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Family of Isaac + JOHNSON and Elizabeth + PORTER

Husband: Isaac + JOHNSON (1616-1675)
Wife: Elizabeth + PORTER (1617-1683)
Children: William JOHNSON (1635- )
Elizabeth JOHNSON (1637- )
John JOHNSON (1639- )
Mary JOHNSON (1642- )
Isaac JOHNSON (1644- )
Joseph JOHNSON (1645- )
Mehitable JOHNSON (1646- )
Nathaniel + JOHNSON (1647-1698)
Nehimah JOHNSON (1647- )
Andrew JOHNSON (1651- )
Abigail JOHNSON (1653- )
Benjamin JOHNSON (1655- )
Marriage 20 Jan 16351,2,3

Husband: Isaac + JOHNSON

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Isaac + JOHNSON

Name: Isaac + JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Father: John + JOHNSON (1590-1659)
Mother: Mary + HEATH (1594-1629)
Birth 11 Feb 1616 Great Amwell, Hertford, England
Death 19 Dec 1675 (age 59) Wickford, Washington, RI, US
Cause: killed in battle at the Great Swamp Fight in King Philip's War

Wife: Elizabeth + PORTER

Name: Elizabeth + PORTER
Sex: Female
Father: Adrian + PORTER (1585-1624)
Mother: Elizabeth + ALLOTT (1583- )
Birth 23 Dec 1617 Ware, Herfordshire, England
Death 13 Aug 1683 (age 65) Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, US4

Child 1: William JOHNSON

Name: William JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1635

Child 2: Elizabeth JOHNSON

Name: Elizabeth JOHNSON
Sex: Female
Birth 1637

Child 3: John JOHNSON

Name: John JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1639

Child 4: Mary JOHNSON

Name: Mary JOHNSON
Sex: Female
Birth 1642

Child 5: Isaac JOHNSON

Name: Isaac JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1644

Child 6: Joseph JOHNSON

Name: Joseph JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1645

Child 7: Mehitable JOHNSON

Name: Mehitable JOHNSON
Sex: Female
Birth 1646

Child 8: Nathaniel + JOHNSON

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Nathaniel + JOHNSON

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Spouse: Mary + SMITH

Name: Nathaniel + JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary + SMITH (1643-1732)
Birth 1 May 1647 Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, US
Census 1686 (age 38-39) Woodstock, Windham, CT, US5
Death 14 Feb 1698 (age 50) Woodstock, Windham, CT, US6
Burial Woodstock Hill Cemetary6
Woodstock, Windham, CT, US

Child 9: Nehimah JOHNSON

Name: Nehimah JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1647

Child 10: Andrew JOHNSON

Name: Andrew JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1651

Child 11: Abigail JOHNSON

Name: Abigail JOHNSON
Sex: Female
Birth 1653

Child 12: Benjamin JOHNSON

Name: Benjamin JOHNSON
Sex: Male
Birth 1655

Note on Husband: Isaac + JOHNSON

Son of Captain John Johnson (circa 1590 - 30 September 1659) and Mary (Heath) Johnson who arrived in Massachusetts as part of Governor Winthrop's fleet on 22 June 1630.

 

Brother of Humphrey, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah Johnson.

 

Husband of Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson, married 20 January 1636/1637 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.

 

Father of Elizabeth, John, Isaac Jr., Nathaniel, and Mary Johnson.

 

Grandfather and great-grandfather.

 

Johnson was appointed captain of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in 1667, and during King Philip's War (1675-1676) he led the Roxbury Company in the Narrangansett Expedition. He was killed in action at the head of his company at the battle known as the "Great Swamp Fight."

 

Requiescat in pace.

Family links:

Parents:

John Johnson (1588 - 1659)

Mary Heath Johnson (1594 - 1629)

Children:

Nathaniel Johnson (1670 - 1726)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:

"Here

were buried

in one grave

forty men

who died in the Swamp Fight

or on the return march

to Richard Smith's block house

December 1675."

Note: Mass burial site. Added to database by a 10th great-grandson.

Burial:

Smiths Castle Mass Gravesite

Wickford

Washington County

Rhode Island, USA

 

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This man is renowned as one of the great military heroes of early Massachusetts, and specifically of King Philip's War.

 

In New England histories he is consistently referred to as "the brave" Captain Isaac Johnson. He died along with five other captains at the Narragansett Fort, fighting on despite hopeless odds.

 

Made Freeman Of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Made Captain Of The Ancient And Honorable Artillery Company, one Of six Captains Killed By Indians taking Narragansett Fort Near 4 Corners, Sakonnet River, Ft. Narraganset, Rhode Island.Came from England with his father; made freeman march 4, 1634/5, Captain of the Roxbury militia to 1653, General Court 1671, Lieutenant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1666, Captain 1667, Killed in the Great Swamp Fight of King Philip's War, 19 December 1675, while leading a charge against the main gate of the Indian village across a bridge made of tree trunks.Ref: Book, New England Historic Genealogical Society,Boston, MA, Robert Charles Anderson, New England HistoricGenealogical Society, Boston, MA

 

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Capt. Isaac Johnson

Male, #439, (11 February 1615/16 - 19 December 1675)

Capt. Isaac Johnson was christened on 11 February 1615/16 in St. John the Baptist Church, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England.2,3,5,6 He was the son of Capt. John Johnson and Mary Heath.1,2,3,4,5,6 Capt. Isaac Johnson became a freeman on 4 March 1635 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.4,6 On 20 January 1636/37 Isaac, at age 20, married Elizabeth Porter, at age 25, daughter of Adrian Porter and Elizabeth Allott, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.1,2,3,4,5,6 In 1645, he was a member of the Artillery Company.4,6 On 13 June 1653, he was elected Captain.4,6 Capt. Isaac Johnson served in 1671 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court.4 He left a will on 8 March 1673 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, The Last Will and testament of Captain Isaac Johnson of Roxbury this 8 of March 1673 I haveing my perfect memory and understanding first I committ my Soule to God in Jesus Christ, Secondly I committ my body to my beloved wife and children to be decently buried. Thirdly I doe dispose of my worldy goods as followeth -- my debts and funerall charges being discharged my will is that Elizabeth my beloved wife Shall have all my moveable goods except my apparrell at her owne dispose and the houseing and Land during the time of her Naturall life and after her decease my will is the houseing and Land bee divided betweene my fower children my son Isaac or his heires to have double portion and Soe the portion of the rest to goe to theire heires that is in case my immediate Children any of them be dead before they come to Injoy there portion.Also my will is that my Beloved wife bee Sole Executrix of this my last will and I request my Brother Edward Porter and Cozen John Weld to bee Overseers of this my Last will, my will is that all my weareing apparell be divided betweene my sonne Isaac and my sonne Nathaniell my sonne Isaac to have two shares or a double portion of my sd apparrell. Witness my hand this 28th of June One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy five. Isaac Johnson SeniorMr. Jno. Weld and Sammuell Craft appeared before Symon Bradstreet Sammuell Danforth and Edw. Tyng Esqrs. this 10th of febr. 1676 made oath that being will acquainted with the alte Captain Isaac Johnson and his hand writing that verrily believe and Judge that the above sd whereto his name is Subscribed is all his owns handwriting this thus deposed as attests. ffreegrace Bendall, Recorder Thomas Davenport and Edw. Tyng )Esqrs. Boston 10th Presnt Symon Bradstreet )of febro. 1676.2 He was killed while leading his company across fallen logs to assault the Indian fortifications in the "Great Swamp Fight" of King Philip's War on Thursday, 19 December 1675 at age 59 years, 10 months and 8 days.1,2,3,4,5,6 Isaac's will was proved on 10 February 1676 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.2

Charts

Ancestry of Robert Roy

Children of Capt. Isaac Johnson and Elizabeth Porter

 

Elizabeth Johnson+1,7,8,9,10,4,6,11 (24 Dec 1637 - 30 Apr 1701)

John Johnson12,7,4,6 (3 Nov 1639 - 20 Dec 1661)

Mary Johnson+12,7,4,6 (24 Apr 1642 - )

Isaac Johnson+12,7,4,6 (7 Jan 1643/44 - 3 Feb 1719/20)

Joseph Johnson2,4,6 (Oct 1645 - 12 Dec 1645)

Nathaniel Johnson+2,4,6 (1 May 1647 - 14 Feb 1698/99)

 

Citations

 

Mayo, Chester Garst. John Mayo of Roxbury, Massachusetts 1630-1688 A Genealogical and Biographical Record of His Descendants. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1965.

Lawson, Stephen M.. "J. Johnson" Ancestory of Stephen Lawson. Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/jonsonj.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998.

Johnson, Gerald Garth. The Biography and Genealogy of Captain John Johnson from Roxbury, Massachusetts, An Uncommon Man in the Commonwealth of The Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630-1659. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2000.

Bodge, George Madison. Soldiers in King Philip's War. 1906. Reprint Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976.

Richardson, Douglas. "The Heath Connection: English Origins of Isaac and William Heath of Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Johnson, Edward Morris, and Elizabeth (Morris) Cartwright", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume CXLVI (1992).

Richardson, Douglas. "The English Ancestoryof Edward Porter of Roxbury, His Sister, Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson, and Their Cousin, Elizabeth (Dowell) Payson", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume CXLVIII (1994).

Lawson, Stephen M.. "Hastings-Cheney" Ancestory of Stephen Lawson. Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/hastings.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998.

Lawson, Stephen M. "Bowen" Ancestory of Stephen Lawson. Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/bowen.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998.

Bowen, Georgene E.. Bowen - The Ancestry of Griffith Bowen of "Burryhead" Llangenydd Parish, Glamorgan County, Wales and One Line of American Descendants Through the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut and the Bowens of Charlstown, New Hampshire. N.p.: manuscript, 1960.

Bowen, Edward Augustus. "Griffith Bowen of Boston", The English Origins of New England Families volume 2.1 (1985).

Essex Institute. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume 1 - Births. Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911.

Pulsifer, David. "Early Records of Boston", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume VI (1852).

Note on Wife: Elizabeth + PORTER

Female, #441, (10 February 1610/11 - 15 June 1683)

Elizabeth Porter was christened on 10 February 1610/11 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.1,2,3,4,5 She was the daughter of Adrian Porter and Elizabeth Allott.1,2,3,4,5 Elizabeth was unmarried and living in England when her step-mother died. She probably came to New England with her brother, Edward Porter. She may have come to New England with her brother, Edward, in 1636.5 On 20 January 1636/37 Elizabeth, at age 25, married Capt. Isaac Johnson, at age 20, son of Capt. John Johnson and Mary Heath, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.6,7,3,8,4,5 Elizabeth Porter died on Tuesday, 15 June 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 72 years, 4 months and 5 days1,2,3, or Elizabeth Porter died on 13 August 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 728, Elizabeth Porter died suddenly on Sunday, 15 August 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 72 years, 6 months and 5 days. Richardson (1964) gives her death year as 1683/84.5

Sources

1William M. Clemens, "American Marriages before 1699" (Pompton Lakes, NJ Biblio Co, 1926).
2"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).
3"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".
4"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".
5"Connecticut Census, 1790-1890 Record".
6"Find a Grave".