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Robert Johnson |
 | | JOHNSON, Robert, governor of South Carolina, born in 1682; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 3 5lay, 1735. |
 | | This convention established a revolutionary government, and requested Robert Johnson to assume the executive in the name of the land, which he declined to do, asserting the rights of the lords proprietors. |
 | | Governor Johnson aided General Oglethorpe and the first settlers of Georgia by giving them food and escort, and during his term the settlement of Purrysbury, by the Swiss under Colonel Peter Purry, was made. |
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