1785 June 24: Monongalia Co: Samuel Canly: 1000 acres adjoining lands of Thomas Lewellin, Jacob Jones, **Edward Johnston** and Samuel Ruble: Land Office Grants Q, 1785 pg 303 on reel 57: Library of Virginia Archives Section 1781-1783: Monongalia Co: Certificates Presented by Michael Johnson for goods and supplies supplied to the Continential Army (somehow I think this Michael is related to Edward) 1784 July 20: Monongalia Co: Patrick Johnston: 185 acres on the Laurel Run adjoining Elias laton: Land Office Grants P, 1784-1785 pg 96 on reel 56, Library of Virginia Archives section (Patrick Johnston may be related, too) 1786 Dec 19: Hedgeman Triplett: 20 acres adjoining land of John Lewellen, **Edward Johnson**, and Jacob Cozand including a Mill seat on Morgans Run: Land Office Grants # 7, 1786-1787 pg 661 on reel 73: Library of Virginia Archives Section 1787 Feb 2: Monongalia Co: James Johnson: 320 acres on the Monongalia River adjoining the land of John Burrows including his settlement made in 1769: Land Office Grants # 8, 1786-1787 pg 376 on reel 74: Library of Virginia Archives section 1787 Sept 18: Monongalia Co: James Johnson: 218 acres on Buffaloe Creek above the land of John Ice: Land Office Grants # 16: 1787-1788 pg 71 on reel 82: Library of Virginia Archives Section 1789 March 31: Monongalia Co: SamuelHanway: 170 acres on both sides of Wests Run adjoingin John Johnson: Land Office Grants # 19, 1788-1789 pg 326 on reel 85: Library of Virginia Archvies section (James, and John Johnson are probably related) **History of Tucker County by Fansler, pg.55 In 1785, a tax list shows the following tithables then in the Cheat River Settlement: James Parsons, George Richardson, Salathiel Goff, Thomas Wilmoth, William Parsons, James Shaw, Hannah Cooper, Uriah Gandy, Patrick Magonagan, Mickle Parsons, William Shaw, EDWARD JOHNSON, Philip Fisher, and David, Philip and Adam Minear, all three sons of John Minear. By that time both John Minear and his son Jonathan were dead, victims of the Indians and that siren call of the wilderness. *** most of the above men were from Hardy Co. Va.***** 1790 Monongalia Census Johnson, Edward 03 Johnson, Edward 09 Johnson, James 08 Johnson, John 06 Johnson, Michael 08 03 Johnson, Patrick 05 Randolph Co. WVa. pp 72 Richard Johnston men(tioned). John, Patrick & Edward Johnston men. Mary Johnson men." (this under 1787-1799 timeframe) ...I know in 1785 Edward Johnson is on a tax list from the Cheat River Settlement, this would be either Randolph Co. or Monongalia Co. Va. - I believe Patrick is listed in Monongalia Co. Va. in 1790 "Hardy Co. WVa. 1790 - Patrick, John & Edward Johnston men CAPTAIN ABEL WESTFALL'S COMPANY - 8TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT (1776-1778) Note: The source of the following list is Roll #106, Series M-246 of the Revolutionary War Microfilm collection at the National Archives. The comments in parenthesis ( ) are those of the compiler, william H. Rice, based on other sources available to him. The unit is made up of 1776 residents of Hampshire County, Virginia in most cases. (Patrick Johnston/Johnson (probably settler by that name on Cheat River in present day Tucker County 1782-1789). and this (Andrew Layton - Sick in Maryland - Sick in Peter Little's town (Probably related to the Elias Layton in the 1782 Monongalia County tax list on Cheat River near Patrick Johnson) A WALK ABOUT RANDOLPH COUNTY WITH THE TAX COLLECTOR IN 1802, by Warren Skidmore This list appears to be in the hand of Robert Maxwell, and has been rearranged by the date the tax was collected to show presumptive neighbors. On May 28th, for example, the collector appears to have been on the Holly River in what is now Braxton County. The men listed as Exempted were probably all aged or infirm and excused from paying the tax by the court. Constables and a few other officers are noted as they were also exempt. April 17th Edward Johnson ****the Edward I would like to know about***** Elizabeth Bell & son John Elizabeth Saylor & son Samuel Isaac Springston I believe Patrick and Edward are somehow related. Edward was in the Tucker Co. area of Randolph Co. Va. in 1802 - Tucker co. did not become a county until the 1860's so it was still Randolph - however the border was in dispute with Monongalia, too. There were other Johnsons in Tucker Co. related to a Garrett Johnson - Edward is not related to those Johnsons - they were Dutch and I believe Edward was English or perhaps Scotch-Irish. His daughter Margaret married William Loughry a son of Patrick Loughry of Harrison Co. Va. Patrick was a son of John Loughry/Lochry - a son of Jeremiah, they were of Scotch-Irish descent. Thanks, Becky Lucas