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more were baptised at Dundee, viz. : Elizabeth, Dec. 2, 1700 Nathaniel, Dec. ; 27,
1702 ; and Joseph, May 4, 1709.
Mr R. R. Stodart adds that Gabriel had another brother, John. There
may also have been Gilbert, a name found among the Graitney, Elphinstone,
Newton, Elsieshields and Powdene Johnstouns— probably among them all. John
is described as a Surveyor-General ; Gabriel, as being educated at St. Andrews,
and afterwards a Professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages in the New
College of St. Andrews. He resigned, and emigrated to America, where he
was appointed Governor of Carolina. Samuel, junr., married Helen Scrym-
geour, and two of their sons were baptised at Dundee—Samuel, Dec. 22, 1733 ;
John, Aug. 14, 1735.
It is likely that the migration of these Johnstons to America was caused by
Jacobite sympathies, particularly if they went by way of Armagh, where the
Woodpark Johnstons shared their views and were perhaps connections.
Armagh was also a convenient place for testing the support that a Jacobite
attempt was likely to find in the west of Scotland. Without admitting the
claim put forward by their descendants that Gilbert senior, Gabriel, and Samuel
were the sons of John, the brother of the first Marquis of Annandale, it may
readily be conceded that they were a valiant and sturdy family, pushing to the
front in politics and battle, and carrying on the motto and best traditions of
the clan in the New World.
General Albert Sydney Johnston was the son of a physician, John Johnston,
whose father was Archibald, the descendant of a Scottish family long settled in
Connecticut. He was born in Kentucky, 1803, and graduated at West Point, but,
throwing up his commission, entered the Confederate Army as a private. He
was killed in the Civil War, 1862. Josiah Stallard Johnston, an Author, is his
nephew; and William Preston Johnston has published his biography.
Robert Matteson Johnston, Professor of History, is the author of The
French Revolution, The Roman Theocracy and the Republic, and other books.
Alexander Johnston, A.M., is noted for his works on American history and
politics.
William Andrew Johnston is a Historical Writer.
Thomas Crawford Johnston, an Essayist in California.
W. W. Johnston (New York), Author.
Richard Malcolm Johnston, Author.
Richard Holland Johnston, Author.
William Dawson Johnstone, of Chicago, son of Rev. James Arthur and
Jannette Johnston, is Librarian at the Bureau of Education, Washington.
Charles, the son of William Johnston, M.P. for Belfast, was born at Bally-
kilbeg, Ireland, and passed into the Bengal Civil Service. He was invalided
home two years later, and became an Author. He married Georgina Barbara,
daughter of Sir John Hay, Bart., and is President of the Irish Literary Society,
New York. He lives at Flushing, New York.
George Ben. Johnston, Surgeon, graduated in the City of New York College,
1876; LL.D. of St. Francis Xavier College, New York; ex-President of