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William Johnson +

1Hon. Edward Francis Johnson, Captain Edward Johnson, of Woburn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR Vol. 59, p. 82 (Jan 1905).
"4. WILLIAM2 JOHNSON, (Capt. Edward1), baptized Mar. 22, 1628-9, in Canterbury, England, married, May 16, 1655, Esther, or Hester, daughter of Elder Thomas Wiswall of Dorchester and Newton. She died Dec. 27, 1707.
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He died May 22, 1704, in Woburn. His will, dated May 10, 1695, probated Sept. 11, 1704, names wife Esther; sons, William, Edward, Ebenezer, Benjamin, Josiah, and Joseph; daughters, Esther Wyman, and Susanna and Abigail Johnson; his son William's wife, and her father Gardner; grandchildren, William, eldest son of his son William: Benjamin and Noah, sons of his son William; Edward, son of his son Edward; the twins of his son Ebenezer; his daughter Esther Wyman's four daughters and her son Seth Wyman; Esther, Mary, and Hannah, daughters of his son William; his son Ebenezer's two daughters; his son Edward's three daughters, and his son Edward's second son.
Children, born in Woburn:
7. i. WILLIAM,3 b. Feb. 26, 1656.
8. ii. EDWARD, b. Mar. 19, 1658.
9. iii. EBENEZER, b. Mar. 29, 1660.
iv. ESTHER, b. Apr. 13, 1662; m. Dec. 17, 1685, Lieut. Seth Wyman; d. Mar. 31, 1742.
v. JOSEPH, b. June 14, 1664.
10. vi. BENJAMIN, b. Oct. 15, 1666.
11. vii. JOSIAH, b. Jan.15, 1669.
viii. SUSANNA, b. June 29, 1671; m. June 6, 1704, Daniel Reed, as his second wife.
ix. ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 4, 1674; m. June 14, 1705, Samuel Pierce.".


Captain Edward Johnson +

1William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 2, pp. 1308-1309 (1910).
"JOHNSON Captain Edward Johnson, immigrant ancestor, was born in Canterbury, county Kent, England, and baptized there September 16 or 17, 1599. He was son of William and Susan Johnson, grandson of John Johnson, and great-grandson of William and Elizabeth Johnson. Captain Edward Johnson came to Charlestown with the first immigrants, but soon returned to England, and about 1635 or 1637 brought his wife, seven children and three servants to New England. He was a man of influence in the colony and resided in Woburn, where he held many important offices. At the first meeting of the commissioners for the settlement of the new town, he presented a plan of the territory to be included within the limits, and was appointed the first recorder or town clerk. He was active in founding the first church, and commanded the first military company in Woburn. He was the author of some unique lines at the beginning of the first volume of the Woburn town records, and also of "Wonderworking Providences of Sion's Savior in New England," first printed in London in 1663. He was famous as a surveyor and early explorer. He was appointed in 1665 by the general court to make a map of the colony, in conjunction with William Stevens. In 1672, after his death, the general court passed an order regarding the Chronical of the early history of the colony, which reads as follows: "The court considering how manynyears the providences of God hath mercifully appeared in behalf of his people in these parts, since their coming into this wilderness, and us of the colony inparticular, do judge it our duty to endeavor that a register of Chronicle may be made of the several passages of God's providences, protecting of and saving from many eminent dangers, as well in transportation, as in our abode here making provision beyond what could, in reason, have been expected, and preventing our fears many a time; so that our posterity and the generation that shall survive, taking view of the kindness of God to their fathers, it may remain as an obligation upon them to serve the Lord their God with all their hearts and souls." The court, therefore, appointed a committee " to make diligent inquiry in several parts of the jurisdiction concerning anything of moment that has passed, and in particular of what has been collected by Mr. John Winthrop Sen., Mr. Thomas Dudley, Mr. John Wilson Sen., Captain Edward Johnson or any other; that so, matter being prepared, some meet person may be appointed by this court to put the same into form; that so, after perusal of the same, it may be put to press." No fuller account of the origin and settlement of a town of equal age in New England has been given than that by Captain Johnson in his "Wonderworking Providence." He died in Woburn, April 23, 1672. His will was dated May 15, 1671, and the inventory, returned May 11, 1673, gives the account of the estate as seven hundred and five pounds, five shillings and six pence. Of this account about half was for property in England. He married Susan of Susanna Munther, who died March 7, 1689-90. Her will was dated December 14, 1689, and proved March 2, 1690-91. Her son John, with whom she dwelt after her husband died, was the sole beneficiary. Children and dates of baptism: 1. Edward, November 7, 1619, married, February 10, 1649-50, Katherine Baker. 2. George, April 3, 1625, married Katherine -------. 3. Susan, April 1, 1627, married James Prentice. 4. William, March 11, 1628-29. 5. Martha, May 1, 1631, married March 18, 1649-50, John Ames. 6. Matthew, March 30, 1633, married (first) November 12, 1656, Hannah Palfrey; (second) October 23, 1662, Rebecca Wiswall. John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of Captain Edward Johnson, was baptized May 10, 1635, in Canterbury, England, and died in Canterbury, Connecticut, about 1720, where he and his sons settled.
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He married April 28, 1657, Bethiah, who died in Canterbury, Connecticut, December 2, 1717, daughter of Captain William and Mabel Reed.".