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(VI) Jotham, son of Abiah Whitman Salis- bury, was born in East Weymouth, May 13, 1813, died there March 21, 1899. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and learned the trade of shoemaker.
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When gold was discovered in California in 1849 he was one of the early pioneers to the Pacific coast. He was successful and upon his return to Weymouth some years later en- gaged in the real estate business, investing wisely in real estate and attending to the de- velopment and improvement of his property. He was a Methodist in religion, a Republican in politics. He married (first ) Hannah Sears ; (second) Mrs. Mary Ann Frances Wilbur Hicks; (third) Abbie Lunettie Dunbar, resides in Worcester. His second wife was born at Taunton, died East Weymouth, 1871 ; she had one son Joseph by her first husband ; he resides in Calhoun Falls, South Carolina. Children, born at East Weymouth: 1. Mary Ann F., died young. 2. William F., died young. 3. Josephine, born 1857, married Albert B. Smith, of East Weymouth ; five children: Dora Eliz- abeth, Pearl Josephine, Lenna Alverta, Albert Wesley and Bertha Salisbury, deceased. 4. Jotham, born 1861, married Catherine Dodge; three children : William Francis, James Alfred and Florence Augusta. 5. Minnie Frances, born September 6, 1866, married Charles Henry Whitman (see Whitman family). 6. Alphonso, born 1869, unmarried.
JOHNSON Lieutenant Stephen Johnson, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled in Ips- wich, Massachusetts. He removed to Andover and married, November 5, 1661, Elizabeth Dane, who died in Andover, 1722, daughter of Rev. Francis Dane. She was accused of witchcraft, and her father wrote of her case: "Concerning my daughter, Elizabeth Johnson, I never had any grounds to suspect her, neither have. I heard any other accuse her till by spectre evidence she was brought forth, but this I would say, she was weak & incapacious, tearful & in this respect I fear she hath falsely accused herself & others-that long before she was sent for she spoke as to her own particular that she was sure she was no witch and for her daughter Elizabeth, she is but simplish at the best & I fear the common speech that was frequently spread among us of their liberty, if they would confess '& the like expressions used by some have brought many into a snare. The Lord direct & guide those that are in place & give use all submissive wills & lett the Lord do with me & mine what seems good in his eyes." She was convicted, sentenced to death, but the delusion passed before the sentence was carried out and she escaped death. Ste- phen Johnson died November 3, 1690, at An-
dover. Children: I. Francis, born 1666. 2. Elizabeth, February 14, 1668. 3. Ann, June 26, 1669. 4. Joseph. 5. Mary, died March 22, 1673. 6. Benjamin. 7. Stephen, mentioned below.
(II) Stephen (2), son of Lieutenant Ste- phen (I) Johnson, was born in Andover in 1679, died in 1711. He removed to the north parish of Haverhill and was prominent in town and church. He removed to Hampstead, New Hampshire, and was admitted to the church there June 3, 1753. In the church records he is called the "aged sexton." He married (first) Sarah Whittaker, of Haverhill, who died June 14, 1716. He married ( second) Ruth (Eaton) Kimball, born at Haverhill, November 21, 1684, married (first) Ebenezer Kimball and had three children ; was daughter of Thomas and Eunice (Singletary) Eaton. Ruth died April 6, 1750, and he married (third ) August 11, 1750, Priscilla Farnum, widow of Ephraim Holt of Andover. She died in 1754 and he married ( fourth) (pub- lished March 15, 1755) Sarah Clark, widow, of Methuen, Massachusetts. Children of first wife: I. Sarah, born October 27, 1700. 2 Ruth. 3. Stephen, removed to Londonderry and Sutton ; married Susanna Lovekin and Ruth Johnson. Children of second wife: 4. Samuel, June 2, 1716, married Susanna Black. 5. Ebenezer, September 16, 1717, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, January 29, 1721. 7. Eunice, January 19, 1723. 8. Timothy, June 15, 1727.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Stephen (2) John- son, was born in Haverhill. September 16. 1717, and settled in that part of Hampstead called Sandown. He removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire, and bought of John Webster of that town the north half of a hundred acre lot laid out to Jonathan Greeley, No. 15, in the first range, May 3, 1767, for three hundred and fifty pounds, old tenor. He built his house on the top of the hill west of William Holmes's place. In his commodious dwelling, Rev. Jon- athan Searles was ordained. He spent his last years with his son James at Enfield. Children, born at Hampstead, Plaistow and Sandown : I. Moses, settled in Sutton. 2. Sally, married Goodhue, removed to Plainfield. 3.
Hannah, baptized at Hampstead, August, 1752. 4. Ruth, baptized July, 1754. 5. Abigail bap- tized at Hampstead, February, 1757. 6. James, mentioned below. 7. Judith, baptized at Hampstead, June, 1763.
(IV) Captain James, son of Ebenezer John- son, was born in Sandown, 1759-60. died May 5. 1833, aged seventy-three. With his brother
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Moses he marched to Bennington and Ticon- deroga in Captain Blanchard's company, served at Saratoga and through the revolution. He received a bounty of thirty pounds from the town of Salisbury in 1779. He was for a time in Captain Ebenezer Webster's company, Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment. When he first entered the service he was but sixteen years old, weighed ninety-six pounds, and had to carry a knapsack weighing twenty-two pounds, a heavy musket, powder horn, bullets, flint, canteen, etc. Afterward he was captain in the state militia. He went to Enfield in his youth and went to school at the Centre Road. After his marriage he removed to Enfield where he was on the committee on building the fourth New Hampshire turnpike, and one of the original proprietors. After the death of his father, he returned to Salisbury, settling near the Dr. Sleeper place, removing later to the west part of the town on Centre Range opposite the Zachariah Scribner place. He married Mehitable Pettengill, daughter of Cap- tain David Pettengill. She died February 15, 1812. He married ( second) January 18, 1818, Anne Johnson, of Hopkinton, born May 20. 1769, died June 26, 1862. Children : 1. John. 2. Mehitable, married Oliver Goodhue, of Enfield. 3. James, married Fersia died at Colchester, Vermont, a brickmaker. 4. Ebenezer, born January 16, 1794, mentioned below. 5. Ann, married, November 16, 1815, Thomas Chase; (second) Enoch J. Chase ; died at Wilmot. 6. Abigail, married, Septem- ber 25, 1827, Nehemiah Story, of Enfield ; (second) Eleazer Taylor. 7. Rebecca, married John Peaslee; died in Vermont. 8. David, married Catharine Taylor, adopted daughter of Ebenezer Taylor ; died September 25, 1887.
(V) Ebenezer (2), son of James Johnson, was born in Enfield, January 16, 1794, died in 1888. He came to Salisbury, New Hampshire, when seventeen years old and for a long period resided in the house opposite Zachariah Scrib- ner's. He followed farming all his active life. He was an active and prominent member of the Congregational church. He held the office of selectman and other places of trust and responsibility. He had the good will and respect of all his townsmen. He married, March 14. 1822, Dorothy Hildreth, who died May 12, 1845. He married (second) Febru- ary 4, 1846, Lydia Stevens, born March 6, 1806, died October 28, 1865, daughter of Moses Stevens. He married (third) Harriet K. Rollins. Children, born at Salisbury: I. Mehitable Jane, born December 11, 1822, mar-
ried William Holmes. 2. Ephraim, June 24, 1824, died August 30, 1826. 3. Ebenezer, February 29, 1829, died March 4. 1845. 4. Moses E., December 1, 1846, mentioned below.
(VI) Moses Ephraim, son of Ebenezer (2) Johnson, was born in Salisbury, New Hamp- shire, December 1, 1846. He was educated there in the public schools. In 1866 he went to Peabody, Massachusetts, where he was a grocery clerk for six years. He engaged in business in 1872 in the firm of Bushby & John- son, retail grocers in Peabody, until 1879. He went to Kansas City in 1880 and formed a partnership in the real estate business under the firm name of Schoonmaker & Johnson. Their office was first on Deleware street, later at the corner of Sixth and Deleware streets. He continued in the real estate business with much success in this city until 1892, then re- turned to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was in the real estate business two years. Since 1896 he has lived in Peabody and had his main office in Boston. He was trustee and general manager of a forty acre tract of land developed and marketed for building lots in Belmont and Cambridge. Since 1904 he has had his office in the Old South Building, Bos- ton. He is a member of Jordan Lodge of Free Masons of Peabody, joining it in 1869. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Fifth Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, and while in Kansas City was very active in the work of the same, serving as teacher in the Sunday school and elder of the church six years. He married, February 28, 1877, Harriet A. Poor, born July 16, 1852, died December 17, 1900, daughter of Nathan and Abbie ( Mor- rill) Poor. Children: I. Bertha Poor, born at Peabody, January 4, 1878. educated in the public schools of Kansas City and Lowell, graduate of the Peabody high school. 2. Greta Stevens, August 16, 1882, at Kansas City, graduate of the Peabody high school. 3. Eliza Morrill, November 16, 1888, at Kansas City, graduate of the Peabody high school.
Isaac Johnson, was born JOHNSON about 1720; married Eliza- beth Beales, daughter of William and (Heath) Beales. He lived in Willington, Connecticut. On account of the lack of public records his lineage has not been traced. He had a son Caleb, men- tioned below.
(II) Caleb, son of Isaac Johnson, was born in Willington, Connecticut, March 6, 1757. He removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, in1 1785.
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He removed in the spring of 1789 to Walunt Hill in the town of Williamsburg, Massachu- setts, and kept a tavern. He was one of the pioneers in that section. He married Mary Scott, of Tolland, Connecticut. Among their children was Benjamin, mentioned below, and Isaac. Caleb Johnson was a soldier in the revolution from Willington, in the Fifth Com- pany, from May to December, 1775. In the same company were Samuel, Calvin and Daniel Johnson, perhaps brothers, of the same town. He and Calvin were also in Captain Park's company, third battalion, Wadsworth's brigade, in 1776; Caleb was also in Captain Robert Martin's company and Colonel Moseley's regi- ment in 1778.
(III) Benjamin, son of Caleb Johnson, was born in Willington, July 15, 1787, died at Williamsburg, September 29, 1855. He mar- ried in Connecticut Eleanor Swaney, daughter of John Swaney, a tailor by trade, a soldier also in the revolution, and his widow was a pensioner. He was three years old when the family removed from Walnut Hill to that part of the town called Haydenville and in 1822 he removed to Northampton, where he owned a farm about half-way between Haydenville and Leeds in Northampton. Children : I. Benjamin Sidney, born October 24, 1813, insurance agent and conveyancer, and for many years treasurer of the Haydenville Savings Bank ; was first a National Republican, then a Whig, in 1840 joined the Liberty party, in 1848 the Free Soil and afterward the Republi- can party ; justice of the peace from 1851, notary public from 1871 ; selectman, overseer of the poor and prominent in public affairs many years in Williamsburg ; married, March 7, 1839, Mary F. Abercrombie, daughter of Rev. Robert Abercrombie, of Pelham; she died March 4, 1871; children: Horace W., Mary Ellen, died October 27, 1855, Clara Lucinda, Alice A., Sarah A. 2. Charles Bige- low, mentioned below.
(IV) Charles Bigelow, son of Benjamin Johnson, was born at Williamsburg, October 22, 1816. He was a year old when his father removed to Haydenville. Later the family came to a farm within Northampton and his childhood and youth were spent working on the farm in summer and attending district school in the winter. In his youth he took a liking for newspaper work, and in 1833 went to Hartford to learn the trade of printer and become familiar with newspaper work in the office of the Hartford Mirror. But the print- ing business proved uncongenial and later in
the year he went to work in a woolen mill at Leeds, Massachusetts. In 1846 he engaged in the manufacture of machinery at Haydenville in partnership with his cousin, William I. Johnson. After a short time, however, his health failed, and he withdrew from the firm. He came with the Williston & Knight Com- pany to Easthampton and continued with that concern and the National Button Company until 1879. From that time until his death he conducted a real estate and insurance agency in Easthampton. He united with the Congre- gational church in Williamsburg in 1838 and continued a member until 1854, when he joined the Payson Congregational Church by letter, and was chosen deacon in 1861, serving in that office the remainder of his days. He was also clerk of the church for a period of thirty- two years, was for many years teacher and at one time superintendent of its Sunday school. He was active and prominent in the Farmers Club, in the Village Improvement Society, the Public Library Association and was a mem- ber of the museum committee. He took a leading part in public affairs and held many positions of trust and honor. He was town clerk five years, town treasurer one year and justice of the peace from 1851 until the time of his death. He was one of the seventeen in Northampton voting the Liberty party ticket in 1840, and when that party passed out of existence he became a Republican, supporting that party's candidates and principles the re- mainder of his life. His taste for literary work was gratified by writing for the local press pretty regularly for many years. In 1847, while at Lyme, Connecticut, he wrote letters that were published in the Hampshire Herald. The next year he wrote political articles for the Northampton Courier, then the organ of the Liberty party. For more than a generation he was the local correspondent of the Hampshire Gasette, a labor of love that he performed with zeal and faithfulness. He was one of the prominent figures at the cen- tennial celebration of that newspaper in Sep- tember, 1886. In July preceding this event he was knocked down by a passing vehicle, while crossing the street one dark evening, and was seriously injured. But he rallied from the shock, notwithstanding his age, and was able to resume work at his desk a few weeks later. He died February II, 1887, after a brief ill- ness, of pneumonia. The minister that officiat- ed at his wedding, Rev. Rollin S. Stone, the first pastor of the Payson Church, conducted the funeral services and spoke an eloquent trib-
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ute to the worth and character of his former friend and parishioner. Mr. Johnson was always kindly, charitable, and philanthropic to the extent of his resources. He was a faith- ful and consistent Christian, a genial, warm- hearted, sympathetic man, an upright and use- ful citizen, a thoughtful and considerate neigh- bor, a worthy friend of many men. At his funeral the hymn, "Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow," was sung, and the local newspaper, commenting upon this selection of Rev. Mr. Hamlin, said: "It was a sentiment which all shared, that the life of such a man was a benediction and a blessing." His domes- tic life was very happy. We quote from the same newspaper : "He will long be remembered for his integrity, for the interest he took in all public affairs, as a modest, genial, and useful citizen, and for his zeal as a collector of books and papers, natural curiosities, relics and antiques, of which he had a valuable collec-
tion. * * He was one of the landmarks of our village and one of the last of the genera- tion that was actively associated with the de- velopment of manufactures in Easthampton."
He married, November 26, 1855, Emily Maria Treat, born April 27, 1820, daughter of Chauncey and Lucy (Chapman) Treat. (See Treat family). Mrs. Johnson survives, in good health and retaining all her faculties, despite her great age. Children: I. Charles Henry, born August 30, 1856, mentioned below. 2. Edward Tennant, August 24, 1865, died May 10, 1866.
(V) Charles Henry, son of Charles Bigelow Johnson, was born in Easthampton, August 30, 1856. He attended the public schools of his native town and graduated from the Williston Seminary of Easthampton in the class of 1875. He began his business career as clerk in the First National Bank of Easthampton and was promoted in course of time to the office of cashier. When the national and savings banks of Massachusetts were separated in accordance with the statutes, Mr. Johnson resigned as cashier of the national bank to become treas- urer of the Easthampton Savings Bank, and he has administered the affairs of that insti- tution with credit to himself and to the utmost satisfaction of depositors and trustees. Nat- urally methodical and systematic, conservative and cautious, he is popular with all classes of people and well-known throughout Hampshire county. He is a prominent member of the Payson Congregational Church, of which he has been deacon since 1887. In politics he is a Republican. He married, January 13, 1886,
Hattie (Muchmore) Strong, daughter of Ebe- nezer and Rebecca (Clark ) Strong. Mrs. Johnson is at present vice-regent of the Sub- mit Clark Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Easthampton. Children : I. Paul Beekman, born May 30, 1887. 2. Charles Strong, April 6, 1893. 3. Edward Whitney, October 16, 1899.
Captain Edward Johnson, immi- JOHNSON grant ancestor, was born in Canterbury, county Kent, Eng- land, and baptized there September 16 or 17, 1599. He was son of William and Susan Johnson, grandson of John Johnson, and great- grandson of William and Elizabeth Johnson. Captain Edward Johnson came to Charlestown with the first iminigrants, but soon returned to England, and about 1635 or 1637 brought his wife, seven children and three servants to New England. He was a man of influence in the colony, and resided in Woburn, where he held many important offices. At the first meeting of the commissioners for the settlement of the new town, he presented a plan of the territory to be included within the limits, and was appointed the first recorder or town clerk. He was active in founding the first church, and commanded the first military company in Wo- burn. He was the author of some unique lines at the beginning of the first volume of the Woburn town records, and also of "Won- dlerworking Providences of Sion's Savior in New England," first printed in London in 1663. He was famous as a surveyor and early ex- plorer. He was appointed in 1665 by the gen- eral court to make a map of the colony, in con- junction with William Stevens. In 1672, after his death, the general court passed an order regarding the chronical of the early history of the colony, which reads as follows: "The court considering how many years the provi- dences of God hath mercifully appeared in behalf of his people in these parts, since their coming into this wilderness, and us of the colony in particular, do judge it our duty to endeavor that a register of Chronicle may be made of the several passages of God's provi- dences, protecting of and saving from many eminent dangers, as well in transportation, as in our abode here making provision beyond what could, in reason, have been expected, and preventing our fears many a time ; so that our posterity and the generation that shall survive, taking view of the kindness of God to their fathers, it may remain as an obligation upon them to serve the Lord their God with all their
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hearts and souls." The court, therefore, appointed a committee "to make diligent inquiry in the several parts of the jurisdiction concerning anything of moment that has passed, and in particular of what has been collected by Mr. John Winthrop Sen., Mr. Thomas Dudley, Mr. John Wilson Sen., Captain Edward John- son or any other ; that so, matter being pre- pared, some meet person may be appointed by this court to put the same into form ; that so, after perusal of the same, it may be put to press." No fuller account of the origin and settlement of a town of equal age in New Eng- land has been given than that by Captain John- son in his "Wonderworking Providence." He died in Woburn, April 23, 1672. His will was dated May 15, 1671, and the inventory, return- ed May II, 1673, gives the account of the estate as seven hundred and five pounds, five shillings and six pence. Of this account about half was for property in England. He married Susan or Susanna Munther, who died March 7, 1689-90. Her will was dated December 14, 1689. and proved March 2, 1690-91. Her son John, with whom she dwelt after her husband died, was the sole beneficiary. Children and dates of baptism: 1. Edward, November 7, 1619, married, February 10, 1649-50, Kath- erine Baker. 2. George, April 3, 1625, married Katherine 3. Susan, April 1, 1627, married James Prentice. 4. William, March 22, 1628-29. 5. Martha, May 1, 1631, married, March 18, 1649-50, John Ames. 6. Matthew, March 30, 1633, married (first ) November 12, 1656, Hannah Palfrey; (second) October 23, 1662, Rebecca Wiswall. 7. John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of Captain Edward Johnson, was baptized May 10, 1635, in Canterbury, England, and died in Canterbury, Connecticut, about 1720, where he and his sons settled. In 1712 Obadiah Johnson, of Canterbury, pro- posed to the town of Woburn to take his aged father, John Johnson, then under the care of a physician for lameness, and his mother, Bethiah Johnson, and maintain both. John Johnson was a saw mill owner during the active period of his life, but for twelve or fif- teen years previous to his death was an invalid. He married, April 28, 1657, Bethiah, who died in Canterbury, Connecticut, December 2, 1717, daughter of Captain William and Mabel Reed. Children, born at Woburn: 1. John Jr., Janu- ary 24, 1658-59, mentioned below. 2. Bethiah, January 20, 1660, married (first) Jonathan Knight, of Cambridge, and (second) Joseph Woolcott, of Cambridge, 1697. 3. William,
September 29, 1662, settled in Canterbury, and married Mary Cook. 4. Obadiah, June 15, 1664, married Rebecca 5. Joseph, about 1666, of Canterbury, married Elizabeth who died December II, 1724. 6. Samuel, October 29, 1670, died in Dracut, Massachusetts, 1720. 7. Nathaniel, May 15, 1673.
(III) John (2), son of John (I) Johnson, was born at Woburn, January 24, 1658-59. He was a housewright by trade. He resided in Lexington until 1728, near "Lockes and Blodgetts," and owned a part of the "church- ministery" land. He then removed to Mans- field, Connecticut, and later to Willington, same state, where his death probably occurred. He resided there as late as 1736. He married Mary, daughter of William and Jane Carley, of Lexington, Massachusetts, and granddaugh- ter of William Carley, of Lancaster. She was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, May 4, 1667. Children, probably all born in Lexing- ton: I. Mary, January 20, 1686-87. 2. Pru- dence, baptized April 9, 1699, at Lexington. 3. Rebeckah, married Isaac Stearns, of Tol- 4. land, Connecticut, November 27, 1734. Sarah, married Rev. Shubael Stearns Jr., of Tolland, May 6, 1726-27. 5. Esther, baptized April 16, 1699, at Lexington. 6. Ruth, bap- tized May 4, 1699, at Lexington. 7. Samuel, born 1692, married Rebecca Wilson, of Wo- burn. 8. John, born 1697, died November 23, 1784 ; married ( first ) Ruth - -, died March 14, 1747; married ( second) Mary Robinson, October 29, 1747; died January 9, 1781. 9. William, born 1699, mentioned below. IO. Abigail, born September 18, 1703, died Sep- tember 18, 1779; married Amos Richardson.
(IV) William, son of John (2) Johnson, was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, 1699, died in Willington, Connecticut, June 22, 1774- 75. He was a bricklayer by trade, according to the old records, not following the occupa- tion of housewright as did his father and elder brother John. He resided in Lexington a short time after his marriage, and then removed to Concord, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1742, going in that year to Willington, Connecticut. He engaged in extensive land speculations in different parts of Massachu- setts Bay Colony, Connecticut and Vermont. He was a grantee of Norwich, Vermont, 1761. He married, at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary II, 1724-25, Ruth, born in Lexington, September 25, 1706, died at Willington, Octo- ber 3, 1786, daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth ( Munroe) Rugg, of Lexington, Massa-
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chusetts, and Mansfield, Connecticut, and granddaughter of John and Hannah ( Pres- cott) Rugg, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Children: I. William, born August 2, 1725, mentioned below. 2. Millicent, October 16, 1727. 3. Lucy, October 6, 1729, died in Will- ington, May 17, 1772. 4. Abigail, February 6, 1731-32, at Concord, Massachusetts. 5. Mary, July 8, 1734, married, at Willington, August 16, 1754, John Scott. 6. Samuel, May 7, 1736, died August 27, 1807 ; married, Sep- tember 5, 1761, Susannah Sibley; she died April 24, 1810. 7. John, November 3, 1739, died after 1761 ; probably had no issue. 8. James, April 29, 1742, died November 23, 1759. 9. Abel, March 8, 1744-45, married, April 4, 1771, Eunice Merrick, daughter of Stephen Merrick. 10. Elisha, September 22, 1748, died February 26, 1813 ; married, December 5, 1771, Mary Case. After Mr. Johnson's decease his widow married Deacon Nathaniel Patten, whom she survived about eight years. William Johnson was a member of the first church in Concord, and of the Congregational church at Willington Hill.
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