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    1. [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Johnsons in Lunenburg
    2. Hi, I'm not up on all the various Johnsons of Lunenburg Co who descend from Michael of Goochland and previously Henrico. Nor am I up on all those who aren't descended from him. But I will toss my few Johnsons into the ring to be counted. I descend from David Johnson, son of Joseph (son of Michael), who was born prob. bet 1730-1740 in, I would guess, Goochland Co. David shows up as an adult in court records in the late 1750s. He appears to have been married twice. I have no idea who his first wife was, but he seems to have had three children who survived to adulthood from that marriage: Mary, b about 1755, Morris, b about 1762, and Joshua, b bet 1766-1770. David goes in and out of tax records in Lunenburg Co and once turns up in Halifax Co. He owned land he bought from Josiah Shipp on Crupper Run, Lunenburg Co, which is right by the Coxes, Estes, and Chandlers and not far from the land of Joseph Johnson. Crupper Run seems to be west of the Middle Fork of the Meherrin River and was at one time called Robertson's Fork. David's second wife was called Rachel. She is the mother of Sarah, Hester, Charity, Samuel, Anny and Frances. The youngest of these children, Frances, was born in 1782, according to her record in the 1850 census in South Carolina. David and family seem to have left VA about 1787 and ended up in Edgefield District South Carolina by 1790 (he is enumerated in the census there). He died in 1797 in Edgefield. His wife, Rachel, died a year later. Morris seems to have come to Edgefield by the time his father died, but did not accompany the family. Not sure when Joshua arrived. All the sons were there in the first part of the 1800s. I have just recently had a little luck tracking down, I think, some of the descendants of his son, Samuel. I have a little information on the descendants of his other children and quite a lot on the family of his daughter, Anny, who is in my direct line. A number of the collateral relatives to this line either ended up in or passed through Edgefield, SC. Would be happy to share information with anyone who is researching this or collateral lines. Barbara Schenck

    10/21/2003 02:33:55