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Philip Ferree, the second son, married Leah DuBois, daughter of Abraham DuBois, before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his family settled. Philip and Leah (Du- bois) Ferree had eight children: Abraham, of whom presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip ; Joel; Lena, married William Buffington, or Bavington; Leah, married Peter Baker ; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac Ferree.
Abraham Ferree, eldest son of Philip and Leah (DuBois) Ferree, born at New Palz, on the Hudson, in New York, married Elizabeth Eltinge, of New York, a descendant of early Holland settlers at Esopus, and they had issue: Rebecca Ferree, born January 21, 1742, died November 24, 1812, married, May 8, 1761, David Shriver; Cornelius Ferree, who went to West Virginia, married and had children; Israel Ferree, who died at the age of twenty-eight years.
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Issue of David and Rebecca (Ferree) Shriver :
Andrew Shriver, b. Nov. 7, 1762, m., in 1786, Elizabeth Schultz, and soon after his marriage removed to Littlestown, Pa., but in 1800 purchased land on Big Pipe Creek, Carroll co., Md., and erected mills, a wool-carding factory, tannery, &c., named his place Union Mills; was a man of importance in the community, a justice of the peace, etc .; d. in 1847, aged 85.
His son, Thomas Shriver, engaged in business in York co., Pa., and m. Ann E. Sharp of that town; was capt. during War of 1812-14, and was at the battle of North Point; in 1818 removed to Sandy Mount, 18 miles from Baltimore; in 1826 to Fred- erick, Md., thence to Franklin, a little village near Baltimore; he and his brother, Joseph Shriver, prospected the route for the P. W. & B. railroad; he removed to Cumberland, Md., in 1834, and was several times mayor of that city, and prominent in financial and social affairs;
Rachel Shriver, b. Jan. 7, 1767, m., 1786, Adam Forney;
David Shriver, b. April 24, 1769, m., 1803, Eve Sherman; he was associated with his brother Andrew in the erection and operation of the mills, etc., at Union Mills, Car- rol co., Md., and a prominent business man of that section;
Abraham Shriver, b. May 5, 1771, was associate judge of the Fifth Judicial District, of Md., 1805-43; wrote a memorial of his father, David Shriver, and an account of his ancestry ; he m., 1803, Ann Margaret Leatherman, b. 1777 ;
Mary Shriver, b. Nov. 29, 1773, d. May I, 1855; m., April 1, 1792, John Schley, b. 1767, a descendant of John Thomas Schley, who emigrated from the Palatinate and settled in Md. in 1745, was the founder of the town of Frederick, having built the first house there, was a soldier in the Rev., etc., and d. in 1790; John Schley, Clerk of Court at the time of his death, was widely known and respected;
John Thomas Schley, a son of John and Mary (Shriver) Schley, b. Nov. 4, 1806, d. Oct., 1876, m. a Miss McClure, and was the father of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley, the "hero of Santiago" in 1898;
Isaac Shriver, b. March 6, 1777, of whom presently;
Jacob Shriver, b. Dec. 13, 1779, m., 1806, Anna Eva Hupert ;
Susanna Shriver, m. Samuel Frey, and left numerous descendants.
ISAAC SHRIVER, fourth son of David and Rebecca (Ferree) Shriver, born in the old family homestead at Little Pipe Creek, near Westminster, Mary- land, received a good academic education and practical home training in busi- ness. Soon after his marriage, he settled in Westminster, Maryland, and ac- tively engaged in business. He became the owner of considerable real estate there and was very prominent in public affairs. He was several times elected to the House of Delegates, the legislative body of the state of Maryland; was a member of that body at the time of the formation of the new county of Carroll, formed and organized largely through his influence in the Legislature. He was chosen president of the Westminster bank, in 1826, and served in that ca- pacity until his death in 1856. He also held many minor offices. He joined the Methodist Protestant Church of Westminster in 1834, and was one of its most zealous and devoted members. He died December 22, 1856.
Isaac Shriver married, April 22, 1802, Polly Leatherman, born April 4, 1781, died March 6, 1859, daughter of Henry and - (Baltzell) Leatherman, and a descendant of early emigrants from the Palatinate.
Issue of Isaac and Polly (Leatherman) Shriver :
Rebecca Shriver, b. June 13, 1803, d. Jan. 9, 1837; m., Nov. 28, 1826, Levi Davis, of Tiffin, O., who m. (second) her younger sister, Julian;
Henry Shriver, b. March 5, 1805, d. unm., Jan. 13, 1825; Betsy Shriver, b. March 5, 1805, d. October 26, 1807;
Dr. George W. Shriver, b. Nov. 16, 1808, d. Dec. 1I, 1839; practiced medicine in West- minster, Md .;
Francis Shriver, b. Feb. 27, 1811, of whom presently ;
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Margaret Shriver, b. July 2, 1813, d. June 9, 1880; m., Nov. 10, 1836, Joshua Yingling, who d. Oct. 28, 1881 ;
Julian Shriver, b. Feb. II, 1816, d. May 12, 1905; m., March 14, 1839, Levi Davis, of Tiffin, O., whose first wife was her eldest sister, Rebecca Shriver ;
Jesse Shriver, b. Feb. 6, 1818, d. July 7, 1870; m., March 15, 1854, Ann Spayth; settled in Tiffin, O .; was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Anna Marie Shriver, b. May 24, 1820, d. Dec. 4, 1829;
Louisa Susan Shriver, b. Dec. 20, 1822, d. Feb. 23, 1852; m., Sept. 29, 1842, Alfred Troxel.
FRANCIS SHRIVER, third son and fifth child of Isaac and Polly (Leather- man) Shriver, was born near Frederick, Maryland, February 27, 1811. At the age of seventeen he engaged in the tanning and currying business with his cousin, Jacob Forney, of Hanover, Pennsylvania. He later associated himself with his cousin, A. K. Shriver, of Union Mills, Maryland, in the same business. In 1833 he commenced business for himself in Westminster, Maryland, which he continued with success until 1858. He received the highest award for leather at the National Exposition at Washington, D. C., in 1846, and also at the fair of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in the fall and winter of 1846- 47; the highest award at Maryland Institute, Baltimore, in 1848-49.
Though he never sought political preferment, he was nevertheless elected mayor of the city of Westminster six consecutive terms, 1850-56, and was school commissioner for Carroll county for two years. In 1851 he was made a director of the Mutual Insurance Company of Baltimore county, and served as such and general agent until February, 1861, when he was made secretary and treas- urer of the company, which positions he filled until his death in 1895.
During the Civil War, 1861-65, Francis Shriver was zealous in defense of the Union, serving with the Delaware Cavalry, on the afternoon of June 29, 1863, when sixty men under command of Major Knight, met the advance of J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry, eight thousand strong at Westminster ; he was in the midst of the fight throughout but escaped injury, save a blast of gunpowder in the eye from a pistol in the hands of a Confederate officer.
Francis Shriver married, July 14, 1830, Matilda Frysinger, who died Janu- ary 27, 1884, in her seventieth year. They had issue :
Emmeline Eliza Shriver, b. Nov. 1I, 1831;
Henry Leatherman Shriver, b. Jan. 1, 1834; George Washington Shriver, b. Aug. 7, 1835;
Mary Elizabeth Shriver, b. July 19, 1837;
Isaac Shriver, b. Jan. 25, 1840;
Horatio Price Shriver, b. Apr. 18, 1842; Rebecca Davis Shriver, b. March 22, 1844;
Sarah Matilda Shriver, b. Nov. 17, 1846; Annie Louisa Shriver, b. Feb. 17, 1849;
Edwin Wilmer Shriver, b. June 4, 1851 ; Frank William Shriver, b. March 17, 1853.
Matilda (Frysinger) Shriver, the mother of the above named children, was a daughter of Captain George Frysinger, of the Third Regiment, First Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, Colonel Fevre, in the War of 1812-14. Captain Frysing- er was promoted for bravery in action at the battle of North Point, Maryland, September 12, 1814, after which his regiment rendezvoused at Hanover, un-
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der general order of the governor dated October 15, 1814, and was mus- tered out of service, December 1, 1814.
FRANK WILLIAM SHRIVER, youngest son of Francis and Matilda (Frysing- er) Shriver, born March 17, 1853, at Westminster, Maryland, was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and Western Maryland College, West- minster, graduating from the latter institution in June, 1873. He followed the profession of a teacher for several years, and in 1885 engaged in the manufac- ture of high grade carriages in which he has continued to the present, building up a large business in that line at Twelfth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. He was a representative of the Carriage Builders' National Association (the oldest trade organization in the United States) also the Carriage and Wagon Build- ers' Association of Philadelphia at the Deeper Waterway Conference held in Philadelphia, October, 1907, and again represented these bodies at the first an- nual convention of Deeper Waterways held in Baltimore, October 16th to 19, 1908.
Mr. Shriver is a broad-minded and public-spirited citizen, and has taken an active interest in measures and projects for the betterment of trade and ship- ping facilities for the city of Philadelphia, and other public measures and en- terprises. He is a member of the National Commission, for Philadelphia, for ad- vocating and securing deeper waterways, for the country. He was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, April 11, 1899, as a great-grandson of David Shriver, member of Committee of Safety of Maryland. He married (first), December 12, 1883, Lulu M. Gregg, who died August 27, 1900; (second), September 2, 1903, Mary Elizabeth Tunstall, daughter of William and Mary Z. (Sanford) Tunstall.
By his first wife he had issue :
Eltinge Ferree Shriver, b. Sept. 4, 1891, d. July II, 1892; Lucy Van Artsdalen Shriver, b. Sept. 10, 1894.
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WILLIAM MINTZER VAN LEER
The Van Leer family, originally spelled Von Lohr, is an ancient heraldric family of Germany, residing in the seventeenth century in or near the town of Isenberg in the Electorate of Hesse, and, as shown by a certificate granted to John George Von Lohr, the first of the family to emigrate to America, (the original of which is in possession of George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia, a lineal descendant) were entitled to bear the following coat-of-arms, viz: "Ar- gent, a chevron azure between three rose bushes blooming, ppr." with Crest, "A man holding a Lance all ppr."
JOHN GEORGE VON LOHR, with wife Mary, and son Bernhard, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1698, and settled in Marple township, Chester county, where he lived until his death in 1748, taking up two tracts of land there which descended to his son. His wife Mary died, and he married (second), January 25, 1738, Rebecca Fauls, who survived him many years.
BERNHARD VON LOHR, son of John George and Mary Von Lohr, was born near Isenberg, Electorate of Hesse, in 1686, and came with his parents to Penn- sylvania at the age of eleven years. When nearing manhood he returned to Germany to take up the study of medicine and spent seven years in his native country. Returning to Pennsylvania he took up the practice of his profession in Chester county, locating on one of the plantations taken up by his father, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying January 26, 1790, at the age of one hun- dred and four years. He retained his mental and physical faculties to a re- markable degree in his extreme old age. His daughter related that he rode with her on horseback, in his one hundredth year, thirty miles to his Chester Valley farm in one day and returned the next day apparently unfatigued by the journey. This daughter was Mary, who married, December 4, 1783, Moses Moore, and to whom her father devised the Blue Bell Tavern and one hun- dred and eighty acres of land in Tredyffrin. The homestead he devised to his son Bernhard, both these being children of his second marriage. He mar- ried (first) at Christ Church, Philadelphia, February 25, 1734, Mary, daughter of William Branson, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, and one of the earli- est ironmasters of Pennsylvania, the owner of Reading Furnace, Chester coun- ty, and a sister to the wife of Lynford Lardner. He married (second) at the German Reformed Church of Philadelphia, in 1750, Christiana Flus, who died May 29, 1815, aged eighty-eight years and seven months. By his first wife, Mary (Branson) Von Lohr, he had six sons, George, Thomas, Branson, Wil- liam, Benjamin and Samuel; and by the second wife, Christiana (Flus) Von Lohr, he had one son, Bernhard (1770-1814), and two daughters.
His surviving sons, by the first wife, George, Branson, William and Samuel, were all officers of the American army during the Revolution, Branson, who had adopted his father's profession, enlisted as a private in the Associated Com- pany of East Nantmeal township, where he was living at the outbreak of the Revolution, and was one of the original members of the first Committee of Ob-
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servation for Chester county, chosen at a public meeting held at Chester, De- cember 20, 1774. He was commissioned November 3, 1779, surgeon of the Fourth Battalion, Colonel John Ralston, Chester county militia. He died with- out issue in 1798, devising his two plantations in East Nantmeal to his broth- er, Captain Samuel Van Leer. William Van Leer enlisted in the Ninth Regi- ment, Colonel Richard Butler, Continental Line, had served throughout the war. He was commissioned second lieutenant, March 3, 1777, promoted first lieutenant, July 22, 1777, captain lieutenant, October 16, 1777, and had com- mand as such of three different companies at different periods during the years 1778-79. He was commissioned captain, August 19, 1779; was brigade major of the First Pennsylvania Brigade; and was transferred to the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment with his old commander, January 19, 1781. He retired from the service, January 1, 1783.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL VAN LEER, youngest of the six sons of Dr. Bernhard Von Lohr, by his first wife, Mary Branson, was born in Marple township, Chester county, in 1748. He became the owner of the site of Reading Furnace in the iron ore district of Warwick township, Chester county, formerly owned by his maternal grandfather, William Branson, ironmaster, referred to above. During the Revolutionary War he was captain of the Seventh Company, Fifth Battalion, Chester county militia, commissioned May 17, 1777, and saw considerable active service. In 1781 he was lieutenant of a company of Light Horse Volunteers, commanded by Captain Alexander Johnson. He inherited from his brother, Dr. Branson Van Leer, two plantations in East Nantmeal township, and died there in October, 1825.
Captain Samuel Van Leer married Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Iddings) Wayne, granddaughter of Captain Anthony Wayne, and a sister to General Anthony Wayne, of the Revolution.
Captain Samuel and Hannah (Wayne) Van Leer had four daughters who survived their father and several sons. His son Isaac, the owner of Reading Furnace, married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Samuel and Margaret Cul- bertson, and had two sons and two daughters. Another son, Anthony Wayne Van Leer, removed to Nashville, Tennessee. .
Captain Anthony Wayne, grandfather of the distinguished patriot general of the same name as well as of Hannah (Wayne) Van Leer, was born in 1666, in one of the northern counties of England, and in early manhood emigrated to county Wicklow, Ireland, where he resided until his emigration to Pennsyl- vania in 1722. He was an officer under William, Prince of Orange, and com- manded a company of dragoons at the battle of Boyne in 1690. He married, in Ireland, Hannah Faulkner, who with his children, Francis, Gabriel, Wil- liam, Humphrey, Jacob, William, John, Sarah and Mary, accompanied him to Pennsylvania. The family settled in Easttown township, Chester county, where they were joined by Isaac Wayne in 1724, he having followed his parents to Pennsylvania. Anthony Wayne purchased by deed dated May II, 1724, three hundred and eighty acres in Easttown, on which he lived until his death on December 2, 1739, at the age of seventy-three years. He was buried at St. David's Church, Radnor.
Isaac Wayne, son of Captain Anthony and Hannah (Faulkner) Wayne, was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1699, and came to Pennsylvania, in 1724.
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In connection with his elder brother, Francis Wayne, he purchased, in 1727, one hundred acres of land in Easttown, Francis transferring his interest to him in 1739. In addition to this, his father and mother, Anthony and Hannah Wayne, conveyed to him by deed dated May 8, 1739, six months before the father's death, three hundred and sixty acres of the homestead. He was one of the prominent men of his section; was one of the principal subscribers to the fund for the erection of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church in East Wheatland township, and identified with other local enterprises. He was one of the active members of St. David's Church, Radnor, from 1723 to 1776. Af- ter the defeat of Braddock, in the fall of 1755, Isaac Wayne raised a company in Chester county, of which he was commissioned captain. He marched with the company to the defence of the frontiers of Northampton county, and when Dr. Franklin took charge of affairs there, in the autumn of 1755, he was sta- tioned at Nazareth. He was stationed at DuPuy's near Smithfield, now Monroe county, January 3, 1756; was ordered to Gnaden Hutten, a Moravian town, near the present site of Allentown by Franklin, and assisted in erecting a stockade there which was called Fort Allen, also assisting in erecting other forts and stockades on the frontiers of Northampton county, during the fall and winter of 1755-56. In February, 1756, his company was relieved and dis- banded. He, however, raised another company and participated with it in the Forbes campaign of 1757-58. He was a member of Provincial Assembly from Chester county, 1757-63. He died at Easttown, Chester county, November, 1774. Captain Isaac Wayne married Elizabeth Iddings, born 1709, died May, 1793, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Phillips) Iddings, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and they had one son, Anthony Wayne, the distinguished general, born 1745, and two daughters, Hannah, wife of Captain Samuel Van Leer, and Ann, wife of William Hayman. Hannah Van Leer was deceased at the date of the will of her mother, Elizabeth Wayne, December 7, 1792, which gives legacies to her children, though naming only two daughters specifically, viz : Hannah Ann and Mary Van Leer.
WILLIAM R. VAN LEER, son of Captain Samuel and Hannah (Wayne) Van Leer, born 1775, resided until his death, May 25, 1808, on one of his father's plantations in East Nantmeal township, Chester county. He married, April 19, 1801, Sarah Hunter, a descendant of John Hunter, and his wife, Margaret (Albans) Hunter, who accompanied Captain Anthony Wayne from county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1722, and settled in Newtown, now Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where John Hunter died in 1734 at the age of seventy years. He was a native of county Durham, England, a descendant of the Hunter family of Meadowsley Hall, Gateshead, Durham, where the records of his ancestors trace back to 1605. He was a trooper with Captain Wayne at the battle of Boyne, and his lifelong friend and associate. John Hunter was a member of the first vestry of St. David's Church, Radnor, chosen April, 1725, and was succeeded by his son John, the ancestor of Mrs. Van Leer.
ISAAC WAYNE VAN LEER, eldest son of William R. and Sarah (Hunter) Van Leer, was born in East Nantmeal township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1802, and spent the greater part of his life there, removing later to Downingtown, where he died August 17, 1895. He married (first), January 27, 1827, Phoebe Ann Speakman, born in Chester county, October 18, 1806,
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died October 22, 1846, of a family long members of the Society of Friends in that county. He married (second) Lydia Thomas. By his first wife, Phoebe Ann (Speakman) Van Leer, he had five children: Ellen Frances Van Leer, married George H. Earle, of Philadelphia; Hunter Evans Van Leer, of Phil- adelphia, married Clara Wills; William Archer Van Leer, of whom presently ; Anne Van Leer, married William Huddleston; and Isaac W. Van Leer, born January 15, 1846, who at the age of sixteen enlisted in Company B, Fifty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died June 19, 1862, from wounds re- ceived in the battle of Seven Pines, when he lay two days helplessly wounded on the battle field, without care or sustenance. Child by second wife, Lydia (Thomas) Van Leer : Mary Thomas Van Leer, who never married.
WILLIAM ARCHER VAN LEER, second son and fourth child of Isaac Wayne and Phoebe Ann (Speakman) Van Leer, was born in East Nantmeal town- ship, Chester county, April 21, 1834. He and his brother, Hunter Evans Van Leer, removed when young men to Maroa, Macon county, Illinois, and en- gaged in business of stock raising and farming there. William Archer Van Leer married, at Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1864, Josephine Levina Colladay, born in Philadelphia, September 1, 1842, and they still reside at Bloomington, Illinois. They had issue as follows :
WILLIAM MINTZER VAN LEER, of whom presently ;
Bird Colladay Van Leer, b. May 22, 1867, m., July 21, 1894, Margaret Langstaff, b. Jan. . 20, 1870; no children;
Archer Wayne Van Leer, b. Feb. 26, 1869, unm .;
Lillian Virginia Van Leer, b. Jan. 6, 1872, d. Aug. 21, 1872; Josephine Louella Van Leer, b. Nov. 25, 1875, m., June 1, 1899, Frank Edgar Jones, b. Aug. 4, 1872; children: Edgar Van Leer Jones, b. July 25, 1900, d. July 26, 1900; Wayne Van Leer Jones, b. June 18, 1902; Lenoir Jones, b. May 24, 1905, d. June 30, 1908;
Lenoir Van Leer, b. Nov. 16, 1877, m., Nov. 2, 1899, Leonidas Harpole Kerrick, b. April 28, 1877; children: Elizabeth Melura Kerrick, b. May 11, 1902; Josephine Kerrick, b. Jan. 13, 1906.
WILLIAM MINTZER VAN LEER, eldest child of William Archer and Josephine Levina (Colladay) Van Leer, was born at Maroa, Macon county, Illinois, Feb- ruary 20, 1865. He was educated at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, an educational institution under the care of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Ortho- dox Friends. At the close of school days, Mr. Van Leer engaged in business as a wholesale dealer in cotton, and is now the head of the firm of Van Leer & Company, of 241 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. He is a member of the New York Cotton Exchange, and one of the well-known business men of the Quak- er City. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, in right of descent from Captain Samuel Van Leer, his great-great-grandfather, and is a member of the Down Town, and Philadelphia Country clubs and oth- er social organizations. He married, May 2, 1893, Mae Earle Somers, born in Philadelphia, May 24, 1862, daughter of William Edward and Sarah Fliza (Jackson) Somers, and they reside at 603 North Thirty-fourth Street, Phila- delphia. They have one son, William Leicester Van Leer, born April 6, 1894.
EDWARD HINE JOHNSON
ROBERT JOHNSON, the earliest ancestor of Edward Hine Johnson, of whom we have any record, was one of the founders of New Haven, Connecticut.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, son of Robert Johnson, born in England about the year 1635, was one of the original proprietors of Wallingford, Connecticut, signing the original agreement or covenant of the first planters there in 1669. He had married at New Haven, in 1664, Sarah Hall, baptized there August 9, 1646, daughter of John Hall, of New Haven, later also one of the proprietors of Wallingford, and his wife, Jane (Wallen) Hall. William Johnson's original assignment of land at Wallingford being twelve acres and John Hall's eight acres. The latter died at Wallingford, in 1676, at the age of seventy-one years.
JACOB JOHNSON, son of William and Sarah (Hall) Johnson, was born at Wallingford, Connecticut, September 25, 1674. He married, December 14, 1693, Abigail, daughter of Jolin and Abigail (Merriman) Hitchcock, and built a house on the north side of the road in the old town. He was prominent in the affairs of the town and filled various municipal positions. On December 19, 1715, he with John Hotchkiss, Joseph Parker, and John Doolittle, petitioned for the establishment of a school on the west side of the river from Walling- ford. His wife Abigail died January 9, 1726, and he married near the close of the same year, Parkes Lindley. He died July 26, 1749.
DANIEL JOHNSON, son of Jacob and Abigail (Hitchcock) Johnson, born at Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1709, died there October 14, 1780. In 1750 he pur- chased of - Yale, one of the first planters of Wallingford, a large tract of land lying south of the "Hanging Hills" and within the "Notch" on the South ampton Road, which has ever since been owned by the Johnson family. He mar- ried, December 24, 1734, Joanna Preston, who survived him, dying January 18, 1781.
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