Marriage Notes for Robert Lazenby and Anna WRIGHT-259792
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Marriage Notes for Benjamin Lazenby and Editha SANDERSON-259793
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Marriage Notes for Christopher Lazenby and Maria MURPHY-259794
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Marriage Notes for Rezin Lazenby and Jerusha KIBBEY-259795
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of Bishopstown1650?
Christened July, 1656
Immigrated in the 1690s
“who was ‘provydit to nothing but the bear name of Johnston’”.
A litster (dyer) in Aberdeen. At this period it was usual to bring up the younger sons of Scottish gentlemen to mechanical employments with a view to the encouragement of trade and manufactures. The Litster or dyer society was one of the oldest of the town. [see Kennedy’s Annals of Aberdeen]
“The Johnstons or Johnsons were Quakers and appear in the early histories of the Virginia Quakers.”
Source: Johnston, Alexander, Jr., Genealogical account of the family of Johnston of that ilk, formerly of Caskieben, in the Shire of Aberdeen, and of its principal branches. Edinburgh, 1832.
James Johnston, Lister of Aberdeen, was the fourth and youngest son of Thomas of Craig and Mary Irvine. He married Miss Jean Ogilvie, by whom he had 3 sons and 2 daughters: Alexander, William, John, Mary, Jean. The after history of these children is unknown. The date of James' death is unknown. Mrs. Jean Ogilvie or Johnston died in March 1716.
L.V. Johnson, Selected References Relating to The Ancestry of William and John Johnston Colonial Friends (Quakers) of Virginia: An Account of the Connections of the Family of Johnston of Caskieben, and of that Ilk, of the Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Shaker Heights, Ohio, 1972.
This book shows John to be the son of James and Faith Leith Johnston. James is the son of James and Jean Ogilvie Johnston. James Sr b.1651 married Faith Leith 1686.?Laird Thomas Johnston of Craig married Mary Irvine as his second wife. Their son James Johnson (c. 1650-1716) was christened in July 1656 and married first Margaret Alexander on Nov. 23, 1672 at St. Nicholas Church in Aberdeen. The couple had four sons and two daughters before Margaret died around 1685.
James remarried to Faith Leith in 1686 and in the 1690s migrated with all of his family except eldest son James Jr. to New Kent Co., VA. Accompanying him were his three youngest sons – John, Alexander and Benjamin Johnson. Genealogists had not included Benjamin in this family until recent DNA tests of Johnson descendants proved the relationship.
James Sr. in 1701 and 1704 acquired 150 acres of former Indian lands in the Pamunkey (River) Neck of northern Virginia that included the site of a former village and became known as Old Town in King William Co. James died there in 1716 and left his estate, by English law and tradition, to eldest son John.
Little is known of son Alexander Johnson, other than three sons who were born from 1708 to 1714 in New Kent Co., VA and the possibility that he married a descendant of Richmond Terrell.
John and Benjamin, however, married women from the family of Peter and Penelope Massie, who were likewise descendants of prominent English families that joined the flood of royalist Cavaliers into Virginia in the last half of the 17th century.This is the research of Rebekah Canada (RebekahCanada@hotmail.com). Many of the people in this database have not been verified. James Johnston/Johnson was christened at Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 20 Jul 1656 and died in 1716. He married twice, first to Margaret Alexander, with whom he had four sons, and secondly to Faith Leith, with whom he had one daughter. James and Faith came to VA after 1689 . They settled at "Old Town" in the newly opened Indian grounds in Pamunkey Neckwhere he had acquired two patents of land, one for 110 acres in 1701 and another for 40 acres in 1703. When James died, he left his "Old Town" property (orginally considered New Kent County which be came part of King & Queen Co and then finally King William County, VA) to his son John Johnson . It was then passed down to two more generations of Johnsons (James and James) before being sold to the Ammon family.
Immigrated in the 1690s
1659?
John married second Katherine Lundy of Fife, who was heiress to extensive lands known as Craig in the Aberdeen area, and those properties and the title of Laird of Craig passed to their son Thomas (1598-August 1656).
abt 1685?
Had 4 sons and 2 (3?) daughters
Died unmarried.
Alexander ALEXANDER OF AUCHMULL
Merchant in Aberdeen [who was commissioner to parliament for the burgh of Aberdeen anno 1667]
Sir Anthony Ashley COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
Created Baron Cooper and Earl 1672.Penelope is recalled as the illegitimate daughter of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), the Earl of Shaftesbury who was prominent in the development of the Carolina colonies. In the contest for English rule, he sided with the royalists until 1644, served on Oliver Cromwell’s council of state until 1654 and then switched again to the side of those seeking a restoration of the Crown with King Charles II, which occurred in 1660.
Named a baron in 1661, Sir Anthony became chancellor of the exchequer of England and was granted, with a handful of other nobles, ownership of colonial Carolina (then undivided). He commissioned his friend and the noted philosopher John Locke to write a constitution for the colony, which was rapidly populating as numerous families migrated from the English Caribbean colony of Barbados to the American mainland.
He and his allies founded the Whig movement in England and dominated Parliament for several sessions. Sir Anthony became lord chancellor and president of the King’s privy council, but was deposed in 1679 and died shortly thereafter in Holland.
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper was born to Sir John Cooper and Lady Anne Ashley, an heiress whose father required that his family name pass on as the surname of her descendants. (Indeed, the given name of Ashley was common among branches of the Johnsons in America.)
Although he sired only one legitimate son despite three marriages, Sir Anthony was known to have several bastard children. The mother of Penelope has been the subject of speculation, but no proof. Even less well conceived are the logistical problems of connecting Penelope from London to the relatively provincial outpost of Coddington and the Massies. One theory posits that the natural mother of Penelope was a Massie relative. It is not known whether Peter, for example, was schooled or spent time in the English capital, which would have given him the opportunity to meet and court Penelope, assuming she lived there.