Notes: Lacy C. Buie remembered hearing stories as a boy about Solomon Johnston who around the time of the Revolution lived on the south side of his family's acreage in Robeson County just south of Red Springs. Lacy said Solomon was "a g-damn giant!" and legend had it that Solomon fought off single-handedly a band of outlaws who were attempting to rob his abode. He also claimed that Solomon was the father of Nelly Johns(t)on, wife of Randal Currie. Naming patterns of Randal and Nelly's children don't support this claim, but resemble more the family of Daniel Johnston who married Isabella Brown.
    It has recently been discovered through colonial Bladen County tax lists and Robeson County deeds that Marrion McPhaul, the widow of John McPhaul of McPhaul's Mill, was Solomon Johnston's daughter.