Ancestry of
Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Samuel Johnston

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ted Danson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 112 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Johnston 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Power   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1749 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Apr 1803 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Squirrel Hill on banks of the Conemaugh River, St. Clair Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Futhey
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  • Child:

  Nathan Johnston (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  • Notes: 

  • Samuel Johnston witnessed his mother being scalped by Indians during the French and Indian Wars. The story can be found in Nathan Johnston's Looking Back from the Sunset Land or People Worth Knowing (1898).

• Sources for Samuel Johnston

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A064093.
  • ² Fuller, Stewart D., Johnston-Black Genealogy, Unknown: Typescript (1966), 16-23.
  • ³ Fuller, Stewart D., Johnston-Black Genealogy, Unknown: Typescript (1966), 14-15.
  • ⁴ Johnston, Rev. Nathan Robinson, Looking Back from the Sunset Land or People Worth Knowing, Oakland, California: Unknown (1898), 12-13.

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