Margaret Robinson Johnson
BIRTH 13 Apr 1755
Elliston, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 13 Jun 1846 (aged 91)
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA
BURIAL
Frankfort Cemetery
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, USA
Margaret Robinson was the daughter of William Robinson and Margaret Garrel. She was born at Fotheringay, formerly in Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA and currently in Elliston in Montgomery County.
Her father William was born in County Down, N Ireland. He came with 6 brothers and his father James, arriving in Lancaster Co., PA, a Scots-Irish area, in about 1740. He married a Welsh woman, Margaret Garrel and settled at a place called Fotheringay in Fincastle, VA, then in Botetourt Co. and now in Montgomery Co., near Elliston. He had a home and tavern there until 1793, when Col. George Hancock purchased the land. Hancock build a fine home there in that is currently on the National Register of Historic Places Inventory. He called it Santilane, and his daughter Julia would become the 1st wife of William Clark (of the Lewis and Clark Expedition). Julia and her father, both died in 1820 and are buried there.
Margaret married first to ALEXANDER ROBERTSON on 18 Aug 1773 in Bedford Co., VA. They raised a family and he died, unexpectedly in 1802.
They had Robertson children:
Elizabeth,
Margaret,
Charles,
Jane, abt 1879
Martha, 9 Jul 1788 (Saml McKee)
George, 18 Nov 1790
Charlotte, 1796 (Robert P Letcher)
In the fall of 1805, she married Job Johnson, of Garrard Co., KY. Job passed in about 1826, since she survived him about 20 years.
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