John Johnson

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Husband John Johnson ¹

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         Father: [Father] Johnson (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - John Johnson

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The New Haven, Wallingford, Johnsons, emigrated from England to America about 1638, the year in which there came from England twenty ships and at least three thousand persons. Among them were three brothers: John, Robert and Thomas Johnson, who came from Kingston-on-Hull and landed at Boston. They were Puritans under the leadership of Ezekiel Rogers, a graduate of Cambridge, and a clergyman of Rowley, in Yorkshire, England. He and many of his followers settled on the coast of Massachusetts Bay and called their new town Rowley, after their old home in England. The three Johnsons left Rogers at Boston and repaired to the colony of New Haven, Connecticut, where Thomas and Robert permanently settled, John, however, after a year or two in New Haven returned to Rowley. Blodgett's "Early Settlers of Rowley" mentions him as "Captain John" and names his children and grandchildren: Robert Johnson died in New Haven in 1694. He was the ancestor of the Stratford Johnsons, the father of Deacon William, of Guilford, Connecticut (1629-1702), the grandfather of Deacon Samuel, of Stratford (1670-1727), great-grandfather of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D., the able lawyer and statesman who as attorney for Connecticut figured so prominently in the controversy with Pennsylvania over Wyoming. He represented Connecticut in the Colonial Congress of 1775 and signed the remonstrance to the King against the "Stamp Act".

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1492.