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Surnames: CAVE, JOHNSON, DUKE
Classification: Query
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Complicated is the word!! Once I find out about Elizabeth Cave then I have the task of
sorting out the Johnsons.
One Martha (Patsey) Duke, (daughter of John Duke, RS, and Charlotte Green) born ca 1783
"may heve been the Miss Duke who married Fontaine Johnson"
Fontaine Johnson was s son of Col. William Johnson and Elizabeth Cave. The Cave, Johnson
and Robertson Families were some of the earliest settlers of Tennessee.
Col. William Johnson and Col Thomas Johnson were with Gen.James Robertson who led a group
of settlers to Henderson's land on the Cumberland River in 1780. The site was called
Nashborough, later became Nashville.
I need, first, to verify that Elizabeth Cave and William Johnson had a son Fontaine - and
hopefully can verify to whom he was married. There is also a Cave Johnson I have found -
could he be a son of Elizabeth Cave and William Johnson.
Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have to offer.