Gen. Gilbert Johnstone, Sr.

Abt 1700 - 1775  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Gilbert Johnstone  [1]
  Prefix	Gen.
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	Abt 1700	Dundee, Angus, Scotland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1775	Brompton Plantation, Bladen County, North Carolina   [2]
  Person ID	I115	Johnstone Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Maj. Gen. John Johnstone,   b. 3 Sep 1665, Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 29 Dec 1714, Poland (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Belchier,   b. 1664, Probably France d. Aft 1704, Probably Scotland (Age > 41 years)
  Marriage	1695	France or Scotland   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Caroline Johnstone,   b. 1706, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1745, Brompton Plantation, Bladen County, North Carolina (Age > 40 years)
  Marriage	1724	Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Capt. Gilbert Johnstone, Jr.,   b. Abt 1725, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. 1794, Prince George's Parish, Georgetown District, South Carolina (Age ~ 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Henry Johnstone,   b. Abt 1727, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1769, "Catawba Country", North Carolina (Age ~ 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Isabel Johnstone,   b. Abt 1728, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Abt 1788, Robeson County, North Carolina (Age ~ 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Margaret Mary Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Mitchell Swamp, Loris, South Carolina  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Caroline Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Gabriel Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Capt. Robert Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1790, Bladen County, North Carolina (Age ~ 61 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. William Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1800, Georgetown District, South Carolina? (Age ~ 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. John Johnstone,   b. Abt 1730, Ballynameta, Armagh, Ulster, Ireland d. 1801, Bertie County, North Carolina (Age ~ 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F61	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  "Gilbert Johnston fought at the Battle of Cullodon. He married Caroline Johnston and settled in Bladen County in 1746. Their children were: Gilbert, Henry, Caroline, Gabriel, Robert, William, Isabel and John." Source Information: Moore, Claude. "The Johnston Family Connection, Our Heritage", Wayne County, North Carolina Heritage Series. USGenweb Archives. March 31, 2005. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/wayne/heritage/johnston2.txt "Gilbert, John’s second son, married to his Irish cousin Caroline Johnstone of Armagh, entertained his father sentiments, regarding the then rulers of Great Britain as usurpers. Prince Charles Edward’s rebellion of 1746 found Gilbert, "General Stapleton," commanding the vanguard of the Bonny Prince’s army. On the failure of the Battle of Culloden, in which Stapleton was injured, he and his son Gilbert, Jr., were forced to flee for their lives - first to Ireland and then to North Carolina, where Governor Gabriel’s greatest brother was to inveigle the colonists into paying quit-rents. Governor Gabriel Johnstone had built at "Brompton," on the Cape Fear, an imposing mansion which he intended to occupy, as soon as it was complete. He failed to reckon, however, on falling in love with Penelope, the step-daughter of Governor Charles Eden and in her own right a large heiress. By the time Brompton was completed, he found himself permanently settled on his wife’s plantation at Edenton. Thus to Gilbert’s joy at escaping the fate of being drawn-and-quartered along with the gallant Balmerino and others, and at once more seeing his brothers including the youngster Samuel, whose son and namesake was one day to be almost unanimously elected president of the Continental Convention, was added that of finding an estate complete to thoroughbred horses ready for his immediate occupancy: here he died in 1775, leaving a family that fairly filled the spacious halls of Brompton." Source information: Johnson, James D. "Town of Andrews Situated On Land of Annandale Scions." The News and Courier. Charleston, SC, 1941. April 1, 2005. http://members.tripod.com/~andrews_sc/history1790.html

  
  

• Sources

  [S287] Alvaretta Kenan Register, The Kenan Family and Some Allied Families of the Author and Publisher. Statesboro, GA: J.S. Kenan ll, 1985, 193. [S209] William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina, April 1, 1975. [S287] Alvaretta Kenan Register, The Kenan Family and Some Allied Families of the Author and Publisher. Statesboro, GA: J.S. Kenan ll, 1985, 192. [S287] Alvaretta Kenan Register, The Kenan Family and Some Allied Families of the Author and Publisher. Statesboro, GA: J.S. Kenan ll, 1985, 193. [This record states that Gilbert married Caroline, grandaughter of George Johnstone of Lockaber in 1724.]