The Ancestry of Grafton Johnson, with Its Four Branches: The Johnson, the Holman, the Keen, the Morris; the History and Genealogy of Paternal Progenitors, as Confined to the United States, of the Second Grafton Johnson of Greenwood, Indiana, Great-great-grandson of the First Isaac Johnson, who Reverts to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century in Virginia

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Hollenbeck Press, 1924 - 384 halaman
Issac Johnson (b. ca. 1722) was in the Shenahdoah Valley of Virginia about 1745, and claimed land there in 1749. Descendants lived throughout the United States.

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