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SOURCE: Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey : a book of the 
achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation
New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910, 1962 pgs.

page 222
JOHNSON
The name of Johnson has been familiar throughout South jersey form its first settlement
by Europeans, but in various forms, tha tof the family here under consideration being
the ancient English and Scotch form, as differing from the Continental equivalents--
Johanson, Jansen, etc.  The Swedish family of Johanson located on the eastern shore of
the Delaware, now Penn's Neck in 1640, and their name was soon changed to Johnson. The
first English emigrant Johnson was Richard, who with his cousin Thomas came and located
in Fenwick's Tenth, a few months before the proprietor.

(I) John Johnson, who was not in any way connected, so far as now known, with those
above mentioned, is the founder of the family here considered. He emigrated to this 
country about 1756, from Ireland, being of the study Scotch-Irish race which figured so
numerously and usefully in peopling the New World.  He had considerable means at his
disposal, and located a large tract of land in the township of Pilesgrove, now 
Pittsgrove, and settled there. He died March 31, 1802, aged seventy-one years. His wife
who came over with him as a bride, was Jane Suayberry, who survived him, and died
June 28, 1825, at the age of ninety-two years and eight months.  Children of John and
Jane (Suayberry) Johnson: 1. James, born October 31, 1757, died February 9, 1837; 
married Feruary 28, 1781, Chrstiana Swing; sixteen children.  2. John, referred to 
below.  3. Rebeccah, married (first) Benjamin Harding, (second) Hugh Maguire. 4. Samuel,
married (first) Nancy McClung, (second) Sarah Martin. 5. Phebe, married John Stewart,
and went to Delaware. 6. William, married Elizabeth Maguire, and removed to New York
state. 7. Mary, married Samuel Elwell, and went to Indiana. 8. Isaac, born July 21,
1772, died January 5, 1852; married June 24, 1795, Mary Elwell; twelve children.

(II) John(2), second son of John (I) and Jane (Suayberry) Johnson, was born October 1,
1749. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius Dubois in 1783; children:
1. Cornelius, born June 12, 1784; married ELizabeth Vick.  2. John, referred to below.
3. Jane, born March 13, 1790; married Robert Dubois.  4. Ann, May 5, 1792, died
unmarried. 5. David, May 8, 1795; married Hannah, daughter of David Dickinson.
6. Benjamin, April 14, 1799; married Maria, daughter of William Mayhew. 7. Robert,
April 28, 1801, died unmarried.  8. Elizabeth, April 2, 1807; married Enoch, son of
David Mayhew. 9 to 12. Died in infancy.

(III) John(3), son of John(2) and Elizabeth (Dubois) Johnson, was born April 7, 1788
in Johnson Field, Gloucester, now Atlantic County, New Jersey. He married (first)
Abigail, daughter of Asa Stricklon; (second) Rebecca Bell, widow of William Adams.
Children, all by first wife: 1. Elijah, married Achsah Bell.  2. James, married Hannah
Bell.  3. Mark, married Mary Ann Somers.  4. William, married Betsy Kendall.  
5. Charlotte, married John Adams.  6. Sarah, married Felix Adams.  7. Enoch, referred
to below.  It is a curious fact well worth noting that the two oldest sons of John
Johnson each married a sister of his second wife, while his three youngest children
each married a child of his second wife by her first husband.

(IV) Enoch, youngest son of JOhn (3) and Abigail (Stricklon) Johnson, was born at
Pomona, Atlantic county, New Jersey in 1816, and died January 15, 1889. He married
Michal, daughter of William and Rebecca (Bell) Adams, who became later, by his father's
second marriage, his stepsister also. Children: 1. Andrew, died in Missouri, October
1905, leaving a widow Rachael.  2. Josephine, married (first) Maurice Souders, (second)
Samuel Endicott, the latter a descendant of Governor Endicott, of Massachusetts Bay
colony. 3. Eliza, unmarried.  4. Caroline, died unmarried.  5. Sabrina, married Joel
Higbee.  6. Ella, unmarried.  7. Joseph, married Sarah Tilton. 8 and 9. Names unknown.
10. Smith Endicott, referred to below. 11. Somers, died aged six years.

(V) Smith Endicott, tenth child of Enoch and Michal (Adams) Johnson, was born October 
14, 1853, and is now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. After receiving his early 
education at Smithville and Leeds Point he went to sea, but after several years in
this experience he engaged in farming, in which he continued until 1887. A man of
excellent abilities he has been frequently called to important official position. In
1891 he was a member of the New Jersey legislature, and during his term of office 
served on the committees on elections, and on law.  This service in the legislature
was during the interval between two of his terms as sheriff, the New Jersey law
specifying that no sheriff can succeed himself.  In consequence, while Mr. Johnson,
who was elected sheriff of Atlantic County in 1887, has not had a continuous service
in the office until to-day, he has been elected regularly at every other election
his last term expiring in 1908, when his son was elected to succeed him. It is almost
unnecessary to say that he is regarded as one of the most efficient sheriffs that the
county has ever had.  Mr. Johnson married Virginia (Sooy) Higbee, daughter of 
Joab and Mary (Sooy) Higbee, granddaughter of Eli Higbee. On both sides of her house,
Mrs. Johnson comes from famlies which have always been prominent in the history of
South jersey, and she is a member of the Lafayette Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. Chldren of Smith Endicott and Virginia Sooy (Higbee) Johnson: 
1. Alfred Higbee, born March 17, 1878; married Martha S. Armour, of Westchester county,
Pennsylvania.  2. Enoch Lewis, referred to below.

(VI) Enoch Lewis, younger son of Smith Endicott and Virginia Sooy (Higbee) Johnson, was
born at Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey, January 20, 1883, and is now living at
Mays Landing. For his early education he attended the public schools of Mays Landing and
Atlantic City, and after graduating form the high school read law in the office of
George A. Bourgeois, of Atlantic City. After this he became a clerk in the office of
the sheriff of Atlantic county during one of his father's terms. He then became one
of the under-sheriffs of the county, and in November 1908, was elected to succeed his
father as sheriff. No greater proof could be given than this election of the high
estimation in which Mr. Johnson is held by those who know him. At the time of his
election he was only twenty-five years old, and therefore not only the youngest
sheriff in the state, but, so far as is known, the youngest man ever elected to that
honorable office.  Mr. Johnson's majority was far ahead of his ticket, and persons of
all classes and shades of politics speak in the highest manner of his honesty and
efficiency.  In politics Sheriff Johnson is a Republican. He is assistant secretary
of the Republican executive committee of Atlantic City, and a member of the Republican
organization of the Second Ward of the same place. He is the secretary and treasurer
of the Atlantic Real Estate and Investment Company. He is an ardent and enthusiastic
secret society man. He is a member of Belcher Lodge, No. 180, F. and A.M. of Atlantic
City; of Trinity Chapter, No. 38, R.A.M.; of the order of Elks, No. 276, of Atlantic
City; and Fraternal Mystic Circle, of Atlantic City. In religious affiliation he is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 12, 1906 Mr. Johnson married
Mabel Smith, born September 14, 1883, daughter of Lewis E. Jeffers, of Mays Landing,
New Jersey.