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Indian people who remained in Bertie after the end of the Tuscarora Wars
started in 1711, had a tendency to take english names of people they new
and liked. A case in point. King Tom Blount took the name of his good
friend and neighbor Blount – and was baptized with that english name.
One Indian took the name Johnson after John Johnson who lived at
Saponia. Butler was an old English name and acquired by the Indians.
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/bertie/bios/johnston.txt
One indian had taken the name Johnson after John Johnson who lived on the Saponi plantation.
John Johnson (Johnston) settled in Bertie and established a large
plantation called “Saponia” which was adjacent to the Indian
Reservation. He was the brother of Samuel Johnston, Governor of the
colony of Carolina, and Brother to Hannah Johnston – who married James
Iredel who became the first chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court during
the Revolutionary War. John became a noted Bertie County Clerk of
Court. He was NOT Indian, nor did he in any way descend from Indians.
This entire group of Johnsons were
Mhoons, and Rhodes Grandfather changed his name from Mhoon to Johnson in
order to avoid the Confederate Draft. I have been to the cave or dugout
where he and others hid out to avoid conscription.
The Mhoons were a very old prominant family with thousands of acres of
land in Bertie. One became the Treasurer of the State of NC and later
sold his land to the Rascoe Family who still own the land today, and
still have the original deed from that transaction. The Mhoons were NOT
Indian either.
Bertie COUNTY NC Biography Johnston/Johnson and Mhoon Families
http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/bertie/bios/johnston.txt
North Carolina in Bertie County
to all Christon people to whom these presents shall
Com greeting Know ye that I Isaiah Johnson of Dobbs
County for and in the Consideration of the sum of
one shilling proclamation money of the pruance [?]
aforesaid Received in hand paid from my son John
Johson [sic] I do assign over the plantation of the
said John Johnson now lives on with two hundred
akers of Land Lying upon the South Side of Wills
Quarter Swamp beginning on the Swomp at a mapel to a
[Sough Cose?]a Long a Line of markd trees to the
senter of four pines John Williamses Corner tree to
then a Long a markt line of markt trees to a pine a
corner tree from thences a Long a division Line to
the Sd. Swamp to up the said Swamp to the first
Stationed tree. I do hear by make over all my right
title Clame and Intrust to the Said Land to him the
Said John Johnson and his aeirs & assigns for Ever
warranting the same Land to him the said John
Johnson and his Heires & asigns against the Lawfull
demands of me the said Isaiah Johnson my Heires
Executors or administrators or any other person
Claming in my name as witness my hand and seel this
the 27 day of March one thousand seven hundred and
sixty-seven.
Isaiah Johnson (seal)
Witness
John Barber
George Oxley
J. Clark
[note that this was registered by Clerk of Court John
Johnston, not our John Johnson
(Note: I find the Barber name as a witness interesting…because that is a Mattamuskeet name).
The Mattamuskeet Documents
A Study in Social History
By Patrick H. Garrow
Children with surnames attributable to the Mattamuskeet were well represented among the apprentice bonds of this period. Twelve persons with the surname of Longtom, and twelve with the Mackey surname were apprenticed (see appendices 40 and 41). Other families of probable Indian descent are also represented in the records. The Collins family was represented by apprentice bonds on ten different individuals. One member of the Elks family was apprenticed. The Barber family, which had at least partial Indian descent, was represented by eleven individuals, and the Chance family was represented by a single bond. It is probable that other “free persons of color” families were descended from Indians, but no level of proof exists to prove that supposition.
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