In a message dated 07/30/2002 7:38:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jreece@icx.net writes: << What was the given name of Gov. Johnson of SC in the 1730's? Is there biographical info available on him? Joyce Gaston Reece >> Greetings from SC. Although I have no known connection to Gov. Johnson, I find the following in "South Carolina: A History," by Dr. Walter Edgar, USC Press, Columbia, SC, 1998 (a "must- have" book): p. 52 "...it was Gov. Robert Johnson who has been most closely identified with the 'Scheem... for Settling Townships.' In 1730 he proposed to the Board of Trade a plan for the orderly settlement of the South Carolina frontier. The board, in its imstructions to him, authorized the surveying of eleven townships that would rind the settled areas of South Carolina, serving as a defensive perimeter against both Indians and Spaniards." p. 115 "For the most part, South Carolina was lucky in its first two royal governors because merit had little to do with their selection. Robert Johnson (1730- 1735), son of a proprietary governor with important friends, lobbied strenuously for the position and got it." p. 116 "Like their British counterparts, the South Carolinians owed their positions to family connections. Broughton [Lt. Gov. Thomas Broughton 1730- 1737] was Gov. Robert Johnson's brother-in-law." There is much more about Gov. Johnson's political activities that you might enjoy reading in Dr. Edgar's book. I quickly skimmed all of the indexed references to Gov. Johnson & found no other genealogical info. URQ p. 160 "...When Gov. Robert Johnson died in 1735, South Carolina held its first state funeral. Two companies of militia served as an honor guard, royal councillors were his pallbearers, and members of the Commons House were official mourners. Johnson was interred near the altar of St. Philip's Church." p.