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This Johnson family appears to have been of English origin, descending from a Daniel Johnson who was said to have been a sailor who lived at Long Island, NY and was the father of Daniel who left New York and went to Connecticut where he was a weaver

CHILDREN OF DANIEL JOHNSON

  1. Daniel Johnson - born about 1759 or 1760; he died about 1840.
  2. Joel Johnson - born about 1768; died on 7 Oct 1806.
 

Generation II

Daniel Johnson (1759) - (1840)

Daniel was born about 1759/1760 in Connecticut, and was a Revolutionary War soldier. He had enlisted and served for a short period, and then re-enlisted again, serving throughout all six campaigns. As a young boy he was bound out and at the expiration of his indenture, he received a yoke of three year old oxens, and his wife, Mary (Norton) who had also been bound out in childhood, received beds and bedding.

In 1799, Daniel visited his brother Joel in the wilds of New York in what later became known as Guilford, and having foresight for the great posibilities 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 where he lived on his farm for forty years until his death - dying at the age of eighty in about 1840. (Speculated he may have been buried at Ives Settlement)

CHILDREN OF
DANIEL JOHNSON & MARY (NORTON)

  1. Hiram - was born in Connecticut in about 1786, he came with his parents at the age of fourteen to Guilford and engaged in farming. He married Charlotte ATWATER, who was born about 1786 in CT. They were enumerated in the 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 census for Guilford, Chenango Co., NY. Hiram died in about 1846 in Guilford, living to be nearly ninety years old.

  2. Samantha - may have been born in Southington, Connecticut on 15 July 1791. She married Ethan PIER who was born in Massachusetts and was the son of Thomas and Margaret Lucy (North). He and Samatha moved to Pennsylvania where she lived the remainder of her life, dying in her forties. Afterwards, Ethan went to Michigan where he lived with his son Solomon and where the two men were buried in St. Joseph County.

  3. Alpheus - born about 1797, he was also a farmer in Guilford and married Ann Pomona DICKINSON, daughter of Daniel Thomas & Mary (Caulkins). Alpheus kept a meat market in Guilford Village many years where he was was counted in a census in 1840. He died 24 Nov 1841.

  4. Seth - born in Guilford 04 Oct 1802

  5. Mary - born about 1805 and married Ithuel BLAKE who was a farmer of Coventry, Chenango County, New York.

  6. Joel - who became a Baptist minister and lived for many years in Georgia where he was a missionary who lived to the age of seventy.

  7. Louisa - born about 1826 and married Lyman BRADLEY who was a shoemaker in Guilford. After his death, Louisa lived with her nephew Daniel, son of Seth and Jerusha.

 

Joel Johnson (1768) - (1806)

Joe, the son of Daniel, had been living in Connecticut before 1800 and went early to settle in the area which later became Guilford in Chenango County, New York. He and his wife 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.
CHILDREN OF
JOEL & MARY JOHNSON

  1. Lovisa Johnson - who married Abial Bush and was the mother of Abial who married Sally and had at least Maria, Loman, and Louisa.

  2. Lucy - 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.
 
Generation III
 

Seth Johnson (1802-1865)

Daniel and Mary's son Seth Johnson 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 West Bainbridge Cemetery - inscription reading, "In Heaven We Meet."
CHILDREN OF
SETH M. JOHNSON & JERUSHA (ROOT)

  1. Hirma Titus Johnson - born in May of 1829 and died in Oregon City, Clackamas Co., Oregon on 23 Dec 1852. He was buried in West Bainbridge 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. He taught district school for four terms but went back to farming on the homestead with his father. He married Mary Hale (1833-1884).

  4. Charles Johnson - born about 1835, became a shoe merchant in Pueblo, New Mexico.

  5. Ellen A. Johnson - born in Guilford in about 1837; died 17 Jul 1853 and was buried at West Bainbridge Cemetery.

  6. Robert L. Johnson - born about 1839, 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 West Bainbridge Cemetery.

  7. Mary A. Johnson - born about 1842, she was enumerated in the 1850/1860 census for Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.

  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-Blake (1805) - Before 1870

Daughter of Daniel and Mary (Norton), she married Ithuel Blake who was born about 1790 in Connecticut and died in March of 1870 in Coventry, Chenango Co., NY.

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.
CHILDREN OF
MARY JOHNSON & ITHUEL BLAKE

  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.

  6. Chester P. Blake - born about 1836 in New York.

 
Louisa Johnson-Bradley (1826) - After 1880

Daughter of Daniel and Mary (Norton), she was born about 1826 in New York. She married Lyman Bradley who was born about 1796 in New York and died before 1880.

She and Lyman were enumerated in the 1850, 1860, and 1870 census records living in Guilford, Chenango, New York. After her husband's death, 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.
CHILDREN OF
LOUISA JOHNSON & LYMAN BRADLEY

  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.
 
Generation IV
 
Daniel Johnson 1833-1915

Son of Seth M. and Jerusha (Root), he was born on 21 Apr 1833 in Bainbridge, Chenango, New York. He died in 1915 and was buried in West Bainbridge Cemetery.

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.

CHILDREN OF
DANIEL JOHNSON & MARY (HALE)

  1. Ellen M. Johnson - born about 1857 in Guilford, Chenango, NY.

  2. Alice J. Johnson - born about 1860 in Guilford; she married Fred M. Conklin who was born about 1856 in Pennsylvania. Alice and Fred were living with her parents in 1880

  3. Charles H. Johnson - born about 1861 in Guilford, Chenango Co., NY.

  4. Mary L. Johnson - born about 1867 in Chenango Co., NY.

  5. F. 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.
 
Matilda Blake-Minor

Daughter of Mary Johnson & Ithuel Blake, she was born in Connecticut on 12 Feb 1815 and at the age of three years old, she and her parents moved to Chenango County, New York where they resided on a farm one mile south of the village of Coventry, where they had a log house.

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]
Wealthy Ann Blake-Horton

Daughter of Mary Johnson and Ithuel Blake, Wealthy was born about 1830 in New York. She was listed as "W. Ann" in 1850 - age 20; and as Wealthy age 30 in 1860 living in her parents' household.

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.
CHILDREN OF
WEALTHY ANN BLAKE & GEORGE HORTON

  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.
 
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