Hugh Johnston and Jean [Unk]

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Husband Hugh Johnston ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Abt 1801 - ? Canal Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Johnston Cemetery, Canal Twp, Venango Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Jean [Unk] ³

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            AKA: Jane [Unk] 3
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Children

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1 M Alexander Johnston, Sr. ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1844 - Canal Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 6
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2 M Robert Johnston ^{2 7}

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3 M James Johnston ^{7 8}

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           Born: Abt 1785
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           Died: Abt 1845 - Sugarcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Sutley (1786-      ) 9
           Marr: 8 Sep 1814 8

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Johnston

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The Johnston family were the first permanent residents of Canal township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, locating there as early as 1797. Hugh Johnston, the ancestor of the family in the county, was a native of Ireland, came to Amer-ica in the colonial times, and settled in eastern Pennsylvania. Later he came to Venango County, accompanied by his nine children, five sons and four daughters, and located in what became Canal township, about one mile east of Utica. [HVC 1890, 1059] He located on what became known as the Andrew Service place.

He was a native of Ireland, but came to Venango County from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, which part of the state furnished many of the early settlers of Canal and adjoining townships. He was remembered as a man of much force of char-acter, an intelligent and reliable citizen, and one of the leading men of the community in which he resided. He died early in the 1800s and was laid to rest in the old Johnston graveyard, the first place consecrated to the burial of the dead in the township. [HVC 1890, 635]

He was born in Ireland, and came to America in the Colonial period, for a number of years making his home in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, whence he came to Venango County in 1797 with his family of five sons and four daughters. He settled on what afterward became known as the Andrew Service place, about one mile east of Utica, in what is now Canal Township.

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 635, 1059.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 532.

3 Roger N. Whiting, The William Cousins Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chippewa Falls, WI: Personal genealogy research, 2012), Pg 66.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 558.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1059.

6 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 557.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 635.

8 Roger N. Whiting, The William Cousins Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chippewa Falls, WI: Personal genealogy research, 2012), Pg 21.

9 Roger N. Whiting, The William Cousins Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chippewa Falls, WI: Personal genealogy research, 2012), Pg 13.