If you send me your address I'll send you that first chapter. Now, as for the stuff that I have at home. (THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM IS LAST!) >From # 64 (each Will is multi-pages long) 1. Will of Cullen Pollack, Tyrrel County, 1749 2. Will of George Pollack, 1736 3. Will of Thomas Pollock, Sr., Chowan Precinct, 1722 4. Will of Thomas Pollock, Bertie Precinct, 1732 5. Will of Gabriel Johnston (Governor), Bertie, Tyrrell, Granville, 1751 6. Will of Samuel Johnston, Onslow, 1756 7. Will of Charles Eden (Governor), 1721 >From # 16 1. over 3000 mentions of Pollock in Land Patients 2. 18 Land Patient mentions for Ward 3. over 1000 mentions of Eden in Land Patients 4. 11 mentions of Johnston in Land Patients (no Joab or Joel) >From # 17 1. family entry of Joel JOHNSON, Sr. (your ancestor, except for the "T") >From # 153 A lot on the "other" Johnston/Johnson family from Johnston County, NC. >From # 20 A somewhat convoluted account (a mention of "McCulloch" on every 50th page). Although there are Johnstons/Johnsons mentioned there are no Joabs, and none listed as the early settlers. No Joabs listed in three NC Taxpayers books. No Joabs in any of the very early Land Patient books. >From # 11 There are 2 Joab Johnsons listed, both too late to be the father of Joel. One Joab has a Will on file in Sampson County (1842), and the other has a Will on file in Edgecombe County (1860). >From # 116 The Will of Joab Johnson, dated 26 February, 1842, mentions no children or wife. Everything is divided between the three GOFF children none yet 21. JOHNSON William not dated prob. date not found (Book # 11 says this Will is in WB-A/48 in the NC Archives) Wife Betsy Johnson - plant. whereon I now live during her NL or widowhood; 1/3 part of cattle during her NL & afterwards to be divided between 4 sons George, Allen, William & Taylor Johnson; household furn. to wife & after death to 3 daus Daus Dorcas, Nancy & Betsy Johnson - 2/3 livestock & cattle Granddaus Molsey Chappel Johnson & Nancy Jean Fryer - $10.00 to each Son Allen Johnson - all my land after death of wife, except that given by deed Sons Nathan Johnson & Joel Johnson, John Fryer - 6 pence each Rem. prop to wife, daus & youngest sons Exec: wife Betsy Johnson, son Joab John Johnson (signed) William (sign) Johnson *NC State Archives So we know that William Johnson of Sampson County had sons Joab (middle name John) and Joel Johnson. We know that there was a Joab Johnson in Sampson that died with no wife and children listed. The Joel Johnson that is in Bladen (1755-1832) certainly looks good for belonging to this family. There is a Will for Nathan Johnson of Sampson County (1851), (son of the above William?, brother of Joel and Joab?) who lists his sons Bizzell, Nathan , Robert and Allen, and son-in-law William Fryer. Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: William Mallory To: Dee Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:22 AM Subject: Re: 1736 Settlers (JOHNSTON) No, I do not have that reference, but will check the local genealogy library. My only source for early Johnston settlers is a Johnson Family History, which was compiled and published many years ago, but without any documentation. That publication shows my ancestor to be Thomas Johnston, of Ulster, Ireland, who emigrated to the Albemarle district of NC in 1680. His son was Jonathan. The only mention of Jonathan's son Joab was said to be in the will of Jonathan's brother, William, who left land along the Neuse River to Joab and his brothers, Ashby, Soloman and Jacob. Joab was said to be the father of Joel Johnston, Sr. My research indicates to me there may have been another family with similar names that settled in Johnston County, and that may have confused earlier researchers. Although I cannot document this history, I will not discard it without evidence of other ancestry. Thanks you for your efforts. You certainly got me excited when you said that you have "a ton of stuff" for me. Bill Mallory ----- Original Message ----- From: Dee Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:21 AM To: William Mallory Subject: Fw: 1736 Settlers (JOHNSTON) Bill, Do you have a copy of "William Johnston of Isle of Wight County, Virginia And His Descendants 1648-1964"? Part I Johnstons of the Colonial Period, Chapter 1. William Johnston (1648-1719), and branches settling in Southampton and Nansemond Counties (Va.) and in Halifax, Edgecombe, Northampton, Warren, Wake, Johnston, Bladen, Columbus, Bertie, Duplin and Wayne Counties (N.C.). There is a great deal of information on Joel Johnston, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Johnston, brother of Josiah , Moses , Starling ,Elizabeth, Polly, Sarah, Rebeckah, Henry, and Drury. The dates are a pretty good fit but there is not a single mention of Joab Johnston. Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: To: d7777@worldnet.att.net Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 10:48 AM Subject: 1736 Settlers Thank you for all the help you provide to those of us searching for our ancestors. Do you know if there is any record of the family names of those Scotch-Irish settlers who came to Duplin-Sampson County with Henry McCulloch from Ulster in 1736? They established themselves along the tributaries of the Cape Fear River, at Sarecta, Kenansville, Goshen Swamp and the Black River. Perhaps Grove Church, which they founded, has a record. The family names I am researching are Pollock, Johnston, Ward and Edens, and I have wondered if some of them came to America with that group, since Pollock and Johnston are Scottish names. The Pollocks and Wards were certainly present at Goshen in he 18th century. My Johnston ancestor was Joel Johnston, Sr, born about 1755 along the Black River in southern Sampson. He lived most of his life in northern Bladen County, near Johnsontown. The family cemetery is just east of there, in Bladen State Forest. I wish I knew his parents names; family oral history indicates his father was Joab Johnston from the Albemarle District, but we have too little evidence of Joab to confirm that theory. Regards, Bill Mallory