Do any of them do genealogy?? I am looking for some who might have migrated to Putnam/Dutchess County,NY. They had given names like Abraham/Justus/Samuel/John and went next to Orange County, then to the Lake Country by the 1820s) and mine to Tioga County,Pennsylvania(not NY). I dare even to look at this option(they could have come from Canada or Mass)because they associated with and married families from NJ in most cases-may be by chance. Bob Lefler----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Spade" <hjspade@prodigy.net> To: <NJWARREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [NJWARREN] Re: [NJHUNTER] The Charles Johnston dictionary with family records > Dear Phyllis and all, > I am happy to have started all of this! haha! I know how it exciting it > is to make discoveries in your family history. Now I see that Garrison > has been thrown in. There are still Garrisons in Harmony, Warren Co., NJ. > I know some of them. > :) Jennifer Shandor Spade > ----- Original Message ----- > From: pjohnston356@adelphia.net > To: NJWARREN-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:43 AM > Subject: [NJWARREN] Re: [NJHUNTER] The Charles Johnston dictionary with > family records > > > Marshal,I can't get any work done anymore because this Johnston saga is > so amazing. Thanks for this info. > > Jennifer Shandor Spade, if you are reading this, see what you started? > > I agree, there probably is a connection between John Garrison alias > Jeremiah Johnston and the Johnstons of Hunterdon County; it may or may not > be a genetic relationship, but possibly a "related by marriage" or at > least a social relationship. In 1796 a Joseph Johnston married a Rebecca > Garrison, and marriage records show quite a few Garrisons in Hunterdon > County in the early 1800s. Helen P. Allman's records show that this > Joseph was a son of Samuel who was son of the colonial judge Samuel > Johnston. As I said in a previous posting, comparison of Helen Allman's > records and the dictionary record of Charles Johnston show them to be the > same family. > > I did try to find a record of a Garrison male marrying a Johnston, > thinking that maybe John Garrison took his mother's maiden name when he > became Jeremiah Johnston, but couldn't find anything. > > In a quest to explain John Garrison's selection of a new identity, other > possibilities involving the phrases "jumped the fence" and "wrong side of > the blanket" came to mind, but that would be too difficult to prove and > maybe it is tasteless to even conjecture along those lines. > > Thanks for the web site--now I have to watch the movie--I never did see > it, can you believe that? > Phyllis > > ---- Marshall Lake <mlake@mlake.net> wrote: > > > > >> There was a John GARRISON who was born in Little York, (Alexandria > Twp > > >> ?) Hunterdon Co, NJ in 1823. He apparently got into trouble in the > > >> Navy, deserted, changed his name to Jeremiah JOHNSTON, and moved > west. > > > > > Thanks for telling me--I might have found this scoundrel in my > research > > > and thought he was a legitimate part of the family! We won't claim > HIM! > > > > :) You might want to claim him if he's yours. He was apparently a > > character of some notoriety. There was even a movie done about his > life > > story starring Robert Redford. See > > http://www.fpcc.net/~sgrimm/jeremiah_johnston.htm > > > > -- > > Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net > > > ==== NJWARREN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at: Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > ==== NJWARREN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at: Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >