Johnston, Charles:

$1,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

A NARRATIVE OF THE INCIDENTS ATTENDING THE CAPTURE, DETENTION, AND RANSOM OF CHARLES JOHNSTON, OF BOTETOURT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHO WAS MADE PRISONER BY THE INDIANS, ON THE RIVER OHIO, IN THE YEAR ... John Randolph of Roanoke's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Though in a modern binding, Randolph's bookplate has been preserved in the rebinding. A very interesting and uncommon provenance - this is the first book from John Randolph of Roanoke's library that we have handled. John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833) a Virginia planter, politician, and (briefly) United States Minister to Russia under Andrew Jackson, was an important ally of President Jefferson and supporter of his policies early in Randolph's tenure in the House of Representatives. Eventually, Randolph broke with Jefferson when he felt that the President was exerting too much power at the federal level, and abandoning the principles of state sovereignty and agrarian Republicanism. It seems clear that Randolph and Johnston were at least acquainted with one another. Randolph was neighbors with Charles Johnston's brother, Judge Peter Johnston, whose family lived near Randolph's Bizarre estate in Farmville, Virginia. As Randolph biographer William Cabell Bruce points out, the Johnstons were "[a]mong the families, with whom [Randolph] was most intimate, when he lived at Bizarre." There is at least one reference to Charles Johnston in Randolph's correspondence. Writing in 1807 to his nephew, Theodore Bland Dud

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