John Mohon was born in 1760 in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He married in 1781 and had five children. He served in the American Revolution. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas.

Johnstone's account is of the long-established families of the Dumfriesshire region of Scotland and, secondarily, of the so-called "Border Wars" which were waged from the twelfth century between the dominant Scottish families of South Dumfriesshire and the English in North Cumberland. Our reprint is from the important second edition, which contains an expanded chapter on the Border Wars.

James Russell White was born 30 May 1818. He married Mary Garrison, probably in the early 1840s in Dekalb County, Tennessee. They had ten children. James died 14 August 1879 in Logan County, Kentucky.

William Herndon (1649-1722) emigrated from England to New Kent County, Virginia and married Catherine Digges. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere.