Bruce, Your note to Perry is very interesting. Do you know where one could find a record of all those who "accepted SC's grant of land for service in the Revolutionary War" ? Do you know if there were such grants for the War of 1812 and where those records would be? Does anyone else? I haven't thought to look at that information as yet. ron researching: Bolding, Buckner, Christopher, Golladay, Miller, Ramsey, Stone and Woolbright , et al At 06:11 PM 8/7/01 EDT, you wrote: >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 > > >==== SCGREENV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >your heritage! >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >