F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr. Papers, 1984-2010

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1984-2010, of F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia, containing biographical, genealogical, and historical research for various articles, books, and sketches he published between 1987 and 2010. The collection includes abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of census records, chancery records, deeds, land patents and grants, military and pension records, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, vital statistics, and wills and estate administration records. There are also clippings, correspondence with other researchers, compiled genealogies and research by other individuals, drafts and endnotes of his works, genealogical charts, maps, newsletters, obituaries, original family papers, photographs, and published articles and book extracts by others.

Biographical / historical:

Francis Claiborne (Jay) Johnston, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on 6 January 1943. He is the son of Francis Claiborne Johnston, Sr. (1903-1981) and Virginia Maupin Williams (1906-1992). He graduated from Princeton University in 1964, and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1967. Johnston married Carolyn Hooper Satterfield on 5 December 1970. She is the daughter of John Angier Satterfield (1914-2008) and Carolyn Branson Hooper (1925-2008). They live in Richmond, where he practiced law. He also has served on the boards of the Library of Virginia, Westminster-Canterbury Corporation, and The Valentine.

Acquisition information:
Gift of F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr., Richmond.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into the following series:

  • I. The Williams/Sims Families of Greene/Orange Counties, Virginia (1987).
  • II. The Pinder/Ellett Families of Virginia and Georgia and Allied Families (1988).
  • III. Satterfield and Allied Families of Person County, North Carolina and Surrounding Counties (1992).
  • IV. The Angier Family of Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina (1995).
  • V. Sketches for the Dictionary of Virginia Biography (2001).
  • VI. The Hoopers of Caswell and Durham Counties, North Carolina and Allied Families, With Their Virginia Origins (2002).
  • VII. The Tangled Trail of Two John Popes (2010).
  • VIII. The Tangled Trail of Benjamin Dawson of Orange and Spotsylvania Counties, and the City of Richmond and Northumberland, Fauquier and Frederick Counties in Virginia (2010).
Physical description:
12.4 cubic feet (28 boxes)