Captain Samuel Johnson Of Wilkes County North Carolina

Samuel Johnson (1757-1834) was a son of Jeffrey Johnson and Rachel Walker. He moved from Prince William (later Fauquier) County, Virginia to Wilkes County, North Carolina and married Mary Hamon. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons and moved to Utah, Idaho, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and Alberta, and their progeny and relatives lived in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and elsewhere. Includes ancestry of Samuel in North Carolina and Virginia to 1650.

The immigrant ancestor of the Johnson family, John Johnson (ca. 1610/20- aft. 1665), was born in England of the British Isles -- perhaps Scotland. He died in Northumberland Co., Va. He had two children: Jeffrey Sr. or I (ca. 1640-1725/26) born before coming to America, married Elizabeth ca. 1660's, died at Jeffrey's Marsh Plantation, Elk Run (formerly Marsh Run) in King George County (now Fauquier), Va.; and Ann (ca. 1640-aft. 1696) born probably in Northumberland Co., Va. married there ca. 1663, Samuel Gooch. Henry Hays (1667-1746), the immigrant ancestor of the Hayes family, was baptized in Epwell, Oxfordshire, England. He died in 1746 in East Marlborough, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Includes other emigrant ancestors from England to Virginia, Pennsylvania etc. in the 1600s. Descendants live in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere.

Transcription of 1817-1821 minutes of the Wilkes County (NC) Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions; indexed by personal name, business name, geographic name and subject.

Descendants of immigrant George Hoppes located in North Carolina, from 1700's to 1980's.

Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."

At least nine Forrester individuals immigrated from England, Scotland, or Ireland to the English colonies in the new world in the 1600s and 1700s. The names and particulars about these nine Forrester indivi- duals are listed (v. 1, p. 42-43), and they settled in various places in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives also lived in Mississippi River states plus Indiana, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders to 836 A.D. or earlier. Also includes organization and some officers of the Forrester Genealogical Association, Inc., which became the Clan Forrester Society, Inc., with U.S. headquarters at Stone Mountain, Georgia.