John Houston (immigrant)

After living a number of years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Houston moved his family and established a plantation in what is now Rockbridge County, Virginia.

[2] Sir John Houston, a baron, built a castle near Johnstone in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

He received an estate, given to an ancestor, Sir Hugh de Paduinan, after he saved the life of Malcolm, King of Scotland.

[3][5] According to Marquis James, Sam Houston's biographer, the family left Belfast, Ireland, for Pennsylvania in 1730.

Houston built a stockade fort that provided some safety from wild animals and Native Americans.

[9][e] The New Providence Church was established for the members who lived in the lower settlement, near Walker's and Hays' Creeks.

[9] Houston established the Timber Ridge Plantation (now the site of Church Hill in Lexington, Virginia).

[3] Among the first to do so, he purchased African Americans to be his slaves,[2][3] and expanded the amount of acreage and the number of enslaved people as he prospered.