad, died in Italy in 1730, unmarried and without Issue.
"That upon the Death of Marquis James, he was succeeded by his Brother Consanguinean George, who, after considerable Litigation with Lord Hope, a Son of Henrietta by the Earl of Hopetoun, at last succeeded in vindicating his Title to the Estates and Honors, and became third Marquis of Annandale.
"That Marquis George having fallen into a State of Lunacy, and having been declared a Lunatic by Verdict of a Jury under a Commission issued in England for enquiring into that Matter, was sequestered from Society, and lived for many Years at Turnham Green, in England, where he died in 1792, unmarried and without Issue.
"That by the Death of Marquis George, the Heirs Male of the Body of James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, through his eldest Son William first Marquis of Annandale, entirely failed.
"That the second Son of James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, John Johnstone, commonly called Lord John Johnstone, was married to Elizabeth Belcher or Belchair, by whom he had a Son born the 18th January 1726, named John.
"That this John Johnstone, the Son of Lord John Johnstone, was afterwards settled at Rotherhithe, in England, where he was married to Jane Price of Leominster, by whom he had Issue a Son Thomas and a Daughter Sarah.
"That Thomas Johnstone left this Country in 1768, in consequence of a Difference with his Father, and sailed for the Coast of Guinea in Africa. He was ultimately settled at Bassaire Rio de Pungos on that Coast, and has never been heard of since the Year 1776.
"That Sarah Johnstone, the Sister of Thomas lastmentioned, was married on the 18th December 1777 to William Goodinge Esquire, by whom she had Issue, besides Two Daughters,
"Your Petitioner John Henry Goodinge, now John Henry Goodinge Johnstone, her eldest Son, who is the Great Grandson of Lord John Johnstone, and the Great Great Grandson of James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell.
"That Your Petitioner lately purchased from Your Majesty's Chancery in Scotland a Brieve of MortAncestry, for establishing and serving himself Heir to his Ancestor Lord John Johnstone; and during the Proceedings that ensued upon that Brieve Your Petitioner brought a clear and satisfactory Proof of his Descent from the said Lord John Johnstone, and was, upon the 29th Day of March last, served nearest and lawful Heir of the Body and Heir of Line and Provision in general to him; and which Service, and the Retour thereof, is duly recorded in Your Majesty's Chancery aforesaid.
"That the Heirs Male of the Body of James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, through his eldest Son Marquis William, having failed on the Death of Marquis George in 1792, at which Period Your Petitioner's Uncle Thomas Johnstone was alive, in Fact or by Presumption in Law the Right to the Estates and Honors of Annandale devolved on him, as nearest and lawful Heir Male of the Body of James Earl of Annandale, his Great Grandfather, through his second Son Lord John Johnstone.
"That in consequence of the Death of the said Thomas Johnstone, which at this Distance of Time must now be presumed to have taken place, Your Petitioner is advised and humbly conceives that under the Terms and Limitations in the Letters Patent and Charter before recited, and by reason of the Failure of Heirs Male of the Body of the said James Earl of Annandale and Hartfell through his eldest Son Marquis William as aforesaid, he, Your Petitioner, is become entitled, according to the Pedigree before stated, which he is ready to make out and prove, to the Honors and Dignities conferred by the said Royal Patents and Charter.
"May it therefore please Your Majesty, and Your Petitioner humbly prays, that it may be declared and adjudged that Your Petitioner is entitled to the said Honors and Dignities of Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount of Annan, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale, and such other Honors and Dignities as are in the Family.
"And Your Petitioner shall ever pray, &c.
"Jn° H. Goodinge Johnstone."
"Bonnington Bank near Edinburgh, April 5th, 1830."
"Whitehall, 23d April 1830.
"His Majesty, being moved upon this Petition, is graciously pleased to refer the same to The Right Honorable The House of Peers, to examine the Allegations thereof as to what relates to the Petitioner's Title therein mentioned, and to inform His Majesty how the same shall appear to their Lordships.
"Rob. Peel."
Ordered, That the said Petition, with His Majesty's Reference thereof to this House, be referred to the Committee for Privileges, to whom the Petition of John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale, Esquire, to His Majesty, claiming the Titles, Honors and Dignity of Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount Annan and Baron Johnstone, with His Majesty's Reference thereof to this House, stands referred.

Notes

Note N598From The Johnston Family Connection by Claude Moore [HR-1113-GJ1]:
The genealogists in Scotland think that the first Johnstons in Scotland came over with William The Conqueror [Duke William of Normandy] in 1066. Their name was originally ‘Johnstone’.
"The seat of the Johnston Clan is Lockerby, near the center of the district of Annandale, Castle of Lochwood, situated at that place." [Lochwood Castle, also known as Lochwood Tower, the seat of the Johnstone Clan, lies a few miles southwest of Moffat in Johnstone Parish, Dumfriesshire County, Scotland. It is located in upper Annandale, the valley of the Annan River. The name "Lochwood" is derived from a forest (wood) near an ancient lake (loch), which later became a bog known as Lochwood Moss. Parts of the forest still exist in the form of thousand-year-old oak trees, known as the "Royal Oaks", which grow adjacent to the Lochwood Tower site. For more information, go to www.johnstons.org/clan/lochwood1.]
Hugo de Johnstone [Lord East Lothian] was Laird in East Lothian County, Scotland, in 1214. [A ‘Laird’ was a landowner, which brings the title of ‘Lord’ or ‘Lady’].
The generations run thus:
John de Johnstone Sr. [Lord Dumfriesshire, “Chevalier of Dumfries”]
John de Johnstone Jr. [Lord Annandale]
7 generations after Hugo, there was Sir Adam de Johnstone (1413-1455)
17th generation, James Johnstone (1625-1672), First Earl of Annandale, Scotland. His son:
Captain John Johnstone married Elizabeth Belchier, a French Huguenot [Protestant], and had:
John, died in Scotland
Gabriel, Governor of NC
Gilbert, who married and lived at Brompton Plantation in Bladen County [NC]
Samuel Johnston, who lived in Onslow County [NC]
Elizabeth who married Thomas Kenan.
From Leflore Family Tree [HR-1223-SJS]:
Lineage
NOTE: Some generations were added as per my research and later known and proven information.
I Hugo de Johnstone, Laird (owner of lands) in East Lothland [East Lothian County] and Lanarkshire [County] in the reign of Alexander II (1214-1275).
II John de Johnstone. Designated "Chevalier of Dumfries" in 1319. [Chevalier is a horseman or mounted soldier, armed at all points]
****NOTE: John de Johnstone, Lord Annandale (Abt.1240 - Abt.1330) [1240-1331]
III Gilbert de Johnstone, 1331-1360. Died in 1360. [1265-1360]
****NOTE: From Article, Johnstone of that Ilk, Notes on Early Errors [HR-1806-LJJ]: This Gilbert de Johnstone did NOT receive land of Red-myre in Lanarkshire from Robert Bruce as has been commonly assumed.
IV Sir John [Lord Gilbert] de Johnstone. Succeeded 1360. Defeated the English Army, 1370; protected the borders, 1371-1378. [1295-1388]
****NOTE: Lord Gilbert de Johnstone, [1315-1370] NOTE: From Article, Johnstone of that Ilk, Notes on Early Errors [HR-1806-LJJ].
V Sir John de Johnstone. Succeeded 1383. Died 1420. [1335-1420]
VI Sir Adam de Johnstone. Led the Johnstones at the Battle of [River] Sark, and suppressed Douglas [23 Oct 1448, River Sark flows south through Halfmorton and Gretna Parishes in Dumfriesshire County to enter the channel of the River Esk. For much of its course it follows the border with Cumbria County, England]. [1370-1455] Succeeded by his eldest son:
VII Sir James [John] de Johnstone, "Warden of the Marshes". Died 1483.
VIII Sir James de Johnstone. Chief in Command at Kirk Connell. Drove the English over the border, 1484. Died 1488.
****NOTE: Lord John de Johnstone, Laird of Johnstone, Died bef. 1493. NOTE: From Article, Johnstone of that Ilk, Notes on Early Errors [HR-1806-LJJ].
****IX Sir Adam de Johnstone. Died 1508. Succeeded by his son:
X Sir James de Johnstone. His second son [James] was made Baron of Wamfrey in 1549. Succeeded by his eldest son:
XI Sir John de Johnstone [1509-1567]. Succeeded by:
XII Sir James de Johnstone. Died 1559. Succeeded by:
XIII Lord John de Johnston. Died 1586. Succeeded by:
XIV Sir James Johnstone. Knighted by James VI, "Baron of Johnstone", 27 Aug 1588 . Killed by Maxwell, 6 Apr 1608. Succeeded by:
XV Sir James Johnstone. "Created Lord Johnstone of Lochwood" by [King] Charles I, 20 June 1633, and Earl of Hartfell, 1 Mar 1643. Succeeded by his eldest son:
****XVI James Johnston. Succeeded in 1653 after the restoration of his estates by [King] Charles II and by him was created first Earl of Annandale and Second Earl of Hartfell, 13 Feb 1661. Died 1672. Succeeded by his son:
XVII John Johnstone of Stapleton. Born 1665 in Newbie, Scotland [Annan, Dumfriesshire County, Scotland]. Succeeded by his son:
XVIII Samuel Johnstone. (Brother of Gabriel Johnstone, Governor of Province of NC, 1734). Born 1702. Emigrated to America 1736 and settled in Onslow County NC. He was Surveyor-General. Married Helen Scrymgeour. Succeeded by his son:
XIX John Johnstone. Born 1731. Married Elizabeth Williams. Succeeded by his son:
XX Samuel Johnstone. Married Sarah Thompson. Succeeded by his son:
XXI John Johnstone. Born 1801. Married Margaret Thompson.
Note: Copied by Ann Mollere from The Johnstones of Annandale by Hugh Miller Thompson and was therefore passed on to Lynne Leflore Trammel. Also see and refer to pages 54-64 of The Great Historic Families of Scotland, by James Taylor, MA, DD, FSA, republished by Heritage Books Inc, 1994. Vol II
From Sights of Scotland: Stapleton Tower - Dumfries & Galloway [www.nadir.org]:
In November 1536, William Johnston alienated ‘the lands of Stabiltoun’ to Christopher Irving of Bonshaw. Stapleton tower is said to have been built by Edward Irvine probably around the time of the Irvings’ local war with the Maxwells in 1585-86, or even later. The tower is located about 2 and ¾ miles ENE Annan, located on gently rising ground overlooking the Solway. Apparently any traces of fortifications were destroyed when a mansion was built; this mansion was demolished after World War II.
From Article, Clan/Family Histories [HR-1803-LJJ]:
- Index Page
Here are histories of a large number of clans and families who have been significant in the making of Scotland. These histories contain links to other sources of useful information including clan/family Web sites.
A number of reference books have been used to provide the factual information including "The Surnames of Scotland" by George F Black, "Scottish Surnames" by David Dorward, "Clans and Tartans" by George Way of Plean, "Scottish Surnames and Families" by Donald Whyte, "Scottish Clans and Tartans" by Neil Grant and "Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia" by George Wray of Plean and Romilly Squire.
Johnston - One of the many families from the Scottish Borders who frequently raided the north of England over the centuries.
From www.ancestry.com:
June 22, 2011
John Johnstone (1665 - 1730)
From: http://members.tripod.com/~andrews_sc/history1790.html
Town of Andrews Situated On Land of Annandale Scions
Andrews, South Carolina 29510
Information on the large "Hartfell" estate, once situated on the Black River in the vicinity of the Georgetown-Williamsburg border, whose owners were said to be heirs to the marquisette and earldoms of Annandale, have been supplied to The News and Courier by James D. Johnson, III, of Lexington, VA. The data, following, were contained in a copy of a letter sent by Mr. Johnson to Percy LaBruce of The Georgetown Times which has been publishing articles on old Georgetown families and plantations.
The peculiar history of the American Johnstones of Annandale begins properly with Captain the Hon. John Johnstone, second son of James, Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and Lady Henrietta Douglas and brother of William first Marquess of Annandale. Raised in the home of his uncle, the Duke of Hamilton, John's ardent support of the fated Stuart cause (which monarchs, besides being related to had ennobled his forebears) led his descendants into many strange adventures. John was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Belchier in 1698 and went to France with the deposed James II, serving "with distinction" under Louis XIV. The Battle of Boyne found him still further out of grace with the existing government, but the influence of his brother, who had espoused the cause of William and Mary, saved his life. Shortly afterward he was enabled to return to the ancestral Scottish border estates of Annandale. Here, for a while, he and his sons resided at "Stapleton," an ancient fortress-tower overlooking a branch of the Annan.
Gabriel, eldest son of John, inaugurated "The Craftsman," a Jacobite political journal, in collaboration with his relative William Johnston, Earl of Bath, and Bolingbroke. By influence thus gained he was in 1724, at the instance of Lord Wilmington, sent to North Carolina as royal governor to succeed the unpopular Burrington. This fact was to be of great importance in the subsequent history of the Annandales.
Gilbert, John's second son, married to his Irish cousin Caroline Johnstone of Armagh, entertained his father sentiments, regarding the then rulers of Great Britain as usurpers. Prince Charles Edward's rebellion of 1746 found Gilbert, "General Stapleton," commanding the vanguard of the Bonny Prince's army. On the failure of the Battle of Culloden, in which Stapleton was injured, he and his son Gilbert, Jr., were forced to flee for their lives - first to Ireland and then to North Carolina, where Governor Gabriel's greatest brother was to inveigle the colonists into paying quit-rents.
Governor Gabriel Johnstone had built at "Brompton," on the Cape Fear, an imposing mansion which he intended to occupy, as soon as it was complete. He failed to reckon, however, on falling in love with Penelope, the step-daughter of Governor Charles Eden and in her own right a large heiress. By the time Brompton was completed, he found himself permanently settled on his wife's plantation at Edenton. Thus to Gilbert's joy at escaping the fate of being drawn-and-quartered along with the gallant Balmerino and others, and at once more seeing his brothers including the youngster Samuel, whose son and namesake was one day to be almost unanimously elected president of the Continental Convention, was added that of finding an estate complete to thoroughbred horses ready for his immediate occupancy: here he died in 1775, leaving a family that fairly filled the spacious halls of Brompton.
But the hatred of the "usurping Hanovers" had not died out with the less violent times. The following memorable year, Gilbert, second after cousin "Sam Johnston" had succeeded in exhorting the people of his state to be the first to declare independence of a Britain turned tyrant, organized at his own expense a squadron of partisan light horse, and commanded them "without pay or bounty" throughout the war. He served at first in North Carolina under Folsome and later in South Carolina with Francis Marion, the plans for whose famous corps had been made in his house. He carried the war to the enemy in the traditional way of his moss-trooping ancestors, who bore as their crest a "flying spur," won on horseback in saving the life of Bruce. With Gilbert were his sons, Gilbert III and Hugo, acting as troop commanders.
The war over and their objects achieved, the Gilberts began to pine for the green lowland country into which their campaign with the Swamp Fox had taken them. Sheltering Brompton was bade farewell.
The year 1790 found the infant America on its feet, Gilbert II and Gilbert III settled on "Hartfell," and Gilbert IV celebrating his ninth birthday.
A home rose at "Potato Bed Ferry," looking over the Black into Williamsburg, ;and became the hub of a twenty-odd thousand acre plantation.
Then came the news and cousin George, third and last Marquess of Annandale, Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount Annand, Baron de Joinville, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evansdale, Heretable Constable of the King's Palace of Lochamben and Steward of Annandale, had died unmarried, and with his death the male line of William, elder brother of John of Stapleton, became extinct. Several writers to the Signet are known to have come to Carolina with the news.
Whether the Gilberts seriously considered returning to a Scotland under foreign rule we do not know. Contemporary records show, however, that shortly thereafter new grants were made out to Gilbert Johnston. . . of lands bordering on the Black . . . ."
Gilbert, fourth, was married to Hannah Ford, daughter of Isaac Ford, whose grandfather was Lord High Sheriff of London; and secondly, to Harriet, daughter of B. Allston Tillman. At Potato Bed Ferry House in 1806, his first son Joseph Benjamin, was born. John Thomas, by his second wife, was born twenty years later.
Joseph Benjamin, educated abroad, returned to his home when about thirty to practice surveying and planting, and to become a militia officer. His choice of a mate was Elizabeth Green, of one of the first settled families of Prince Frederick, and descended from the ancient Greenes of Boketon, in Northamptonshire. Her father was Captain Richard G. Green, son of the youthful Captain Richard Green who was at one time with Sergeant McDonald in harboring no love for the unfortunate Major Gainey, as the following incident relates.
"Major Gainey, with another Tory visited Green's mother's house one night when Richard and James happened to be on furlough. They decamped at once with the boys in hot pursuit. This Major Gainey was the same man who carried the bayonet in his back into Georgetown. Being asked how it felt, he replied that it gave a great pain but it was not half so bad as when Mr. Green's rifle ball knocked nearly all his teeth down his throat!"
Richard Green was a grandson of John Green, original owner of "Mansfield" plantation, near Georgetown, known as the home of the distinguished Parker and Man families.
Joseph Benjamin Johnstone changed the spelling of his name to "Johnson" a few years prior to the War Between the States, because of the frequent confusion with the family of Archibald Johnstone of nearby "Annandale" plantation.
Not spoiling the 100 per cent Confederate record of Georgetown, Joseph Benjamin himself, until his death in 1861 and his four sons all donned the gray immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter. The eldest son, Richard Green, was a member of the Hampton Legion. Gilbert joined Company E, Tenth regiment, South Carolina Volunteers; John was in Company L, Seventh regiment, South Carolina Volunteers; and Jasper, too young to be sent to the front, served as a prison guard at Camp Marion.
Richard Green Johnstone's eldest son, by Carolina Barrineau of a Charleston Huguenot family, was Joseph Benjamin, second, born at Indiantown into an era of Reconstruction, to see the fortunes of his family already swept away. When still a boy, he took an ax in his hands, and began to build eventually to own his own "Indian Hut" and other plantations. His wife was Ida Allene Young, a daughter of James Hugh Heyward Young and Julia-Jeannete Scott McElveene Johnston.
Most of the Hartfell lands, in the meantime, came into the possession of Richard Kellehan who succeeded in making a fortune from them before they were divided up into innumerable small holdings, and the town of Andrews rose where once the scions of Annandale had planted cotton and indigo.
A number of personal belongings of the people herein mentioned are still in the possession of their descendants. Among these are a brace of silver crested pistols used by the first Gilbert Johnstones in the Scottish wars and in the American Revolution, engraved cuff-links and bookplates, and a great secretary-bookcase said to have been the property of the Thomas Lynches.
Article appeared on April 20, 1941 in
The News & Courier - ( which is now: The Post & Courier )
Charleston, South Carolina


Sources

  1. Scots Peerage Vol 1 Author: Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931. Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas 1904. Page 263 & 264 #3.
  2. The Kenan family and some allied families of the compiler and publisher Author: Register, Alvaretta Kenan. Publisher: Statesboro, Ga., J. S. Kenan II 1907.
  3. Peerage.com Maj.-Gen. Hon. John Johnstone & Catherine Christine von Ahlefeldt Marriage.
  4. British History Online House of Lords Journal Volume 62: 29 April 1830.




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Total Half-Match segments (HIR) 10.6cM (0.296 Pct)

Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 7.2

2 shared segments found for this comparison.

145486 SNPs used for this comparison.

52.362 Pct SNPs are full identical"

Based on feedback from Familytreedna.com regarding a fellow descendant of my ancestor Thomas Johnstone Jr. (Ronald Johnston on the profile) Is a fairly close cousin. I will get my uncle to take a Y-DNA test to confirm my closest male Johnston relative's haplogroup.

posted by Ron Johnston Forbus Esquire
edited by Ron Johnston Forbus Esquire
I match with the person listed above on GEDmatch.

Is this my Johnstone line? I match with Katherine on two different chromosomes. Hmm. Harrington or Davis match as well? Need to triangulate DNA.


I'm a descendant of Thomas Johnstone (Johnston) 1690-1750 Scotland to NC. Johnstone-222 son from first marriage?? Or is this John Thomas Johnston that never died? My Thomas Johnston was in Onslow before Samuel Johnston.

John's son Samuel is missing with the above listed children in the wikitree profile. based on the information in the profile from the family letter there was a family member in Onslow, NC. Could Samuel be a middle name instead?

How are Samuel (Johnston-8697)and Thomas Johnstone related? Both were in Onslow and have connections to Newberry, SC?

posted by Ron Johnston Forbus Esquire
edited by Ron Johnston Forbus Esquire
Johnstone-2273 and Johnstone-119 appear to represent the same person because: Same person.
posted by Ellen Smith
Johnston-5610 and Johnstone-119 appear to represent the same person because: Same person.
posted by Ellen Smith
John Johnstone, son of John and Elizabeth Belchier was born and died in Scotland, not in NC or SC.
posted by Jim Baucom Jr.
Thank you for the wonderful research you have presented here. Well done.
posted by A Fabry
Excellent job on this bio, Eric!!
posted by Paula J

This week's connection theme is Saints. John is 16 degrees from Marguerite D'Youville, 18 degrees from Birgitta Birgersdotter, 18 degrees from Marguerite Bourgeois, 14 degrees from Katherine Drexel, 18 degrees from Philippine Duchesne, 20 degrees from Isaac Jogues, 14 degrees from Mary MacKillop, 32 degrees from Zélie Martin, 17 degrees from John Newman, 17 degrees from Lorcán Ua Tuathail, 12 degrees from Elizabeth Ann Seton and 26 degrees from Edith Stein on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.

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