http://www.usatrivia.com/vpbirjoh.html Richard Mentor Johnson - 9th Vice President Party: Democrat Term: March 4 - 1837 - March 3, 1841 Age at First Inauguration: 56 Life Span: Oct 17, 1780 - Nov 19, 1850 [70] President: Martin Van Buren For the first and only time in history, the vice president was chosen by a vote of the senate when no majority was received in the electoral college Johnson was considered by most as a vulgar mouthed, non-conformist individual whose only claim to fame was that killed an Indian chief named Tecumseh As a congressman he proposed requiring postal employees to work a seven day week because he enjoyed receiving mail Consistently close to bankruptcy and heavily in debt, he voted to eliminate debtors prisons, and proposed numerous pay raises for Congress He inherited a slave, Julia Chinn, from his deceased father and took her as his common-law wife He fathered two daughters, raised them as free persons, and later gave them large tracts of land when they married - both to white men After Julia died in 1833, he took another slave as his common-law wife who ran away from his plantation Johnson found the woman, sold her at a slave auction, and took her sister as his mistress Needless to say, Johnson was not a respected individual, and in the election of 1836 some states refused to cast a ballot for him, including his home state of Kentucky He fell one vote short of a majority, and after the senate began deliberating, Van Buren used his influence to win the vote in the senate. See a genealogy link to descendants of WILLIAM JOHNSON (also spelled JOHNSTON and JOHNSTONE) http://www2.1starnet.com/cgenzel/johnson/pafg04.htm Race Meets Politics on the American Frontier Flashback: To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child-Cicero http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/taema99f.htm Prodigal Daughter wants to be a DAR member Summer 2000 The Women's Quarterly. Independent Women's Forum http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Summer2000a.shtml HarpWeek | American Political Prints 1766-1876 | Medium Image ... image is of a black woman, supposedly Johnson's mulatto mistress Julia Chinn. She sits on a small knoll holding a bag, http://www.loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.as p?SourceIndex=People&IndexText=Johnson,+Richard+M.&UniqueID=15&Year=1836 Julia Chinn and Traveling Church http://ccharity.com/discus/messages/13/357.html?SaturdayMay2720001003pm The descendants of William Johnston/Johnson have many African American blood relatives; the story of Julia Chinn and the political times in which they lived relative to the slavery and the established of the American government are quite interesting. Equally interesting is the inter-connectedness of those Virginia or Southern families. My ancestors were slaves of the JOHNSON family in Missouri -- brought there from Bourbon Co., KY and Culpepper Co., VA among others. traci wilson-kleekamp african americans in missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org

Traci- Thanks for sharing! j -----Original Message----- From: Traci Wilson-Kleekamp [mailto:twilsonklee@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:56 PM To: VACULPEP-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VACULPEP] Richard Mentor Johnson http://www.usatrivia.com/vpbirjoh.html Richard Mentor Johnson - 9th Vice President Party: Democrat Term: March 4 - 1837 - March 3, 1841 Age at First Inauguration: 56 Life Span: Oct 17, 1780 - Nov 19, 1850 [70] President: Martin Van Buren For the first and only time in history, the vice president was chosen by a vote of the senate when no majority was received in the electoral college Johnson was considered by most as a vulgar mouthed, non-conformist individual whose only claim to fame was that killed an Indian chief named Tecumseh As a congressman he proposed requiring postal employees to work a seven day week because he enjoyed receiving mail Consistently close to bankruptcy and heavily in debt, he voted to eliminate debtors prisons, and proposed numerous pay raises for Congress He inherited a slave, Julia Chinn, from his deceased father and took her as his common-law wife He fathered two daughters, raised them as free persons, and later gave them large tracts of land when they married - both to white men After Julia died in 1833, he took another slave as his common-law wife who ran away from his plantation Johnson found the woman, sold her at a slave auction, and took her sister as his mistress Needless to say, Johnson was not a respected individual, and in the election of 1836 some states refused to cast a ballot for him, including his home state of Kentucky He fell one vote short of a majority, and after the senate began deliberating, Van Buren used his influence to win the vote in the senate. See a genealogy link to descendants of WILLIAM JOHNSON (also spelled JOHNSTON and JOHNSTONE) http://www2.1starnet.com/cgenzel/johnson/pafg04.htm Race Meets Politics on the American Frontier Flashback: To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child-Cicero http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/taema99f.htm Prodigal Daughter wants to be a DAR member Summer 2000 The Women's Quarterly. Independent Women's Forum http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Summer2000a.shtml HarpWeek | American Political Prints 1766-1876 | Medium Image ... image is of a black woman, supposedly Johnson's mulatto mistress Julia Chinn. She sits on a small knoll holding a bag, http://www.loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.as p?SourceIndex=People&IndexText=Johnson,+Richard+M.&UniqueID=15&Year=1836 Julia Chinn and Traveling Church http://ccharity.com/discus/messages/13/357.html?SaturdayMay2720001003pm The descendants of William Johnston/Johnson have many African American blood relatives; the story of Julia Chinn and the political times in which they lived relative to the slavery and the established of the American government are quite interesting. Equally interesting is the inter-connectedness of those Virginia or Southern families. My ancestors were slaves of the JOHNSON family in Missouri -- brought there from Bourbon Co., KY and Culpepper Co., VA among others. traci wilson-kleekamp african americans in missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org ==== VACULPEP Mailing List ==== NOTICE: The posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Dear Listers, I was looking at the few pages I have of the "Minutes of the Great Crossings Baptist Church, Scott Co., KY, 1785-1813." It is indexed, by the way. The minutes are typewritten. Again, I have only a few pages, but the entire document can be found in the Scott Co. Historical Society, Georgetown, KY. On p. 33, I see a Wm Brown with a James written above a carat (^) mark. A line through the name indicates that Brown was no longer a member when the minutes were recorded. There are lots of Johnsons, too. Peggy, Sally, Jemima, Mary, Nancy and Susannah are some women, but there are also the following men: Andrew, jun., Thomas, Daniel, James, Robert and John M., with wife Sooky. I believe that these people may have had roots in Culpeper. Certainly, my Scott Co. Ancestrors did. (Drakes & Bruces. The Drakes were in this church, too. Another, from Fairfax, had a grandparent in VA who was called "papist". It is a long leap from Papist to Baptist. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Traci Wilson-Kleekamp" <twilsonklee@earthlink.net> To: <VACULPEP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:55 PM Subject: [VACULPEP] Richard Mentor Johnson > > http://www.usatrivia.com/vpbirjoh.html > Richard Mentor Johnson - 9th Vice President > Party: Democrat > Term: March 4 - 1837 - March 3, 1841 > Age at First Inauguration: 56 > Life Span: Oct 17, 1780 - Nov 19, 1850 [70] > President: Martin Van Buren > > For the first and only time in history, the vice president was chosen by a > vote of the senate when no majority was received in the electoral college > Johnson was considered by most as a vulgar mouthed, non-conformist > individual whose only claim to fame was that killed an Indian chief named > Tecumseh As a congressman he proposed requiring postal employees to work a > seven day week because he enjoyed receiving mail Consistently close to > bankruptcy and heavily in debt, he voted to eliminate debtors prisons, and > proposed numerous pay raises for Congress He inherited a slave, Julia Chinn, > from his deceased father and took her as his common-law wife He fathered two > daughters, raised them as free persons, and later gave them large tracts of > land when they married - both to white men After Julia died in 1833, he took > another slave as his common-law wife who ran away from his plantation > Johnson found the woman, sold her at a slave auction, and took her sister as > his mistress > Needless to say, Johnson was not a respected individual, and in the election > of 1836 some states refused to cast a ballot for him, including his home > state of Kentucky He fell one vote short of a majority, and after the senate > began deliberating, Van Buren used his influence to win the vote in the > senate. > > See a genealogy link to descendants of WILLIAM JOHNSON (also spelled > JOHNSTON and JOHNSTONE) > http://www2.1starnet.com/cgenzel/johnson/pafg04.htm > > > Race Meets Politics on the American Frontier > Flashback: To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to > remain ever a child-Cicero > http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/taema99f.htm > > Prodigal Daughter wants to be a DAR member > Summer 2000 The Women's Quarterly. Independent Women's Forum > http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Summer2000a.shtml > > > HarpWeek | American Political Prints 1766-1876 | Medium Image > ... image is of a black woman, supposedly Johnson's mulatto mistress Julia > Chinn. She sits on a small knoll holding a bag, > http://www.loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.as > p?SourceIndex=People&IndexText=Johnson,+Richard+M.&UniqueID=15&Year=1836 > > Julia Chinn and Traveling Church > http://ccharity.com/discus/messages/13/357.html?SaturdayMay2720001003pm > > The descendants of William Johnston/Johnson have many African American blood > relatives; the story of Julia Chinn and the political times in which they > lived relative to the slavery and the established of the American government > are quite interesting. Equally interesting is the inter-connectedness of > those Virginia or Southern families. > > My ancestors were slaves of the JOHNSON family in Missouri -- brought there > from Bourbon Co., KY and Culpepper Co., VA among others. > > traci wilson-kleekamp > african americans in missouri > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org > > > > ==== VACULPEP Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: The posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >