Primarily materials related to Sir Alexander Johnston's investigation and legal battle over a property in Madurai, South India named Fort Defiance or Tamkam (an anglicization of the Tamil tamukkam). Includes: (1) 1830 letter to A.J. by W. MacLeod, providing background on Tamkam, A.J.'s family's home in Madurai and on their relationship to the property; (2) damaged exercise book containing letter or notes about Tamkam, possibly composed by John S. Chandler of the American Madura Mission; (3) mss notes about A.J.'s investigation of the house's ownership in 1817 with Colonel Mackenzie, the Surveyor General of India, and an attestation by an Oakes(?) of the amount of money and time Samuel Johnston, A.J.'s father, put into the property when the family lived there; (4) typed copy of the damaged exercise book, indicating that A.J.'s son, Patrick Francis Campbell-Johnson, continued to claim ownership of Tumkum after his father's death and asked that his father's wishes to use the property to open a school for natives be followed. The result was the establishment of the "Johnston of Carnsalloch Scholarships"; (5) typed notes entitled "Johnston's House at Madura".
Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 78 pages.
