V. JACOB JOHNSON 
 
 Of Wallingford, (Gonn.) and 
 Wilkes^Barre, (Pa.) 
 
 F. C. JOHNSpN. M. D.. 
 
 WILEES-BARRE, PA., 
 
 Member of Wyomirig Historical Society, 
 New. England Hist6rical and Genealogical Society, Etc. 
 
 1904. 
 
REV. JACOB JOHNSON, 
 
 OF WALUNGFORD, (CONN.) AND WILKES-BARRE), (PA.) 
 
 — BY — 
 
 F. C. Johnson, M. D., 
 
 WILKBS-BARRE, PA., 
 
 Member of Wyoming Historical Society, 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Etc. 
 
 The publication of a brief genealogy of certain of the 
 Wallingford (Conn.) Johnsons in the New England His- 
 Itorical and Genealogical Register, vol. 55, p. 369, drew out 
 so many inquiries for further information that the author of 
 ithat article has been prompted to issue a fuller paper than 
 was possible in the limited space aflforded by a magazine 
 (article. All of the matter in the original article above re- 
 ferred to is incorporated in this enlarged publication. 
 
 The material has been obtained in a search for data as to 
 Rev. Jacob Johnson of Wallingford, who spent the first half 
 of his ministry in Groton, Conn., and the latter half in 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. His biography will be the subject of a 
 subsequent pamphlet. 
 
 It has not been possible to determine who was the 
 iEnglish progenitor of Jacob, for the earlier genealogies are 
 conflicting, and in the light of present knowledge, inac- 
 curate. We know that the son of the progenitor was Will- 
 'iam Johnson, one of the founders of Wallingford in 1670, 
 and from him down there is no break in the records. But 
 while we have every reason to believe William was a son of 
 Thomas (who was brother of Robert and John), who emi- 
 grated from England about 1638, no documentary proof has 
 yet been found. However, the circumstantial evidence is 
 .strong and convincing. The records as far as they go, and 
 also the various inferences, harmonize with and confirm 
 this theory. Besides, there is not a thing which disproves it. 
 Some of the earlier books, 'Tuttle Family," "Davis's Wall- 
 ingford," etc., represent the elder Jacob Johnson "as son of 
 William of Guilford, whereas he was son of William of New 
 Haven. The two Williams were first cousins — the Guilford 
 William was son of the emigrant Robert, the New Haven 
 William was son of the emigrant Thomas. This has caused 
 
■confusion. The credit of first correcting the error belongs 
 to Capt. S. Alljcrt Johnson of Boonville, N. Y., who points 
 out that the obscurity around Thomas is explained by his 
 <;arly and sudden death, without leaving will or real estate, 
 he having been drowned soon after his arrival in America. 
 
 In a New Haven record of the following year (1641) 
 Robert the emigrant is called "brother of John, late planter 
 in New Haven, deceased." But John was not dead and the 
 index gives the name Thomas instead of John, seemingly to 
 correct an error. 
 
 In a court record, April 5, 1655, Robert calls the younger 
 Thomas (who was a son of Thomas the emigrant) his 
 •"nephew." 
 
 In a court record, December 4, 1660, Adeline, wife of 
 Robert is called "aunt" by Jeremiah, another son of the first 
 Thomas. 
 
 The theory that there were three Johnson brothers in the 
 emigration of 1638 — John, Robert and Thomas, — that John 
 settled in Rowley, Mass. ; that Robert was the progenitor of 
 the Johnsons of Stratford, Conn. ; and that Thomas was the 
 progenitor of the Wallingford and New Haven Johnsons 
 under consideration in this pamphlet, is now accepted by all 
 genealogists who have had the facts laid before them. In 
 •the N. E. His. -Gen. Reg., vol. 56, p. 132, James Shepard of 
 New Britain, Conn., gives this lineage in an article on the 
 New Haven and Wallingford Johnsons, and on page 297 of 
 the sam.e volume Dr. Bernard C. Steiner of Baltimore ac- 
 cepts the same and furnishes some supplementary matter, 
 deriveci from the manuscripts of Hon. Ralph D. Smyth of 
 Guilford. 
 
 Under date of March 25, 1903, James Shepard writes to 
 the author of this pamphlet : 
 
 I have found some evidence to prove that the Smlth-Steinor ac- 
 count of the children of the Thomas Johnson who was drowned In 
 1640 is correct as to two of the said children — Thomas and Jere- 
 miah. (Abstract enclosed.) 
 
 This shows that one Thomas Johnson was a nephew of Rob- 
 ert, that said Robert's wife was Adlin (Adeline). That Thomas 
 had a brother Jeremiah and wife Ellen. That Adlln Johnenn calls 
 said Ellen cousin (niece) and Jeremiah calls Adlln his aunt and 
 Ellen hl« sister. The same testimony also shows that this Thomas 
 had a dauprhter Ablgrail. This therefore waa the Thomas who re- 
 moved to New Jersey, 1666, and as Jeremiah was his brother and 
 both were nephews of Robert they must have been the sons of 
 Thomas, who died in 1640. Now this does not quite clinch Daniel 
 
 
and William as the sons of Thomas, 1640, but if son No. 1 and No. 
 4 belonged to this Thomas then probably Smith's Nos. 2 and 3 
 also belonged to him. 
 
 Proprietors' Record, vol, 3, p. 17: Thomas Johnson claimed 
 Apr. 7, 1663, a debt in behalf of his father-in-law, Arthur Bost- 
 wick, of Stratford, who had a wife Ellen. From this I suppose 
 she was formerly the widow of Thomas Johnson who was drowned 
 in 1640. See Orcut's Stratford. 
 
 Proprietors' Record, New Haven, vol. 2, p. 326: Nov. 6, 1660. 
 Inventory and will of Mrs Elizabeth Godman, late of New Haven, 
 deceased, presented by Thomas Johnson. Adlin Johnson, the wife 
 of Robert Johnson, and Ellen Johnson, the wife of Thomas John- 
 son, testified Adlin Johnson calls Ellen Johnson her cousin (niece). 
 Thomas Johnson said that his brother, Jeremiah Johnson, could 
 speak to the clearing of the case. Same matter Feb. 5, 1660, p. 330. 
 Jeremiah Johnson testified a question was put to her [Mrs. 
 Godman] (whether by his aunt, Adlin Johnson, or by his sister, 
 Ellen Johnson, he knows not.), etc. 
 
 Vol. 2, p. 116: April 3, 1655. Robert Johnson to kinsman Thomas 
 Johnson, p. 166: May 1, 1655. Thomas Johnson to John Johnson 
 above land which he had of his uncle. 
 
 There is a tradition of very long standing that the original 
 Connecticut Johnsons came from Cherry-Burton, a village 
 about three miles from the cathedral town of Beverly, in 
 Yorkshire, about six miles north of Rowley. 
 
 Dr. William Samuel Johnson visited Yorkshire in 1767 
 and there met a Mrs. Bell, who was the last survivor of his 
 Johnson family in England. In a letter to his father. Dr. 
 Samuel Johnson, dated York, October 17th, 1767, he wrote: 
 
 "When I came to Kingston-on-Hull I found Mr. Bell with the 
 Mayor of the town at a turtle feast at the inn I put up at. I in- 
 troduced myself to him and he me to the Mayor, etc., and after 
 some time, to his lady, who was very well pleased to see and ac- 
 knowledge me as a relation. She is a worthy, sensible woman, 
 but has few memorials of the family; both her parents having 
 died when she was two years old. Her father was a lawyer and 
 died at the age of thirty-two. Her grandfather lived upon his 
 estate, which I found was very considerable. Her great uncle was 
 a doctor of physic, eminent in his profession, and by his monu- 
 ment in Cherry-Burton church (which I visited, as well as the 
 family seat there) it appears he died the first of November, 1724, 
 at the age of ninety-four, having survived his wife and seven out 
 of nine children, who all died without issue, the two which sur- 
 vived him never married, by which m.eans the whole estate came 
 to Mrs. Bell. This old Dr. Johnson retained his memory to the 
 last, and as he remembered the transactions of almost a century, 
 had you happened to have met him when you were there in 1723, 
 he could doubtless have told you the circumstances of the emigra- 
 tion of our ancestors, no trace of which can now be discovered." 
 (Life and Cor. of Samuel Johnson, D. D., by Beardsley, p. 319.) 
 
 The Stratford Johnsons have a record by Rev. Dr. 
 Samuel Johnson in which he tells of the coming of the three 
 brothers from Hull, England, about 1637 to 1640, and he 
 
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gives the sons of Thomas as Thomas, Daniel, Jeremiah and 
 WilHam. This statement by Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson car- 
 ries the tradition back to the occasion of his visit to Hull in 
 1723, and from the intimate companionship which history 
 tells us there existed between Dr. Johnson as a boy and his 
 grandfather William of Guilford (who came from Eng- 
 land) there is every reason to believe that he heard it from 
 his own lips. The conclusion is therefore irresistible that 
 the line under consideration is from Thomas. Dr. Samuel 
 Johnson also stated, in the record previously referred to, 
 that Thomas the younger, son of Thomas the emigrant, was 
 the progenitor of the New Jersey Johnsons. 
 
 While in England in 1767 Dr. William Samuel Johnson 
 found the family arms in the Heraldry office in London and 
 made copy of the same. The arms were given to Archdea- 
 con Johnson and they are still to be seen on the walls of Up- 
 pingham school, Rutland, England, which was founded by 
 him. 
 
 The emigration of the New Haven-Wallingford Johnsons 
 from England was in about 1638, a year in which there 
 came over twenty ships and at least 3,000 persons. The 
 three brothers, John, Robert and Thomas, came from 
 Kingston-on-Hull and landed at Boston. They were Puri- 
 tans, under the leadership of Ezekiel Rogers, a Cambridge 
 graduate and a clergyman of Rowley in Yorkshire. He and 
 some of his followers settled on the coast of Massachusetts 
 Bay and called their new home Rowley for the old home in 
 England. The three Johnsons left Mr. Rogers at Boston 
 and repaired to the colony of New Haven, where Thomas 
 and Robert permanently settled. John, however, in a year 
 or two returned to Massachusetts and joined his former as- 
 sociates at Rowley. Davis's "History of Wallingford" 
 wrongly says he was killed by Indians. Blodgett's "Early 
 Settlers of Rowley" speaks of him as Captain John and 
 gives the names of his children and grandchildren. Blodgett 
 also says that Elizabeth, a sister of the three emigrant 
 brothers, married Jonathan Platts in Rowley in 1665, and he 
 gives names of their children. 
 
Robert died at New Haven in 1694 and was the ancestor 
 of the Stratford Johnsons. Robert was the father of Deacon 
 WilHam of Guilford (1629-1702) ; was the grandfather of 
 Deacon Samuel of Stratford (1670-1727); was the great- 
 grandfather of Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the first Episcopal 
 clergyman in Connecticut ; and was the great-great-grand- 
 father of William Samuel Johnson, LL. D., a brilliant 
 lawyer and statesman who as attorney for Connecticut 
 figured prominently in the settlement of the controversy 
 with Pennsylvania over Wyoming. The latter represented 
 Connecticut in the first Colonial Congress in 1765 and signed 
 the remonstrance to the King against the Stamp Act, 
 
 Robert Johnson 
 of New Haven d. 1684 
 
 brothers 
 
 Thomas Johnson 
 of New Haven d. 1640 
 
 Deacon Wm. of Guilford 1st cousins William of New Haven 
 1629-1702 1640-1716 
 
 Deacon Samuel 
 
 1670-1727 
 
 Rev. Dr. Samuel 
 
 1696-1772 
 
 Dr. William Samuel 
 1727-1819 
 
 2d cousins 
 
 3d cousins 
 
 4th cousins 
 
 Jacob of Wallingford 
 
 1674-1749 
 
 Rev. Jacob of Wyoming 
 1713-1797 
 
 Jehoiada Pitt 
 
 1767-1830 
 
 Some of the descendants of John the emigrant, who was 
 one of the signers of the New Haven covenant in 1639 
 (Hoadley's Colonial Records of Conn., vol, i, p. 17), are 
 given in the N. E. His.-Gen. Reg., v. 56, p. 297. 
 
 The line of Robert the emigrant (see Salisbury's Family 
 Histories") is considered in a pamphlet (1902) by James 
 Shepard ("New Haven and Wallingford Johnsons"), from 
 the N. E. His.-Gen. Reg., v. 56; also by Dr. Bernard C. 
 Steiner, page 297 of same volume. 
 
 (i) Thomas Johnson, the third of the emigrant 
 brothers, is the one whose line is specially under consider- 
 ation in this pamphlet. That he was drowned with Thomas 
 Ashley in New Haven harbor in 1640, is shown by the 
 colonial reports of New Haven Colony, pages 31, 59 and 
 
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 272. His wife was Helena . Children of 
 
 Thomas Johnson according to Ralph Dunning Smyth, the 
 Guilford historian, were as follows: 
 
 2 i Thomas of New Haven and Newark, N. J., progenitor 
 
 of the New Jersey Johnsons. Born 1630, married first 
 
 , second Frances Hitchcock, third Elenor 
 
 . Died Nov. 5, 1694, aged 64. Thomas- 
 Johnson (Thomas') had Joseph, b. 1651, John, b. 1654, 
 Abigail, b. 1656, Loving, b. 1659, Thomas, b. 1664, 
 Eliphalpt, b. 1698. 
 
 3 ii Daniel, of New Haven. Had son Daniel, m. Martha and 
 
 had Daniel, b. 1656. 
 
 4 iii Jeremiah, of New Haven and Derby, Conn. Had Jere- 
 
 miah, b. 1664, Samuel, b. 1670, Tamar, Benajah. 
 + 5 iv William (sometimes mentioned in the records as Wingle 
 or Windle), of New Haven, grandfather of Rev. 
 Jacob Johnson. Writers have confused William 
 with his counsin. Deacon William of Guilford, son of 
 Robert the emigrant, previously mentioned, p. 2. 
 For children see N. E. His.-Gen. Reg., v. 55, p. 369, 
 and "Street Genealogy," p. 15. 
 Savage, v. 2, p. 554, adds a John of Guilford, but his 
 identity is unknown. 
 
 (5) William^ Johnson (Thomas^), was born in Eng- 
 land earlier than 1638. He emigrated to America and 
 married in December, 1664, Sarah, daughter of John and 
 Jane or Jeanne (Wollen or Woolin) Hall, who was born 
 1643, and baptized by Rev. Mr. Davenport in New Haven 
 Aug. 9, 1646. Ralph D. Smyth gives him a second wife, 
 Abigail, but his first wife Sarah was the mother of all his 
 children. His will does not mention either wife. The in- 
 ventory amounted to £70, i8s. 2 d. In the town records of 
 New Haven he is sometimes mentioned as Wingle or 
 Windle Johnson. See "John Hall of Wallingford," by 
 James Shepard, page 24 ; also "Hall Ancestry," page 89. 
 
 William Johnson though owning land in Wallingford, did 
 not live there, but resided in New Haven. In the latter city 
 upwards of thirty deeds of land to and from William John- 
 son are recorded. In some of them he is called "husband- 
 man" and in others "planter." In 1670 he, together with 
 Nathaniel Merriman, John Merriman, Samuel Munson, 
 John Hall, John Moss, John Peck and John Hitchcock (all 
 mentioned in the records) and about thirty others signed the 
 original compact for the settlement of Wallingford and be- 
 came the original Proprietors, having lots set oflf for them. 
 That of William Johnson was about 20 rods square, adjoin- 
 
ing lots of Jeremiah Howe and Nathan Andrews. He sold 
 it in 1694 to Isaac Curtis. The conveyance (Wallingford 
 Land Book, v. i, p. 282,) is an interesting record of those 
 early days : 
 
 To all Christian People to whome these presents shall come 
 Greeting 
 
 Know ye yt I William Johnson of New haven in ye county of new 
 haven & collony of Connecticut in New England mason with ye 
 consent of Sarah my wife for divers good & well advised consider- 
 ations & more especial for & in consideration of ten pounds in 
 curent pay Received ))y me Have Bargained sold assigned alien- 
 ated & made over & by these presents Doe Bargaine sell Assigns 
 Alienate make over &. confirme unto Isaac Curtiss of Wallingford 
 planter A certain percell of home lot land cituate lyeing & being 
 in ye Town of Wallingford being twenty rodds north & southward 
 & nineteen Rodds east & westward 
 
 To Have & to Hold possess occupy & enjoy ye sd land with all ye 
 Libertyes previlidges wayes woods under woods Trees grass herb- 
 age profRts dvantages & appertainances thereto belonging or any 
 wise appertaining To Him ye sd Isaac Curtiss . . .with- 
 out any manner of claim let hinder and eviction ejection disturb- 
 ance or Mollestation of me ye sd William Johnson or of my heirs 
 Executors administrators or assigns or of from or by any other 
 persons whatsoever claiming or yt may claime under pretenc of my 
 Right title or Interest or by any act default or consent of mine or 
 by my procuremen in any wise directly or indirectly 
 
 In Witness wherof we ye above named William & Sarah Johnson 
 have hereunto set our marks & seals 
 
 dated this 20th day of January 1694 & in ye Sixt year of there 
 majestie Reign William & Mary King & Queen of England Scotland 
 franc & Ireland Defenders of ye faith &c 
 
 his 
 in ye presence of William X Johnson [Seal] 
 
 mark 
 Richard Spery her 
 
 Moses Mansfield Sarah X Johnson [Seal] 
 
 mark 
 
 William Johnson Senior appeared this 20th of March 1694 & 
 acknowledged ye above written Instrument or deed of Sail to be 
 his free act & deed according to Law before me Moses Mansfield 
 Assistant Recorder per Joseph Houlte 
 
 William died in 1716. The will, recorded as that of 
 "William Johnson, senior of New Haven," was made in 
 March, 17 16, and probated in the following August, v. 4, p. 
 450. Bequests to son William, £20; son Isaac, £10, and his 
 Avife, 40 shillings ; and his children, 40s. ; sons John, Samuel 
 and Ebenezer, each 5s. ; son Jacob, 20s. ; daughter, Mary 
 Bishop, 40s. ; daughters, Abigail Lines, Sarah Horton, Lydia 
 Andrews and EHzabeth Hotchkiss, each 15s.; "the several 
 sums in money at inventory price" ; "All my real estate shall 
 be comprised to pay my debts and legacies" ; remainder to 
 son Isaac, who is named as executor. 
 
Children of William and Sarah (Hall) Johnson: 
 
 6 i Lieut. William, born Sept. 5, 1665, died 1742. Was a 
 prominent man in New Haven. Left widow Sarali. four sons and 
 three married daugliters. 
 
 7 11 John, born July 20, 1667, died 1744; married Abigail, 
 daughter of Daniel and Abiah (Street) Sherman. Born Aug 5 
 IPC7. Three children. "Street Family," p. 15. 
 
 8 ill Isaac, of Woodbridge, Conn., called deacon and captain 
 in the records. Born Oct. 27, 1672, died Oct. 27. 1750. Married April 
 2fi. 1699, Abigail, daughter of John and Mary (Tompson) Cooper, 
 born Oct. 3. 1679. Her epitaph is given in New Haven His. Society 
 papers, vol. 3, page 544. 
 
 9 Iv Abraham, born 1669. Not named in father's will. 
 
 10 V Abigail, born December 6, 1670. Married March 30, 1692, 
 Joseph Lines, son of Ralph, born 1657. 
 4 11 vi Sergeant Jacob, of Wallingford, born Sept. 25, 1674, died 
 July 17, 1749. Married Abigail, daughter of John 
 and Abigail (Merriman) Hitchcock. (N. E. His.- 
 Gen. Register for October. 1901.) 
 
 12 Sarah, born Nov. 6, 1676. Married Samuel Horton. She 
 
 was in 1742 a widow with five children. (New 
 Haven Probate, vol. 6, page 406.) 
 
 13 vii Samuel, born Sept. 3, 1678. Married Anna Hotchkiss, 
 
 daughter of Thomas. New Haven Land Records, 
 V. 10. p. 243. 
 
 14 viii Mary, born April 1, 1680, m. Samuel Bishop, Jr., b. July 
 
 27, 1671. 
 
 15 ix Lydia. b. July 7, 1681, m. about 1699, Gideon Andrews, 
 
 son of Nathan and Phebe (Gibbard) Andrews. New 
 Haven Probate Record, v. 10, p. 373. 
 
 16 X Hope, b. May 10, 1685, d. same month. 
 
 17 xi Elizabeth, b. May 10, 1685, twin with Hope, m. Abraham 
 
 Hotchkiss, son of Thomas. ("Hotchkiss Family.") 
 
 18 xii Ebenezer, b. April 5, 1688, m. Lydia Hotchkiss, daughter 
 
 of Thomas. Ebenezer d. of smallpox at Cheshire, 
 Conn., April 18, 1732. They had several children 
 recorded at Wallingford. His widow m. Sept. 15, 
 1736, Nathaniel Hall of Wallingford. 
 
 It will be noted that three of William Johnson's children 
 married three of the children of Thomas Hotchkiss. The 
 latter was one of the nine children of Samuel Hotchkiss, pro- 
 genitor of the Hotchkiss family in America. Shepard says 
 the proof of parentage in the three marriages mentioned 
 above, is found in the New Haven Land Records, v. lo, p. 
 243, where Joseph and Sarah Turner, Samuel and Anna 
 Johnson, all of New Haven, Nathaniel Hall and Lydia Hall, 
 both of Wallingford, sell to Joseph Sperr>% Jr., "right in es- 
 tate of our honored father, Thomas Hotchkiss, deceased." 
 
 (11) Sergeant Jacob Johnson^ (William-, Thomas^) 
 of Wallingford, born in New Haven, Sept. 25, 1674, d. July 
 17, 1749, married Dec. 14, 1693, Abigail, daughter of John 
 
and Abigail (Merriman) Hitchcock.* He was sergeant of 
 the Wallingford Train Band. Is referred to as "sergeant" 
 in a deed recorded in 1752 and also in the probate records. 
 He was deputy for Wallingford to the General Court in 
 1 72 1, 1732, 1733 and 1736 (Col. Rec. of Conn., vol. 6, page 
 233 ; vol. 7, pages 403 and 420, vol. 8, page 27). He was an 
 extensive land owner and left an estate valued at over £14,- 
 000. This, however, was in the inflated Old Tenor currency 
 with which Connecticut was at that time burdened. For 
 example, horses were inventoried at £60 and £70, cows £20 
 and higher. The land comprised about 400 acres and there 
 were several slaves. 
 
 His epitaph on a well preserved redstone in the Walling- 
 ford burying ground is as follows : 
 
 Here lieth the body 
 
 of Mr. Jacob Johnson 
 
 Died July 17, 1749 
 
 in the 75th year of his age 
 
 His will is dated June 3, 1749, and is in the New Haven 
 Probate Records, v. 7, p. 520. Names his sons Abner and 
 Caleb executors. Makes among others the following pro- 
 visions : 
 
 Son (Rev.) Jacob to have negro man Dick and negro woman 
 Deft. 
 
 Son Reuben to have £50, old tenor. After that to share equally 
 with rest of sons. 
 
 To Eunice Johnson, daughter of son Israel, deceased, £50 money, 
 old tenor. 
 
 My books to be equally divided among my wife and children. 
 
 From the inventory, the following items are selected: Richard, 
 negro, £140; "Sabbath-day house and land it stands on," £36; ** a 
 wigg, one pair sleeve buttons and silver buckles. 16 shillings. Two 
 pair of buckles, 18s. One great bible, 120s.; other bible, testaments 
 and a good sized library, £531, black horse £70, brown horse £60, 
 yoke oxen £ 60, pair stags £50, six cow^s £20 to £22 each. 
 
 * Lieut. Nathaniel Merriman, b. 1&40 
 
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 Abigail m. John Hitchcock Capt. John Merriman 
 
 o'f Wallingford m. Elizabeth Peck 
 
 Abigail Hitchcock Caleb Merriman 
 
 m. Sergeant Jacob Johnson m. Ruth Sedgwick 
 
 Rev. Jacob Johnson Ruth Merriman 
 
 of Wallingford and Wilkes-Barre m. Capt. Hezekiah Johnson 
 
 **As the meeting houses were not warmed in those early times, it was 
 customary for some individual to build near the church, what was 
 called a Sabbath-day house. It was about 16 feet square and was 
 heated with a Are place and furnished with rough seats. Durmg the 
 noon recess between the services, the people were wont to meet here 
 to warm themselves and eat dinner. 
 
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 Red steer £15. bull £20, 2 two year olds £17, 6 swine. £40, 44 
 sheep £80, several spinning wheels, flax, tow, wool, linen yarn, etc., 
 pewter rhamber pot, gun, sword, horn, powder, bullets, lead flints, 
 looking glasses, hat case, chests of drawers, "2 picters" 6s., "saddle, 
 bridle and strap" £4-10, "saddle that was Capt. Holt's dec'd £3-25, 
 glasses, drinking glasses, vials and small glasses £4. 1 pillion 40s.. 
 warming pan 80s.. 6 black chairs straight backs £3, 4 flat back 40s., 
 2 Great chairs and 4 little chairs, 52s.; box iron and heaters 40s., 
 andirons 60s.; large assortment of kitchen ware, old great table 
 10s.. cheese piers 10s., razor, 12 spoons 12s. 4 home knives and 8 
 forks 25s. 
 
 Jacob Johnson's wife, Abigail Hitchcock, d. Jan. g, 1726, 
 and he subsequently m. Dorcas Linsley of Branford, Conn., 
 but there was no issue from second marriage. 
 
 Children of Jacob and Abigail Johnson : 
 
 19 i Reuben, b. Aug. 27, 1694, m. Mar. 11, 1718. Mary Dayton. 
 (Tuttle Family, page 214). Children: Justus, b. 1721. 
 Ephraim, Rebecca, Zaccheus. Ephraim, I am in- 
 formed, had a son Luther and a daughter Content. 
 Luther at age of 23 was in Revolutionary War. 
 Since the above was in type, it is learned that Geo. Ransom John- 
 son (see 44) has an old accountbook of (44) Daniel, son of (26) 
 Daniel, stating as follows concerning (19) Reuben: 
 
 "Reuben had two sons, Ephraim and Zaccheus. This Ephraim 
 had two sons, Luther and John. This Luther had four sons, 
 Ei)hraim, John, George and Elihu." The same record says the 
 emigrant ancestor. Thomas, was the son of John in England. The 
 Wallingford records say Luther was born June 25, 1759 and en- 
 listed from Wallingford in 1776. 
 
 -I- 20 ii Deacon Isaac, b. Feb. 21, 1696, d. Apr. 23, 1779. Walling- 
 ford Records, vol. 1, p. 158. 
 
 21 ill Enos. 1698-1786. Had a son Enos, perhaps Sherburn. 
 
 22 iv Abigail, b. 1699, m. Capt. Benj. Holt, 'Tuttle Family," p. 
 
 214. 
 -f 23 V Capt. Abner, b. Aug. 2, 1702, d. Dec. 28, 1759 m. Charity, 
 daughter of Isaac and Rebecca (Tuttle) Dayton of 
 New Haven. (Toittle Family p. 214.) 
 
 24 vi Lieut. Caleb, 1703-1777. m. Rachel Brockett. 
 
 25 vii Israel, 1705-1747, m. Jan. 26, 1732 Sarah Miles. Children, 
 
 according to Davis' "History of Wallingford:" 
 Eunice b. 1734, Prudence b. 1738, Caleb b. 1739. Anna 
 b. 1736, Miles b. 1741, Warren b. 1747, Jacob b. 1742, 
 Rebecca b. 1744, Silas b. 1749. 
 -f- 26 viii Daniel, 1709-1780. m. Dec. 24. 1732 Joanna Treston. 
 
 27 ix Sarah, b. 1710, m. May 9. 1734. Daniel Bartholomew, b. 
 1708. Daniel was the "toler and brander of the 
 horsekinde, key-keeper & church pound keeper, 
 tithingman, selectman and school director." Bar- 
 tholomew Family, p. 86, wrongly states she was 
 daughter of Lieut. Caleb. She was his sister. 
 4-28 X Rev. Jacob Johnson, b. at Wallingford, Conn., Apr. 15, 
 1713 (town records), d. at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mar. 15, 
 1797, 
 
 The "Hitchcock Genealogy" mentions all of the foregoing 
 children and two others : Eunice, b. June, 1697. Lydia, d. 
 June 3. 1729. The same work also says: 
 
 "Matthias Hitchcock was one of the original signers of 
 the 'fundamental agreement' of the New Haven colony. 
 John Hitchcock (son of Matthias) was one of the original 
 proprietors of Wallingford, founded 1670. He m. first 
 
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 (1670) Abigail Merriman (born 1654), daughter of Capt. 
 Nathaniel Merriman, who was one of the first settlers of 
 Wallingford. John Hitchcock's first three children were b. 
 in New Haven 1671 to 1674 and he removed to Wallingford 
 in 1676. Children of John Hitchcock: 
 
 1 A daughter, 
 
 ii Samuel. 
 
 iii Abigail, m. Jacob Johnson, 
 
 iv Mary, m. Benj. Beach. 
 
 V Nathaniel, m. Sarah Jennings, 
 
 vi Margery, m. Joseph Munson 
 
 vii Elizabeth, prob. m. Daniel Lines, 
 
 viii John, m. Marlow Munson. 
 
 ix Matthias, m. Thankful Andrews. 
 
 X Hannah, prob. m. John Lines. 
 
 xi Damaris, m. Sylvanus Clark. 
 
 xii Benj., m. Elizabeth Ives. 
 
 The above AbigaiF Hitchcock (John-, Matthias'^), daugh- 
 ter of John and Abigail (Merriman) Hitchcock, was b. in 
 New Haven, Conn., Apr. 10, 1674. She m. Dec. 14, 1697, 
 Jacob Johnson, son of William, who was b. 1669. She was 
 the mother of his 12 children and died Jan. 9, 1726. Sergt. 
 Jacob Johnson was a kinsman of Samuel Johnson, first presi- 
 dent of King's College." 
 
 (20) Deacon Isa.\c Tohn.son* (Jacob^, William^, 
 Thomas'^), h. Feb. 21, 1696, d. Apr. 23, 1779. Married 
 Nov. 26, 1723, Sarah Osborne, who d. Nov. 16, 1766, Wall- 
 ingford records, v. 17, p. 198. Query — Is this the Sarah 
 Osborne, daughter of Jeremiah, in Austin's Gen. Diet, of 
 Rhode Island? Children of Isaac Johnson, from town rec- 
 ords, V. 5, pp. 515-551: 
 Joseph, b. 1725. 
 
 Abigail, b. Feb. 11, 1727. (Davis says 1722). 
 Sarah, b. Feb. 10. 1729. 
 Isaac, b. June 23, 1731. 
 Esther, b. Nov. 30, 1735. 
 
 Rachel, b. Mar. 6, 1740, m. Stephen Todd, b. Mar. 3, 1735, 
 son of Stephen and Dydia (Ives) Todd. They re- 
 moved to Salisbury, Herkimer Co., N. T., in 1792. 
 Issue: Jehiel, b. 1761, who m. Hannah Steel; 
 Stephen, b. 1773, Bethel b. 1792, m. Hannah Tuttle. 
 This family is being traced by Mrs. William H. 
 H. Faust, of Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 34 vii Rebecca, b. 1744. 
 
 The statement is made in "Munson Family," p. 92, 
 
 that Samuel Munson, b. 1741, m. Rhoda, daughter 
 
 of Deacon Isaac Johnson. 
 
 Town clerk's examination of all the books from 1720 to 
 
 1760 shows no other children of Isaac and Sarah than those 
 
 given above. 
 
 Davis's "WalHngford," p. 833, gives all of above except 
 Rebecca and gives in addition Lois, b. Feb. 15, 1738, but the 
 
 281/2 i 
 
 29 
 
 11 
 
 30 
 
 iii 
 
 + 31 
 
 iv 
 
 32 
 
 V 
 
 33 
 
 vi 
 
12 
 
 town clerk says Lois was daughter of an Isaac and Eliza- 
 beth '- . 
 
 The Wallingford town clerk informs me that there was an 
 
 Isaac, who m. Elizabeth , but he cannot find record 
 
 of their births or marriage. They had two children, Han- 
 nah, b. Sept. 13, 1733, and Lois (or Lowys), b. Feb. 15, 
 1738. Vol. 5, pp. 507, 540. Also that one Deacon Isaac 
 Johnson m. Mrs. Elizabeth Beddles, Apr. 16, 1767; vol. 17, 
 p. 196. 
 
 (23) Capt. Abner Johnson*, (ii) Jacoh^, William'^, 
 Thomas^) of Wallingford, born Aug. 2, 1702, died Dec. 28, 
 1757, married Dec. 14, 1726, Charity, daughter of Isaac and 
 Rebecca (Tuttle) Dayton and great granddaughter of Ralph 
 Dayton, the colonist. 
 
 Like his father and grandfather, Abner was a large land 
 owner. He was a merchant ("Tuttle Family," p. 214). 
 Was commissioned Captain of the first Train Band of Wall- 
 ingford at the session of the general court held at New 
 Haven, May, 1749. His will made May 7, 1757, and re- 
 corded in New Haven Probate Records, vol. 9, pp. 132-3, 
 mentions four sons, Dayton, Hezekiah, Abner and Jacob. 
 
 Children of Abner and Charity Johnson: 
 
 Dayton, b. 1728. 
 
 Lydia (1730-1812), m. Ebenezer Fitch. They were great- 
 grandparents of Col. Elliott F. Shepard of New 
 York. 
 
 Capt. Hezekiah, b. Mar. 12, 1732, d. Feb. 21. 1810. 
 
 Abner, b. 1738, graduated Yale. 
 
 Jacob, b. July 31, 1742, d. June 10, 1816, m. 1767 Esther 
 Hotchkiss, b. 1750, d. 1838. Removed to Johnstown. 
 N. Y. Was in the Revolutionary Army. Nephew of 
 Rev. Jacob Johnson. 
 40 vi Charity, b. May 19, 1744. 
 
 Capt. Abner Johnson— Charity Dayton 
 bro. of Rev. Jacob Johnson 
 
 35 
 36 
 
 i 
 ii 
 
 -1- 37 
 
 38 
 
 + 31) 
 
 iii 
 iv 
 
 V 
 
 Jacob Johnson— Esther Hotchkiss Capt. Hezekiah Johnson— 
 
 0742-1S16) 
 
 (nephew of Rev. 
 
 Jacob 
 
 (1750-1838) (1732-1810) Ruth Merriman 
 
 Caleb Johnson— Mary Beach Belcher Johnson— Hannah Cahoon 
 
 (1774-1845) I (1778-1854) (1767-1837) 
 
 Stephen Hotchkiss Johnson, m. KUnor Horsfall 
 (1809-1881) 
 
 I Horace Johnson— Eliza Pratt 
 
 I (1799-18S5) I (1S03-1S22) 
 
 Rev. Joseph H. Johnson | 
 
 present Bishop of Stephen Albert Johnson— Emellne 
 
 Los Aneeles. Cal. (1840) Thomson 
 
 These lines are being traced by S. Albert Johnson, Boonville. N. 
 Y., and Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, bishop of Los Angeles. 
 
13 
 
 (26) Daniel Johnson* (Jacob^, William-, Thomas"^). 
 He was a trial justice under the King. Bom 1709, d. Oct. 
 14, 1780, m. Dec. 24, 1732, Joanna Preston. She was b. 
 Mar. 18, 1714, d. Jan. 18, 1781. Children: 
 
 41 i Cha^les^ b. Nov. 13, 1735, d. at sea. 
 + 42 il Capt. Solomon, b. May 4, 1740. Line being traced by Ed- 
 ward H. Johnson, Philadelphia. 
 43 iii Joanna, b. Apr. 4, 1743. 
 + 44 iv Laeut. Daniel, b. Mar. 24, 1746. Line being traced by Geo. 
 Ransom Johnson, Cheshire, Conn. 
 
 45 V Israel, b. July 8, 1748. 
 
 46 vi Justin, b. Mar. 4, 1752. 
 
 47 vii Abigail, b. Dec. 23, 1753. 
 
 48 viii Joshua, b. July 26, 1757. 
 
 49 ix Mindwell, b. May 19. 1738. 
 
 50 X Rebecca, b. Mar. 29, 1759. 
 
 (28) Rev. Jacob* Johnson (Jacob^, William-), 
 Thomas'^), born at Wallingford, April 7, 1713; died March 
 I5» ^797- While pastor at North Groton, he married Mary, 
 daughter of Capt. Nathaniel and Mary (Williams) Gid- 
 dings, of Preston, Conn. She was born Nov. 28, 1730, and 
 died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 18, 1805. His biography is 
 given in Dexter's Graduates of Yale, but it is erroneous as 
 to parentage and year of birth. 
 
 Rev. Jacob Johnson's monument at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has 
 the following epitaph : 
 
 Rev. Jacob Johnson, A. M. 1 Born at Wallingford, Conn April 7 
 1713. I Died at V^ilkes-Barre, Pa., March 15, 1797. | Graduated at 
 Yale College. 1740. | Pastor of Congregational Church, | Groton 
 Conn., 1749-1772. | First pastor of Wilkes-Barre Congregational I 
 (subsequently First Presbyterian) | 1772-1797. | He made mission- 
 ary journeys to the | Six Nations. | Preaching in the Indian lan- 
 guage. I He was an early and outspoken advocate | of American 
 liberty and a commanding | figure in the early history of | Wyo- 
 ming. I He wrote the articles of capitulation | following the de- 
 struction of the I infant settlement | by the British and Indians | 
 In 1778 I and was a firm and self-sacrificing | defender of the Con- 
 necticut title I throughout the prolonged land contest. | 
 
 Children, all born in Connecticut, but lived and died in 
 
 Wilkes-Barre : 
 
 + 51 i Jehoiada Pitt Johnson, b. 1767, d. 1830. Left large family 
 52 ii Jacob Johnson, b. about 1765, d. May, 1807. Had two 
 daughters: Mary B., m Phineas Nash Foster. 
 Lydia, m. A. Smith. The Wyoming Herald, Oct. 18, 
 1822, mentions the marriage "at Groton, Conn., of 
 Mr. A. Smith of Aurelius, N. Y., to Miss Lydia John- 
 son, formerly of Wilkes-Barre." Mr. and Mrs. Fos- 
 ter had one child, Charles D. Foster, b. Nov. 25, 1836, 
 who m. Mary J. Hoagland of New Jersey, and they 
 had two children: Florence, m. Dr. Frank T. Jen- 
 kins, son of Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins. U. S. N., 
 and Lily, died young. Mr. Foster's ancestor, 
 Thomas Nash, was one of the founders of New 
 Haven, Conn., he having come to America with Rev. 
 John Davenport's company in 1637. 
 
14 
 
 4- 53 lii Lydia, b. in 1756, m. Col. Zebulon Butler, commander of 
 the patriot forces in the battle of Wyoming. 
 54 iv Christiana Olive, m. William Russell, who had a pottery 
 on River street below Union. She died Jan. 16, 1830, 
 (or 1834). He died July 10, 1829. 
 
 There were also two daughters of (28) Rev. Jacob John- 
 son who died in infancy: Zipporah, in 1764, aged 2 years. 
 There were "little sisters and a little brother Jacob," as 
 learned from a published sermon of Rev. Jacob Johnson 
 dated 1765. 
 
 According to the Russell bible William was the son of 
 William Russell and Mehitable Cowen (who were -married 
 Jan. 4, 1773). He was born Feb. 15, 1774, and died July 
 10, 1829. He was married to Christiana Olive Johnson 
 March 25, 1801, by Doctor Matthew Covell, a magistrate. 
 They had no children. 
 
 The following is taken from Peck's "Early Methodism," 
 and the introductory statement is by Rev. William Colbert, a 
 pioneer Methodist preacher. The writer of the lines, Miss 
 Christiana Johnson, subsequently married William Russell. 
 
 "Preached in the court house (1792) at Wilkes-Barre. 
 Made a public collection and got 13s. and 8 d. I received a 
 friendly letter to-day from Miss Christiana Johnson, a young 
 woman, I believe, of good sense and of an excellent spirit. 
 What she has in friendship addressed to me in verse, I shall 
 here for my own satisfaction, insert verbatim :" 
 
 You, Sir, have ventured thus to come 
 
 A wild and craggy road, 
 Willingly left your former home 
 
 To visit our abode. 
 
 I hope your labor'll not be spent 
 
 In vain along our shores 
 Nor you have reason to repent 
 
 You came within our doors. 
 
 And may your path with flowers be spread. 
 While through the woods you rove. 
 
 May you with joy the carpet tread 
 Throughout the Luzerne grove. 
 
 May heaven grant you sweet repast- 
 Religion all your theme; 
 
 Each day be happier than the last 
 Along the winding stream. 
 
 And when these borders you do leave, 
 
 And can no longer stay, 
 May you a laurel crown receive 
 
 That never fades away. 
 
15 
 
 "We have copied these lines," says Peck, "as ilhistrative 
 of the times. Miss Johnson was a daughter of 'old Priest 
 Johnson,' as he is called by the older people who remember 
 him. Pie was a Presbyterian minister who came into the 
 country with the early Yankee settlers, was in Forty Fort on 
 the day of the battle, and went to John Butler's headquarters 
 with others with a flag of truce, and assisted in negotiating 
 the capitulation. The daughter who wrote the above lines 
 became a Methodist, married a Methodist and died in the 
 Methodist faith and in the communion of the Methodist 
 Church. Her conversion to Methodism affords undoubted 
 evidence that, as a distinct form of Christianity, it had al- 
 ready attained considerable influence over the public mind in 
 Wyoming. We have copied Miss Christiana's rhymes to 
 Mr. Colbert, not because there is much of the spirit of the 
 muses m them, but as a specimen of the literature and senti- 
 ment of that early period of the history of our country. 
 Like the old patriotic ballads, it is valuable as a specimen of 
 home-made poetry, as well as an evidence of ardent piety 
 and generous hospitality." 
 
 (31) Isaac Johnson^ (Deacon Isaac*", Sergeant Jacob^, 
 William-, Thomas'^). Born June 23, 1731. He disappears 
 from the Wallingford records and is perhaps the Isaac who 
 removed to Massachusetts, locating near Hadley, at a place 
 locally known as Hockanum, the name of the old home in 
 Hartford County, Connecticut, adjoining New Haven 
 County, in which Wallingford is located. He evidently 
 married one Abigail — , elsewhere than at Wallingford, as 
 there is no record of his marriage there. See (20) Deacon 
 Isaac. 
 
 Children of Isaac and Abigail, from Wallingford town 
 records : 
 
 David, b. June 24, 1758. Vol. 13, p. 562. 
 
 Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1759. Vol. 17, p. 203. 
 
 Lois, b. Dec. 29, 1761. 
 
 Stephen Shipman, b. Oct. 22. 1763. 
 
 Isaac, b. Jan. 2, 1766. 
 
 Warren, b. Jan. 9. 1768. 
 
 The Hadley Johnsons say their progenitor was Isaac and 
 that he was from Wallingford. Whether he is (31) Isaac^ 
 (Isaac*, lacoh^, William-, Thomas'^) or not cannot be settled 
 by information now at hand. They say their ancestor Isaac 
 
 55 
 
 i 
 
 56 
 
 ii 
 
 57 
 
 iii 
 
 58 
 
 iv 
 
 59 
 
 V 
 
 60 
 
 vi 
 
i6 
 
 was born in 1735 or 1736 and that he married one Elizabeth 
 
 , who was b. 1735, d. 1808, and who may have 
 
 been a second wife. This Isaac had a son Stephen, b. 1762 
 or 1763. The elder Isaac and son Stephen went to Hadley 
 from Ellington, Tolland Co., Conn., which is up the Con- 
 necticut River about 40 miles, or about 60 miles from Wall- 
 ingford. The line as taken from gravestones and familv 
 
 records at Hadley is furnished as follows by Clifton John- 
 son : 
 
 Isaac, b. 1735 or 1736, m. Elizabeth , who was born in 
 
 1735, died 1808. They had, among other children, 
 
 Stephen, b. Aug. 5, 1762 (or 1763), m. in 1791 Sarah Lyman who 
 was b. 1770. d. 1835. Stephen and Sarah had Alfred, Sally (m. 
 Pomeroy), Julia Ann (m. Hammond) and 
 
 Stephen, b. 1800, d. 1882, m. Catherine Root, b. 1809. d. 1870. They 
 had Cornelia, m. Nash; Laura, m. Richards, Elliott; and Chester 
 Lorenzo, b. 1834, father of Clifton Johnson. 
 
 Stephen, above (b. 1762), had a son Alfred, who had a son Rev. 
 Myron A., who has a son Rev. Walter De Forest Johnson of 
 Wilkes-Barre. 
 
 (37) Capt. Hezekiah Johnson^ (Abner*^ Sergeant 
 Jacob^\ William'^, Thomas^) of Wallingford and Hamden, 
 Conn. Born Mar. 12, 1732, d. Feb. 21, 1810, m. Nov. 1753, 
 Ruth, daug-htcr of Caleb and Ruth (Sedgwick) Mcrriman, 
 great grand-daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Merriman the 
 colonist, (one of the original proprietors of Wallingford,) 
 and of Major General Robert Sedgvvick of Charlestown, 
 Mass, Charter member and thrice captain of the Ancient 
 and Honorable Artillery Co, of Boston, A distinguished 
 soldier under Cromwell, Governor of Jamaica, etc.. etc. 
 He was a soldier of the Revolution, having enlisted at the 
 time of the Lexington alann. Also served in Capt. 
 Nathaniel Johnson's company. Col. William Douglass, 
 Fifth r.attalion of Connecticut, from June to December, 
 1776, in Washington's army at New York. Also was a vol- 
 unteer under Gen. Gates in 1777. (Record in Adjt. Gen. 
 office, Hartford, Conn.) When the British, under Benedict 
 Arnold, threatened the Connecticut coast, he led a company 
 of volunteers from Wallingford to the defense of New Lon- 
 don and was in the engagement there : 
 
 Children of (37) Capt. Hezekiah Johnson: 
 
 61 1 Caleb, b. July 18, 1759, graduate of Yale. 
 
 62 li George, b. Nov. 7. 1760. 
 
 63 iii Charles, b. Nov. 2, 1762 
 
 64 iv Lucinda, b. July 18, 1763. 
 
 65 v Ruth, b. May 23, 1765, m. Asahel Hall. 
 + 66 vi Belcher, b. 1767, d. 18.37. 
 
 67 vii Hezekiah, m. Elizabeth Tuttle and lived at Hamden, 
 Conn. (For biog. sketch of son Sylvanus see Iowa 
 Historical Record. April. 1902.) 
 
The tombstones of Capt. Hezekiah and Ruth Johnson in 
 the burying ground at Hamden, Conn., bear these inscrip- 
 tions : 
 
 Sacred 
 
 In Memory To the Memory of 
 
 of MRS. RUTH JOHNSON 
 
 CAPT. HEIZEKIAH JOHNSON Wife of Capt. Hezekiah Johnson 
 
 Who Died Who Departed This Ljfe 
 
 February 21st 1810 December 12th 1817 
 
 Ae. 77 Ae. 77 
 
 Let each who has a soul to save Let not the dead forgotten lie 
 Extend his view beyond the grave Lest men forget that they must die. 
 And while salvation still is nigh 
 To Christ the friend of sinners fly. 
 
 (39) Jacob Johnson'^ (Abner*, Jacob^, William-, 
 Thomas'^), b. July 31, 1742, d. June 10, 1816. Removed to 
 Johnstown, N. Y., about 1800. Was in War of Revolution, 
 1776 to 1783. Married Esther Hotchkiss (1750-1838). 
 Had eight children. Had a son Jacob, who m. Sarah Jewett 
 and who with the three other Jacobs is confused in the Tuttle 
 Genealogy. (39) Jacob's son Caleb had a large family, 
 among his sons being Hon. Stephen Hotchkiss Johnson, 
 Judge of Schenectady County, father of the Right Rev. 
 Joseph H. Johnson (b. 1847) Protestant Episcopal bishop of 
 Los Angeles, California. 
 
 (42) Captain Solomon Johnson^ of Wallingford 
 (Daniel*, Jacob^, William^, Thomas'^), b. May 4, 1740, d. 
 Apr. 4, 1799. Was a Revolutionary soldier and sea captain. 
 Married Dec. 6. 1765, Mary Barker (b. Mar. 10, 1742, d. 
 Sept. 7, 1825). Left a son Charles*': 
 
 Charles*', (Solomon"), b. May 3, 1767, in Wallingford, d. 
 Sept. 22, 1848, in Durham, N. Y. Was captain of a troop of 
 horse in Durham, N. Y. Charles married Elizabeth Rice of 
 New Haven, Conn., who was born Oct. 22, 1769, d. Dec. 25, 
 1840. Charles left a sen, Solomon Rice Johnson'^ : 
 
 Solomon Rice Johnson^ b. August, 1797, in Durham, d. 
 Nov. 5, 1833, in Durham, N. Y., m. Oct. 12, 1828, Mary 
 Whittlesey of Saybrook, Conn., b. Dec. 12, 1797, d. Dec. 3, 
 
 1829. Left a son, Solomon Whittlesey Johnson^ : 
 Solomon Whittlesey Johnson^ b. Nov. 5, 1829, in Dur- 
 ham, N. Y., m. Sept. 15, 1853, Adelaide Hine, b. Feb. 12, 
 
 1830, in Cairo, N. Y. Had a son, Edward Hine Johnson' : 
 
i8 
 
 Edward Hine Johnson", b. June 29, 1854, in New York 
 City, j^raduate of Yale, m. Dec. 12, 1883, Frances Van Leer 
 Earle of Philadelphia, b. Oct. 27, 1858. Had a son, Edward 
 Earle Johnson'". 
 
 Edward Earle Johnson^", b. Oct. 31, 1884, in Philadelphia. 
 
 (44) LiiiuT. DAXuiL Johnson''' (Daniel^ Sergeant 
 
 Jacob-', IVilliam-, Thomas'), b. 24, 1746, d. Sept. 2, 
 
 183c, m. Rebecca Hitchcock, Apr. 19, 1781, b. Jan. 18, 1749, 
 d. July 25, 1813. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Rebecca : 
 
 68 1 Cephas, b. Jan. 8, 1782. 
 
 69 li Augustus, b. June 27. 1783 
 
 70 ili Willett. b. July 23, 1785. 
 
 71 iv Dan., b. Mar. 31. 1787. 
 
 72 V Ransom, b. Aug. 27. 1788 
 
 73 vi Louisa, b. Apr. 25. 1791. Married Amos Curtis of Meri- 
 
 den, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis left two children. 
 Lucy, wife of Edgar Munson of Williamsport. Pa., 
 and Sylvester Johnson Curtis of New York City. 
 Mrs. Munson had two sons. C. La Rue Munson of 
 Williamsport and Robert H. Munson of Bay Mills. 
 Mich. The latter has one son. Thomas H. Curtis. 
 
 Of the children of Daniel and Rebecca, Cephas had two 
 sons: Edward died without issue. Franklin left two sons 
 and two daughters, Homer R., Elmer F., Minnie and Emma. 
 Willett was impressed aboard a man-of-war in 1812 and 
 never heard from after. Augustus and Dan, no descend- 
 ants. (72) Ransom was a clergyman, married Esther 
 Frost, Sept. 8, 18 12. 
 
 Children of Ransom and Esther : 
 
 1 Horace^ b. Sept. 12. 1814; ii Rebecca, b. Jan. 2r>. 1S18; iii 
 Richard, b. Apr. 25. 1823; Esther R.. b. Dec. 30, 1827; Laura 
 A., b. Aug. 25, 1833. 
 
 The above Horace'^, son of Rev. Ransom", married 
 Aurelia Bishop March 31, 1839. Children: Maria A., b. 
 Mar. 2. 1840; Mary A., July 28, 1842; William E., b. Feb. 
 20, 1845; George Ransom Johnson, b. Apr. 8, 1848; Ellen 
 C, b. Aug. 30, 1853 : Emily E., b. Sept. 18, 1855. 
 
 George Ransom Johnson^ (Horace'^) married Antoinette 
 E. Norton May 31, 1883. Children: George Welles, b. 
 May 18, 1884; Bertha A., b. Mar. 5, 1886; Robert James, b. 
 June II, 1888. Dorothy Estella, b. Oct. 11, 1890; Joseph 
 Ransom, b. Nov. 21, 1893; Louisa Maria, b. Oct. 15, 1899. 
 
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 (51 ) Jehoiada Pitt Johnson^ (Jacob*, Jacob^, Will- 
 iam-, Thomas^) was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 
 1767, "while the animated discussions preceding the Revolu- 
 tion were going on, and the elder Pitt was thundering his 
 anathemas in Parliament against the ministers for their 
 tyrannous conduct to the colonies; his father named him 
 Jehoiada Pitt (Jehoiada, the Knowledge of God, Pitt from 
 the patriot orator), showing at once the religious bearing of 
 his mind and his zeal for freedom." The quotation is from 
 Charles Miner, the historian of Wyoming. Jehoiada was a 
 child of only five years when his father in 1772 located in 
 Wilkes-Barre as first settled pastor of the frontier settle- 
 ment. While yet a youth the troublous times in which he 
 lived caused him to take a lively interest in the controversy 
 between Connecticut and Pennsylvania over Wyoming and 
 in 1784, when he was only 17 years old, we find him actively 
 engaged with the Yankees (Connecticut claimants) in what 
 is known as the Pennamite War. Miner relates (page 356) 
 that he was one of nearly a hundred Connecticut men who 
 were arrested at Wilkes-Barre by the Pennsylvania au- 
 thorities on the charge of "treason." Some of the prisoners 
 were sent to Northumberland jail and some to the Sunbury 
 jail. 
 
 Jehoiada P. Johnson became an active business man of his 
 day. He removed from Wilkes-Barre to Laurel Run, pres- 
 ent Borough of Parsons, near Wilkes-Barre, about 1810, in 
 which year he built a grist mill there and conducted it suc- 
 cessfully for many years. Laurel Run was at that early day 
 a hamlet which was for years the centre of important milling 
 and manufacturing interests. Daniel Downing built a saw 
 mill there in 1800, and the same was in constant use till 1842. 
 Capt. Hezekiah Parsons built a carding and fulling mill. 
 Other industries sprang up later. Jehoiada P. Johnson was 
 prominent in the business and educational life of this active 
 community in those early days, and here he raised a large 
 family. The Wilkes-Barre Gazette and Sentinel for Feb. 
 9, 1801, mentions that he was one of the poormasters in 1799, 
 and this was the only office he ever held. He died at the old 
 home, Jan. 8, 1830, and a local paper, the Democrat, said of 
 him : 
 
20 
 
 "t)led at his residence in Wilkes-Barre Township, Jan. 8, 1830, 
 Mr. Jehoiada Pitt Johnson, in the 63rd year of his age. The de- 
 ceased had been an inhabitant of this part of the country since 
 almost the years of his infancy. And although too young to par- 
 ticipate in the first struggle in the settlement of this valle^'. yet he 
 has been actively engaged in many which have been subsequent. 
 He has always pursued a private path, unambitious of public 
 honor. The general outlines of his character are expressed in a 
 few words — he was a Itind husband — an affectionate father — a 
 worthy citizen — and an honest man." 
 
 Hon. Hcndrick B. Wright wrote of him in the Luzerne 
 Union: 
 
 "Jehoiada lived many years near Laurel Run, an industrious, 
 honest man. I Itnew him well. He was among the representative 
 men of the Wyoming Valley. Tall, straight and erect, at least six 
 feet. I often saw him when Ovid and I were youths together. I 
 knew him intimately for nearly or quite half- a century, and dur- 
 ing all of that long time he was a man of honesty, of integrity, 
 and in every way a good citizen." 
 
 Jehoiada P. Johnson married Hannah, daughter of Robert 
 Frazer, a descendant of the Frazers of Lovat Dale in Scot- 
 land, and the family was said to be related to the unfortu- 
 nate Sir Simon Frazer, Lord Lovat. 
 
 Robert was being educated for the kirk, but being a young man 
 at the time of Wolfe's expedition against the French in Canada he 
 left his school and enlisted in the British army, and fought as a 
 sergeant under that brave but unfortunate general at Quebec and 
 received a musket shot wound in the elbow on the plains of Abra- 
 ham. He finally came to Wyoming with the Connecticut adven- 
 turers, where he was engaged in teaching the youth of the infant 
 settlement for many years. A Robert Frazer served in the Revo- 
 lution on the U. S. frigate Confederacy, as shown by the Con- 
 necticut Revolutionary records, and after coming to Pennsylvania 
 he drew a pension from the Philadelphia office for Revolutionary 
 services, but he was not this Robert. 
 
 Robert Frazer lived on a tract of land below Plymouth. In the 
 "Proceedings of the Commissioners under the Confirming Law," 
 manuscript records in the archives of the Wyoming Historical 
 Society, Col. Obadiah Gore testified as follows: "The Robert 
 Frazer above named, dwelt on the land [a tract on the west side 
 of the river a little below Plymouth] about 1773 and continued 
 there till the year 1777, when he enlisted under the deponent in the 
 late war." Robert Frazer died in 1790 and letters of administra- 
 tion were issued to his wife Sarah and Robert Faulkner. Jesse 
 Fell and Nathan Carey were sureties in the sum of £200. 
 
 Simon Fi-aser, the Scottish chifetain, known in history as Lord 
 Lovat, born about the year 1676, was the second son of Thomas 
 Fraser, third son of Hugh, seventh Lord Lovat. Ix)rd Lovat's 
 mother was Sybilla, daughter of the chief of the Macleods. The 
 FYasers were of Norman origin. A Pierre Fraser went to Eng- 
 land with William the Conqueror. His grandson settled in the 
 south of Scotland, whence the family branched off into Aberdeen- 
 shire and Invernesshire, the latter branch furnishing most of the 
 Frasers of this country, who now number about 7,000. Simon 
 Fraser was Lord Lovat the twelfth. In the insurrection of 1745 he 
 was charged with trying to play a double game, by sending forth 
 his clan, under the command of his son, to fight for the Pretender 
 and deeply plotting for that cause, while he professed to be a loyal 
 subject. He was a special object of the vengeance of the govern- 
 ment, and after a trial by his peers was beheaded on April 9, 1747. 
 
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 Hannah Frazer, wife of Jehoiada P. Johnson, died Aug. 
 2Z, 1855, aged 73 years. 
 
 Children of Jehoiada P. and Hannah F. Johnson : 
 
 + 74 i Ovid Frazer, b. Mar. 25, 1807, d. Feb. 12, 1853. 
 
 + 75 ii Mary Giddings, b. Nov. 3, 1809, d.Nov. 12, 1S80. 
 
 + 76 iii Jehoiada, b. Jan. 20, 1812, d. Dec. 31, 1871. 
 
 + 77 iv William P., b. Mar. 14, 1814, d. Jan. 26, 1893. 
 
 + 78 V Miles, b. Mar. 16, 1816, d. Oct. 6, 1889. 
 
 + 79 viii Sarah. A., b. Mar. 18, 1824, d. Apr. 20, 1903, Columbus, O. 
 
 + 80 vi Priestley R., b. Dec. 20, 1819, d. July 5, 1878. 
 
 + 81 vii Wesley, b. Dec. 20, 1819, d. Oct. 27, 1892. 
 
 82 ix Diantha. b. Sept. 22, 1826, d. Nov. 4, 1874, unmarried. 
 
 83 X Zipporah, d. Sept. 18, 1806, aged 20 mos. 
 
 84 Christiana, b. about 1817, d. in infancy. 
 
 (53) Lydia Johnson^ (Jacob^, Jacobs William^, 
 Thomas'^) was born in Groton, Connecticut, 1756, and was 
 the second wife of Col. Zebulon Butler (married August, 
 1775), who commamled the patriot forces in the battle of 
 Wyoming, July 3, 1778. After the massacre her hu.sband 
 withdrew from the valley with the remnant of the Conti- 
 nental force, taking her with him on horseback, they making 
 their w^av across the wilderness to Connecticut. She re- 
 turned three years later to Wyoming, where she died in 1781 
 of a prevailing fever. They had only one child, Capt. Ze- 
 bulon Butler. Charles Miner says of the son: "Of dark 
 complexion, his black eye, when cheerfully animated, was 
 brilliant and pleasing. He was handsome and from his ex- 
 tremely fine form, he was eminently attractive. His step 
 was elastic but firm, his head erect, his carriage noble. In 
 command of his company on parade he looked every inch a 
 man. Honorable, generous, high spirited he seemed to pant 
 for a wider field and more exciting scenes of action. He 
 was cut off in the prime of life and his numerous and inter- 
 esting family are widely scattered." Capt. Zebulon Butler, 
 Jr., married Jemima, daughter of Jabez Fish. (See His- 
 torical Record, vol. 7, page 126.) 
 
 Children of Capt. Zebulon and Jemima (Fish) Butler: 
 
 Burton Butler, b. Dec. 3, 1799, m. Martha Kendall. Children: 
 Robert, Zebulon, Lydia. 
 
 Lydia Butler, b. Mar. 8, 1801, m. Isaac Stoddart. Children- 
 Rebecca, Butler, John, Henry, Harriet, Louise, Ashton, Armot 
 Amanda, Lydia, Emma, Sarah. 
 
 Sarah Butler, b. Oct. 5, 1802, m. Samuel Curtis. Children: Zebu- 
 Ion, Chester, Edward, Martin 
 
 Harriet Butler, b. Aug. 19, 1806, m. Joseph L. Silver. Children: 
 Mary Butler Silver, Joseph Silver, Frank Silver, Charles Silver, 
 Marcus Silver, George Silver. 
 
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 Ann Butler, b. July 4, 1808. m. Rev. Joseph Castle D D Chil- 
 dren: Theodore Butler Castle. A. Dana Castle, Wm. Henry Castle 
 Joseph C. Castle. John Durbin Castle. «-af,ue. 
 
 John Butler, b. April 14. 1812, m. Elizabeth Children- 
 Henry and Sarah. 
 
 Houghton Butler, b. May 2, 1810, m. Sophia Dibble. One child 
 Otis. 
 
 Welles Butler, b. Apr. 17. 1813, m. . Children: Fanny 
 
 Samuel Weller. Joseph and Henry. 
 
 Sylvina Mallery Butler, b. Mar. 27, 1816, m. Marcus G. Heilner 
 Children: Percy Butler Heilner. Walter Silver Heilner, Marcus 
 Butler Heilner, Laura Sylvina Heilner and George Corson Heil- 
 ner. 
 
 (66) Bklcher Johnson*' (Hrcckiah^ Abncr*, Jacob", 
 IVilliain^, Thomas^), h. at Wallingford, Conn., Dec. 25, 
 1767, d. at Salisbury, N. Y., June 20, 1837, m. Hannah, 
 dauj^hter of Reynold.s and Mary (Rathbun) Cahoon, a de- 
 scendant of Williain Cahoon, a native of Scotland, and of the 
 ancient clan of Colquhoun, whose lands lay on the west of 
 Loch Lomond in Dunbartonshire. He emio^rated to America 
 and in 1669 signed the agreement and became a citizen of 
 Swansea, R. L He was probably the William Cahoon who 
 was buried in Swansea, together with eight others, June 24, 
 1675, being the nine persons killed by the Indians. (N. E. 
 Register, v. 52, p. 145.) 
 
 John Rathbun, the great-great-grandfather of Hannah 
 Cahoon, was one of the first settlers of Block Island, being 
 one of the sixteen purchasers of the island, April, 1661. 
 
 Belcher Johnson having received from his father his pro- 
 portion of his estate soon after he was of age. removed to 
 New York State and purchased lands in the town of Salis- 
 bury, Herkimer County, it being a part of the tract called the 
 "Royal Grant" made by King George III to Sir William 
 Johnson, and which was confiscated after the Revolution. 
 On this farm he lived all his life, having erected a handsome 
 and commodious house, which is still standing half a mile 
 east of Salisbury Centre. His family consisted of three sons 
 and five daughters: Caleb, b. 1799, d. 1875, m. Ann Mun- 
 hall. Horace, b. 1799, d. 1885, m. Eliza Pratt. William R., 
 M. D., b. 1816, d. 1892, m. Mary Ann Delematcr. Hannah, 
 m. Emmet Vosburgh. Sarah, m. Cornelius Lambcrtson. 
 Sophia, (1. while at school at Cazenovia Seminary. 
 Sophionia, m. James Ferguson. Almona, m. George Arne. 
 Horace Johnson, son of Belcher, b. at Salisburv, N. Y., 
 Sept. 9, 1799, d. at Boonville, N. Y., Jan. 10. 1885, m. April 
 
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 3, i822, Eliza, daughter of Stephen and EUzabeth (Rice) 
 Pratt of Salisbury, N. Y. About 1823 he settled at Con- 
 stableville, Lewis County, N. Y., and engaged in the tan- 
 ning business. He soon became prominent in all local af- 
 fairs ; was elected Justice of the Peace and afterwards Asso- 
 ciate Justice of Lewis County. He was several times Super- 
 visor of the town and Postmaster. He was commissioned 
 Lieutenant and Captain in the State Militia by Governor De 
 Witt Clinton in 1826. 
 
 Horace's children were : 
 
 i Elizabeth, b. Oct. 13, 1825, m. D. H. Ainsworth, civil engineer, 
 graduate of Geneva College. 
 
 ii Sarah, b. Mar. 29, 1829, d. Mar. 21, 1864, m. Dec. 17, 1857, Dan- 
 forth H. Ainsworth (who afterwards married Elizabeth). 
 
 iii Henry William, b. Mar. 15, 1831, d. May 8, 1875, m. Ellen B., 
 daughter of George W. Welles of Brooklyn. Had several 
 children. 
 
 iv Augusta, b. May 18, 1833, d. Sept. 8. 1882, m. Hon. Theodore 
 Hawley of Fort Dodge, Iowa, graduate of Hamilton Col- 
 lege. 
 
 V Franklin Constantine, b. June 23, 1835, d. May 20, 1896, m. Mary 
 Eliza, daughter of Col. D. R. Murray of Cloverport, Ky. 
 He was educated at Rome Academy. Settled at New 
 Albany, Ind. He was Councilman of the City of New Al- 
 bany, State Senator from Floyd and Clark counties. Com- 
 missioner to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 
 1876, also to the International Exposition at Paris in 1878, 
 where he was chosen a member of the International Jury. 
 He had conferred upon him the decoration of "The Legion 
 of Honor of France." Children: Eliza, Franklin H., 
 Albert S. 
 
 vi Stephen Albert Johnson^ (Horace^ Belcher^ Hezekiah^ 
 AbnerS Jacob^ William', Thomas'), b. May 23, 1840, and 
 resides at Boonville. N. Y., m. June 26, 1866. Emeline, 
 daughter of Schuyler C. and Verlona (Babbitt) Thomp- 
 son. Is now senior member of the firm of S. C. Thompson 
 & Co.. bankers, of Boonville, N. Y. Being in Philadelphia 
 when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the 3rd, 
 afterwards the 72nd, Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun- 
 teers, and after passing through several battles, wag 
 wounded at Antietam and afterwards honorably dis- 
 charged. In 1863 he was appointed captain of a company 
 in the 8th Indiana Legion and served in the field through- 
 out the Morgan campaign. His children were: Franklin 
 Constantine. b. April 26, 1869, d. Jan. 6, 1895, at Nice, 
 France. William Schuyler, b. June 9, 1870, m. Laura 
 Mary daughter of Dr. and Mrs. LaFayette Rinkle. He is 
 assistant cashier of S. C. Thompson & Co.'s Bank. Flor- 
 ence Augusta, b. Jan. 11, 1876, m. Egerton Ryerson Will- 
 iams, Jr., attorney-at-law, resides at Rochester NY. 
 Mrs. S. Albert Johnson died at Los Angeles, May 15, 1904. 
 
 (74) OviD Frazer Johnson^ (Jehoiada^, Jacob^, Will- 
 iam^, Thomas^), b. March 25, 1807, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 d. Feb. 12, 1853. He became a member of the Luzerne Bar. 
 removing in 1833 to Harrisburg. where he soon took a lead- 
 
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 iiig position, both as a lawyer and as a political writer. He 
 was the author of a series of essays called "Governor's 
 Papers," published at Ilarrisburg in the Keystone news- 
 paper, purportinf]^ to come from Governor Ritner to his 
 cabinet at the capitol and by turning the administration into 
 ridicule before the people, he did more to break down the 
 old Whig ascendancy and to promote the election of David 
 R. Porter than any other man in the party. He also figured 
 conspicuously in the so-called Buckshot War of that period. 
 Governor Porter made Mr. Johnson his attorney general, he 
 being at that time 32 years of age and the youngest man who 
 had ever occupied the office of attorney general, which office 
 he held during both terms of that administration. To quote 
 further from a writer who knew him well: "His opinions 
 were held in high estimation by the governor and he con- 
 tributed in no small degree to the success of that adminis- 
 tration. He was a giant in intellect and attained as high a 
 position at the bar as any other lawyer that Luzerne has ever 
 produced. He associated on intimate terms with Webster, 
 Choate, Clayton and others of national repute during his 
 official career and always proved himself fellow to the proud- 
 est in this bright galaxy of talent and won golden opinions 
 for the way in which he conducted the case of Prigg vs. 
 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the Supreme Court of 
 the United States, one of the first to be adjudicated of those 
 unfortunate color cases, which with the Dred Scott case at a 
 later period, precipitated the War of Secession." Some 
 time previous to 1850 he identified himself with a revolution- 
 ary movement by which the northern States of Mexico were 
 to be detached from the mother country and the Republic 
 of Sierra Madre established, with a view of ultimate annex- 
 ation to the United States. The invaders, a couple of hun- 
 dred in number, crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the 
 Mexican force. The Mexicans were victorious and Mr. 
 Johnson was severely wounded, he then leaving the field and 
 the country in disgust. Hon. Hendrick B. Wright wrote of 
 him in a local paper : "When I was a boy in the old school 
 house on the Public Square, I was in the same class with 
 Ovid F. He was a man of much intelligence. He became 
 a leading man in the State ; was attorney general under Gov- 
 ernor Porter. Ovid and myself studied law under the late 
 
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 excellent Judge Conyngham, in 1829 and '30. We were ad- 
 mitted to the Bar in November, 1831, and commenced the 
 practice of the law together in November, 1831, under the 
 firm name of Johnson & Wright." 
 
 Ovid F. Johnson married (July 28, 1835,) Jane Alricks" 
 {James'% Hermanns*', Wessels^, Pieter^), and they resided 
 at Harrisburg. She was born January — , 1813 at Oakland 
 Mills, Juniata Co., Pa., and died at Harrisburg, December 
 21, 1901. 
 
 (Penna. Genealogies, v. i, p. 22.) Children: 
 
 Fanny Alricks Johnson, m. Hon. Samuel T. Shugert, Bellefonte. 
 
 Hannah lanthe Johnson. 
 
 Martha Alricks. 
 
 Ovid Fraser Johnson, lawyer, Harrisburg and Philadelphia. 
 
 A biographical sketch of Ovid F. Johnson appears in Dr. 
 Egle's History of Dauphin County, p. 508. See also pamph- 
 let of Dr. William H. Egle on the Buckshot War. 
 
 (75) Mary Giddings Johnson^ (Jehoiada^, Jacob*, 
 Jacobs William-, Thomas^), b. Nov. 3, 1809, d. Nov. 12, 
 1880. Married Charles Reel. Children (Reel), all of 
 Wilkes-Barre: Miles, Helen Marr, Diantha, Frances 
 (Dolly), Benjamin F. Reel. Both sons served in the Civil 
 War. 
 
 (76) Jehoiada Johnson (Jchoiada^, Jacob*, Jacob^, 
 William-, Thomas'^) was born Jan. 20, 181 2, and died Dec. 
 31, 1 87 1, at the old homestead in present Parsons Borough, 
 In 1834, at the age of 22, he enlisted in the regular army — 
 Co. I, First Regular Dragoons — and served five years during 
 the Seminole and Texas wars. He married Priscilla Scovel. 
 Children : Harriet Scovel Johnson, Emily Wright Johnson 
 (who m. Judson Wheeler and had two children) and 
 Thomas M. Johnson. All of Parsons, Pa., old Laurel Run. 
 
 {77) William Perry Johnson* {Jehoiada^, Jacob*, 
 Jacob^, William'', Thomas'-), b. March 14, 1814, d. Jan. 26, 
 1893, Dallas, Pa. Farmer, School Director and Justice of 
 the Peace. Married Eliza Roderick, who died Feb. 3, 1901. 
 Children: Wesley Johnson, 2nd (who had a son Andrew), 
 Jane, wife of Emanuel Sinclair; George Frazer Johnson. 
 
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 Robert H. Johnson (had daughter Clara) and Sarah, wife of 
 Clayton J. Ryman (had daughter Eliza). 
 
 (78) Miles Johnson^ (Jehoiada'', Jacob*, Jacob^, Will- 
 iam-, Thomas^), b. March 16, 1816, d. Oct. 6, 1889, in Cali- 
 fornia. He learned the cabinet making trade, but not find- 
 ing the Imsiness to his liking he shipped as carpenter on a 
 Nantucket whaling vessel, making a three years' cruise 
 round the world. After the cruise he returned to Wilkes- 
 Barre and was engaged in business for a time in mining and 
 shipping coal. After disposing of his real estate at Laurel 
 Run, the present Borough of Parsons, which subsequently 
 became of immense value by reason of underlying coal de- 
 posits, he in 1847 emigrated to Green Lake County, Wiscon- 
 sin, purchasing a fine farm on the beautiful Green Lake 
 prairie. Soon after he married Philomena (born Nov. 23, 
 1830), a daughter of Spencer Burlingame. In 185 1 he re- 
 turned to Wilkes-Barre and engaged successfully in the 
 manufacture and sale of furniture. He was again seized 
 with a determination to move westward and in the spring of 
 1858 set out on the long journey with his wife and four chil- 
 dren in a canvas-topped wagon. After crossing the Alle- 
 ghanics, steamer travel was taken advantage of at Pittsburg 
 and by descending the Ohio and sailing up the Mississippi 
 he reached Missouri, where he located near the town of 
 Mexico. In three years' time he had a fine farm under cul- 
 tivation and a comfortable home. Then came the troublous 
 times incident to the breaking out of the Civil War. Sur- 
 rounded on every side by Southern sympathizers he soon 
 found himself a marked man, his life and property unsafe. 
 The institution of slavery then flourished on every side and 
 this he found distasteful. Refusing to employ slaves he was 
 known as an Abolitionist and his presence was no longer 
 permissible. Seeing that a peaceful residence in his new 
 home was impossible, in the spring of 1861 he sacrificed 
 everything, and again putting his family into a "prairie 
 schooner" he joined a party of emigrants and started toward 
 the setting sun. Six months of daily travel amid dangers 
 from storm and flood, hostile Indians and reckless men, at 
 last brought the party to the land of gold, just as the great 
 mining excitement was dying out and before the agricultural 
 
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 era began. He lived for a time in northern California and 
 a while in San Francisco, where he followed his trade of 
 cabinet maker, but most of the remainder of his life was 
 spent in the interior of the State following agricultural pur- 
 suits. His death occurred at Lathrop, Cal., Oct. 6, 1889. 
 
 Children of Miles Johnson, all living in California : 
 
 i Sarah Ann, b. Sept. 16. 1848, m. Aug. 7, 1866, Amasa M. Bul- 
 lock. Children: Annie E., Walter M., Sarah M. (m 
 Walter M. Bird), Orin. Amasa, Helen M., Paul R., Fi-ed 
 D., George W., Laurie H. 
 il Walter Miles Johnson, b. Dec. 8, 1849, m. Ella Langdon. Chil- 
 dren: Wells B., Charles L., Anna B. (m. Franklin E. 
 Richards), Helen Mar (m. Cornelius A. Orr), Genevieve, 
 Miles F., Dale Spencer, Alice E., Walter R., Omer, Rob- 
 ert A., Gladys K. 
 
 Hi Willis Alanson Johnson, b. June 18, 1852, d. Oct. 11, 1853. 
 
 iv Welles Butler Johnson, b. May 11, 1854, m. Jan. 16, 1890, 
 Augusta Eugenia Leach, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Children: 
 Dorothy, Lois, Jessie. 
 
 V Omer Hamlin, b. Sept. 24, 1856, d. Jan. 9, 1857. 
 
 vi Helen May, b. Nov. 18. 1857, m. Sept. 30, 1886, William James 
 Robinson. Children: Bethbira T., Willard J. Live at 
 Lodi. Calif, 
 vii Cynthia Metzgar Johnson, b. June 11, 1860, m. John P. At- 
 
 wood. 
 vii! Frank Burlingame Johnson, b. Aug. 19, 1863, d. Feb. 12, 1864. 
 
 ix Jessie Bell Johnson, b. June 4, 1866, m. William R. Parsons. 
 
 X Alice Nina, b. Jan. 12. 1869. 
 
 xi Blanche Estelle, b. July 31, 1871, m. Miller Scott. 
 
 (79) Sarah Ann Johnson® (Jehoiada^, Jacob*, Jacoh^, 
 William-, Thomas'^, b. March 18, 1824, m. Henry Colt Wil- 
 son, who was b. at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 17, 1818, and d. 
 Feb. 13, 1892, at Mount Vernon, O., where he was a pros- 
 perous farmer. Mrs. Wilson died at Columbus April 20, 
 1903. Children (Wilson), all residing at Columbus, O. : 
 
 i Edwin Frazer Wilson, A. B., A. M., M. D., b. at Wilkes-Barre. 
 Pa., prominent physician at Columbis, O. Graduated from 
 Kenyon College 1882, and from medical department of 
 University of Pennsylvania 1885. Professor of Thera- 
 peutics, Electro-Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, 
 Ohio Medical University; Physician to the Protestant 
 ' Hospital, Counseling Physician of Hawkes Hospital, 
 
 Physician in Chief Columbus Sanitarium, Fellow of the 
 American Academy of Medicine, Member of the Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Society, and 
 Columbus Academy of Medicine. Married Elizabeth Cor- 
 delia, daughter of Col. Samuel Thompson, Columbus. 
 They had one son, Samuel Thompson Wilson, b. 1899, and 
 a daughter, Sarah, d. 1903. Dr. Wilson d. at Columbus 
 Aug. 18, 1902, aged 45 years. 
 
 li Henrietta Martha, b. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 Hi Stella Shoemaker, b. in Mt. Vernon, O.. graduated from Cook 
 Co. Normal School of Chicago in 1890. Principal of High 
 School, Falls City, Neb.. 1892. At present head of the 
 Science Department at Central High School, Columbus, 
 Ohio. 
 
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 iv Ida M., b. at Mt. Vernon, O., graduated M. D. from Ohio 
 Medical University of Columbus, class of 1896. Member 
 of Columbus Academy of Medicine, Charlotte Medical So- 
 ciety, Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 (80) Priestley R. Johnson" (Jehoiada^, Jacob*, Jacob^, 
 IVilliam'^, Thomas'^), b. Dec. 20, 1819, d. July 5, 1878, at 
 Wilkcs-P.arre. He was reared upon the ancestral farm near 
 VVilkes-ljarre, where he and his twin brother, Wesley, were 
 born. As a member of a firm composed of George Knapp, 
 Gould P. Parrish and himself, he established the first exten- 
 sive manufactory of powder kegs by machinery in this re- 
 gion. The business was successfully conducted for ten 
 years. He was for some years engaged in the stove and 
 hardware business in Wilkes-Barre and served for some 
 years as Street Commissioner with unusual acceptability. 
 
 Hendrick B. Wright wrote of him : 
 
 "It was at a remote day that I became acquainted with Priestley, 
 a boy then of some ten or twelve years of age. Ovid invited me to 
 visit the family at Laurel Run. Priestly and his brother were set- 
 ting their nets on the banks of Mill Creek, to catch wild pigeons. 
 I have a distinct recollection of young Priestley. He was a bright, 
 intelligent looking lad. From that time to the day of his death. 
 f knew him well and intimately. And it affords me much pleasure 
 to say that in all that time he was a good and exemplary citizen. 
 Sober, honest and upright in his dealings. Priestley R. Johnson 
 was in the third generation of his family, from the time of the 
 Wyoming settlement — and all of the family through three gener- 
 ations, two of which I can testify to, were all men of sound judg- 
 ment; and men of industry and good social habits." 
 
 The Leader spoke of him : 
 
 His father died while he was yet a child of tender years; and 
 he grew to manhood on the farm of his ancestors, where he and 
 other brothers continued to cultivate the soil and win a scanty 
 subsistence for the family of younger children by persistent and 
 diligent labor. Fortunate for him, he had a mother to impart les- 
 sons of virtue, morality and economy, in the good old Scottish way 
 of her fathers, lessons which, being once fixed in the memory of 
 youth, will never be departed from. Early in life he married 
 Sarah, a daughter of Simon Monega, a soldier who followed the 
 fortunes of the great Napoleon on nearly all the bloody fields of 
 Europe during that warlike period. 
 
 Children of Priestley R. and Sarah Johnson : 
 
 i Henry Frazer Johnson, m. Elizabeth Ely. Children: Har- 
 riet, Henry F. Jr., Piiestley R., Sarah H., Taylor Baird, 
 Dr. John Ely, Howard Yardley, Frederick Corss. 
 il Franklin Pierce Johnson, m. Martha Reinhart, Mount Ver- 
 non, O., and had one son. Robert M., who married Mary 
 Mann. 
 iii Hannah Elizabeth. 
 Iv Mary A. 
 
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 (8i) Wesley Johnson® {Jehoiada^, Jacob*, Jacoh^^ 
 William-, Thomas^) was born Dec. 20, 1819, and died at 
 Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 27, 1892. The following with some ad- 
 ditions is taken from the Wilkes-Barre Record's obituary 
 notice : 
 
 He received his sciiooling at the old Willies-Barre Academy, and 
 at the age of 23 (1841) he went to Philadelphia and entered the 
 office of his brother, the then Attorney General, Ovid F. Johnson, 
 when after a course of four years' reading, he was admitted to the 
 bar of that city and subsequently to the I-.uzerne Bar. He never 
 took kindly to the law as a profession, but pursued the study of 
 its elementary principles more as a philosophical student of a 
 noble science than as being- the means of obtaining a livelihood. 
 It was a desire to avoid litigation rather than to reap personal 
 gain by becoming a party to it, that probably had much to do with 
 weaning him from practice as a lawyer. Those who knew him 
 best say he had a well grounded knowledge of the law, and had it 
 not been distasteful, there is no reason why he should not have 
 shone as an advocate. He was preeminently a man of peace. He 
 never provoked a quarrel and he always turned away when a 
 quarrel threatened, so as not to be drawn into it. 
 
 He never held any important public office in his native town, but 
 while pursuing his studies as a law student, he accepted an ap- 
 pointment of U. S. Inspector of Customs. In 1845, after the an- 
 nexation of Texas, he emigrated to the new State, and after spend- 
 ing a summer traveling over various parts of the country, he went 
 south to join the army of invasion, intending to go with Gen. 
 Scott's forces to the capital of Mexico, but he was obliged to desist 
 in consequence of failing health, and proceeded no further than 
 Tampico. He practiced law for a time at Galveston. Having let- 
 ters from leading Philadelphians he had access to prominent people 
 and had unusual opportunities for acquiring information of the 
 country. In 1874 he contributed to the Wilkes-Barre Record a 
 series of sketches reminiscent of his experiences in Texas and 
 Mexico. Among other facts noted was that his brother Ovid 
 figured in a plot with certain Mexican officers to incite the northern 
 States of Mexico to rebellion and annex them to the United States. 
 
 He returned to his old home and was engaged in business for a 
 couple of years, but this quiet life did not suit his adventurous dis- 
 position. In 1849 Wisconsin was assuming prominence as a rap- 
 idly developing region and Mr. Johnson joined the throng of East- 
 ern pioneers who were hastening thither. The Fox River was then 
 an inviting point, as it promised to become an important govern- 
 ment canal, which was to connect the Mississipni River with the 
 great lakes. Though the subsequent development of railroads 
 shattered the day dream of the canal projectors, yet the move- 
 ment went a great way in planting the region with a hardy 
 band of pioneers who made Wisconsin one of the richest of our 
 Commonwealths. Mr. Johnson settled in Marquette County, on the 
 border of the "Indian land," and was elected clerk of the circuit 
 and county courts. At Marquette in 1852 he married Cynthia Hen- 
 rietta Green, whose father and brothers had emigrated from Ver- 
 mont and who had a leading part in developing that region. Mr. 
 Johnson returned to Wilkes-Barre with his wife and infant son in 
 1853. He never afterwards practiced his profession, but engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits and continued an active worker till his place 
 was burned out In the Market street fire of 1866. He was subse- 
 quently in the flour and grain business till 1872. when finding the 
 labor too excessive he was compelled to retire from active trade. 
 
 After his retirement from active business he was for several 
 years elected Alderman of the Fourth Ward without opposition. 
 His rulings were considered models of fairness. He did not en- 
 courage litigation, even to earn fees, and many hundreds of cases 
 that came to him were through his advice terminated by private 
 
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 rettlement without resort to the courts. He also held several posi- 
 tions of trust, such as City Auditor. Judge of Election, etc. 
 
 He was one of the projectors of the Wyoming Centennial of 1878 
 and was the secretary of the Commemorative Association from its 
 inception to the day of his death. His compilation, the memorial 
 volume, is one of the standard annals in the local history of the 
 Wyoming region. 
 
 Mr. Johnson was by politics a Democrat, though not strongly 
 partisan. In matters of national politics he voted with his party, 
 but on local issues he knew no party ties. During the Civil War, 
 when the Democracy was divided, he was for the Union and when 
 Lee invaded Pennsylvania Mr. Johnson responded to the call for 
 home guard volunteers and hastened to the front. 
 
 Gentle in manner and considerate of others, he was conspicu- 
 ously a silent man. Not given to much talking, he was ever a 
 good listener. Possessed of an inquiring and analytical mind and 
 a retentive memory he had a large fund of information on a range 
 of subjects. His powers of observation were good and he had a 
 literary taste that enabled him to write the most graceful articles 
 descriptive of travel or other matters which interested him. Al! 
 the local papers printed articles from his pen. In his early life he 
 loved to peruse and memorize the better poets and as a result he 
 was able to draw upon an extensive fund of classical quotations. 
 Some graceful verses of poetry have been written by him — in short, 
 he had the pen of a ready writer. 
 
 The Wilkes-Barre Leader made the following editorial 
 reference to his death and also gave an extensive obituary : 
 
 The ranks of the older inhabitants of the City of Wilkes-Barre 
 have been much thinned by death of late. One more was added 
 to the list this morning, when Wesley Johnson finally succumbed 
 to a complicated ailment of long standing. 
 
 Comparatively few knew that deceased had been a member of the 
 legal profession for nearly half a century, for of recent years he 
 had not practiced in open court, choosing, rather, less exacting and 
 exciting employments in other directions, employments better fitted 
 to his gradually but surely waning physical strength. Yet he was 
 well read in the law and a discreet adviser. He was a quiet, un- 
 assuming gentleman, always mindful of the obligations of his 
 citizenship, devoted to his family and a good neighbor. 
 
 He will be remembered chiefly because of the interest he always 
 took in matters of local history and his prominent identification 
 with movements designed to perpetuate the patriotic memories of 
 the valley's past. In data bearing upon these topics he was 
 strongly fortified, both by a remarkably retentive memory and 
 careful reading. By his co-workers in this much neglected but im- 
 portant line of endeavor his loss will be deeply felt. 
 
 All who knew him respected and esteemed him for his many ex- 
 cellent qualities and his pronounced but remarkably unassuming 
 character. 
 
 Wesley Johnson was twice married, first to Cynthia Hen- 
 rietta Green, Marquette. Wis., May 12, 1852. She was bom 
 in Vermont, March 13, 1827, and died at Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 
 30, 1855. Her parents were David Sands Green and Mary 
 (Tuttle) Green of the Weare (N. H.) Greens. Wesley and 
 Cvnthia Johnson had two children — Frederick C. Johnson, 
 b. 1853, and Zebulon Butler Johnson, born Feb. 3, 1855, who 
 died same year. During that same year Mr. Johnson was 
 also bereft of his mother and his brother Ovid. 
 
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 Wesley Johnson's second wife, whom he married in 1856, 
 was Frances, widow of Frederick McAlpine. She died 
 April 21, 1888, aged 73 years. They had one child, Mar- 
 garet Colt Johnson, b. July 7, 1857, d. Nov. 30, i860. Mrs. 
 Johnson was the only daughter of Seth Wilson, an old resi- 
 dent of Wilkes-Barre, and she was born in 1815. Her 
 mother was Rebecca, a daughter of Abel Yarington, one of 
 the pioneers of the valley. Another daughter of Mr. Yar- 
 ington was the wife of Arnold Colt, whose daughter. Tem- 
 perance, married Pierce Butler, and another, Julia, was the 
 wife of Hon. Andrew Beaumont. Another, Mary, was the 
 wife of Sharp D. Lewis, Esq. Deceased first married Fred- 
 erick McAlpine, who died in 1854, leaving a son and daugh- 
 ter, Andrew W. McAlpine, (died 1900), and Lizzie M. Mc- 
 Alpine. 
 
 Frederick Charles Johnson'' (son of (81) Wesley John- 
 son) was born at Marquette, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin, 
 March 2, 1853. He attended the public schools in Wiscon- 
 sin and Pennsylvania, and took a partial course at Ripon 
 College, Wisconsin, with the class which graduated in 1873. 
 Beginning with 1871 he had a business training of about ten 
 years in Wilkes-Barre, meanwhile contributing to local 
 papers and doing special correspondence from the coal re- 
 gion for the Chicago Tribune. He also spent part of the 
 year 1881 in Chicago on the reportorial staff of the Tribune, 
 and was for many years after on its list of correspondents. 
 He took a three years' course in the medical department of 
 the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1883, but in- 
 stead of engaging in practice he took up journalism, pur- 
 chasing the Wilkes-Barre Record in partnership with J. C. 
 Powell. 
 
 For several years he served on the committee appointed 
 by the State Board of Public Charities to inspect the public 
 institutions of Luzerne County and he also served in 1902 as 
 prison commissioner under appointment of the court. In 
 1904 he was selected by the Republican State Convention as 
 a presidential elector for the Eleventh Congressional Dis- 
 trict. At the reunion of the class of 1883 (Medical Depart- 
 ment) on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in Philadel- 
 that duty was discharged during the ensuing year. Aside 
 phia Dr. Johnson was invited to prepare a class history and 
 
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 from his newspaper duties he has found time for the prepa- 
 ration of numerous historical and genealogical articles and 
 he has translated many specimens of German poetry into 
 English. Dr. Johnson was married in 1885 at Oshkosh, 
 Wisconsin, to Miss Georgia Post of Knoxville, Tenn. They 
 have three children— Ruth« b. Jan. 17, 1887; Frederick G.. 
 b. Oct. 22, 1890, and Margaret, b. June 20, 1899. Both Dr. 
 Johnson and his wife are descended from the Weare (N. 
 H.) Greens. 
 
 The Greens were Quakers. Isaiah settled in Weare, N. 
 H., in 1768. Isaiah had nine children. Of these David was 
 the ancestor of F, C. Johnson and Elisha was the ancestor of 
 Mrs. F. C. Johnson. "History of Weare." 
 
 Elisha^ (Isaiah^) was born in 1762, died 1826. He mar- 
 ried Abigail Gove. Among their five children, Elisha', b. 
 1792, d. 1884 in Wisconsin, was the father of Harriet E. 
 Green (who married J. H. Post) and grandfather of Mrs. F. 
 C. Johnson. 
 
 David Green- (Isaiah^) was born in 1766, died 1836. He 
 and his brother Elisha married two Gove sisters. David's 
 son, David Sands Green', was the grandfather of F. C. 
 Johnson and died in Wisconsin in 1870. 
 
 Children of David Sands Green' all lived in Wisconsin : 
 
 Gardner Green, b. 1823 at Weare, N. H. 
 
 David M. Green, b. 1825 at Lincoln. Vt., d. in Wisconsin, 1894. 
 
 Cynthia H. Green, b. 1827 at Lincoln, Vt., d. 1855. 
 
 Jesse Tuttle Green, b. 1829 at Lincoln, Vt., d. 1904. 
 
 Charles Green, b. 1836, d. 1843. 
 
 Mrs. F. C. Johnson's paternal grandfather was Stephen 
 Titus Post, born in i8i8 at Rome, N. Y., and a son of Gil- 
 bert and Elizabeth (Titus) Post. His wife was Angelina 
 Mosher of Rochester, N. Y. Stephen lived in New York, 
 Wisconsin and Tennessee. Children: Joseph H., Knox- 
 ville; Matilda E. Van Fossen, Dunsmuir, Calif.; Frank H., 
 Phebe Jane Barton, Knoxville, Tenn.; Kittie A. Goff, 
 Maryville, Tenn. 
 
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