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- Two Johnston brothers Thomas & Robert married 2 Lawrence sisters, Mary Ann & Margaret Lawrence.
. 1812 Sep 7 to 22nd, 3rd Reg. York Militia, Capt. Thomas Hamilton's Company, Robt Johnston, 16 days, pd. £1 1s 4p., Priv. John Vanzante Junr. 16 days, pd. £10 8s 8p.
. 1813 JAN 6 - Capt Thos. Hamiltons Co., 3rd York Militia, Sergt. ROBERT JOHNSON, Reduced to a Private & in same document:
1813 Jan 7 - Jan 24, Private Robert Johnson, REDUCED FROM A SERGT. 6 Jan. 7 Jan.
Recorded on the same Muster roll: Sergt. John Johnson [who is listed next to Robt. & Andrew Johnson.] Andrew Johnson, Promoted to Sergt. 7 Jan., Osburn Cox, Discharged 7 Jan.
1813 Feb 25 - Mar 24 -Robt Johnson. Employed in the Engineer Dept. Pay & Provisions stopped. Sergt John & Andrew Johnson continued here. 3YM, Capt This Hamilton Co.
- - 1814 May 15, York Muster Day: Robert Johnston of Capt. Thomson's Company, who was captured at York on the 27th April, 1813. Signed. Lt Col. W. Chewett, 3 Yk Militia, 1814.5.15.
The account of Robert Johnston for making & fixing a bar for the office of the Clerk of Peace, which was ordered to be paid out of the Police funds amounting to one pound eleven shillings.
"History of the settlement of York" - King & Toronto St., was was across from Robt. & Marg. Johnston's store.
Note1. Opposite it to the eastward stood, the stood the gaol where Lout & Matthews suffered on the scaffold in the 1837 Rebellion.
Note 2. This substantial brick building was later the Consumer's Gas Company. Two historical plaques are on the front the the building. - PJA 2009.
1833-34 York County Directory: Johnston, Robert, carpenter, Toronto street.
In 1834, opposite the Cathedral, on the southeast corner of Church & King, was a framed building known as the Checkered Store painted like a checker-board,
1st owner of the lot was Thos. & Robt. Johnston, a carpenter, who first held the property from Toronto St. ... lane to King St. ... In 1831 a man named R. A. Parker erected the Checkered Store, a 2 story frame building, selling notions, everything from a needle to an anchor. Ref: Newspaper advertisement.
1834 Aug. 12, Toronto, Summary: This is the last Will & Testament of me Robert Johnston of the City of Toronto, Carpenter. First pay my just funeral & testamentary +expenses. It is may will & desire that my beloved wife do receive & take the annual Rents & proceeds arising from my Real & personal Estate during her widowhood for the support of herself & the education support & maintenance of all my children. From & immediate after my said wife shall depart this life or they reach 21 years or marry, I devise & bequeath my Estate on King Street to my children as follows:
Son Richard: The lot & house on the corner of King & Toronto Streets in with Mr. Perrin now lives. [1834];
Daughter Mary Ann: The house & Lot adjoining the one devised to Richard;
Son Robert: The house & lot west of Mary' Ann's with the privilege to the secure belongings;
Son Thomas: The house & Lot west of Robert's with the privileges to the same belongings;
Daughters Margaret & Sarah: My Lot on Toronto St., north of the right of way, to the rear of the Lot before mentioned, to be equally divided between them, share & share alike;
To my two adopted children MARY & MARGARET.2 JOHNSTON, daughters of my brother Thomas (& therefore, also wife Margaret's sister's children - PJA): The sum of £150 each on their arriving at age 21 or marriage. I desire that they may be supported in the same way as my own children out of my Estates.
Executors: J. L. Perrin of King Street, merchant & my brother, John Johnston. 12 August, 1834,
Robt. Johnston, Witness: J H Price.
J H Price was a witness to signing of the will, as was, signed:
Alexander Hamilton, 24 Sept., 1834. W. Baldwin, Surrogate Home District,
To Home District Surrogate Court: We James Lewis Perrin, Toronto, Merchant, & Margaret Johnson, executor & executrix, will give a full inventory & pay the debts & Legacies so far as his goods shall extend. signed, Margaret Johnston, Toronto, 24 Sept., 1834.
- Robt. Johnston,3rd Regiment of York Militia on 3 Dec 1814.
Note3: on Robt. Johnston's Will's References: Dr. W W Baldwin, 23 Yonge St. & Surrogate of Home District, round the corner in King St. No. 195.½, in 1833.
Alexr. Hamilton, Looking-Glass Mfgr., Carver Gilder, 118 King St., in 1833.
Perrin & Co., Dry goods store, 106 King St., Toronto, in 1837.
Ref: Toronto Directories, Toronto Public Libraries.
Recorded for research: Margaret Johnstone, buried Potter's Field - Mt. Pleasant, Bloor & Yonge, buried 7 July 1834, years. Cholera, 201. - - - [1, 2]
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Est 1797 - 1834 (37 years)