1.  Robert Johnston, who married Mary M, daughter of Capt.  John Reid, a soldier of the Revolution, a Senator from Lincoln county in 1810 and 1811, and again in 1817 and 1818, and former proprietor of the Catawba Springs.  He raised a family of twelve children, all of whom attained the age of maturity and survived their parents.  The first death in the family was that of the late Rufus M. Johnston, of Charlotte.  He was an industrious farmer, and upright member of society; for many years an elder of the Presbyterian church at Unity, and died with peaceful resignation on the 23rd of May, 1854, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.  His wife, Mary died on the 30th of July, 1857, and both are buried in a private cemetery on the old homestead property, now owned by their grandson, John R. Johnston, Esq.  His descendants were, 2d generation: 

1.  Sarah Johnston married Dr. Benjamin Johnson, of Virginia.

2.  James A. Johnston married Jane Byers, of Iredell county.

3.  Dr. Sidney X. Johnston married Harriet K. Connor, of Lincoln county.

4.  Jane Johnston married first, John D. Graham, second, Dr. William B. McLean, of Lincoln county.

5.  John R. Johnston married first, Delia Torrence, second, Laura E. Happoldt, of Burke county.

6.  Robert Johnston married Caroline Shuford, of Lincoln county.

7.  Dr. Thos.  Johnston married Dorcas Luckey, of Mecklenburg county.

8.  Harriet Johnston married William T. Shipp, of Gaston county.

9.  Mary Johnston married Dr. William Davidson, of Mecklenburg county.

10.  Martha Johnston married Col.  J.B.  Rankin, of McDowell county.

11.  Col.  William Johnston, present Mayor (1876) of Charlotte, married Ann Graham, of Mecklenburg county.

12.  Rufus M. Johnston married Cecilia Latta, of York county, S.C.

2d.  Margaret Ewart Johnston married Logan Henderson, Esq., youngest son of James Henderson, who moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina at the first settlement of the country.  He was the brother of Major Lawson Henderson, long and well known as one of the worthy citizens of Lincoln county, and of Col.  James Henderson, a brave officer killed at the battle of New Orleans.  The patriarchal ancestor, James Henderson, became the owner of a large body of land on the south fork of the Catawba river, in the present county of Gaston, embracing a valuable water-power, at which he erected a grist mill, then a new and useful institution.  He lived to an extreme old age, and is buried on a high eminence near the eastern bank of the river, where a substantial stone wall surrounds the graves of himself, Adam Springs, the next owner of the property, and a few others.

In 1818, Logan Henderson joined the tide of emigration to Tennessee, and purchased much valuable land near Murfreesboro, in Rutherford county.  In and near his last place of settlement, where most of his worthy descendants still reside.  He died, after a brief illness, with calm composure, on the 8th of December, 1846, in the sixty-second year of his age.  His wife survived him many years, and died with peaceful resignation on the 13th of August, 1863, in the seventy-fifth year of her age.