Hi The following is the info I have on my Johnson line, which begins in Dauphin County, PA. --------- The only information I have comes from "Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Illinois", Chicago: Chapman Brothers. 1888 (p.708). The article is about my 2nd great-grandfather James JOHNSON, Jr. but says this about my 4th great-grandfather "Samuel JOHNSON, who was a native of the northern part of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. He came to this country before the Revolutionary War, in which he served as a private, and located in what is now known as Dauphin County, Pa., where he was an early settler, and lived and died there after following the occupation of a farmer." I don't have his spouses name. Of my 3rd great-grandfather: "The father of our subject, James JOHNSON, Sr., was the youngest of five sons and three daughters and was reared in Dauphin County(,Pa), where he was born. He grew up a farmer and was married to Miss Mary JOHNSON, of the same county, and came of the same ancestry as her husband. The parents later in life went to what is now Clinton County, Pa., and there made their home until their death, the father being eighty-four, and the mother eighty years old at the time of their decease. They were early settlers of Clinton County." Of James JOHNSON, Jr. "is the fifth of ten children, four sons and six daughters. He was born in the southern part of Pennsylvania, Oct. 14, 1814, and grew up at home, his father having moved to several different counties during his childhood. Our subject received his education principally in Franklin County, Pa. He lived at home until he was fourteen or fifteen years old, when he set out to make his own way in life. He worked for a few years in a woolen factory, and was married to Miss Elizabeth SMITH in Clinton County." "After his marriage, Mr. JOHNSON lived in Clinton County, Pa., on a farm until he came West to Illinois, in the spring of 1850. He then purchased 120 acres of partly improved land, where he now lives on section 7, of Rock Run Township, to which he has since made an addition, owning now 220 acres." It is mentioned that Elizabeth "is the mother of seven children, one deceased: Mary A. is the wife of Paul LAIR, and lives on a farm in Kansas; Sarah C. is the wife of Henry LAIR, who lives on a farm adjoining; Isabella, wife of Samuel BARR, farmer, lives near Red Oak, Iowa; Nettie, wife of Luke BECK, resides in Freeport, Ill.; John R., who married Mary MITCHELL, lives in this township on a farm; Samuel W. resides at home." John Roan JOHNSON who married Mary Jane MITCHELL was my great-grandfather and I have fairly complete information on him. As you can see I don't have specific dates on Samuel JOHNSON and his son James JOHNSON. Thanks, Dean