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Most recently, Web Research has uncovered more information about Peter Johns(t)on(e), father of our very own Lt. Richard
(Derrick) Johnson, hero of the French and Indian Wars in Pennsylvania. We had thought (very much unproven) that Peter had
come from Holland. The new information suggests Scotland, or maybe Wales. The uncertainty of the spelling of Johnson isn't
unusual. The information said that the Scots spelled it Johnston, but pronounced it Johnson, with a silent T, enentually dropping
the T.
We have been given the name of Peter's wife; she is Mary "Polly" Phillips. Unfortunately she was married to Peter about
five years after our Richard was born! When things don't fit right it makes you wonder.
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