My ancestor Robert Johnson of Johnson's Crossroads was born 1760. According to a letter we have from his youngest child - Caleb Johnson who was born in 1813 - the two brothers of his father were Barnabas and William and they both moved to Kentucky before Caleb was born. He surmised that William had go to the 'varns" of Kentucky and raised a big family. From what we know they may have traveled with the family of Peter Kinder - who was a neighbor of Barnabas Sr in Monroe County. My Dad has done the Big Y test and he is an exact match to a man named Kevin Johnston, who has an ancestor named William Johnson who was born in Kentucky - and assumed to be a son of William, brother to my Robert. The DNA match is there, we just need to find the rest. Robert, William and Barnabas Jr. are named - along with their three sisters - Mary Polly (Johnson) Curry, Magdalen (Johnson) Griffith and Jane (Johnson) Kinder - in the document I described earlier. They are all named as heirs of Barnabas Johnson Sr. - who died in 1793 in Kentucky.
Oren Morton has the name of the three brothers wrong - there was no Charles Johnson. The three brothers who came to Augusta County from Scotland were Robert, William and Barnabas Jr. We have a court document in our possession that names all the heirs of the father of these three brothers (there were three sisters as well). The document states that Barnabas Johnson Sr. died in Kentucky in 1793.
My ancestor Robert Johnson of Johnson's Crossroads was born 1760. According to a letter we have from his youngest child - Caleb Johnson who was born in 1813 - the two brothers of his father were Barnabas and William and they both moved to Kentucky before Caleb was born. He surmised that William had go to the 'varns" of Kentucky and raised a big family. From what we know they may have traveled with the family of Peter Kinder - who was a neighbor of Barnabas Sr in Monroe County. My Dad has done the Big Y test and he is an exact match to a man named Kevin Johnston, who has an ancestor named William Johnson who was born in Kentucky - and assumed to be a son of William, brother to my Robert. The DNA match is there, we just need to find the rest. Robert, William and Barnabas Jr. are named - along with their three sisters - Mary Polly (Johnson) Curry, Magdalen (Johnson) Griffith and Jane (Johnson) Kinder - in the document I described earlier. They are all named as heirs of Barnabas Johnson Sr. - who died in 1793 in Kentucky.
Oren Morton has the name of the three brothers wrong - there was no Charles Johnson. The three brothers who came to Augusta County from Scotland were Robert, William and Barnabas Jr. We have a court document in our possession that names all the heirs of the father of these three brothers (there were three sisters as well). The document states that Barnabas Johnson Sr. died in Kentucky in 1793.