Person:Emily Johnson (16)

Nickname 'Milly'.

Named in the will of Mary Johnston, wife of Edward Johnston, Sr., Champaign County, Ohio

Married 29 Aug 1794 in Clark County, Kentucky to Rev. James Dunlap. Permission from her father, Edward Johnson. Bondsman was James Johnson. See kykinfolk.org, Clark, Kentucky.

When young, Rev. James Dunlap and Milly Johnson lived on Locust Creek, Fleming County, Ky, near her father and other relatives. (See tax lists of 1798 and 1800 at the above reference, kykinfolk.org, Fleming, Kentucky, a free website.) Rev. Dunlap was active in the Baptist Assn. of at least nine Baptist Churches in Northern Kentucky that broke ties with the Elkhorn Baptist Assn. in the early 1800s. He and John Winn were messengers to the new "Baptized Licking Locust Assn., Friends of Humanity" in 1808, along with their Pastor at the Gath, Kentucky, Baptist church, Rev. Mahaleel Shackle. (For more information, search online for this Assn. by name or see Carter Tarrant, author, and at New Hope Baptist Church.)

See also Carter Tarrant, author of a publication about his experiences in this Abolitionist Baptist Assn.

They broke with the Elkhorn Baptist Assn. over slavery, basically. That Assn. dismissed several ministers who spoke out against slavery. The Johnstons, Dunlaps, and other relatives and friends moved north across the Ohio river to Ohio in 1812, a free state and a state with the township and range land system.

Revs. James Dunlap and Johnson were Pastors for a long time of the independent Christian Church in Harmony township, Clark County, Ohio, which belonged to no conference or association. James Dunlap and James Johnson were Baptist ministers, also. See Beers history of Clark County, 1881. Also see "Biographies of Christian Church Ministers of Ohio" online, free access. Revs. Dunlap and Johnson preached on the "Darby Plains" after about 1828 according to this Christian Church history.

From Beers history of Clark, Ohio: Others in this church were John Osborne Jr. and William Henry [who helped to start it], Enoch King, and John Judy, Sr., all of Harmony twp.