On 30 Dec 1697 Edward was elected Constable, and in 1691 he and Esther along with the other heirs are mentioned in the division of the estate of her father. When Edward wrote his will on 10 May 1736 he named his wife Esther; daughters Elizabeth Morris and Esther as well as children Amos, Edward, Ebenezer, Cornelius, Timothy, and Experience. The will was probated on 19 Jul 1736, and the following year his widow made her will naming the same eight children and a granddaughter Elizabeth Morris. Ester was buried in Branford on 18 Jul 1736 and her will proved in 1739.

1. Elizabeth Johnson - born 06 Dec 1690; married Joseph Morris as his 2nd wife, he being born in Branford, New Haven Co., Connecticut in 1688.
2. Amos Johnson - born 30 Jan 1692/93; died unmarried in 1760.
3. Experience Johnson - born 20 May 1695; married Robert Sloper on 09 Jan 1717/18.
4. Edward Johnson - born 12 Jun 1697 in Branford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; married Deborah Baldwin who died in 1730; married (2) Elizabeth Barnes in 1732.
5. Esther Johnson - born 12 Jun 1700; died unmarried on 19 Jul 1787. she made her will 11 Jul 1752, proved 1757, and made the daughters of her brothers Cornelius and Timothy and her sister Elizabeth Morris her chief heirs.
6. Ebenezer Johnson - born 08 Mar 1702/03; married Anne Barker on 01 Jan 1728/29.
7. Cornelius Johnson - born 18 Aug 1705 in Branford; married Hannah Penfield and later Abigail (between 1739-1749), the widow of Nathaniel Rose. The administration of his estate was granted in Feb 1769.
8. Timothy Johnson - born 17 Jul 1709; married Hannah Wheadon on 30 Nov 1738 in Branford, she being his first cousin once removed. He died in Branford on 11 Mar 1760.

In 1753 they moved to Litchfield, Connecticut and land deeds indicate he conveyed land which came to his "mother Esther Johnson dec'd from her father Thomas Whedon" on 01 Dec 1754. He named in his will, dated 18 Aug 1772, his sons Zadok, Daniel, Edward, Amos, Zachariah and Jonathan; and daughters Hannah Harrison, Elizabeth Butler, Esther Gibbs, Experience Johnson, Anna Farnam, and Phebe Orton. He died in Litchfield, Conneticut in 1774 and his will was probated on 01 Feb 1774.

1. Zakok Johnson - born 31 Mar 1724; he married Hannah Penfield in Branford on 01 Feb 1749/50 and though they were in Litchfield in 1759 when they conveyed Penfield land, they were in Farmington by 1762 when their child was recorded there.
2. Hannah Johnson - born 22 Dec 1725; she married Abraham Harrison on 26 Jan 1764. He was born in Branford on 20 Nov 1728 and died on the way to Lebanon Springs on 08 Nov 1790 and was buried at Cornwall, Connecticut. Hannah died in Lebanon Springs, Columbia Co., NY on 12 Dec 1815.
3. Daniel Johnson - born 14 Mar 1727/28 in Branford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; married Bathsheba (Pond).
4. Deborah Johnson - born 14 Nov 1730 and died young.

1. Elizabeth Johnson - born 28 Jul 1733; married Abel Butler in Branford on 01 Mar 1753.
2. Edward Johnson - born 30 Mar 1735; married Abigail Stoddard in Litchfield, CT on 13 Nov 1760.
3. Esther Johnson - born 21 Aug 1737; married Lemuel Gibbs in Litchfield, CT on 12 Mar 1761. Lemuel was born 16 Mar 1737/38 and died 27 Feb 1805.
4. Amos Johnson - born 18 Jul 1739; married Jemima Chamberlain and died in captivity in New York on 21 Dec 1776.
5. Zachariah Johnson - born 12 Sep 1741; married Sarah Peck on 25 Jul 1765 in Litcfield, CT.
6. Anna Johnson - born 17 Oct 1743; married Joseph Farnum.
7. Experience Johnson - born 25 Nov 1745; married Thomas Landon in Litchfield, CT on 04 Apr 1774. Thomas was born in Litchfield on 14 Jan 1745/46.
8. Phebe Johnson - born 29 Jul 1748; married Hezekiah Orton, Jr. in Litchfield on 25 Jul 1767. Hezekiah was born 02 Dec 1745 and died 25 May 1770.
9. Jonathan Johnson - born about 1750/51; married Jane Gibbs in Litchfield on 12 Jan 1775, she having been born 06 Jan 1753.

Daniel appears in the Farmington land deed when he bought from Ebenezer Barnes, the land in Southington Parish which became part of Wolcott in 1779. In 1771 Daniel and Bathsheba, along with her younger brother Gad, conveyed part of the farm on which Moses had lived.

In 1792 Daniel wrote his will mentioning his wife and naming his sons Daniel and Joel, and daughters Jerusha, wife of Cyrus Norton, Deborah, wife of Jabez Harrison, Hannah, wife of Walter Wilmot, and Mary wife of Timothy Upson. He died in Wolcott in 1797(previously Southington which was incorporated as Wolcott in 1796). His wife Bathsheba lived until 01 Jun 1809, and appears to have come with her son Daniel to New York, he having first removed from Wolcott in February of 1800 and then moving to what was then Oxford, but afterward divided so he was then living about a mile south of Guilford Ceneter. Bathsheba was then buried at Ives Settlement Cemetery in Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.

1. Jerusha Johnson - born in Branford on 26 Oct 1754; married Cyrus Norton in Wolcott, New Haven Co., CT on 04 Jan 1775.
2. Deborah Johnson - born in Branford on 05 May 1757; married Jabez Harrison on 15 Oct 1772.
3. Daniel Johnson - born in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT on 02 Feb 1760; married Mary Norton; and (2) Mary Jane (Young); died in 1840.
4. Hannah Johnson - born in Farmington on 28 Jul 1762; married Walter Wilmont on 09 Dec 1779 in Wolcott, he having been born in Woodbridge, New Haven Co., CT on 1755 and was the son of Valentine and Rachel (Johnson). Walter died in Bethany, New Haven Co., CT in 1824 and Hannah in Waterbury on 08 May 1833.
5. Joel Johnson - born about 1768; married Mary (Moss) who was born about 1771. They came to Chenango County and established themselves at Ives Settlement in Guilford in about 1795, both dying in 1806.

DANIEL JOHNSON - was born about 1759/1760 in Connecticut and as a young boy was said to have been bound out. At the expiration of his indenture, he received a yoke of three year old oxen. While a resident of Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, first enlisted on 01 Jun 1776 serving in the Revolutionary War under Captain Jehiel Meig's, and Colonel Andrew Ward's Connecticut regiment.

According to his pension papers which he filed at the age of seventy-two at Chenango County on the thirteenth day of August 1832, he "entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, that he, living at Farmington, in Hartford County and State of Connecticut, on or about the first day of June 1776, volunteered and enlisted in, and going from Farmington and passing through the towns of Cheshire and Willingford, arrived at East Guilford about 40 miles from Farmington, on or about the 20 June and there joined Captain Jehiel Meigs, 1st Lieutenant Samuel Barton, 2nd Lieutenant James Peck, Ensign Levi Gaylord .... after joining the company went on board vessels, and sailed to New York and joined Colonel Andrew Ward's, Lieut. Colonel (believe, Obadiah) Johnson's, Major Isaac Burks regiment of Connecticut State troops. After remaining at New York about 4 days went with the Regiment to Fort Lee in the state of new York after remaining at Fort Lee 4 or 5 weeks from Fort Lee went with the Regiment to Valentine Hill in Westchester County where they encamped and there remained until about 15 October 1776 and from thence marched to White Plains and there remained until the Battle with the British on or about 28 October 1776 and he was in the left wing of the American Army at the Battle of White Plains and after battle fell back 2 or 3 miles, and then encamped and there remained until after the British had taken forts Washington and Lee, and there remained until about 15th November and from there went with the troops to Peekskill, and being such at Peekskill with about 40 soldiers (sick) under the care of Captain Phelps from Peekskill went to Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut where he remained until January 1777 when he went back to Peekskill and from about the middle of January went to Chatham in New Jersey where he joined the aforenamed Regiment and from Chatham marched with the Regiment through Springfield and Westfield to the lines near New Brusnwick, the British were then in New Brunswick, about 1st February 1777 they had a skirmish with the British troops on the lines - remained on the lines until March when by order of Gen'l Washington the troops fell back to East Morristown where the regiment had the small pox, and from thence went below Chatham to a town (name forgot) where remained 2 or 3 weeks, and from thence went to Newark and there remained about a week and from thence marched to East Morristown, where he remained with troops until the 14th May 1777 when he was discharged and went home to Farmington aforementioned, it then being 11½ months from the time of his enlistment,

Being at Farmington aforementioned on or about the 25th June 1777 volunteered and enlisted for 6 months, when about the 1st July the company assembled at New Haven in Connecticut about 75 miles from Farmington under the command of Captain Peter Curtis, 1st lieutenant (Christian name forgot) Roberts, 2d Lieutenant (believes John) Churchill, Ensign Levi Gaylord, remaining at New Haven 2 or 3 weeks from thence marched to Norwalk and there remaining 2 or 3 weeks went to Danbury at Danbury the Company divided and from Danbury with half the Company under the command of the aforenamed Captain and Ensign, marched to Fredericksboro in the state of New York and in October from Fredericksboro marched to Fishkill where the whole company again united and joined Colonel (Christian name forgot) Enos or Enis, Lieutenant Colonel (Christian name forgot) Smith, Major (forgot) Regiment of Connecticut State troops, remaining at Fishkill 2 nights from thence marched with the Regiment to a place called Colonel Drake, stand and three remaining a week or two from thence marched to Mamaroneck on Long Island Sound there remained a short time and from thence marching to Horseneck in the State of Connecticut, remained at Horseneck until the last of December 1777 when the term of his enlistment expired and he was discharged and returned home after an absence of six months. That he living at Farmington afroresaid on the 1st of July 1779, was drafted for five weeks, and soon after went to New Haven and there joined Captain Woodruff thereafter joining with Colonel Hookers Regiment, and after his discharge was living at Farmington when on 01 Sep 1779 as a Substitute for Jesse Allcose went to Norwalk and joined at Battalion of Connecticut State Militia under the command of Major Norton in Captain Hotchkiss's company and went as substitute for two months and then was discharged. About 25 Jul 1780 as a Substitute for John Porter for two months was at Horseneck where he fought the Tories and refugees in Samuel Granger's company. About 25 Sep 1780, when the term of his service expired and he was discharged, he retired home until about 10 Feb 1781 when he went as a Substitute for two months for David Frost to Horseneck joining Captain John Churchill's company, and after his discharge on 10 Apr 1781 his service expired and he was mustered at Southington under the command of Captain Woolford joined a regiment until the later part of September 1781 when his term of enlistment expired. Then living at Farmington on the 25th of Dec 1781 went as a Substitute for (Christian name forgot) Sharp until the 1st of March 1782 and was at a fort between Horseneck and Stamford and then remained under the command of Captain Abner Granger when his term of service expired and he returned to Farmington.

His Certificate of Pension was issued the 24 day of Octr, 1832 to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 at eighty dollars ber Annum. He was paid "Arrears t 4th of Sep 1832 $120, and an additional $40 for a total of $160 - recorded by George C. Stiles [Book D, Vol. 5, p. 102]. His affidavit also states that he lived at Farmington until February of 1800 when he "moved to Oxford in Chenango County, and state of New York that Oxford was afterwards divided when the place on which he lived fell into the Guilford where he has since lived and now lives." He explains that he had volunteered for the 1st. 2nd, 3rd Engagements and was a substitute for the 4th, 5th & 6th engagements. He further stated that Generals Washington, Sullivan, Lee and Putman were with the troops when he served, that he recollects Colonels Meigs, Willis and Webbs (red coat) Continental Regiments and that he recollects no Malitia Regiment except those in which he served."

In all Daniel served throughout all six campaigns, substituting for Jesse Allcox, Porter, Frost and Sharp. On 02 Jun 1785 he married Mary (Norton) in Wolcott, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Born 15 Sep 1763, Mary was also said to have been bound out in childhood, receiving after her indenture beds and bedding. After visiting his brother Joel in the wilds of New York in 1799 (in what later became known as Guilford), and having foresight for the great possibilities of the uncultivated country, he purchased a tract of land, 160 acres, which joined his brother's property and there built a log house. He returned to Connecticut and the following year moved his family to their new home in February of 1800 where he lived on his farm for forty years until his death - dying at the age of eighty on 13 Sep 1840. He was laid to rest at the Ives Settlement Cemetery in Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.

On May 17, 1920 descendant Mrs. May Johnson Hyer of Mt. Upton, New York wrote to the Pension Bureau in Washington D.C. requesting the Revolutionary War papers of Daniel Johnson in which she includes the date he was born, died, and married Mary Norton. On October 16, 1920 Alfred W. Johnson of West Harford inquired of the the same noting that Daniel had served as a private under Capt. Meigs, Col. Hooker of Conn." About eight months later on 18 Jul 1921 descendant Mrs. Louise Cook also wrote the government inquiring on Daniel's Pension, she was then residing at Columbus, Wisconsin and stated that "The stone at his grave says that he served in seven campaigns of the Revolutionary War."

EXPLANATORY NOTES:

Daniel's Commanding Officers:

Capt. Jehiel Meigs, Jr. of General Andrew Ward, 1st Regiment - General Wooster's 2nd Company, was son of Jehiel and Lucy (Bartlett) and was born 06 Jul 1743, joined Washington's Army at New York and was stationed at Fort Lee. Marched with troops to White Plains, fell ill and died in camp on 27 Dec 1776, and was buried at North Madison Westside Cemetery in New Haven Co., CT. - Image from Records of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs .. by Henry B. Meigs, J.S. Bridges & Co., 1901, p.196.

Capt. Phelps believed to be Joseph Phelps born 29 Mar 1742/43 in Hebron, Connecticut, married Jemima (Post) in 1764 and enlisted in Col. Hooker's regiment and Capt. Foot's Company; died in his 53rd year on 17 Jan 1795.

Capt. (later Major) Peter Curtis/Curtiss was a blacksmith in Farmington who was born 08 Jun 1740 in Southington, Hartford Co., CT and died in Farmington 19 May 1797 and was buried at Memento Mori Cemetery, also known as the Ancient Burying Ground or Old Farmington Cemetery. His home is listed on the Historic Buildings of Connecticut (Outside Link).

Ensign Levi Gaylord was born 10 Jan 1730 and was married to Lois (Barnes). It is believed that he served as captain in the 26th regiment of Connecticut militia and after the Revolutionary War moved to Harpersfield, Delaware Co., New York in 1785 where he died 17 Aug 1795 and was buried in Harpersfield Rural Cemetery, also known as Stevens Cemetery.

Men of which Daniel served as Subsitute:

Jesse Allcox, also spelled Alcott and Alcock, was born 23 Mar 1736 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT and was the son of John and Deborah (Blakeslee). He married Patience Blakeslee on 21 Dec 1763 and is said to have served in 1755 during the French and Indian War . he died 29 Oct 1809 at Wolcott, New Haven Co., CT and was buried at North East Burial Grounds in Wolcott. His parents are said to be direct ancestors of American novelist Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.

John Porter, son of Ebenezer who served with the 15th Reg't Militia, was born 11 Mar 1735 in Farmington, New Haven Co., CT and died 03 May 1786. He was buried at the Old Farmington Cemetery also known as Memento Mori Cemetery or the Ancient Burying Ground.

Daniel Frost - possibly the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bord) who was born in 1748, resided at Canterbury, Windham Co., CT where he died at the age of 91 and was buried in the Carey cemetery.

At the Battle of White Plains - George Washington had a force of 1600, 28 killed, 126 wounded and 16 captured.

1. Hiram Johnson - born in Connecticut 27 Apr 1786 and came with his parents at the age of fourteen to Guilford and engaged in farming. He married Charlotte (Atwater) who was born in Connecticut in 1786. They were enumerated in the 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 census for Guilford, Chenango Co., NY. Hiram died 14 Mar 1873, living to be nearly ninety years old. His wife preceded him in death by almost ten years dying on 22 Jul 1864. They were laid to rest at Yaleville Cemetery in Guilford.
2. Alpheus Johnson - born in Connecticut 13 Nov 1788; died 24 Jul 1789.
3. Samantha Johnson - born 15 Sep 1791 possibly in Southington, Connecticut. She married Ethan Pier who was born 26 Apr 1789, and was the son of Solomon and Mabel (Stevens) of Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. He and Samatha moved to Steuben Co., New York where she died of Consumption on 22 Feb 1830. The following year Ethan moved to Ontario Co., New York and in 1838 to St. Joseph Co., Michigan with some of the children. There he died on 18 Sep 1876 and was buried at Factoryville Cemetery also known as Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
4. Louisa Johnson - born 12 Apr 1795 in North Haven, New Haven Co., CT; married Lyman Bradley who was a shoemaker in Guilford; died in 1881.
5. Alpheus Johnson - born 11 Jul 1797; married Ann Pomona (Dickinson) in 1819; died 24 Nov 1841 in Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.
6. Adah Johnson - born 12 Dec 1799 in Guilford; died 21 Sep 1806.
7. Seth Johnson - born in Guilford 04 Oct 1802; married Jerusha Root; died in Guilford in 1865.
8. Mary Johnson - born 10 Dec 1804 in Guildord, New York; married Ithuel Blake in 1841; died in 1867.
9. Joel Johnson - born 25 Jan 1807 in Guildord, New York; married 03 Sep 1828 to Samatha Wellman/Willmon who died on 31 Jan 1845. Shortly after, on either the 21st or the 26th of August, 1845, he married Eliza C. Wilcox and was a Baptist preacher.

JOEL JOHNSON - son of Daniel and Bathsheba (Pond) was born in about 1768 and married Mary (Moss). They removed from Connecticut and went early to settle in the area which later became Guilford in Chenango County, New York. He and his wife resided at Ives Settlement but both died early on of the fever, leaving two daughters.

Cemetery notes indicate he was age 38 when he died 07 Oct 1806. His headstone reads: "Shine anger like a painted dart -- shall pierce the foes of stallion heart. Or word of memory kind and sweet shall melt the rebbels at thy feet." His wife Mary died just prior to him on 06 Oct 1806. They were laid to rest at Ives Settlement Cemetery.

1. Lucy Johnson - born about 1800 and marrid Alba Lyman. Both lived and died in the town, Lucy on 17 Jan 1840 age 40, and Alba on 09 March 1843, aged 54.
2. Titus Johnson - born 1802; died 08 Oct 1806. He was buried in Ives Settlement Cemetery, his headstone inscribed: " "In memory of, son of Joel and Mary Johnson, who d. Oct., 8, 1806 in the 4th yr. of his age."
3. Lovisa Johnson - born in 1805 and married Abial or Abiel Bush. She was the mother of Maria, Loman, and Louisa.

1. Daniel J. Pier - born Mar 1813 in Chenango Co., New York; died Sep 1887.
2. Solomon Pier - born 16 Oct 1814 in Chenango Co., New York; married Frances (Bird); father of at least Hiram J. and Ethan B. Pier; died 20 Feb 1880 in St. Joseph Co., MI.
3. Nancy Pier - born 1816; died 15 Aug 1828 in Erwin, Steuben Co., NY.
4. Mabel Pier - born about 1818 in Steuben Co., New York; died at the age of ten on 06 Aug 1828 in Erwin, Steuben Co., New York.
5. Mary Pier - born 02 Feb 1821 in Steuben Co., New York; married William M. Wicox in Washtenaw Co., MI on 25 Mar 1841; died in Chelsea, Washtenaw Co., Michigan on 15 Feb 1853 and bured in Canfield Cemetery in Lyndon Twp. of that county. She was listed in her husband's 1850 household residing in Lyndon with daughters Mary and Ellen.
6. Amy Amelia Pier - born 29 Dec 1823 in Steuben Co., New York; married William McCrillus in New York on 02 Apr 1844; died Sep 1887.
7. Hiram Henry Pier - born in Steuben Co., New York; died (according to his sister Mary's headstone in Canfield Cemetery, Steuben Co., NY) Dec 1847 at age 19.

She and Lyman were enumerated in the 1850, 1860, and 1870 census records living in Guilford, Chenango, New York. Thought the date of death is unknown, Lyman appears to have died before 1880 at which time Louisa was residing with her nephew, Daniel Johnson (son of Seth and Jerusha) who was a prominent dairy and stock raiser in Chenango County. Daniel's family was enumerated in the 1880 residing in Guilford.

Louisa died the following year on 06 Mar 1881 and is laid to rest at Ives Settlement Cemetery in Guilford.

1. Williard Daniel Bradley - born on 21 Jul 1849 in Guilford, Chenango, New York. He married Eliza Twigg on 23 Oct 1874 in Guilford, Chenango, NY. Williard was counted in a census in 1850/1860 in Guilford, Chenango, New York.
2. Jessie S. Bradley - born about 1856 in Connecticut; she was counted in the 1860/1870 Guilford, Chenango, New York census records.
3. Jennie Bradley - born about 1856 in Connecticut; she was counted in the 1860/1870 Guilford, Chenango, New York census records.
4. Flora Bradley - born about 1860 in Guilford, Chenango, New York and enumerated in the census of that year.
5. Lottie Bradely - born about 1867 in Guilford; counted in the 1870 census for Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.

SETH JOHNSON - son of Daniel and Mary (Norton), was born in Guilford, at the old homestead on the 4th of October in 1802 and lived until his death which was caused by a ruptured blood vessel from overwork. At the time he died, he owned 360 acres of land which was under a high state of cultivation, well improved and stocked. He was a member of the First Congreational Church of Guilford of which his parents had been two of the twelve charter members.

Seth married Jerusha Root who was the daughter of Ebenezer Root who had arrived in Chenango County prior to 1800 from Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts and died in Guilford in 1842. His principal occupation was farming, although he dealt extensively in live stock, which he drove to New York City.

At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the war and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Jerusha's mother, Cynthia Whipple, was his second wife and mother of eight of his sixteen children (His first wife was Jerusha Dogister of MA). Cynthia was born in Battleboro, VT in 1789 and was the daughter of Daniel and Deborah (Hildreth), who died in Guilford at about the age of sixty-seven years old.

Seth and Jerusha were listed in the census records of Chenango Co., New York in 1840, 1850, and 1860. After the death of Seth on 16 Jun 1865, Jerusha lived with her son Daniel's family and was enumerated with them in 1880.

Seth and Jerusha were buried in Ives Settlement Cemetery - inscription reading, "In Heaven We Meet."

1. Titus Hiram Johnson - born in May of 1829 and died in Oregon City, Clackamas Co., Oregon on 23 Dec 1852. He was buried in Ives Settlement Cemetery, his inscription reading: "He sought that distant land for his home, But found there his grave."
2. Frances Lucia Johhnson - born about 1831; married Thomas Fleming who was a farmer of Schuyler County, New York.
3. Daniel Johnson - born 21 Apr 1833 in Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY. He taught district school for four terms but went back to farming on the homestead with his father. He married Mary Hale in Guilford in about 1856, she the daughter of Ebenezer.
4. Charles Johnson - born about 1835, became a shoe merchant in Pueblo, New Mexico.
5. Ellen A. Johnson - born in Guilford 30 Aug 1837; died 17 Jul 1853 and was buried at Ives Settlement Cemetery.
6. Lieutenant Robert L. Johnson - born 21 Dec 1839 in Guilford. He served in the Civil War, enlisting in the 89th Regiment of New York Vol. Infantry, he was discharged due to a disability after a short service. He re-enlisted with the 20th Reg. NY Vol. Cav. but when his disability returned, he was again discharged. He died in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1864 at Soldier's Lodge but was buried at Ives Settlement Cemetery.
7. Mary Delia Johnson - born 06 Jun 1842, she was enumerated in the 1850/1860 census for Guilford, Chenango Co., New York; died 24 Jul 1861 and was buried in Ive Settlement Cemetery. Her inscription reads: "Sleep peacefully, love, it is over. No harm to they pillow can come."
8. Esther Johnson - born about 1844 and married A.O. Shepherd of Brooklyn, NY.
9. Sarah Johnson - born 19 Nov 1847 in Guilford; wife of John H. Bower of Chicago, Illinois.

MARY JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel and Mary (Norton), she was born 10 Dec 1804. On 05 May 1841 she married Deacon Ithuel Blake who was born about 1790 in Winchester Connecticut and came to Chenango Co., New York in 1818. He died in March of 1870 in Coventry, Chenango Co., NY. His first wife, Wealthy Benedict, was the daughter of Deacon Benjamin Benedict and had moved to Coventry in 1820 received from the First Congregational Church in Winchester, Connecticut. Wealthy was born in 1793 and died in 1839. She and Ithuel were both buried in Conventryville Cemetery in Chenango Co., New York.

Ithuel and Mary were enumerated in the 1850 and 1860 census for Chenango, New York; and Ithuel was listed in the 1869-70 Business Directory for Coventry as a farmer of Conventryville. In the mortality schedule of 1870, he was listed as a widow - Mary having died on 31 May 1867. She was also buried in Conventryville Cemetery.

1. Matilda Blake - born on 12 Feb 1815; died on 24 Sep 1910.
2. Alanson Blake - born about 1820; he later lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
3. Permelia E. Blake - born about 1823 in New York
4. Sally or Sybil M. Blake - born about 1826 in New York and married Hathaway. She was listed in the 1850 and 1860 census residing in Coventryville, Chenango Co., New York. In 1880 she was living in Bainbridge and was listed in her sister Wealthy's household in 1880. At the time of her sister's death in 1910, she was living in Cannonsville, New York.
5. Wealthy Ann Blake - born about 1830; married George Horton.
6. Chester P. Blake - born about 1836 in New York.

This John Wellman was born in 1760 and died on 25 May 1841. He had been a soldier of the Revolution who had enlisted at Killingworth, Connecticut in 1777 and had married Phebe Tuttle in 1787. When he applied for a pension In 1818 he was then a resident of Otsego Co., New York, and in 1820 was then a resident of Elba, Genesee Co., New York. Sometime before 1840 John Wellman had moved to Chautauqua County, New York where Phebe was still living at the time she applied for a Widow's Pension. Their children are listed as: John Jr., Ira, Sally, Lydia, Barnabas, Stephen, Polly, Samantha, Oren, Philemon, and Philander; but not yet proven to be the same Samantha who was daughter of John and Phebe.

Similarly, in 1830 there is listed in Unadilla, Otsego Co., New York, a Joel Johnson enumerated to be between age 20 and 30 (Joel), with a female of the same age (Samantha) and one male under the age of five (unknown). This also correlates with the burial record of their daughter Mary, which indicates she was born in Unadilla. The 1840 census then lists Joel Johnson in Middlebury, Genesee Co., New York, the same county where Samantha's parents had also been living. This household includes one male 5-10 years (Emery); one male between 30-40 (Joel); one female under age 5 (Caroline); one female age 5 under 10 (Mary); one female 15 and under 20 (unknown); and one female 30 and under 40 (Samantha).

Joel's wife, Samantha, died on 31 Jan 1845 and according to her headstone at Erie Cemetery, she was aged thirty-eight years, eight months and eight days at the time of her death. Calculating her age at death, she would have been born on or about 23 May 1806.

Shortly after, on either the 21st or the 26th of August of the same year, Joel married Eliza C. Wilcox. This family was enumerated (along with three children from his first marriage) in the 1850 census residing in the East Ward of Erie, Erie Co., Pennsylvania where he was listed as a bookseller.

By 1860 he had removed to Bainbridge, Decatur Co., Georgia where he was listed as early as 1858 as a Baptist minister in the Bethel Association. His name appears in the Weekly Sumter Republican in November of 1872 as having solemnized a marriage, and in the Bainbridge Weekly Democrat in February of 1875 regarding a court case in which it is mentioned that he had owned Lot number 101 in Bainbridge and had resided therein January of 1868. He is also mentioned in other small miscellaneous entries; and in 1870 was residing in Lime Sink Pct. of Decatur County.

According to the 1898 Book of Biographies of Leading men of Chenango Co., New York, Joel was for many years a missionary in Georgia, where it was "hardly safe to speak your thoughts there during the Rebellion," and it was said that they threatened to hang him for expressing his opinion, and though his friends advised him to leave, he declined to do so. Realizing he "meant nothing worse to the cause than a timely warning, they molested him no further" and he lived among his southern friends until he was called to his reward.

He died in that place in his seventieth year, or about 1877. His widow, at some time thereafter, returned to Chautauqua Co., New York where her own family resided. She was listed in the 1892 state census living near her brother, Edson Wilcox. She died on 02 Jan 1897 in Arkwright, Chautauqua Co., New York and was laid to rest at Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredonia of that county.

Note: Joel's first wife was Samantha Wellman, or Willmon as it is spelled in other sources. Although not confirmed, Samantha is speculated to be the daughter of John Wellman of Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and his wife Phebe Tuttle who was last enumerated in the William Blanchard home in Harmony, New York. (See brief bio of John Wellman) Joel's 2nd wife, Eliza C. Wilcox, was the daughter of William Wilcox and Esther S. (Cole), her father having settled in Arkwright, Chautauqua Co., New York with his father, Aaron, in 1809 - and both parents buried in Laona Cemetery in the town of Pomfret, Chautauqua Co., NY. (See brief bio of William Wilcox)

1. Unknown male - born about 1829 and died before 1840. Not proven, but 1830 suggests the possibility.
2. Mary Maria Johnson - born 20 Aug 1832 in Unadilla, Otsego Co., New York; married Benjamin F. Frey; died 26 Feb 1913 in Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., New York.
3. Emery Johnson - born about 1835 in New York; married Blanche E. Morgan in 1860, and were residents of Bainbridge, Decatur Co., Georgia.
4. Caroline C. Johnson - born 24 Jul 1837 in New York; married Lucius M. Cole; died 08 Nov 1889 in Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., New York.

Daniel was counted in the census records for 1840-1880 residing in Guilford, Chenango, New York. He was a prominent dairyman and stock raiser in Guilford Township and had married Mary A. Hale in about 1856.

Mary was born on 30 Jul 1833 in New York and died on 13 Oct 1884. She was buried in West Bainbridge Cemetery, Chenango, NY.

1. Ellen M. Johnson - born 1857 in Guilford, Chenango, NY;ied 04 Jun 1915; buried in Ives Settlement Cemetery.
2. Alice J. Johnson - born 10 Oct 1859 in Guilford; she married Fred M. Conklin who was born about 1856 in Pennsylvania. Alice and Fred were living with her parents in 1880. She died two years later at the age of 22 years, 2 months and 7 days on 17 Jan 1882 and was buried at Ives Settlement Cemetery.
3. Charles H. Johnson - born about 1861 in Guilford, Chenango Co., NY.
4. Mary L. Johnson - born about 1867 in Chenango Co., NY.
5. Fannie May Johnson - born on 28 Oct 1873 in Guilford; she married Willis Jerome Hyer who was the son of Henry J. and Julia P. Hawley. He was born on 3 Nov 1868 in Unadilla, New York and died on 16 Mar 1942 in Upton, Chenango, NY. Both were buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Mt. Upton, Chenango Co., New York.

She married Frederic Minor in 1837, he having been born in New York in about 1824 and died about 1875 in Bainbridge. She was a member of the First Congregational church for seventy-eight years, and had for some time previous to her death been connected with the church the longest of its present members.

After she became widowed and began to lose her eyesight due to cataracts, she lived with and was cared for by her son Alanson Minor.

She and Frederic had two other daughters, one who married Amasa Hathaway, and another who was the wife of F.C. Pearsall. They were enumerated in the 1870 census residing in Bainbridge.

Matilda died on 24 Sep 1910 in Coventry. [Obituary]

She married George A. Horton who was born about 1830 in New York and they were enumerated in the 1870 census living in Coventry. According to the census and the 1869/1870 Business Directory, George was the pastor of the First Congregational Church.

1. Carrie Horton - born about 1860 in Chenango Co., NY.
2. George Horton - born about 1862 in Chenango Co., NY.
3. James Horton - born about 1864 in Chenango Co., NY.
4. Mary Horton - born about 1866 in Chenango Co., NY.

The young couple were residing in Mill Creek, Erie Co., Pennsylvania in the 1860 with their two small children, and Benjamin was working as a wagon maker. The family then removed to New York, and in 1870 and 1875 were residing in Promfet, Chautauqua Co., New York where Benjamin was still occupied in the trade of carriage maker. He continued in this trade and was enumerated in the 1880 census living in Fredonia - his household also including his married daughter Carrie's family. Benjamin died in Fredonia on 06 Jun 1886 and was laid to rest at Forest Hill Cemetery.

After Benjamin's death, Mary was once again listed in Pomfret in the 1892 census, apparently living alone, as she was in 1900 when she was enumerated as living on Spring Street in Pomfret Township. By 1910 she had left her home on Spring Street and was living with her daughter Carrie and family in Dunkirk on Park Avenue. She passed away on 26 Feb 1913 in Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., New York and was laid to rest at Forest Hill Cemetery.

1. William Frey - born about 1856 in Pennsylvania.
2. Caroline Blanche "Carrie" Frey - born 24 Aug 1859 in Erie Co., Pennsylvania; married George W. Aular, Jr. and died on 09 Jun 1938 in Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., New York. They were the parents of the following children who were all probably born in Chautauqua Co., NY: Harry F., born 02 Sep 1879 in Fredonia and died 30 Jul 1880; Percy, born about 1886; Benjamin born 11 Apr 1888 in Dunkirk, and died there on 29 Sep 1888; Leila M. born 04 Sep 1890 in Dunkirk, married William G. Whitbeck (1864-1930) and died in Dunkirk on 06 Jul 1951; and James W. born about 1881, and married Augusta Burns on 10 Nov 1909.

This same year, on the 23rd day of February, he had been united in marriage to Blanche E. Morgan in Troup Co., Georgia. They were enumerated in the 1870 and 1880 census records for Bainbridge.

Nothing further has been found after 1880 for Emery or Blanche.

1. Frances Mae Johnson - born 01 Jan 1862 in Georgia. She never married. In 1910 she was residing with her sister Inez in Clyde, Haywood Co., NC, and in 1920 with her niece, Phyllis in Asheville, Buncombe Co., North Carolina. According to her death certificate, she died in Asheville on 22 Sep 1924, and was buried in Bainbridge, Decatur Co., Georgia.
2. Inez M. Johnson - born 25 Jun 1866 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co., Georgia; married William Harston Woodall on 23 Jul 1888. William was born in Somerville, Tennessee on 10 Mar 1858 and was ordained in 1894, then preaching in Bainbridge for one year and in Hindsdale Twp., Cheshire Co., NH where he preached from December of 1898 until August of 1900 - and were included in the 1900 census for Hinsdale. Thereafter they were in Mars Hill, North Carolina until 1903, then enumerated in 1910 residing in Clyde, Haywood Co., North Carolina, in 1920 in Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC; and in 1930 in Queens, New York. Inez passed away on 04 Mar 1940 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York and according to her obituary she was a missionary teacher in the North Carolina mountains for twenty years and a teacher of Bible Classes for 57 years.

In 1870 and 1875 and 1880 Caroline and Lucius were enumerated in the federal census records in their own household in Arkwright, Chautauqua Co., New York.

According to his obituary, Lucius M. Cole was a life-long resident of the county, and died at his home on Water Street in Fredonia on 20 Dec 1921. He was preceded in death by Caroline who died 08 Nov 1889 in Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., New York. They were both laid to rest at Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredonia.

1. Elton A. Cole - born about 1868 in Chautauqua Co., New York
2. Henrietta J. Cole - born June 1869 in Chautauqua Co., New York
3. Herbert Cole - born about 1878 in Chautauqua Co., New York.

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4. Book of biographies: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Chenango County, New York, Buffalo, N.Y., microfilmed at Provo, UT, BYU; FHL film #825748
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