In a message dated 3/1/2000 8:30:16 PM, [email protected] writes: << I am interested in communicating with someone who is familiar with Marmaduke Johnson of Warren County who died in 1819. I am getting conflicting information about him from the Raleigh newspaper abstracts and am interested in straightening it out. Forrest King >> Hello Forrest and all, I do not have any data on your Marmaduke Johnson, but it sounds as though he might have been a descendant of Martin Johnson of Surry County, Va who married Grace Beckwith, daughter of Marmaduke Beckwith of the same county. Martin Johnson died in 1687 and Grace died in the early 1700's. Below is what I have on this family; I descend from Martin's son John. I do not have any data on his siblings, who could be the progenitors of the Marmaduke Johnson line. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC Husband: Martin Johnson Birth: Circa 163033 Death: 1686 Place: Surry County, Virginia Wife: Grace Beckwith Birth: 1664 Place: Surry County, Virginia Death: About February 1719 Place: Surry County, Virginia Father: Marmaduke Beckwith (1640-1670) Mother: Maudlin Creed (1645-1700) Other spouses: William Lucas Children... 1. M Child: John Johnson Death: 20 April 1743 Place: Surry County, Virginia Occupation: Farmer; Land Owner; Carpenter31 Spouse: Hannah -?- 2. F Child: Elizabeth31 Johnson 3. F Child: Grace Johnson Spouse: Noah Barefoot 4. M Child: Thomas Johnson 5. M Child: William Johnson 6. M Child: Martin Johnson Birth: Before 1730 Husbands Notes... Notes: When Martin died in 1686 in Surry County, he left Hollera Barefoot, his granddaughter, and daughter of Noah Barefoot, two young cows when she came of age or married. Wifes Notes... Notes: Grace's will, dated 22 December 1719 and probated 17 February 1719/20 requested that the major part of her estate to be divided between her son William and "my daughters Ann, Grace, Hannah, and Elizabeth if the present fitt of Sickness she Laboureth under, but if she does not recover then Henry Briggs to have no part of my estate." Last Modified: 11 April 1998 Reference Note 31 Surry County Will 11 June 1742; rec: 20 April 1743. Exers: Peter Johnson; Leventon Johnson; Wit: Wm. Wrenn, Wm. Minton Reference Note 33 Court Afidavit given in Court 3 January 1670. (Surry County Court Records, 1664-1671, Book II)