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New River Settlements
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By David E. Johnston (1906).March 29, 2005



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Appendix C. Biographical.
Johnston.
The Johnstons.
In the 13th century, says Lieutenant Charles Johnston in his history of
this family, "There lived in the mountainous district of Annandale,
Dumbriesshire, Scotland, just north of Firth of Solway, a small but hardy
clan of borderers, whose chief was called John. They were doubtless of
Saxon origin, and up to this time were little known. Their clanbadge was
the Red Hawthorne. As the clan grew stronger their Chieftain became
ambitious to take his place among the chiefs of the larger clans. Their
motto was: "Viva ut vivas." A little after the middle of the 13th
century of chief of the clan applied to the Earl of Annandale, who was the
grandfather of Robert Bruce, to purchase a tract of land near the center
of the district; the deal was consummated, and it thereupon became
necessary to give name to the tract in question; Bruce, in the charter,
called it Jonistourn (or Johnston) , and this chieftain, now Lord
Jonistoun, was called Sir John de Jonistoun. His clan was thereafter
known as Jonistoun, or Johnistouns, the name now being spelled Johnstone
or Johnston. Some writers have fallen into the error that the name is
synonymous with Johnson, but a glance at the derivation of the names
easily discloses the error; Johnson is derived from and means the son of
John, while Johnston signifies John's Town; the one shows locality, the
other indicates descent.
"The Johnstons were a prolific clan as well as hardy, and in the next two
centuries after adopting the name, they became strong enough to excite the
jealousy of their neighbors, the much stronger clan of Maxwell of
Nithsdale, and many a bloody fight took place before the Johnstons
established their supremacy at the battle of Dyfe-Sands, in 1593, in which
the Maxwells were completely routed, leaving their chief, Lord John
Maxwell, dead on the field. At this time the chief of the Johnstons was
Sir James, who was succeeded by his son James, who was created Lord
Johnston in 1633; both were of the Peerage and served in the English
House of Lords. The Johnstons and Scotts, it seems, were near neighbors
in Scotland. Sir Walter Scott, in his "Fair Maid of Perth," gives
considerable prominence to the Johnston Clan, and adds some verses which
run as follows:
Within the bounds of Annandale
The gentle Johnstons ride,
They have been here a thousand years
And a thousand more they'll bide.
The seat of the Johnston Clan was at Lockerby, near the center of the
district of Annondale."
After the fall of Londondary, and religious persecution continuing in
their country, a large number of the Johnstons migrated to Ireland,
settling in County Antrim and near Eniskillen, in County Fermanagh, mostly
in the latter county. As early as 1700 several of these Fermanagh
Johnstons came to America, locating in Piedmont, Virginia, along the base
of the Blue Ridge, in what is now the Counties of Culpeper and
Rappahannock, then probably Essex County.
James Johnston, of Fermanagh, had two sons, James and David, the latter
born about 1726. The father having died and the estate under the laws
belonging to the older brother, James, the younger son David, seeing
nothing favorable to his remaining in Ireland, at the age of about ten
years, viz: about 1736 or 1737 sought an opportunity to join his kinsfolk
in America and succeeded in hiring himself to a ship captain as a cabin
boy, and finally landed at Norfolk, Virginia, and made his way across the
country to his relations on the waters of the Rappahannock. He became the
ancestor of the New River Johnstons. When about twenty-five years of age
(1751), he fell in love and married a pretty Irish girl by the name of
Nannie (or Annie) Abbott, a daughter of Richard Abbott of Culpeper, and
selected his home on Hazel River, near old Gourd Vine Church, in that
county.
John Chapman and his brother Richard, had also married daughters of
Richard Abbott. Moredock O. McKensey, from Glasgow, Scotland, had married
Jemima, the only sister of the Chapmans. In November, 1768, the Chapmans
and McKensey sold out their holdings in Culpeper, and crossed the Blue
Ridge and settled on the Shenandoah, where they remained until the year of
1771, when they removed to the New River Valley, locating at the mouth of
Walker's Creek, in the then County of Botetourt, now Giles. The
peculiar spelling of McKensey's name will be noted; the author examined
the record of deeds in the clerk's office of the County Court of Culpeper
County, finding a deed made by Mr. McKensey and wife in November, 1768,
conveying a tract of land on Burgess's River, to which deed the name of
McKensey is spelled "Moredock O. McKensey." Burgess's River has
disappeared from all the maps, if it ever had a place thereon, and
diligent inquiry of the Culpeper people failed to disclose its locality;
it is believed however, that the name has been changed to "Hedges' River."
In September, 1758, Hennings' Virginia Statutes, the House of Burgesses
made an appropriation to pay David Johnston, of Culpeper, a sum of money
for food furnished by him to friendly Indians. David Johnston remained in
Culpeper until 1778, and then came across the Alleghanies, settling on the
plateau or territory between Big Stoney Creek and Little Stoney Creek at
what is now know as the John Phleger farm, where he died in 1786, his wife
in 1813, and they are both buried on this farm. The house which he built
in1778 is still standing and forms a part of the residence of the late
John Phleger, and is no doubt the oldest structure in the County of Giles.
David Johnston and his wife, Nannie, or Annie, Abbott Johnston, had
eight children, three sons and five daughters, all born in Culpeper, the
eldest; Sallie, had married Thomas Marshall before the family left
Culpeper.
James Johnston, the eldest son of David, had visited the New River Valley
in 1775, no doubt on a visit to the Chapmans and McKensey, and on his
return to Culpeper, and in January, 1776, he enlisted in a volunteer
company commanded by Captain George Slaughter, which company was attached
to the 8th Regiment of Virginia Infantry commanded by Colonel Muhlenberg.
James Johnston served two years in the American Army; his first service
or a part thereof was in South Carolina and Georgia; his command then
marched north and was under the immediate command of General Washington.
James was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, marched through the
Jerseys, and spent the winter at Valley Forge.
David Johnston and Nannie Abbott Johnston had the following children:
James, who married Miss Copley; Sallie, who married Thomas Marshall;
Elian, who married Isaac Chapman; Jemima, who married John Chapman, of
Wolf Creek; Virginia, who married Isaac McKensey; David, born in 1768,
married Mrs. Sallie Chapman Miller, the widow of Jacob Miller; Andrew,
born in 1770, married Jane Henderson of Montgomery County; Annie, the
youngest daughter, married George Fry, Jr.
This George Fry, Jr., was a son of George Fry who married the widow of the
elder David Johnston, the Settler. Captain George W. Caldwell, of Mercer,
is the grandson of Annie Johnston Fry, and the great grandson of the elder
David Johnston. James Johnston and his wife, ....... Copley, had
several children; sons, Reuben and David. The family, except David,
went to Indiana about the time of its admission into the Union. David
married a Miss Peck, of Botetourt County, and resided on Sinking Creek,
where his descendants still live. Thomas Marshall and his wife, Sallie
Johnston Marshall, who settled near the present dwelling house of George
L. Snidow, Esq., in Giles County, had four sons and two daughters; the
sons: John, David, James and Thomas; the daughters, Nancy and Aggie.
The family of Thomas Marshall removed at an early date to Powell's Valley,
Virginia.
John Chapman, of Wolf Creek, the son of Richard and Jemima Johnston
Chapman, had quite a numerous family; one grandson, J. W. Chapman,
residing on Wolf Creek, in Bland County, is the only one of that family
now bearing that name that lives in this country. John Chapman and wife
had a daughter who married William Wilburn, of Sugar Run, and Boston and
John Howard Wilburn are her sons. The late John Chapman Wilburn was also
a grandson to the said John Chapman.
Isaac McKensey and family went to Kentucky quite a hundred years ago.
George Fry and his wife, Annie Johnston Fry, had a number of children,
among them two sons, David and James, who went to Cabell County, Virginia,
as early as 1820, and their descendants live in Cabell and Wayne, some of
whom were men of prominence, among them Chapman Fry, grandson of James,
was long Clerk of the County Court of Wayne; William, another grandson,
is a lawyer and now the Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County; Johnston
Fry, a son of James, was for many years Deputy Sheriff of Wayne County.
Some members of this family settled in Boone and Logan Counties, and their
descendants still live there.
Sallie, a daughter of George Fry, Jr., and Annie Johnston Fry, married
David Croy; another daughter of George and Annie Fry, Eliza, married John
Caldwell, who resided for many years in Mercer County, where he and his
wife both died and are buried. They left a number of children, among them
Captain George W. Caldwell, who was a faithful and brave Confederate
soldier, and was for a number of years surveyor of Mercer County.
The children of Isaac and Elian Johnston Chapman and who they married,
will be seen by reference to the biographical sketch of the Chapmans.
David Johnston and his wife, Mrs. Sallie Chapman Miller Johnston, had two
sons and three daughters; the sons: Oscar Fitzalan Johnston, was born
June, 1807, married Elizabeth French, daughter of Isaac and Sallie Straley
French; had three children, David E., who married Sarah E. Pearis;
Sallie V. (Note: Died December 2d, 1905.) who married, first, Jesse N.
Simmons, second, George O'Rayburn; Oscar H., who died in 1879,
unmarried. Chapman Isaac Johnston, born January, 1809, died December,
1891, married Elian Chapman Snidow, daughter of John and Rachel Chapman
Snidow; they had sons, David Andrew, who married Fannie Shumate; J.
Raleigh, who married Nona Peck; Sarah Ellen, who married William Augustus
French; Annie Chapman , who married Charles Dingess French; Rachel
Snidow, who married, first, ......... Daugherty, second, Joseph H. Alvis.
Olivia Johnston married William M. Gillespie of Tazewell County; had
three sons, David Johnston, who married Elizabeth Saunders, Joseph Stras,
who married Mary Higginbotham; Albert Pendleton, who married Nannie
Higginbotham; the daughters, Sarah, who married Clinton Barnes;
Margaret, who married Colonel Joseph Harrison; Louisa, who married
Captain Henry Bowen; Mary, who married Oscar Barnes; Barbara, who
married George W. Gillispie; Ella, who married Dr. J. L. Painter. Louisa
Adeline Johnston married Colonel Daniel H. Pearis; they had three
children, two daughters and one son: Virginia, who died in 1860,
unmarried; George Daniel, who when little above the age of sixteen years,
joined Bryan's Virginia Battery and was killed in the battle of Cloyd's
Farm, May 9th, 1864; and Sarah E., who married David E. Johnston. Sallie
Chapman Johnston died unmarried.
Colonel Andrew Johnston and his wife, Jane Henderson Johnston, had five
children; three sons and two daughters: James D., a lawyer of great
prominence, married Mary A. Fowler, daughter of Dr. Thomas Fowler and his
wife, Priscilla Chapman Fowler. Andrew Henderson Johnston married Mary
McDaniel, and they had two children, Walter McDaniel, who married Annie
Hays; Jennie, who married Honorable Thomas H. Dennis. Dr. Harvey Green
Johnston married, first, Annie Snidow, by whom he had four children;
secondly, he married Mrs. Mary Fowler Halsey, by whom he had four
children. Mary Johnston married James M. Carper; they had two sons and
three daughters. Eliza Jane Johnston married James Hoge, of Montgomery
County; they had a large family of children.
The children of James D. Johnston and his wife, Mary Fowler Johnston,
were: Roberta, who married Dr. John Izard; Allene, who died
unmarried; Sydney F. (now dead), who married miss Hattie Carey; Mamie,
who married Mason Jamison, and James D., a brilliant young lawyer of
Roanoke, Virginia.
The children of Dr. Harvey Green Johnston are: Dr. William A., who
married Mrs. Dennis; Carrie, who married Mr. J. E. Triplett; Jennie, who
married Mr. William Black; Loula, who married Mr. B. E. Bransford;
Fowler, who died young; Harvey, Vivian and Ada are unmarried.
Annie Hoge, daughter of James Hoge and Eliza Jane Johnston Hoge, married
Major John Chapman Snidow; had two sons and two daughters; the sons,
William and Walter; daughters, Florence, who married John T. S. Hoge;
Annie C., who married John W. Williams, who was Clerk of the Virginia
House of delegates. The sons of James Hoge and Eliza Jane Johnston Hoge
are Dr. Robert, James, Joseph, Rev. B. Lacey and Tyler, and a daughter,
Jane Nellie.
The descendants of the settler David Johnston, or many of them, together
with the descendants of the settlers John and Richard Chapman, have not
only been prominent and influential people in both civil and military
affairs in the New River Valley, but even in other sections of the
country. In every constitutional convention held in Virginia, except
those of 1776, and the "Black and Tan," of 1869, this Johnston-Chapman
blood has had representatives. Henley Chapman was in the Convention of
1829-30; his son, General Augustus A. Chapman, was a member of the
Convention of 1850-1; his son, Mannilius, a member of the Secession
Convention of 1861; a great- grandson of David Johnston and John Chapman
was a member of the late Constitutional Convention of Virginia in the
person of Honorable Albert Pendleton Gillespie, of Tazewell. The second
David Johnston, Andrew Johnston, Isaac Chapman, and his son, John, were
frequently in the Legislature of Virginia; and later, Oscar F. Johnston,
Augustus A. Chapman, and Manilius Chapman were members of the Virginia
Legislature. A grandson and great- grandson of the settler, John
Chapman, together with a great nephew, were members of the House of
Representatives of the United States, in the persons of General A. A.
Chapman, David E. Johnston, and Honorable Reuben Chapman, the latter of
Alabama. Two great-grandsons of the elder David Johnston and John Chapman
have been Circuit Judges in West Virginia, and one of them, Honorable
Joseph M. Sanders, has recently been elevated to the bench of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Honorable James French Strother, a
great-great-grandson of John Chapman, is now a judge in West Virginia.
Major Samuel E. Lybrook and William A. French, great-grandsons of John
Chapman, represented Giles County in the Legislature of Virginia; and
Samuel Lucas, a great-grandson of the elder David Johnston, was also a
member of the Virginia Legislature.
About the year of 1800 there came to what is now Giles County and settled
in what is known as the Irish settlement, an influx of the Johnstons from
Fermanagh County, Ireland. Adam Johnston married in Ireland Elizabeth
Stafford, of County Tyrone. Adam, and his wife, Elizabeth Stafford
Johnston, had a numerous family, among them, John, Adam, James Edward and
others. John, James and Edward had large families, who with their
descendants mostly reside in Giles County. Adam is the ancestor of the
larger part of the Mercer County Johnstons. Edward, usually called
"Squire Neddy," was Clerk of Giles County Court for several years.
Some of the descendants of John and James Johnston reside in Mercer
County, among them Dr. Charles A. Johnston, George S. Strader, and the
family of Jacob L. Peters. Among these Scotch-Irish settlers who came
about 1800 were the Eatons, Staffords, Egglestons and others.




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Source: Woodford County Kentucky Court House
Written: March 25 1809
Recorded: October 1810

John Marshall Will Woodford County, Kentucky Will Book C P. 283

In the name and mercy of God Amen, I John Marshall of the County of
Woodford and state of Kentucky considering that I am well advanced in
years and
finding myself at this time of sound and disposing mind and memory do
make and
ordain this present writing my last will and testament, that is to say
after
recommending my soul to the bounteous reception of an heavenly redeemer.
I give
and bequeath to my daughter Mary Whittington for and during her natural
life
and on her death to her children (by her present husband) then living
and the
heirs of them forever to be equally divided the following: Negro Slaves
(to
wit) NanùHannahùObedùand Nanny and the increase of the females of them.
Next I
give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth January for and during her
natural
life and on her death to her children (by her present husband) then
living and
their heirs forever the following Negro slaves (to wit) Jerry and Betty
and her
increase. Next I give and bequeath to my daughter Jane Marshall and her
heirs
forever one Negro woman slave named Celia and her children Maria, Robin,
and
Cillar and the future increase of them also, one sorrel mare and her
increase
and one feather bed and furniture.
Next I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy Marshall and her heirs
forever
one Negro woman slave named Sarah and her children Daniel and Julia and
her
future increase of Sarah, also one bay mare and her increase and one
feather
bed and furniture and lastly I do constitute and appoint my sons, Thomas

Marshall, Humphrey Marshall, and James Marshall and the survivor of them
my
executors, but any one of them qualifying should the others or either of
them
not qualify shall have the power of the whole.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal and do publish
this my last will and testament this 25 day of March 1809. John
Marshall.
Test: William Vawter, Maria Vawter, Virginia Vawter.

Woodford County SCT October Court 1810
This the last will and testament of John Marshall, dec. was produced in
court proven by the oaths of William Vawter, Maria Vawter, and Virginia
Vawter,
the subscribing witnesses there to and ordered to record whereupon
Humphrey
Marshall, one of the executors therein named came into court, took the
oaths
prescribed by law and entered into bond with Lewis Marshall his security
in the
penalty of three thousand dollarsùconditioned according to Law, probate
is
granted him in due form of Law with leave for other executors to be
qualified.
Teste: John McKinney Jr.


Father: John Sr. Marshall b: ABT 1682 in 'The Forest' Westmoreland Cty. VA

Mother: Elizabeth Markham b: ABT 1704 in Alexandria, Va.

Marriage 1 Mary Quisenberry b: 1732 in King George County, Va
Married: 11 NOV 1747 in Fauquier County, Virginia
Children
Enoch Marshall b: ABT 1748 in Fauquier or King George County
Humphrey Marshall b: 1756 in Fauquier, Virginia
Thomas Marshall b: 27 FEB 1759 in Fauquier, Virginia
James Marshall b: 1761 in Oak Hill, Virginia
Eleanor Marshall b: 1762
John III Marshall b: 1763
Jane Marshall b: 1764 in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky
Nancy Marshall b: 1767 in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky
Mary Marshall b: 1768 in Woodford, Ky
Elizabeth Marshall b: 1770 in East Maryville, Ky

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ID: I1268
Name: Thomas MARSHALL
Given Name: Thomas
Surname: MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1753-1754 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Death: in Lee County, Virginia
Event: Military Service
Note: American Revolution
Change Date: 18 Oct 2004 at 14:45
Note:

Thomas served in the Montgomery County Virginia Militi a during the
American Revolution in th company of Capt. Joh n LUCAS. His name is
inscribed on a monument at the courth ouse in Pearisburg, VA, county
seat of Giles County.



Father: John MARSHALL b: 1731-1734
Mother: Mary QUISENBERRY

Marriage 1 Sarah "Sallie" JOHNSTON b: Abt 1752 in Culpeper County,
Virginia
Married: Abt 1772 in Culpeper County, Virginia
Change Date: 1 Oct 2004
Children
John MARSHALL b: 1772
James H MARSHALL b: 1770
Agnes MARSHALL b: 1790
Reuben MARSHALL b: 1781 in Montgomery County, Virginia

Marriage 2 Roseanne
Married:
Change Date: 1 Oct 2004




∼He was the son of John Marshall and Jane Quisenberry. He was first married to Fanny Parker about 1782 in Virginia and second to Nancy Brewer in 1809 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

His brothers Humphrey and James Marshall are mentioned in his obituary, along with his cousin Chief Justice John Marshall, son of his uncle, Thomas Marshall (1730-1802).