Gabriel Johnston m. Frances Butler or Hovenden ?
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In reply to:
Gabriel Johnston - Govenor of North Carolina
Shirley Walsh 5/29/05
On March 26 1773 Rutherfurd wrote a letter to Wm. Adair of
Pall Mall, London, England, re Rutherford's children.
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Schaw/rutherfurd.htmhttp://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Schaw/rutherfurd.htm
The children's father was of the Scottish family of Rutherfurd of "Bowland"
and their mother, Frances (Butler ?), the widow of Gov. Gabriel Johnston, whom Rutherfurd had married in 1754. (Also a child was the dau of Gabriel Johnston ?).
The children were placed in charge of Alexander Duncan,
a partner of Rutherfurd's business at Wilmington, who crossed the ocean at this time, and under the care of Miss Schaw.
Miss Schaw was closely connected by marriage, for her father had married Rutherfurd's aunt, and her brother, Robert Schaw had married his eldest sister Anne.
The children were placed in a free school in England under the protection of Lord Townshend.The children of John Rutherfurd remained in Scotland until the voyage of 1774
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Affairs in Carolina (c.1743 ?) were mentioned in three letters of Gabriel Johnston, Gov. of North Carolina, two to Adair and one to 'My Lord".
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/resources/collections/specdivision/nas.shtmlhttp://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/resources/collections/specdivision/nas.shtml
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Would anyone have any information on the Adairs ?Thankyou.