Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (1764–1848) was an American known for writing about her experiences of living in the colony of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War.[1]

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston

Life

Lichtenstein Johnston was born on May 28, 1764, to Johann Lichtenstein, a Russian immigrant, and Catherine Delegal.[1] She married William Martin Johnston in 1779 and had 10 children with him.[2] She and her family were loyal to England during the war.[1] pp

She wrote about her experience living through the war in a book called Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist in 1836.[3]

Her son, James William Johnston, was Premier of the colony of Canada from 1857 to 1860 and also in 1864.[4]

References
  1. "Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston (1764-1848)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  2. Julie Morris and Wendy L. Thorpe, “LICHTENSTEIN, ELIZABETH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 4, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lichtenstein_elizabeth_7E.html.
  3. Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Ann Short Chirhart, and Betty Wood, University of Georgia Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3038921. ISBN 9780820333366
  4. "Biography – JOHNSTON, JAMES WILLIAM – Volume X (1871-1880) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
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