Perry, Although I have conversed with some nice descendants of the Reuben Johnson line, their line does not appear to be the same as mine. The oldest known head of my family is Benjamin Ware Johnston who accepted SC's grant of land for his Rev. War service along the Middle Fork of the Saluda River in 1785. Where he lived before that we do not yet know. The 1800 SC Census seems to show that Benjamin had seven or eight kids and no wife as of that year. Benjamin moved on to those greener pastures about 1810. Meanwhile, three of his sons (William, Joseph, Aaron) changed their surname to "Johnson" married some of the neighbors who lived on the North Fork of the Saluda then moved on themselves about 1818 to the Cumberland Gap area of KY. I don't yet know who Benjamin's other kids are nor who is their mother. I have exchanged information with a number of the Johns(t)on families' researchers of Greenville District of this same time frame over the last three years. Sadly, they could not detect my Benjamin among their clans. Bruce Nichols