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Subject: [VAAMHERS-L] Re: Johnson (Jonathan)
Date: 7 Oct 2002 12:01:51 -0600

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Surnames: Johnson
Classification: Query

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Here is what I found re: John or Jonathon Johnson.

This is source for the following info;
“Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, VA 1763 –1800”
Compiled by William Montgomery Sweeney
(originally published Lynchburg, VA 1937)

page 42

Johnson, John, bachelor & Mary D. Bell, widow, June 8 1793. Walter Christian, surety, Consent of Mary D. Certificate of marriage by the Rev. William Dameron, June 13 1793.

Johnson, John, bachelor & Penelope Harper, spinster, June 22 1789. William Harper surety. Consent of her mother, Judith Harper.

Johnson, John & Nancy Brown, March 19 1792. Nathaniel Powell surety. Consent of her father, Adam Brown.

Source for the following info;

“Amherst County, VA In the Revolution
Including Extracts from the “LOST ORDER BOOK” 1773-1782”
By Lenora Higginbotham Sweeney
Originally published; Lynchburg, VA 1951
Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Baltimore, MD 1998

page 78, Court records;

Court held May 5 1777

Mary Johnson Infant Orphan of Jonathon Johnson, Decd. made choice of Thomas Moffitt, Guardian; Snelling Johnson, Phillip Johnson and Frances Johnson Infant Orphans of Jonathon Johnson, Decd. made choice of Charles Burruss as their Guardian.

Hope some of this may assist you in your search.

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