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ancestry of Daniel Johnson begins with Edward
Johnson who first appears in Branford around
1689, the year of his mariage to Esther Wheadon
who was bron in New Haven on 26 Jan 1667/68, and
was the daughter of Thomas and Anne (Harvey). 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.
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CHILDREN OF
EDWARD JOHNSON & ESTHER (WHEADON) |
- Elizabeth Johnson
- born 06 Dec 1690; married Joseph
Morris as his 2nd wife, he being born
in Branford, New Haven Co.,
Connecticut in 1688.
- Amos Johnson -
born 30 Jan 1692/93; died unmarried
in 1760.
- Experience Johnson
- born 20 May 1695; married Robert
Sloper on 09 Jan 1717/18.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ebenezer Johnson -
born 08 Mar 1702/03; married Anne
Barker on 01 Jan 1728/29.
- 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.
- 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.
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| EDWARD JOHNSON - son of Edward and Esther
(Wheadon), was born in Branford on 12 Jun 1697.
At about age twenty-four he married Deborah
Baldwin in Branford on 21 Feb 1722/23, she being
the daughter of George and Deborah (Rose). She
was born in Branford on 27 Dec 1699 and was the
mother of four children, dying ten days after the
birth of the last child on 24 Nov 1730. Edward
married (2) Miss Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of
Isaac and Anna (Rogers) on 09 Nov 1732 and
together they had nine children. 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.
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CHILDREN
OF
EDWARD JOHNSON & DEBORAH (BALDWIN) |
- 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.
- 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.
- Daniel
Johnson - born 14 Mar
1727/28 in Branford, New Haven Co.,
Connecticut; married Bathsheba
(Pond).
- Deborah
Johnson - born 14 Nov 1730 and died
young.
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CHILDREN
OF
EDWARD JOHNSON & ELIZABETH (BARNES) |
- Elizabeth
Johnson - born 28 Jul 1733; married
Abel Butler in Branford on 01 Mar
1753.
- Edward
Johnson - born 30 Mar 1735; married
Abigail Stoddard in Litchfield, CT on
13 Nov 1760.
- 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.
- Amos
Johnson - born 18 Jul 1739; married
Jemima Chamberlain and died in
captivity in New York on 21 Dec 1776.
- Zachariah
Johnson - born 12 Sep 1741; married
Sarah Peck on 25 Jul 1765 in
Litcfield, CT.
- Anna
Johnson - born 17 Oct 1743; married
Joseph Farnum.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jonathan
Johnson - born about 1750/51; married
Jane Gibbs in Litchfield on 12 Jan
1775, she having been born 06 Jan
1753.
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| DANIEL JOHNSON - youngest son of Edward
and Deborah (Baldwin), was born in Branford 14
Mar 1727/28. He married Bathsheba (Pond), the
daughter of Moses and Mary (Brainerd) and
granddaughter of Samuel who was one of the
signers in 1667 of the New Plantation and Church
Covenant of Branford. Her grandmother, and
Samuel's wife was Miriam Blakeley whom he married
in 1669. Bathsheba was born in Branford on 02 Jan
1724/25 and married Daniel there on 17 Oct 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.
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CHILDREN
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DANIEL JOHNSON & BATHSHEBA (POND) |
- Jerusha
Johnson - born in Branford on 26 Oct
1754; married Cyrus Norton in
Wolcott, New Haven Co., CT on 04 Jan
1775.
- Deborah
Johnson - born in Branford on 05 May
1757; married Jabez Harrison on 15
Oct 1772.
- Daniel
Johnson - born in
Farmington, Hartford Co., CT on 02
Feb 1760; married Mary Norton; and
(2) Mary Jane (Young); died in 1840.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
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CHILDREN
OF
DANIEL JOHNSON & MARY (NORTON) |
- 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.
- Alpheus
Johnson - born in Connecticut 13 Nov
1788; died 24 Jul 1789.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alpheus Johnson - born 11 Jul
1797; married Ann Pomona (Dickinson)
in 1819; died 24 Nov 1841 in
Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.
- Adah
Johnson - born 12 Dec 1799 in
Guilford; died 21 Sep 1806.
- Seth Johnson - born in
Guilford 04 Oct 1802; married Jerusha
Root; died in Guilford in 1865.
- Mary Johnson - born 10 Dec
1804; married Ithuel Blake in 1841;
died in 1867.
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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.
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CHILDREN
OF
JOEL JOHNSON & MARY (MOSS) |
- 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.
- 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."
- Lovisa
Johnson - born in 1805 and married
Abial or Abiel Bush. She was the
mother of Maria, Loman, and Louisa.
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| SAMANTHA JOHNSON - born 15 Sep 1791
possibly in Southington, Connecticut. She married
Ethan Allen Pier in Oxford, Chenango Co., New
York on 17 Nov 1811 who was the son of Solomon of
Berkshire Co., Massachusetts and Mabel (Stevens)
of Killingworth, Connecticut. He and Samatha
moved to Steuben Co., New York where she died of
consumption on 22 Feb 1830 at the age of
thrity-eight years, seven months and seven days.
The following year Ethan moved to Ontario Co.,
New York and in 1838 to St. Joseph Co., Michigan
with some of the children. Born 26 Apr 1789 in
Chenango Co., New York, he died at the age of
eighty-seven years, four months and twenty-three
days in St. Joseph Co., Michigan on 18 Sep 1876.
He was buried at Factoryville Cemetery also known
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CHILDREN
OF
SAMANTHA (JOHNSON) & ETHAN ALLEN PIER |
- Daniel J.
Pier - born Mar 1813 in Chenango Co.,
New York; died Sep 1887.
- 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.
- Nancy
Pier - born 1816; died 15 Aug 1828 in
Erwin, Steuben Co., NY.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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| LOUISA JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel and
Mary (Norton), was born 12 Apr 1795 in North
Haven, New Haven Co., CT. She married Lyman
Bradley who was born about 1797 in New York. 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.
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CHILDREN
OF
LOUISA (JOHNSON) & LYMAN BRADLEY |
- 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.
- Jessie S.
Bradley - born about 1856 in
Connecticut; she was counted in the
1860/1870 Guilford, Chenango, New
York census records.
- Jennie
Bradley - born about 1856 in
Connecticut; she was counted in the
1860/1870 Guilford, Chenango, New
York census records.
- Flora
Bradley - born about 1860 in
Guilford, Chenango, New York and
enumerated in the census of that
year.
- Lottie
Bradely - born about 1867 in
Guilford; counted in the 1870 census
for Guilford, Chenango Co., New York.
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| ALPHEUS JOHNSON - son of Daniel and Mary
(Norton), was born 11 Jul 1797 and was a farmer
in Guilford. He married Ann Pomona (Dickinson),
daughter of Daniel Thomas & Mary (Caulkins)
on 18 Oct 1819, she having been born in Goshen,
Litchfield Co., CT on 25 Jun 1798. 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 and was buried in Guilford Center
Cemetery. His widow died 05 May 1887 in Afton,
Chenango Co., NY and was buried same. |
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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."
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CHILDREN
OF
SETH JOHNSON & JERUSHA (ROOT) |
- 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."
- Frances
Lucia Johhnson - born about 1831;
married Thomas Fleming who was a
farmer of Schuyler County, New York.
- 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.
- Charles
Johnson - born about 1835, became a
shoe merchant in Pueblo, New Mexico.
- Ellen A.
Johnson - born in Guilford 30 Aug
1837; died 17 Jul 1853 and was buried
at Ives Settlement Cemetery.
- 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.
- 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."
- Esther
Johnson - born about 1844 and married
A.O. Shepherd of Brooklyn, NY.
- Sarah
Johnson - born 19 Nov 1847 in
Guilford; wife of John H. Bower of
Chicago, Illinois.
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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.
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CHILDREN
OF
ITHUEL BLAKE & 1ST Wife,
WEALTHY (BENEDICT) |
- Matilda Blake - born on 12
Feb 1815; died on 24 Sep 1910.
- Alanson
Blake - born about 1820; he later
lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
- Permelia
E. Blake - born about 1823 in New
York
- 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.
- Wealthy Ann
Blake - born about 1830;
married George Horton.
- Chester
P. Blake - born about 1836 in New
York.
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| DANIEL JOHNSON - 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 Ives Settlement
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.
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CHILDREN
OF
DANIEL JOHNSON & MARY (HALE) |
- Ellen M.
Johnson - born 1857 in Guilford,
Chenango, NY;ied 04 Jun 1915; buried
in Ives Settlement Cemetery.
- 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.
- Charles
H. Johnson - born about 1861 in
Guilford, Chenango Co., NY.
- Mary L.
Johnson - born about 1867 in Chenango
Co., NY.
- 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.
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| MATILDA BLAKE -
daughter of Ithuel Blake and his first wife
Wealthy (Benedict), 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]
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| WEALTHY ANN BLAKE - daughter of Mary
Johnson's husband Ithuel Blake and his first wife
Wealthy (Benedict), she 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 (Ithuel & Mary - her mother died in
1839) 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.
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CHILDREN
OF
WEALTHY ANN BLAKE & GEORGE HORTON |
- Carrie
Horton - born about 1860 in Chenango
Co., NY.
- George
Horton - born about 1862 in Chenango
Co., NY.
- James
Horton - born about 1864 in Chenango
Co., NY.
- Mary
Horton - born about 1866 in Chenango
Co., NY.
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Gertrude, Marriages taken from the
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Edmund James, The genealogy of the
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William Richard, New England
Families, Genealogical and Memorial: a
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...Volume 1, Lewis Historical
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Donald Lines, compiler, Families of
Ancient New Haven, CT, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974 Vol. 6,
p.1456
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Donald Lines, compiler, Families of
Ancient New Haven, CT, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974 Vol. 8,
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Deaths and Burials 1800-1995 - Online at
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Minot, Comstock-Thomas ancestry of
Richard Wilmot Comstock, Bronxville,
NY, 1964, p. 150-153
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War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant
Application Files, The National
Archives; ARC Identifier 300022 / MLR
Number A1 2A
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H., History of Chenango and Madison
Counties, New York : with illustrations
and biographical sketches ...,
Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1880,
p. 229-230
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Nelson B., Revolutionary War Veterans
of Chenango Co., New York, 1998,
Vol. III, p. 596-598
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