Notes for Soloman Johnston, Sr.




			The Ancestors of H A R R Y F E R G U S O N J O H N S O N of North Carolina

Notes for Soloman Johnston, Sr.

The following paragraphs are quoted directly from "The Family of Cicero Howard Johnson and Eugenia Theodora Robinson - the Sixteenth Generation Descendants of Sir John de Johnstone" compiled by Merla Johnson Cline and Betty Gene Caison Best, (1989):
"12. Soloman Johnston ca 1727 married Mary Herring; children - Soloman, Jr., Soasby, Ephriam, Samuel.
"July 27, 1753, Soloman Johnston was issued a grant of land from George II, King of England, located on the north side of the Great Contentnea Creek. The Johnston County Land Grand records show that Soloman Johnston owned over nine hundred acres on Contentnea Creek. His brother Jacob Johnston is listed among the tax payers in Johnston County in 1769. Johnston county was formed from Craven in 1746. It was probably that section of Craven in which these gentlemen lived that was taken into the formation of Johnston county.
"Soloman and his brother, Joab, settled in what is now Sampson County, coming from Contentnea, which is northeast of Sampson, shortly before the Revolutionary War. They settled on the head of Doctor's Creek and Clear Run. Soloman was a Methodist preacher.
"Soloman Johnson, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War with two of his brothers, Ephraim Johnson and Soasby Johnson -- all in the same Jones Company, 10th Regiment. They enlisted June 15, 1781 for 12 months and served in Captain Samuel Jones' Company in North Carolina. This information is of record in 'State Records of NC,' by Walter Clark, in Volume XVI, 1782, page 1093. It is said the Tories captured these brothers and put them in Halifax jail because they would not fight with the Tories. While in jail they sung a patriotic song which they learned in jail:
The French are full of envy,
The city's full of pride
The Parish is full of poverty
And we can not abide.
"These three brothers escaped from jail and rejoined the Revolutionary Army the same day in the same company as above mentioned."

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