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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/14141814/Proclamation-1731-Nov.-4-Robert-Johnson.jpg26794132Governor. Born in England, Johnson was the son of Sir Nathaniel Johnson and Joanna Overton. Young Johnson spent part of his youth in the Leeward Islands, where his father served as governor from 1686 to 1689. The elder Johnson acquired large landholdings in South Carolina and moved there to develop his property and later served […]