 1745 - Bef 1812 (66 years)
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| Name |
Samuel JOHNSON |
| Born |
15 Jul 1745 [1] |
- Samuel Jonson, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
name: Samuel Jonson
gender: Male
baptism/christening place: CIVIL, WHITEFIELD, LINCOLN, MAINE
birth date: 15 Jul 1745
birthplace: WHITEFIELD, CIVIL, LINCLN, MAIN
indexing project (batch) number: C52119-1
system origin: Maine-VR
source film number: 12312
reference number: 2:ZWF31R
http://www.townofwhitefield.com/HistoricalSociety.htm
Alphabetical Listing
August 9, 2005
Record of Families in the year, Town of Whitfield A.D. 1811
[The list is arranged alphabetically, then apparently grouped by family. Samuel and "Sylvia" are grouped together. David is grouped separately.]
Samuel Jonson born July 15, 1745
Sylvia his wife born March 25, 1747
David Jonson son of David Jonson born Nov 1800
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/60966?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1791-1924
Authors: Whitefield (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1791-1924
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
12312
7596939
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007596939?cat=60966
[255/645] [Handwritten]
Samuel Jonson [born] July 15 1745
Lydia hs wife [born] March 25 1747
[263/645] [Handwritten]
William White Born Oct 10 1761
Mary his wife [born] Decr 28 1761
Joseph White [born] Oct 10 1785
David Jonson son of David Jonsons [born] Nov 1800
[226/645] [Typescript]
William White [died] March 5 1827
Joseph White
Mary his wife May 3 1803 Octr 30 1817
Samuel White Octr 12 1814
Betsey White June 10 1816 June 13 1816
Betsey his 2d wife Nov 26 1788
Mary White Jany11 1820
William White Feby 18 1823
Susan P White Aug 23 1825
John P White May 14 1828
[209/645] [Typescript]
Record of Families in the Town of Whitefield AD 1811
...
William White Oct 10 1761
Mary his wife Decr 28 1761
Joseph Whote Oct 10 1785
David Jonson son of David Jonson Nov 1800
[204/645] [Typescript]
Record of Families in the Town of Whitefield AD 1811
...
Samuel Jonson July 15 1745
Lydia his wife March 25 1747
...
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| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
[1752] |
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| Birth |
[BEFORE 1755] [2] |
| Birth |
[BEFORE 1761] |
- "A list of the men's names in the Plantation of Bawltown [Balltown, Whitefield/Jefferson] from sixteen years and upwards agreeable to an act of Cort [sic] December 9th 1776"
|
| Birth |
[BEFORE 1765] [3] |
| Birth |
[BEFORE 1770] |
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|
| Birth |
[BEFORE 1774] [4] |
| Residence |
3 Apr 1773 |
Newcastle, Lincoln, ME  |
| Residence |
Bef 1775 |
Newcastle, Lincoln, ME |
- The town register : Damariscotta, Newcastle, Bristol, Bremen, Muscongus Island, 1906 (1906)
Author: Mitchell, Harry Edward, 1877- comp. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Brunswick, Me. : H. E. Mitchell co.
p 133
Michael Thomas, Samuel Getchell and Benj. Cheney settled on the Damariscotta side about 1719. The Tappan lots, located on the western side, between Mill [Canasixet or Sheepscot] and Dyer rivers, settled between 1736 and 1775, were purchased by Robert Hodge, Geo. Boulton, Daniel Anderson, Benj. and Thomas Woodbridge, John Hopkins, Christopher Woodbridge,
Samuel Johnson,
Abernethy Cargill, Henry Cargill. Dyer's Neck was settled by Jos. Tarr, Ezekiel, Samuel, Jonathan, Richard and Moses Laiten, Jesse Cooper, John Harley, Robert Harley, Wm. Simpson and Waters. Other Tappan lots were sold, 1735 to 1739, to John Ballantine, Samuel McLain, James Kennedy, James Campbell, James Clark, David Given, David Cargill, Jas. Bowlls, Wm. McLelland, Wm. Hopkins,
Solomon Hopkins, Wm. Kennedy, Samuel Kennedy, John Cunningham, Wm. Rose, Robert Cochran, Peter Patterson, and James Forrester. David Cargill settled in 1730. Rev. C. Tappan the proprietor came here in 1733. Capt, John McNear, Capt. Alex Nickels, Enoch Perkins, Samuel Waters, David Murray, Major John Farley (a distinguished public official), Chas. Glidden and Joseph Glidden, Sr., Wm. Blackstone and Samuel Perkins were among the leading men of Newcastle during the eighteenth century. Wm. Hopkins, David Given, James Clark, John Cunningham Jr., David Hopkins, Wm. Cuningham and Wm. Hodge filled town offices in 1755.
- The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle [Me.]
including early Pemaquid, Damariscotta, and other contiguous places, from the earliest discovery to the present time, together with the genealogy of more than four hundred families
by Rev. David Quimby Cushman.
Published 1882 by E. Upton & Son, printers in Bath .
p 112
Tappan Lots
No 44 & 45
210 acres
No date of deed [none found?]
First purchasers: Christopher Woodbridge [s Benjamin Woodbridge m Susannah Tappan d Rev Christopher Tappan), Samuel Johnson, Abernathy Cargill, Henry Cargill, Sarah Woodbridge [brother Christopher], Dorothy Woodbridge [brother Christopher]
Occupants in 1850: Addison Carney, William Chase, William Donnell and others
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| Residence |
1777 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
|
|
| Residence |
13 Sep 1777 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
- Massachusetts State Archives Collection
Volume 322 Page 180
Bawltown letter dated 13 September 1777
A list of the men's names in the Plantation of Bawltown [Balltown, Whitefield/Jefferson] from sixteen years and upwards agreeable to an act of Cort [sic] December 9th 1776
Mecres Carr Capt
Joshua Little 1st Lieut
Benjn King 2nd Lieut
Ephraim Brown Sergt
Jonathan Bartlett [Sergt]
Jacob Rowel [Sergt]
James Murphy [Sergt]
Samuell Parmer Corpl [Palmer?]
Samuell Whitman [Corpl]
Timothy Ferrin [Corpl]
Thomas Grover [Corpl]
Petter Dow
Solln Clark
Wllm Boynton
Saml Bawl [Ball]
John Boynton
Jeri Brand [Bran, Brann]
Isaac Brand
Stephen Belden
Thoms Cunningham
Moses Cooper
Thoms Day
John Decker
John Fish
John Philbrook [Philbrick]
Ebenezr Philbrook
Jonathn Philbrook
Andrew Gledden [Glidden]
Arnold Gledden
Asse Heath
Saml Jonson [Johnson]
Joseph Rogers
James Reves [Reeves, Reaves]
James Turner
James Shepard
John Duely [Dooley]
Ebenez Grover
Benjn Dow
Charles Gledden
Enoch Averil
Caleb Bartlet [Bartlett]
Leonard Cooper
Caleb Conselis?
Patrick Fallon
Jonas Jonston Davis
James Emery
Stephen Grover
Davi Huchens [Hutchins, Hitchings]
Jonathan Heath
Isaac Heath
Daniel Lumber? [Plummer?]
Nathan Longfello [Longfellow]
[Jeremiah?] Norris
Jonthn? Peaslee
Oliver Peaslee
Ezekiel Peaslee
? ?z? [Jonathan Noyes? Thomas Trask?]
?
Ezekiel Sterns [Stearns]
Thomas Turner
Nicklas Turner
Jonah Vining
John Woodman Senr
Ralph Chiney [Cheney]
Willm Carr
John Woodman Junr
Abner Ford
Ebenezer Philbrook
Jonathan Bartlet
Michael Gledden
Joseph Bartlett
Benj Kinney [Kenney]
Joshua Chamberlin [Chamberlain]
Richard Turner
Mecres Carr Capt
Joshua Littl Lieut
Benjn King Lieut
Benjn Stickney Clerk
- Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial and post colonial period 1626-1806
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1050952?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Volume 321 -- Treasury (continued--page 104), 1770-1797 ; v. 322 -- Valuations and taxes (continued--page 131-3), 1738-1777.
Granite Mountain Record Vault
United States & Canada Film
2293887
https://familysearch.org/search/film/007823201?cat=1050952
Index [528/1579]
Volume 322 -- Valuations and taxes (continued--page 131-3), 1738-1777 ; v. 323 -- Valuations and taxes (continued--page 141), 1778-1787.
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
2293888
https://familysearch.org/search/film/007704986?cat=1050952
Balltown [727/1604]
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| Residence |
20 Jan 1778 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
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| Military |
20 Jan 1778 |
| 5th Suffolk under Col Ebenezer Thayer at Braintree |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson appears in a Return of Men raised to serve in the Continental Army as returned by Ebenezer Thayer Jr dated Braintree 20 January 1778. Town belonged to: Balltown. Town engaged for: Braintree. Term: 3 years. John Capt Langdon's Co, Col H Jackson's Regt. 5th Suffolk Regiment. Enlistment Rolls. Volume 40 Page 191
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Vol. 39, Naval service 1776-1780 Vol. 40, Naval service, privateers, lists of recruits 1776-1781
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906889
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008092199?cat=729681
[577/667]
Return of Men Engaged in the Continental Army for the fifth Regiment of Militia the County of Suffolk
Mens Names: Samuel Johnson
Town to which they belonged before engaged: Balltown
Town for which they engaged: Braintree
Regiment into which they are inlisted: H Jackson
Company into which they are inlistd: Langdon
Time for which they are Engagd: 3 Years
[Others from Brunswick, Pownalborough (inc John Cheney), Newcastle (inc John Leighton)
Braintree January 20th 1778
Ebenr Thayer Junr Colo
Beazer Burrell Topsham Braintree Bradford Lemon 3 years
Joseph Carr George Town Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Isaac Harden George Town Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Ichabod Doughty Brunswick Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Samuel Johnson
Amos Allen Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Cornelius Stilphen Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
William Kindell Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Ezekiel Averell Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years [s Job Averill m Sarah Carr]
John Leiton New Castle Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years [m? Lois Worcester]
John Cheney Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years [s? Elias Cheney m Sybil Marson]
Tristram Daget Pownalborough Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
Daniel Linus [Pownalborough?] Braintree H Jackson Langdon 3 years
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| Military |
February 1778 |
| Smallpox Company of Grenadiers Gulph Mills/Lancaster, Montgomery, PA |
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
Lieut. Hodijah Bayles's co. of grenadiers, Col. Henry Jackson's regt.; pay roll for Feb., 1778, dated Gulph;
Massachusetts Archives
Mass Muster and Pay Rolls Volume 48 Page 398: Samuel Johnson appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll for February 1778 of Capt Hodijah Baylees Co, Col Henry Jackson's Regiment dated "Gulph" 30 April 1778. For service from 31 January 1778 to 1 March 1778. Time of Service 1 month. Company of Grenadiers.
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 48, Muster and payrolls 1777-1780 Vol. 49, Muster and misc. rolls 1775-1781 Vol. 50, Worcester rolls, 1781, 1783, no. 1 1781-1783
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1907000
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008092204?cat=729681
[125/741]
Pay Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayles's Compy of Grenadiers in the Regt commandd by Col Henry Jackson for the Month of Feby 1778
Names: Saml Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of service: 31 January - 1 March 1 Month
Amount of Pay: 40/
Casualties:
Gulph Aprl 30th 1778
J Hobby Lieut
- V Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: V Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 10 Mar 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
A Muster Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayless Compy of the Regiment of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commanded by Col Henry Jackson for the Month of Feby 1778
Private - Johnson enlisted 10 Oct 77 Small pox
Lancaster March 10th 1778
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| Military |
From March 1778 to April 1778 |
| Sick in Camp Gulph Mills, Montgomery, PA |
- Samll Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samll Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 1 May 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Samll Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayles's Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of America Commandd by Col Henry Jackson taken from the last of Feby to the 1st of May 1778
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted for 3 years Sick in camp
Gulph Mills May 8th 1778
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| Military |
May 1778 |
| On Guard Philadelphia, PA |
- Samuel Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samuel Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 23 Jun 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Samuel Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayles Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commandd by Col Henry Jackson for the Month of May 1778
Samuel Johnson
Private
Term of 3 years
On guard
Philadelphia June 21 1778
Henry Jackson Colo
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| Military |
June 1778 |
| On Guard Providence, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayley's Co, Col H Jackson's Regt dated Providence 8 September 1778. For service from 31 May 1778 to 1 July 1778. Time of Service 1 month. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls.(Drake Collection) Volume 61 Page 47
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
Family History Library
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Volume 61 Page 47
[435/758]
Pay Roll of Lieut Hodijah Bayles's Compy in the Regiment of Foot commandd by Col H Jackson for June 1778
Names: Saml Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 31 May - 1 July 1 month
Amount of Pay: 40/-
Casualties
State of Rhode Island
Providence
Septr 8th 1778
Jno Hobby Lieut
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
Lieut. Hodijah Bayles's co., Col. Jackson's regt.; pay roll for June, 1778, dated Providence;
Samll Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samll Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 22 Jul 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Samll Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Liut Hodijah Bayles's Compy of the Regiment of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commanded by Colo H Jackson for June 1778
Private Samuel Johnson enlised for 3 years On guard
22 July 1778
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| Military |
From July 1778 to August 1778 |
| Sick Camp Providence, Providence, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 5 Sep 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Saml Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobby's Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commandd by Col H Jackson for the Months of July & August 1778
Camp Providence
Septr 8th 1778
Private Samuel Johnson Sick
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll for July & August of Lt John Hobby's Co, Col H Jackson's Regt, sworn to at Providence 8 September 1778. For service from 1 July 1778 to 30 August 1778. Time of service 2 months. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls. (Drake Colelction) Volume 61 Page 63
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
Family History Library
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Volume 61 Page 63
[455/758]
Pay Roll of Lieut Jno Hobbys Compy in the Regiment of Foot commandd by Col H Jackson for July & August 1778
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 1 July - 30 August 2 months
Amount of Pay: 80/-
State of Rhode Island
Providence
Sepr 7 1778
Jno Hobby Lieut
|
| Military |
September 1778 |
| Company of Grenadiers Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Mass Muster and Pay Rolls. Drake Collection Volume 61 Page 82. Samuel Johnson appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll for September 1778 of Lieut John Hobby's Co, Col Henry Jackson's Regt. Sworn to at Providence 13 October 1778. For service for 31 August 1778 to 1 October 1778. Time of Service: 1 Month. Company of Grenadiers.
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
Family History Library
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Volume 61 Page 82
[475/758]
Pay Roll of Lieut Jno Hobbys Compy in the Regiment of Foot commandd by Col H Jackson for Sepr 1778
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 21 August - 1 October 1 month
Amount of Pay: 40/-
Rhode Island
Pawtuxett
Ocgr 13th 1778
Jno Hobby Lieut
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: Sep 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Saml Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobby's Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commdd by Henry Jackson Esqr for Sept 1778
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted for 3 years
Camp Pawtuxet
Muster Roll of the Grenediers Company for September 1778
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| Military |
October 1778 |
| Company of Grenadiers Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 1 Nov 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Saml Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobby's Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commdd by Henry Jackson Esqr for Octr 1778
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted for 3 years
Novr 17th 1778
Muster Roll of the Grenadier Company for October 1778
Camp Pawtuxet
|
| Military |
November 1778 |
| Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 10 Dec 1778
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Saml Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobby's Compy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr for Novr 78
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted for 3 years
Pawtuxet Decr 10 78
|
| Military |
December 1778 |
| Company of Grenadiers Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll of Lt John Hobby's Co, Col Henry Jackson's Regt worn to at Pawtuxet 11 January 1779. For service from 31 November 1778 to 1 January 1779. Time of service 1 month. Company of Grenadiers. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls. Drake Collection Volume 61 Page 188.
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
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Volume 61 Page 188
[591/758]
Pay Roll of Lieut John Hobbys Compy of the Regt of Foot Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 30 November - 1 January
Amount of Pay: 40/-
State of Rhode Island
Pawtuxet
Jany 11th 79
Jno Hobby
|
| Military |
January 1779 |
| On command Company of Grenadiers, Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 4 Feb 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Saml Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobbys Compy in the Regt of Foot Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr in the Service of the United States for Jany 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted for 3 years On Command
Pawtuxet Febry 4th 79
Muster Roll of the Grenadier Compy for Jany 79
|
| Military |
February 1779 |
| Sick in bark Company of Grenadiers, Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 7 Mar 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Regiment of Foot
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
A Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobbys Comy of the Regt of Foot in the Service of the United States of American commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr
Muster Roll of Grenadier Company for January 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted 3 years Sick on Bark
Pawtuxet March 4 79
|
| Military |
March 1779 |
| Sick in bark Company of Grenadiers, Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll for March 1779 of Lt John Hobby's Co, Col Henry Jackson's Regt sworn to in Garrison at Pawtuxet 1 April 1779. For service from 28 February 1779 to 31 March 1779. Time of service 1 month. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls. Drake Collection Volume 61 Page 233
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1940071
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Volume 61 Page 233
[640/758]
Pay Roll of Lieut Jno Hobbys Compy in the Regiment of Foot commandd by Col H Jackson Esqr for March 79
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 28 February - 1 April 1 month
Amount of Pay: 40/-
Garrison at Pawtuxet
State of Rhode Island
Apl 1st 79
H Jackson Colo
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
Lieut. John Hobby's co., Col. Jackson's regt.; pay roll for March, 1779, sworn to in Garrison at Pawtuxet;
Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 7 Apr 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Muster Roll of Lieut John Hobbys Compy in the Battalion of Massachusetts Bay Forces in the service of the United States Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted Octr 11 for 3 years
Pawtuxet April 7th 79
Muster Roll of the Grenadier Company for the Month of March 79
|
| Military |
April 1779 |
| Muster 1st Grenadiers Co, Pawtuxet, Cranston, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Muster Roll if the (1st Co) Massachusetts Regt, Col Henry Jackson for April 1779 dated Pawtuxet 4 May 1779. When appointed or enlisted 1 October 1777. Term 3 years. Co commanded by Capt Lt John Hobby. Volume 11 Page 3
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 10, Soldier orders 1775-1781 Vol. 11, Soldier orders, receipts, discharges, Lexington alarm rolls 1775-1782
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906130
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Volume 11 Page 3
[457/793]
Muster Roll of the First Company in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces in the Service of the United States Commanded by Colo H Jackson for the Month of April 79
Samuel Johnson
Engaged Octr 10th for 3 years
Also
Sergt Timothy Blake enlisted 7 September 1777 for 3 years
Pawtuxet May 4th 1779
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll 1st Grenadiers Co by Capt Lieut John Hobby, Col Henry Jackson's Regt. Sworn to at Pawtuxet 11 May 1779. For service from 31 March 1779 to 1 May 1779. Time of service 1 month. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls (Drake Collection) Volume 61 Page 247
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 59 (book 2), Baldwin's regiment, 1775, 1777, file no. 2 1775-1777 Vol. 60, Marshall's 10th and Brook's 7th regiments 1777-1783 Vol. 61, Mass. muster and payrolls, Drake Collection 1775-1792
Family History Library
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1940071
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Volume 61 Page 247
[656/758]
Pay Roll of the First Company in the Regiment of Foort Commanded by H Jackson Colo in the Service of the United States for April 1779
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 31 March - 1 May 1 month
Amount of Pay & Subsistence: 2 - -
Also
Timothy Blake Sergt
Pawtuxet May 11th 1779
Henry Jackson Colonel
|
| Military |
May 1779 |
| On command at South Ferry, South Kingstown, Washington, RI |
- Samuel Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samuel Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 12 Jun 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Samuel Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
Muster Roll of the First Company in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces in the Service of the United States Commandd by Coll Henry Jackson for May 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted Octr 10th for 3 Years On command at South Ferry
N Kingston 12th June 1779
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: May 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Pay Roll ? ? Compy in the Battalion of Massachusetts Bay Forces Commandd by Col Henry Jackson For May 1779
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 30 April - June 1 1 month
Amount of Pay: 2 - -
Subsistence:
Casualties:
Camp Providence State of Rhode Island July 30 79
- Samuel Johnson
United States Revolutionary War Rolls
Name Samuel Johnson
Event Type Military Service
Event Date 31 May 1779
Event Place Massachusetts, United States
Military Rank Private
Citing this Record
"United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DG-G7LQ : 15 March 2018), Samuel Johnson, 31 May 1779; citing 31 May 1779, Massachusetts, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,318.
United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Affiliate Publication Number M246
Affiliate Publication Title Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783.
Affiliate Film Number 39
GS Film Number 000830318
Digital Folder Number 007196973
Image Number 00348
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Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783
Authors: United States. War Department (Main Author) United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Mass. jackets 20-1 - 26-2 1775-1783 (NARA Series M246, Roll 39)
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
830318
7196973
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[348/663]
Pay Roll of the first Company in the Battalion of Massachusetts Bay Forces Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr for June 1779
Timothy Blake Sergt May 31 - July 1; 1 month; Amount of pay & subsistance 3 - -
...
Samuel Johnson Private May 31 - July 1; 1 month; Amount of pay & subsistance 2 - -
- Samuel Johnson
United States Revolutionary War Rolls
Name Samuel Johnson
Event Type Military Service
Event Date May 1779
Event Place Massachusetts, United States
Military Rank Private
Citing this Record
"United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DG-G7BF : 15 March 2018), Samuel Johnson, May 1779; citing May 1779, Massachusetts, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,318.
United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Affiliate Publication Number M246
Affiliate Publication Title Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783.
Affiliate Film Number 39
GS Film Number 000830318
Digital Folder Number 007196973
Image Number 00344
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Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783
Authors: United States. War Department (Main Author) United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Mass. jackets 20-1 - 26-2 1775-1783 (NARA Series M246, Roll 39)
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
830318
7196973
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[344/663]
Pay Roll ? ? Compy in the Battalion of Massachusetts Bay Forces Commandd by Col Henry Jackson For May 1779
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 30 April - June 1 1 month
Amount of Pay: 2 - -
Subsistence:
Casualties:
Camp Providence State of Rhode Island July 30 79
...
Timothy Blake Sergt 30 April - June 1; 1 month; 3 - -
|
| Military |
June 1779 |
| Warren, Bristol, RI |
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 2 Jul 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Muster Roll of the First Company in ? ? of the Massachusetts Bay Forces in the Service of the United States Commandd by Col Henry Jackson for June 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted Octr 1 for 3 years
Warren July 2d 79
Col's Compy June 79
- Saml Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Saml Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 9-31 Apr-Dec 1779-1780
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: 16th Regiment
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Descriptive Roll of the Non Commissioned Officers and Privates Deserted from the Late 16th Massts Regt Commanded by Colo Henry Jackson' Commencing with the formation of the Regt April 9th 1779 and ending with the Regt Decr 31st 1780
No: 36
Names: Saml Johnson Prv
Term of Service: 3 years
When Inlisted: Octr 11 77
When Deserted: Sept 8th 79
Age: 25 [1752]
Size: 5 feet 11 inches
Hair: Dark
Complexn: Dark
Trade: Farmer
Place of Residence: Bristol Lincoln Massachusetts
Engaged for:
Samuel Johnsen
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samuel Johnsen
Gender: Male
Military Date: Jun 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
Pay Roll of the First Company in the Battalion of Massachusetts Bay Forces Commandd by Henry Jackson Esqr for June 1779
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 31 May - 1 July 1 month
Amount of Pay & Subsistence: 2 - -
Casualties:
Camp Providence July 30th 79
Pay Roll of the First Company for June 79
|
| Military |
July 1779 |
| Camp Providence, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on Pay Roll for July 1779 1st Co commanded by Capt Lt John Hobby, Col Henry Jackson's Regt. Dated 4 Augut 1779. For service from 1 July 1779 to 1 August 1779. Time of service 1 month. Sworn to at Camp Providence. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls. Volume 48 Page 464
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 48, Muster and payrolls 1777-1780 Vol. 49, Muster and misc. rolls 1775-1781 Vol. 50, Worcester rolls, 1781, 1783, no. 1 1781-1783
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1907000
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008092204?cat=729681
Volume 48 Page 464
[237/741]
Pay Roll of the first Compy in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces Commanded by Colo Henry Jackson for July 79
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Time of Service: 30 June - 1 August 1 month
Amount of Pay: 2 - -
Also
Timothy Blake Sergeant
Camp Providece State of Rhode Island August 9? 1779
Henry Jackson Colonel
- Samuel Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samuel Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 3 Aug 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 for Samuel Johnson
Massachusetts 15th Regiment, 1777-1779 (Folder 20); 16th Regiment, 1777-1780 (Folders 21-26)
Muster Roll of the First Company in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces in the Service of the United States Commandd by Coll H Jackson for July 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted Octr 4th for 3 years
Camp Providence Augt 3 1779
|
| Residence |
13 Jul 1779 |
Newcastle, Lincoln, ME |
- "Newchester" See Military
|
| Military |
13 Jul 1779 |
| Camp Providence, Providence, RI |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson Appears with rank of Private on A Company Return 1st Co commanded by Lieutenant John Hobby, Col Jackson's Regt. Dated Camp at Providence 9 July 1779. Belonged to town of New Chester, Lincoln Co. Engaged 1 October 1777. Term 3 years. Mass Muster and Pay Rolls Volume 19 Page 187
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 19, Service rolls, E-H 1776-1781
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906361
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008092188?cat=729681
[476/578]
Volume 19 Page 187
Return of the Commissiond & Non Commissiond Offier & Privates belonging to the State of Massachusetts Bay in the 1 Compy in Col H Jacksons Regt Their Names, Rank, County & Town to which they belong, Time of Engagement & Term of Service
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
County: Lincorn [Sic]
Town: Newchester
Time of Engagement: Octr 1 77
Time of Service: 3 years
Also Timothy Blake
Camp Providence July 13th 1779
Henry Jackson Colonel
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
same co. and regt.; company return dated Camp at Providence, July 9, 1779; enlisted Oct. 1, 1777; residence, New Chester [Massachusetts Archives has "New Chester, Lincoln Co."];
|
| Military |
August 1779 |
| Camp Castle Island, Boston, Suffolk, MA |
- Samuel Johnson
in the U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
Name: Samuel Johnson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 22 Sep 1779
Military Place: Massachusetts, USA
State or Army Served: Massachusetts
Regiment: Battalion
Rank: Private
Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
Original data:
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
A Muster Roll of the Furst Compy in the Battalion of the Massachusetts Bay Forces in the Service of the United States Commandd by Colo Henry Jackson for August 1779
Taken to Septr 22d 1779
Private Samuel Johnson enlisted Octr 9? for 3 years Deserted Sept 4 79
[Comment "Returned from Desertion" may refer to below James Marr who deserted the same day.]
Camp Castle Island
Septr 22d 1779
|
| Military |
8 Sep 1779 |
| Reported deserted |
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 26, Field and staff rolls 1775-1782 Vol. 27, Field and staff rolls 1775-1780
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906628
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008092193?cat=729681
[328/623]
Return of Colonels Henley's, Lee's & Henry Jackson's Regiments
1779-1780
A Return of Officers Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers That were Volo Lee's, Henley's & Jackson's Regiments of the State of Massachusetts Incorporated under the Command of Colo Henry Jackson by an Order of the Honorable the Beard of War April 9th 1779 - and a Return of Officers resigned and Non Commissiond Officers & Soldiers deserted of? belonging to said Regiments previous to this Incorporation and Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers belonging to the State of Massachusetts That were under Henry Jackson's Regiment & Incorporated into Colo Henry Jacksons
? His Excellency Genl Washington May 2 1780
Volume 26 Page 403
[332/623]
Colo Jackson's Regiment
No: 28
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Inlisted: Octr 11 [1777] for 3 Years
Place of Residence: Bristol, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Promoted:
Reduced:
Engagd for: Massachusetts
Invalid:
Died:
Desertd: Sepr 8 79
Returnd or retaken:
Remarks:
Also Timothy Blake
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 30, Warrants to payrolls 1779-1786 Vol. 31, Abstracts of rolls, rolls of depreciation 1775-1785
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906757
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Volume 31 Page 210
An account rendered against the United States by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for amounts paid officers and men of Col Henry Jackson's Regiment on account of depreciation of their wages for the first three years' service in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1780. Account exhibited by Committee on Claims in behalf of Massachusetts against US 21 September 1787
Names: Samuel Johnson
Rank: Private
Amount of Wages: 45 14 8
Paid by the Continent: Deserted
Paid by the State: 5 14 0
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
return certified at Camp near Morristown, April 30, 1780, of officers and men belonging to Col. Lee's, Col. Henley's, and Col. Jackson's regts., and men belonging to Massachusetts in Col. Henry Sherburne's regt., who were incorporated into a regiment under the command of Col. Henry Jackson, agreeable to the arrangement of April 9, 1779; Colonel's co.; rank, Private; residence, Bristol; engaged Oct. 11, 1777; term, 3 years; reported deserted Sept. 8, 1779. [Massachusetts Archives Volume 26 Page 403]
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
Volume 8
page 869
Private, Colonel's co., Col. Henry Jackson's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Oct. 11, 1777, to Sept. 8, 1779; residence, Bristol; reported deserted Sept. 8, 1779;
- Others deserting from the same Regiment at the same time
[334/623]
Page 404
Colonel Jackson's Regiment
No: 28
Names: William Kindell [m Abigail Chase]
Rank: Private
Inlisted: Octr 9 [77]
Place of Residence: Pownalborough
Engaged For: Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Deserted: Sepr 8 79
Returnd or Retaken: Octr 25 79
[339/623]
No: 18
Names: Joseph Carr
Rank: Private
Inlisted: Sepr 6 [77]
Place of Reisdence: Georgetown, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Engaged for: Massachusetts
Deserted: Sepr 7 79
No: 22
Names: Ichabod Douty [r Brunswick s David Doughty m Sarah Getchell]
Rank: Private
Inlisted Octr 2 [77]
Residence: Kennebeck, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Engaged for: Massachusetts
Deserted: Sepr 7 79
No: 31
Names: Isaac Harden [r Georgetown]
Rank: Private
Inlisted: Octr 2 [77]
Residence: Kennebeck, Lincoln, Massahusetts
Engaged for: Massachusetts
Deserted: Sepr 7 79
|
| Residence |
Bef 1783 |
not at Newcastle, Lincoln, ME |
|
|
| Residence |
1790 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME [4] |
- 1790 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Johnson
Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2 [1774-1790] [David, ?]
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 2 [b before 1774] [Samuel, Samuel Jr]
Free White Persons - Females: 2 [Lydia, Mary Jane]
Number of Household Members: 6
Year: 1790; Census Place: Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 343; Image: 204; Family History Library Film: 0568142
- Judging from the "door-to-door" census of 1790 and 1820 it appears that Samuel Johnson was in the northeast of Whitefield, near or on the lots described in the deeds.
- "Ballstown-West, 1768-1809: An Introduction to the History of the Town of Whitefield, Maine" by Linwood H Lowden
p 54
"In 1792 the only framed houses in Whitefield were those belonging to: John Woodman, Oliver Peaslee, Benjamin King, Abraham Choate, Thomas Turner, Jonathan Jones, Richard Poor, and Joshua Little."
"By the year 1801 the number of framed dwelling houses in Whitefield had increased to 32."
p 55
"...or in log cabins (and, therefore, not taxed for their houses)..."
"Most of the log houses were sturdy and comfortable, and they were no taxed, whereas the framed dwellings were taxed. These factors may be the reason that so many settlers were still living in log houses at a comparative late date-long after sawed lumber was available. On most farms a permanent (framed) barn was erected before a per
- John Johnson [Jefferson] [m Martha Whitehouse]
John Weaks Jr [Jefferson] [s John Weeks m Abigail Piper]
Joseph Weaks [Jefferson] [m Margaret Hussey
Thomas Weaks [Jefferson] [s John Weeks m Abigail Piper]
Mark Weaks [Jefferson] [s John Weeks m Abigail Piper]
John Weaks [Jefferson] [s John Weeks m Abigail Forse]
Nathaniel Rollins [either m Lydia Clark or Nathaniel Rollins s Nathaniel Rollins m Lydia Clark]
Euphlot Rollins [s Nathaniel Rollins m Lydia Clark]
Joseph Parker
Jonathan Ames [Jefferson] [m Sarah Roberts s Phineas Ames m Mary Jones]
Phinas Ames [Jefferson] [m Mary Jones]
James Shepard [Jefferson] [m Lydia Gulliver]
Thomas Day [Jefferson] [m Susannah Grover s Josiah Day m Mary Thomas]
James Shepard Jr [Jefferson] [m Mary Pressey s James Shepard m Lydia Gulliver]
William Shepard [Jefferson] [m Lucy Brown s James Shepard m Lydia Gulliver]
Isac Brand [Whitefield] [m Elizabeth Cookson s Jeremiah Bran m Mary Patterson]
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Timothy Plummer [Jefferson] [m Anna Pomeroy s John Plummer m Susannah Longfellow]
Benjamin Stickney [m Hannah Grover s Abraham Stickney m Abigail Hall]
Robert McClary
John Decker [Jefferson] [m Hannah Kean s John Decker m Lydia Eastman]
Samuel Waters [Jefferson] [m Jane Kennedy m Margaret McClelland m Ruth Hilton wid Enoch Averill]
Samuel McCurdey
Benjamin Plummer [? m Elizabeth Rollins s Benjamin Plummer m Sarah Woodman]
James Reaves [Jefferson] [m Leticia Rogers s? James Reeves m Mary ?]
Abraham Choat [Whitefield] [m Sarah Potter s Francis Choate m Hannah Perkins]
Joseph Trask Jr [m Martha Webber s Samuel Trask m Hannah Stewart]
Timothy Ferrin
Joseph Rogers
Prince Rogers
[End of town]
|
| Assessed |
1791 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
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Valuations, 1780-1811
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. Valuation Committee
Taxes 1784, Plantation of Walpole - York Taxes 1791, Ballstown - York
Family History Library
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959905
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Balltown, Me
Valuation roll for the year 1791
Saml Johnson
Polls 1
The whole of the Land 300
Improved Land 2
Sum Total of Real Estate 11 = 13
Cows 1
Swine 1
English hay 2
Sum total of personal Estate 3 = 10
Winthrop Glidden
Daniel Plummer
Isaac Bran
Will Nutt
Abr Heath
Saml Johnson
Charles Glidden
George Marson
James David
Moses Cooper
Moses Cooper Junr
- Winthrop Glidden
Daniel Plummer
Isaac Bran
Will Nutt
Abrm Heath
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Charles Glidden
Charles Marson
James Davis
Moses Cooper
Moses Cooper Jr
- Valuation Rolls 1791 Balltown
Those who had improved lands 2 acres or less, or no improved land at all.
*Polls
*Eliza Starns 2/100
*Henry Bond 1/100
*Abr Tarr 2/50
*George Arskins 2/50
*Obed War 1/100
*Martin Carlow 2/100
*Willm Shepard 2/100
*Will Rice 2/100
*Isaac Bran 1/150
*Abr Heath 1/400
*Saml Johnson 2/300
*Silvinus Pratt 1/100
*James Flanders /150
*Peter Dow Junr /100
*David Campton /60
*Mark Weeks /50
*Kez? Kepley? /100
*Daniel Varham /100
*Timothy Firin? /100
*Saml Fowls /50
*Will Fowls /50
*Benj Winslow /50
*Prince Rogers /50
Ebz Clarck /200
Tho Flint /600
Jont Jones Jr? /200
Hannah Barker /400
Nath Woodman /100
Jont Jones /600
Kingsley Jones 100
*John Perham /100
Widow Mary Perham /150
*Simon Graham? /100
*Johnt Noyes Junr /100
*Andrew Glidden /100
*John Cain /100
*Josiah Rollins /100
*Moses Choat /150
*James Norris /60
*Samml Cash /70
*Saml Gillman /80
*Able Cressey /100
*Richd Cookson /300
*John Tarray /100
*Will Nutt /160
*Daniel Bran /100
David Plummer /400
James Ayres /100
Richd Baley /100
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| Occupation |
3 Apr 1792 |
| Yeoman |
| Residence |
3 Apr 1792 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
| Assessed |
25 Aug 1792 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/293490?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Valuations, 1780-1811
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. Valuation Committee
Taxes 1792, Ballstown - Woolwich
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
959906
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1792
Samuel Jonson
Polls rateable 16 years old upwards to 21 years: 1 [1771-1775] [David]
Polls rateable 21 years old and upwards: 1 [Samuel]
Dwelling house: "Log hutts I have not put down"
Acres of Tillage Land including Orcharding tilled: 1
Bushels of Indian corn: 12
Acres of English and Upland mowing including Orcharding mowed: 2
Tons of hay the yearly Produce of the same: 1
Acres of unimproved land: 150
Acres of land unimproveable: 50
Steers and cows 4 years old and upwards: [1? but probably not]
Swine 6 months old and upwards: 1? [possibly]
- Jonathan Heath
Jon Jones
Abr Choate Jr
Richard Poor
Jon Peasley
Daniel Plummer
Daniel Brand
Isaac Brand
Willm Nutt
Abrm Heath
SAMUEL JONSON
Charles Glidden
George Marson
James David
John Pinkim
Moses Cooper
James Grinlef
Elias Grinlef
James Pribble
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| Residence |
1800 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME [2] |
- 1800 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Johnston Sr
Balltown, Lincoln, Maine
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 [1775-1784] [?]
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 [1756-1774] [David?]
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [before 1755] [Samuel]
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [before 1755] [Lydia]
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 4
Year: 1800; Census Place: Balltown, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 6; Page: 347; Image: 333; Family History Library Film: 218676
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| Occupation |
5 Mar 1801 |
| Yeoman |
| Occupation |
19 Jun 1801 |
| Yeoman |
| Residence |
19 Jun 1801 |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
| Occupation |
18 May 1807 |
| Husbandman, Yeoman |
| Residence |
1810 |
Whitefield, Lincoln, ME [3] |
- 1810 United States Federal Census
Name: Samuel Johnson
Whitefield, Lincoln, Maine
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b before 1765] [Samuel]
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1 [b before 1765] [Lydia]
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 2
Year: 1810; Census Place: Whitefield, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 12; Page: 296; Image: 00300; Family History Library Film: 0218683
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| Assessed |
1811 |
Whitefield, Lincoln, ME |
- Whitefield 1811
Samuel Johnson
Male Polls not rateable, not Supported by the Town: 1
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Valuations, 1780-1811
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. Valuation Committee
Taxes 1811, Bangor - Wiscasset (includes summaries of miscellaneous towns)
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
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A List of the Polls and Estate, Real and Personal, of the several Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Town of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln taken pursuant to and Act of the Genera Court of this Commonwealth, passed in the year of our Lord, one thousands eight hundred and eleven, entitled, "An Act for ascertaiing the rateable property within this Commonwealthy," by the subscribed of the said Balltown being duly elected and sworn.
Peron's Name: Samuel Johnson
Polls rateable 16 years old and upwards to 21 years:
Polls rateable twenty-one years old and upwards:
Male Polls not rateable, not supported by the Town: 1
Male Polls not rateable, supported by the Town:
Dwelling-Houses:
Shops within; or adjoining to Dwelling-Houses:
Other Shops:
Distill-Houses:
Sugar-Houses:
Tan-Houses:
Slaughter-Houses, and other Working Houses:
Pot and Pearl-Ash Works:
Ware-Houses:
Rope-Walks:
Grist-Mills:
Fulling-Mills:
Saw-Mills:
Sitting-Mills:
Other Mills:
Iron Works and Furnaces:
Barns:
All other Buildings and Edifices of the value of 20 dols, and upwards:
Superficial feet of Wharf:
Tons of Vessels and small Craft, of five Tons burthen and upwards, at House or abroad, computing the same according to the rules established by the laws of the United States:
The amount of every person's whole stock in trade, goods, wares and merchandize, at home or abroad paid for or not paid for:
The amount of securities of the United States, of this State, or any of the United States, and at what rate of interest:
The amount of money on hand, including such as may be deposited in any Bank or with any agent, and exclusive of such as may belong to any stockholders as such:
The amount of stock held by the stockholders in any Bank:
Ounces of Plate:
Shares in any toll bridges or turnpikes, and the value of such shares with the annual income thereof:
Acres tillage land, including orchards tilled:
Bushels of wheat:
Bushels of rye:
Bushels of oats:
Bushels of Indian Corn:
Bushels of Barley:
Bushels of peas and beans raised on the said tillage land per year:
Pounds of hops:
Acres of English and upland mowing including orcharding mowed:
Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same:
Acres of fresh meadow:
Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same:
Acres of salt marsh:
Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same:
Acres of pasturage, including the orcharding pastured:
Cows the same will keep, with the after seed of the whole farm:
Barrels of cyder, which can be made yearly upon the whole farm:
Cow Rights:
Acres woodland, exclusive of pasture land inclosed:
Acres of unimproved land:
Acres of land unimprovable:
Acres of land owned by the town:
Acres owned by any other proprietors:
Acres of land used for roads:
Acres of land covered with water:
Horses three years old and upwards:
Oxen four years old and upwards:
Steers and cows three years old and upwards:
Swine six months old and upwards:
Amount of estate doomed:
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| Died |
Bef 7 March 1812 |
Whitefield, Lincoln, ME |
- Town and vital records, 1791-1924
Authors: Whitefield (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1791-1924
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
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[266/645]
Whitefield town records
p 71 (246/615)
[Meeting: 6 April 1812]
Given under our hands and seals at Whitfield this 7th day of March AD 1812...SS Jeremiah Norris, Abraham Choate
Voted. Samuel Gray [m Susanna Cooper [d Leonard Cooper m Sarah Platts] s Moses Gray m Sarah Miller] [Leonard Cooper's son Peter Cooper m Mary Skillian was the father of Molly Cooper m Caleb Bartlett] to Administer on the estate of Samuel Jonson, late of Whitfield, deceased.
[295/645]
Whitefield town records
p 127 (274/615)
[Meeting: 20 May 1816]
9. To see if the Town will appoint a person to administer on the estate of Samuel Jonson, deceased.
...
Given under out hands and seals this 6th day of May AD 1816
Abr Choate [m Abigail Norris s Abraham Choate m Sarah Potter]
Eliakim Scammon [m Joanna Young s Richard Scammon m Elizabeth Chase]
Selectmen of Whitefield
True copy, attest Abr Choate, Town Clerk
p 128 (275/615)
9. Voted. Eliakim Scammon to administer on the Estate of Samuel Jonson, deceased, if he can find property sufficient that he thinks will Beneficials to the Town.
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| Death |
BY 15 May 1812 |
- Samuel Place registered his quit claim deed from Johnson with the County.
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| Pension |
- Revolutionary War Pension
1818: Soldier not disabled
1833: Widows
Land Bounty
1801: Massachusetts law. Soldiers and non commissioned officers serving 3 years and honorably discharged
1835: Maine. Soldiers and noncommissioned officers 1. Served 3 years 2. r Massachusetts or Maine at time of enlistment 3. Not recevied a land bound from Massachusetts. Also widows. Heirs could be entitled if the applicant died before receiving the bounty.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/bounty-payments-to-revoutionary-war-soldiers-and-widows-1802-1842/oclc/658216851
Bounty payments to Revoutionary War soldiers and widows, 1802-1842
Author: Massachusetts. Treasury Office.
Massachusetts passed a bounty law in 1801 (Resolves 1800, c 139, Mar. 5, 1801) granting payment of $20 or 200 acres to anyone having served in the Continental Army for 3 years or the duration of the war. Resolves 1829, c 52 (Feb. 18, 1829) allowed veterans who had not yet chosen land to chose from selected lots in the counties of Penobscot or Somerset or from Mars Hill township (Maine). Resolves 1833, c 88 (Mar. 27,
Massachusetts passed a bounty law in 1801 (Resolves 1800, c 139, Mar. 5, 1801) granting payment of $20 or 200 acres to anyone having served in the Continental Army for 3 years or the duration of the war. Resolves 1829, c 52 (Feb. 18, 1829) allowed veterans who had not yet chosen land to chose from selected lots in the counties of Penobscot or Somerset or from Mars Hill township (Maine). Resolves 1833, c 88 (Mar. 27, 1833) granted $50 or 200 acres to soldiers (or widows) not previously receiving a bounty. Resolves 1835, c 49 (Mar. 12, 1835) provided a $50 payment to all soldiers who had served at least two years six months. Series consists of account books showing payments of bounty money and land issued to individuals.
Entries include soldier name, rank, residence, regiment, and receipt date for bounty money or land. Volumes A and B, one the draft of the other, list those receiving $20 bounties (per Resolves 1800) or $50 bounties (per Resolves 1833 or Resolves 1835). Volume C lists only those receiving land, with lot no. and township.
See also: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War ((M-Ar)57X), v. 29, p. 136-158: Men entitled to $20 bounty or 200 acres of land.
This is one of a set of record series relating to Massachusetts Revolutionary War and other early military pension and bounty payments. For a complete list see: Massachusetts Revolutionary War pension/bounty records.
Additional background materials relating to such records are pending at the repository website, including list of records as noted above, lists of documents in Revolutionary War muster rolls and Eastern Lands papers, list of Massachusetts Revolutionary War pension/bounty laws, and Federal pension law timeline. There is also an onsite collection of these and other documents at the Archives reference desk.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1881492?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Massachusetts Revolutionary War bounty land applications, 1805-1845
Authors: United States. General Land Office (Massachusetts) (Main Author)
Maine State Archives
Nil
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Maine Revolutionary War bounty land applications, 1835-1838
Authors: United States. Veterans Administration (Main Author), Maine State Archives
Nil
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| Residence |
[Braintree, Norfolk, MA]? |
- Revolutionary War Service Record: "engaged for the town of Braintree". [Ebenezer Thayer was from Braintree.]
Descendants of Jonah Vining b Weymouth adjacent to Braintree lived in St Stephen
Braintree incorporated 1640. In Suffolk County until 1792 when Norfolk was incorporated.
Holbrook 1872
Quincy 1792
Randolph 1793
Braintree Vital Records -1793: Nil Johnson
Soldiers who served in the Revolution from the town of Braintree. Samuel Bates: Nil Johnson
Census 1790: Nil Johnson
Tax 1771: Nil Johnson in Braintree
Tax 1798: Nil Johnson in Braintree
Norfolk Wills: Nil
Suffolk Wills: Nil
Suffolk Deeds -1799: Nil
Jeremiah Johnson s Josiah Johnson m 1750 Sarah Hunt
in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: Jeremiah Johnson
Birth Date: 1763
Birth Place: Braintree, Massachusetts
Death Date: 2 Nov 1847
Death Place: Reading, Vermont
SAR Membership: 19713
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 20 Jun 1908
Spouse: Thomazin Blanchard Johnson
Children: James Gibson Johnson
Volume: 99
Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- Records of the town of Braintree, 1640-1793
by Braintree (Mass.); Bates, Samuel Austin, 1822-1897
Published 1886
p 480
May 15th
The Meeting for the purpose of Raising men for the Continental Army adjourned from the 24th of April last brough forward
Committee Dismissed. Voted, to Dismiss the Committee that was chosen the 1th of Feby last, to hire men for the Continental Army and to choose nine men as a Committee to hire them and to settle with the former Committee who are to be paid for their services who are hereby Impowered to hire the men as they shall think proper for the Continental Army & make Report at the adjmt.
Committee appointed. Then Mr James Clark, Capt Billings Decm Arnold, Ebnr Thayer 3d, Capt Vinton, Capt Holbrook, Thos Penniman Esqr, Ens Isaac Spear & Cap Sawen were chosen a Committee for the purpose aforesaid.
not to make any Draft. There being a prospect of a number of men being hired by the sd Committee the Town though proper not to make any Drat, notwithstanding the orders of the Court.
Adjn. Voted, the Selectmen & Committee of Safety &c do not make any draught for the Continental Army this Day. Then adjn to Thursday next 4 o'clock PM this place.
1777 May 22d
The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree being assembled by adjournment from the fifteenth Day of May inst for the purpose of hire men for the Army.
Allowance to those in the Contl Army the last year. Voted, to allow those persons that was in the Continental ARmy last May and marched out of New England, who are not engaged in said army at this Time, the sum of Ten pounds for their sufferings the last year, provided they will now engage in said Continental Army for three years.
Committee for hiring men. Voted, That the said Committee that was chosen the last meeting be the Committee to hire men for the Continental army untill the adjournment.
Adjournement. Voted, to adjourn this meeting unto Monday the 9th Day of June next at 5 o'clock in the afternoon at this Place.
p 482
June 9th [1777]
Committee Reported the number of men engaged for the Continental army, since last meeting. Adjournment. Then the meeting for Raising men for the Continental Army was brought forward which was adjourned from 22nd May last.
The Committee Reported that they have engaged seven men since the adjournment & have a prospect of engaged several more. Then the meeting was adjourned to Monday 23d of June inst at four o'clock PM at this Place.
June 23d
Committee Reposrted the number of men engaged since last meeting.
The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree being assembled by adjournemt fro the ninth day of June inst for the purpose of hiring men for the Continental Army Decn. Penniman The Moderator being absent made choice of Mr William Penniman Moderator PT.
The Committee Reported that they have engaged three men since last meeting.
Voted, to continue the same Committee to hire men for the Continental Army & make Report upon the adjournment.
Adjournment. Voted, to Adjourn this meeting unto Monday the 14th day of July next 4 o'clocl afternoon to meet at this Place.
1777 July 14th
The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree being assembled by adjournment from the 23d of June last
Voted, to continue the same Committee for hiring men for the Continental Army.
Voted, to adjourn to Monday 28th of this inst July 5 o'clock PM.
August 13th
...
encouragement to those that will engage for 3 mo. Voted, this Town will add four pounds ten shillings per Kalender month in addition to the Continental & States pay to each Non-commissionerd officer and soldier who shall well and faithfully perform the Service Required by the sd Resolve of the General Court of the 8th August inst for the Time they are in the service.
Money to be advanced. Voted, to advance to each of the aforesaid men Nine pounds, upon his passing muster.
Selectmen to procure the money. Voted, that the Selectmen procure the money & pay the men agreeable to the above vote.
20s per mo to be added to those that Guard the continl stores.
Voted, to add Twenty shillings per Kalender month to each of the four men that shall engage to guard the Continental stores within this State for the Time they are in service.
p 484
Anno Domini 1777
September 8th
The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree being assembled by adjournment from the 27th of August last for the purpose of hiring the men for the Continental Army.
Ebenr Thayer to be Indemnified for not drafting the men for 8 mos for Contintl army. Voted, That the Town now raise another Committee to use their utmost endeavours in this Town or elsewhere to procure a sufficient number of men to make up their Quota for the Continental Army if possible; and likewise to Indemnify Colo Ebenezer Thayer Ters from any Fine that may be laid on him in Omitting to Draft the men agreeable to a Resolve passd the 15th day of August last, past. The foregoing Vote being Read several times in the Town meeting and was accepted.
William Penniman Moderator
A true copy attest Ebenr Thayer Ters Town Clerk.
Committee to hire men. Voted, the aforesaid Committee consist of six men. Then Decn Ebenezer Adams, Mess Joseph Baxter, William Penniman, Capt Silas Wild, Majr Seth Turner & Lieut Ephraim Thayer be a Committee for the aforesaid purpose.
Encouragement for those that Inlist. Voted, to supply the families of those persons belonging to this Town who shall Inlist into the Continental Army with the necessaries of Life at the Stipulated price during the Time they are in Actual Service.
Selectmen to furnish the money. Voted, the Selectmen furnish the said Committee with money to hire the men.
Adjournment. The Meeting adjournd to this Day fortnight at this place 4 o'clock afternoon.
p 485
Decr 1st
Committee Report. Assembled pursuant to the above adjournment, the Committee appointed to hire the men for the Continental Army layd before the Town a List of the Names of those engaged in the army fo ds Town with the sum each one Received, also the Time & expenses each one of the Committee had expended in hiring the men.
Committee allowance meetg dissolved. Voted, to allow to the Committee twelve shillings per day for each one for the Time they spent out off this Town for the purpose of hiring men, also Voted, to allow Cap Vinton four shillings more per Day in addition to the 12s for the last thirty days he was at the eastward.
[Also, subsequent records of hiring and paying.]
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| Residence |
1772? |
Newcastle, Lincoln, ME? |
- Tappan Lots 44 and 45 in Newcastle, a total of 210 acres, were first purchased by Christopher Woodbridge, Samuel Johnson, Abernathy Cargill, Henry Cargill, Sarah Woodbridge and Dorothy Woodbridge. By 1850 the lots were occupied by Addison Carney, William Chase, William Donnell and others. No date of purchase is given by Cushman in his history. Benjamin Woodbridge and Thomas Woodbridge purchased lots 32 and 33 respectively in 1772. Perhaps 44 and 45 were purchased at the same time?
- "The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle" by David Quimby Cushman.
see page 112-113 for Tappan Lots
"between Mill River [Sheepscot] and Dyers River"
My abstract
Christopher Tappan arrived at Newcastle in 1733 from Newbury, Massachusetts, and began to survey his land on the Sheepscot side of Newcastle. Forty-five 100 acre lots were laid out. Deeds for most of the lots exits, indicating that they were sold over the next several years. Tappan died in 1747. Most of the deeds are from the period 1735-1742. There are a few from the 1760s and several from the 1770s. The last two lots, 44 & 45, a total of 210 acres, were sold to Christopher Woodbridge, Samuel Johnson, Abernathy Cargill, Henry Cargill, Sarah Woodbridge and Dorothy Woodbridge. However, no deeds exist. Furthermore, no deed of disposal for Samuel Johnsons exists in the Lincoln County records.
Occupants in 1850 were Addison Carney, William Chase, William Donnell and others.
Possible deeds
Book 16 [1782-1784]
p 79 Benjamin Woodbridge to Sarah Woodbridge et al
Book 19 [1786]
p 30 Christopher Woodbridge to Benjamin Woodbridge
Book 21 [1787-1788]
p 124 Thomas Melvill to Abernathy Cargill
Book 23 [1789]
p 213 Abernathy Cargill to James Cargill
Book 25 [1789-1790]
p 105 James Cargill to Henry Cargill
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| Residence |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
- Liberty Men & Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
by Alan Taylor
p 17
In 1801, after visintg the new settlements upstream from Dunbar's towns, two proprietory agents reported: The settlement from Ballstown to Davistown (both inclusive) are chiefly filled up with emigrants from the towns below on Sheepscot and Damascotta Rivers. In general when they went into the woods they were very indigent and very ignorant and in too great a proportion very unprincipaled. If that country has been the field of honest industry to some it has also been the "City of Refuge" to many wretches whose poverty and crimes had rendered their longer continuance in places where they were well known inconvenient if not impracticable.
[Thurston Whiting and Benjamin Brackett to Henry Knox 7 September 1801. Henry Knox papers LII 87: Massachusetts Historical Society]
p 29
Few original possessors persisted on a lot to develop its agricultural potential; possession claimers and homestead settlers who defied proprietary claims in the 1790s and subsequent decase belonged to the second, more permanent breed of settlers who had already purchased their lands from the more footloose original possessors. In three selected mid-Maine communities active in the resistance--Ducktrap-New Canaan, Balltown, and Sheepscot Great Pond settlement--the 1790-1800 decadal persistence by heads of household was remarkably high and uniform: 71%, 79%, and 78%, respectively. As stayer and improvers, the newcomers were especially apt to organize resistance to proprietary demands for additional payment. The newcomers preferred to buy from the possession speculators because they sold thei titles for less than a dollar per acre, far less than the Great Proprietors demanded. By resisting, the second-breed settlers hoped to secure first possession, rather than proprietary title, as the legal basis of property in the Eastern Country.
[The 1797 Waldo Patent Land Commission found that original settlers (or their heirs) possessed 35 of the 44 lots settled during the 1790s, but only 32 of the 72 settled during the 1780s and only 9 of the 33 settled in the 1790s. In 1792 Ebenezer Farwell discovered that original settlers or their heirs held only 8 of Jones Plantation's 23 lots settled before 1780. See the Waldo Patent Commission Settler Submission, I, II, Massachusetts Archives; Ebenezer Farwell to the Kennebeck Proprietors 8 May 1792 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 3 Maine Historical Society...For decadal persistence rates see Table 2]
p 63
Most Yankees who could afford longer journeys headed for a more promising frontier: for Vermont of western New York.
p 74
Settlers preferred frontier hardships to life without hope of economic independence. Endurance had its eventual rewards, as settlers gradually acquired the property that they could obtain nowhere else. Most of the 128 taxpayers who persisted in Balltown between 1791 and 1801 modestly increased their improved acreage, their mature livestock, and their annual grain production; during the decade the average taxpayer added about 9 improved acres, 3 head of mature livestock, and 9 bushels of gran annually produced.
p 75
But most settlers defied the reformers' advice [to plant winter wheat] and dedicated their agriculture to family subsistence rather than to the market. Thei raised little more granted than their own families requires, devoting ost of their homesteads to a woodslot and to pastures and mowing fields for their livestock. The 1791 valuation return for Balltown (located on the Sheepscot River in the Lincoln County backcountry, and an important center for the resistance) reveals that the average taxpaer possessed 138 acres, but only 8 had been improved, principally for pasture or mowing...In 1791 Balltown's 156 families raised...no winter wheat...In 1801, Balltown's 235 families raised 6,562 bushels of grain, or nearly 28 bushels per family--near family self-sufficiency in grain. Instead of shifting away from corn and toward winter wheat, as reformers and proprietors hoped, the settlers of Balltown increased their reliance on corn to more than 85% of all the grain they raised.
[Families that raised potatoes could subsist on less grain, by, unfortunately, they valuations do not measure that crop. It seems likely, however, that almost all of the taxpayers raised potatoes, because every description of agriculture in the Eastern County stresses their importance.]
p 90
Proceeding from the south to north through the militant settlements within the Plymouth Patent, a traveler passed from Balltown through Hunt's Meadow, Pinhook, Patricktown, Cunninghamtown, Sheepscot Great Pond settlement, Claytown, Smithtown, Beaver Hill, Freetown, and Sandy Stream to Twenty-Five Mile Pond settlement. [Whiting and Brackett to Knox as above.]
p 96
Marginality alone did not create land rebels; the men who served as the rank and file on Henry Knox's surveys and posses were at least as poor as the backcountry settlers. By paying a dollar per day--twice the premium rate for day labor--the general recruited guards and chainmen among the many landless transients in Belfast, a coastal, commercial town with no legacy of warfare against the Great Proprietors. As the principal market town on Penobscot Bay's western shore, Belfast attracted poor, young newcomers seeking wage work as farmhands, dock-workers, land-clearers, and journeymen artisans while they familiarized themselves with opportunities to obtain land in the adjacent hinterland. In 1801 1 third of Belfast's taxpayers were landless, twice the proportion in adjioning (but less commercial) Northport and three times that of Balltown in the Sheepscot backcountry. It is revealing that Knox could recruit so few assistants in Northport and Lincolnville, poor coastal towns near Belfast. Having recently given up their own resistance and agreed to buy Knox's title, the inhabitants o the town towns desperately needed cash for their payments. They must have been sorely tempted by the generous wages Knox paid, but their legacy resistance invested their sympathies wit the still-militant backcountry.
p 114
Inspired by such rhetoric [suggesting their fight against the Proprietors was akin to the colonists' fight against the British], backcountry settlers who called themselves Liberty Men or Sons of Libertt armed for the Revolution's last skirmishes. In the fall of 1795 the Twenty Associates, Kennebeck Proprietors, and Waldo heirs provoked a series of confrontations by aggressively pressing surveys into the backcountry. "This chafed the minds of the people as a bear bereaved of her whelps," Samuel Ely said. In November 1795, Balltown's settlers warned surveyor Benjamin Poor to be gone, explainin that "they were determin'd that no surveyor should run any line there at present, for the Plymouth Company was endeavoring to take their land from them, that they, meaning the inhabitants of Ballto[w]n and the vicinity, had fought for it once and were determined to fight for it again."
p 119
Settlers osracized and intimidated those who betrayed the community...In 1795 a surveyor reported that when the settlers of Hunt's Meadow began to waiver, their Balltown neighbors threatened "to come and take their cattle to support their army and then come and burn their barns." Barns were symbols of frontier prosperity possessed by the more comfortable settlers, who provided most of the proprietors' clients a barn burning sent a clear message to property-conscious men that the security their sought did ot lie in a separate peace with the proprietors.
p 190
Balltown, the largest and most important center of the resistance, was named for Samuel Ball, who in 1749 murdered an unarmed Indian in peacetime but escaped judgement because no frontier jury would convict a white for such a crime.
p 206
In 1791, 2/3 of Balltown's settlers had limited mobility for want of a horse. By 1811, almost 2/3 of the taxpayers owned a horse. Most of the increase occurred after 1800.
p 212
It is revealing that when Balltown--a stronghold of the resistance--divided and incorporated as two towns, the inhabitants chose the names Whitefield (western half) and Jefferson (eastern; both towns were overwhelmingly Calvinist Baptist in religion and Jeffersonian in politics.
p 264
Incidencets of Extralegal Violence Associated with the Land Controversies
p 265
October 1795, Balltown/Jefferson (backcountry), Lincoln County. Settlers armed with muskets interrupt Ephraim Ballard's attempt to survey the Plymouth Patent's southeast corner for the Kennebck Proprietors. Ballard to the Kennebeck Proprietors 1 January 1796 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers, box 4 Maine Historical Society.
12 November 1795, Balltown/Jefferson...A dozen armed and blacked settlers surprise Ephraim Ballard's camp and destroy his survey plans and compass. Ballard deposition 20 November 1795, Related Papers 29 January 1799. Resolve, MA.
14 November 1795, Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obstruct and chase away Benjamin Poor, a surveyor suspected of working for the Kennebeck Proprietors. Poor deposition 25 November 1795. Related Papers 29 January 1799. Resolve, MA.
November 1795 Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obstruct Benjamin Poor's third attempt to run survey lines. Poor deposition 25 November 1795. Related Papers 29 January 1799. Resolve, MA.
15 November 1795 Balltown/Jefferson...At night, set fires destroy two barns belonging to Jonathan Jones, a supporter of the Kennebeck Proprietors. Jones deposition February 1796. Related Papers 29 January 1799. Resolve, MA.
p 269
October 1800 Balltown/Jefferson...John Bumford steals two head of livestock and kills two more, all belonging to a John Parker, a supporter of the Kennebeck Proprietor's claim. Parker v Bumford May 1802 Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court box 413 Lincoln County Courthouse.
p 270
1 June 1801 Balltown/Jefferson...John Bumford lets loose cattle to damage crops belonging to John Parker, a supporter of the Kennebeck Proprietors' claim. Parker v Bumford May 1802 Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court box 413 Lincoln County Courthouse.
p 271
28 November 1801 Balltown/Jefferson...John Bumford sets a fire that destroys the barn, crops, and livestock belonging to John Parker, a supporter of the Kennebeck Proprietors' claim. Parker v Bumford May 1802 Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court box 413 Lincoln County Courthouse.
August 1802 Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obstruct the attempt by Ephraim Ballard to survey the southeast corner of the Plymouth Patent. January 1803 entry Kennebeck Proprietors Papers Record Book IV 13 Maine Historical Society
p 272
26 April 1803 Balltown/Jefferson...At night, set fires destroy two sawmills belonging to Jeremiah Pearson, a supporter of the Kennebeck Proprietors' claim. Commonwealth v Preble Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court Record Book II 215 Lincoln County Courthouse.
September 1803 Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obsctruct attempt by Lothrop Lewis to survey the southeast corner of the Plymouth Patent. Charles Vaughn to Thomas L Winthrop 19 September 1803. Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 5 Maine Historical Society.
May 1805 Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obstruct Lothrop Lewis's renewed attempt to survey the Plymouth Patent's southeast corner. Charles Vaughn to the Kennebeck Proprietors 26 May 1805 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 5 Maine Historical Society
p 273
March 1806 Balltown/Jefferson...Armed settlers obstruct Charles Turner's effort to survey the Plymouth Patent's southeastern corner. Charles Vaugn to Kennebeck Proprietors 21 March 1806 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 6 Maine Historical Society.
p 277
5 January 1810 Whitfield...About 30 armed men assault James Marr, a surveyor for the Kennebeck Proprietors. Commonwealth v Philbrook September 1810. Lincoln County Supreme Judicial Court Record Book III 459 Lincoln County Courthouse.
August 1810 Jefferson...Armed settlers ambush David Murphy, a deputy sheriff who had served writs for the Kennebeck Proprietors and assisted their surveys; because of a shower that wets the White Indians' gunpowder, their guns fails to discharge. Murphy to the Kennebeck Proprietors 7 June 1811 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 7 Maine Historical Society.
19 August 1810 Jefferson...A set fire destroys the barn of David Murphy, a deputy sheriff who had served writs for the Kennebeck Proprietors and assisted their surveys. Murphy to the Kennebeck Proprietors 23 August 1810 Kennebeck Proprietors Papers box 7 Maine Historical Society
19 August 1819 Jefferson...A set fire destroys the barn of Isaac Davis, a surveyor for the Kennebeck Proprietors. Davis petition 12 December 1810 Related Papers 16 February 1811. Resolve, MA.
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| Residence |
[1775-1777] |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
- Although Samuel Johnson did not purchase his farm until 1792, he was living there by 1777 when he was counted among the men of Balltown. There were two Balltown families that Samuel Johnson was closely connected to. One was the Gliddens, from whom Samuel bought his farm. The other was the Coopers, neighbors from Newcastle.
There were Gliddens in Newcastle the same time Samuel Johnson was living on one of the Tappan Lots. Joseph Glidden lived on the opposite side of Newcastle in the part later called Glidden's neck, which juts into the Damariscotta River. Charles Glidden is said to have lived in Newcastle too, but it seems to have been briefly, if at all. Cushman, the historian of Newcastle, mentions Charles's name as a prominent citizen, along with his cousin Joseph. But the Glidden genealogy indicates that Charles lived up the Sheepscot River in the part of Nobleboro called Walpole. Some time in the late 1760s or early 1770s Charles and his family settled in Balltown. He seems to have owned quite a bit of land there on the east side of the Sheepscot. It was part of this land that Samuel Johnson lived on, possibly as a tenant, and later bought from Glidden. The two families were later united formally as Samuel's son Samuel married Charles's daughter Mary.
Jesse Cooper lived on Dyer's Neck between the Sheepscot and Dyer rivers. His brother Moses came to Balltown much later than Samuel sometime before 1790. He operated mills in the part later called Cooper's Mills, this property adjacent to Samuel Sr's Balltown farm. His sister Susannah, wife of Samuel Gray, settled in the Jefferson in the first decade of the 1800s. But it was his niece who is of most interest in Samuel's story. Molly Cooper was the daughter of Peter Cooper. She married Caleb Bartlett and had a large family. These are the Bartletts who went to New Brunswick and settled on the farm and mill just north of Samuel Jr's farm in Waweig. It is likely that Samuel Jr's son Leonard was named after Molly's son. I also think it is likely Samuel Jr worked at the Coopers' mill and the Bartletts' mill.
Samuel Gray was the second cousin of Sarah Gray m Joseph Remick.
* * *
Jonathan Leighton and his sons also lived on Dyer's Neck. Although there were no early Leighton settlers of Balltown, a grandson David Leighton went to New Brunswick the same time as Samuel Jr.
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| Residence |
1776? |
Balltown, Lincoln, ME |
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| Military |
[11 Oct 1777] |
| 3 years for [Suffolk] County |
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| Military |
1776? |
| Massachusetts Bay Forces |
- Massachusetts Archives
Samuel Johnson appears in a List of Men engaged for the Continental Service out of - Regt. Town belonging to: Balltown. Town enlisted for: Braintree. Enlisted in Capt Langdon's Co, Col Jackson's Regt. Volume 29 Page 172
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/729681?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Vol. 28, Militia officers, men and Continental balances 1772-1783 Vol. 29, Enlisted men, warrant payrolls, books 1776-1783
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1906756
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008062224?cat=729681
[564/784]
This Book contains 1st Suffolk, Col Gill's and Hawes' Regts 1776
A list of Men engaged for the Continental service
With the Towns they served for and the names of the Towns they belonged to also the
Colonels and Captains names under whom they enlisted
1st Regt Suffolk County
Colo Gills (3d Suffolk)
Hawse
1776 to
[592/784]
[No Regiment name given]
Volume 29 Page 172
The Names of the Men engaged in Service: Saml Johnson
Town they Belonged to: Balltown
Town they Serve for: Braintree
Captains Names: Langdon
Colonels names: Jackson
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| Person ID |
I37880 |
4 February 2018 |
| Last Modified |
28 Aug 2020 |
| Father |
Thomas JOHNSON, b. 19 Aug 1717, Barrington, Strafford, NH , d. Bef 1776? |
| Mother |
Esther TUTTLE, b. 7 Nov 1723, Dover, Strafford, NH , d. Fryeburg, York [Oxford], ME? |
| Married |
3 Mar 1742 |
[Dover, Strafford, NH] [5] |
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/110186?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Tuttle-Johnson genealogy
Statement of Responsibility:
compiled by Guy S. Rix
Authors: Rix, Guy S. (Guy Scoby), 1828-1917
Tuttle-Johnson genealogy
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
15586 Item 4
Tuttle - Johnson Genealogy
compiled by Guy S Rix
Concord, NH
1913
p 5
Esther Tuttle (5) John [m Elizabeth Nute] (4) John [m Judith Otis] (3) John [m Mary] (2) John [m Dorothy] (1), was born in Dover 7 November 1723. She married 3 March 1743 [sic] Thomas Johnson born 19 August 1717 and settled in Barrington, NH, where they lived until late in life, when they removed to Fryeburg, Maine. The date of his death is unknown, but his wife lived to be over 108 years of age, dying 9 October 1831.
[John Tuttle m Elizabeth Nute are said to have been married in 1728, making it unlikely they were the parents of Esther.]
Children
1. John Johnson b 28 September 1742
2. Samuel Johnson b in 1744 (19)
3. Esther Johnson b 9 August 1747 m Elijah Tuttle
4. Thomas Johnson b 15 January 1750 (20)
5. Charity Johnson b 21 March 1754 m a Hall and died 28 November 1841
6. Molly b 30 March 1756 died 13 June 1776
7. Abdrew [sic] b 17 December 1758
8. Lydia b 23 June 1762
9. David b 17 May 1765 (21)
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| Family ID |
F12651 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lydia REMICK, b. 13 Mar 1745/6, Upper Parish, York, York, ME , d. Between April 1824 and 16 Apr 1825 (Age 78 years) |
| _MARI |
3 Apr 1773 |
Pownalborough, Lincoln, ME |
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339395?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1739-1929
Authors: Wiscasset (Maine). Town Clerk
Intentions of marriage 1760-1813, family records listing births and deaths, deaths 1761-1814, ear marks, strays, pew deeds, warnings out of town, proceedings of town meetings, voting, roads, real estate, marriages 1760-1794, school district records.
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
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7596937
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007596937?cat=339395
[18/536]
Samuel Jonson of Newcastle and Lydia Remix of Pownalborough April 3d 1773
...
Certified that Samuel Jonson of Newcastle and Lydia Remix of Pownalborough has been Published according to Law April 20 177[3]
- http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2008/12/pownalborough-marriage-intentions-1760.html
Source: The Bangor Historical Magazine, vol. 4 (Bangor, Me.: J. W. Porter, 1889).
[p. 26]
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE, COPIED FROM THE RECORDS OF POWNALBOROUGH,* 1760 to 1778.
(Contributed by William D. Patterson, Esq.. of Wiscasset.)
When no town is named, the person belonged in Pownalborough.
[1773,] April 3, Samuel Jonson, Newcastle and Lydia Reonix.
- Samuel Jonson, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
groom's name: Samuel Jonson
bride's name: Lydia Remise
marriage date: 20 Apr 1773
marriage place: Civil, Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine
indexing project (batch) number: M52118-1
system origin: Maine-EASy
source film number: 12309
Samuel Jonson, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
groom's name: Samuel Jonson
bride's name: Lydia Remise
marriage date: 20 Apr 1773
marriage place: Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine
indexing project (batch) number: M52118-1
system origin: Maine-ODM
source film number: 12309
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| Married |
26 Apr 1773 |
Pownalborough, Lincoln, ME |
- http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2008/02/marriages-in-pownalborough-1760-1786.html
Source: The Bangor Historical Magazine, vol. 7 (Bangor, Me.: J. W. Porter, 1892).
[p. 81]
RECORD OF MARRIAGES IN POWNALBOROUGH (NOW WISCASSET AND DRESDEN,) 1760 TO 1786.
FROM THE TOWN RECORDS.
(Contributed by William D. Patterson, Esq., of Wiscasset.)
*When no town is named the parties belong to Pownalborough.
By Thomas Rice, Justice of the Peace :
April 26, 1773, Samuel Johnson and Lydia Remmicks.
- Samuel Johnson, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
groom's name: Samuel Johnson
bride's name: Lydia Remnicks
marriage date: 26 Apr 1773
marriage place: Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine
indexing project (batch) number: M52118-1
system origin: Maine-ODM
source film number: 12309
Samuel Johnson, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
groom's name: Samuel Johnson
bride's name: Lydia Remnicks
marriage date: 26 Apr 1773
marriage place: Civil, Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine
indexing project (batch) number: M52118-1
system origin: Maine-EASy
source film number: 12309
- https://familysearch.org/search/film/007596937?cat=339395
[18/536]
Samuel Jonson of Newcastle and Lydia Remix of Pownalborough [Banns] April 3d 1773
[178/536]
p 28
Lincoln SS April 26 1773 Then Married Samuel Johnson & Lydia Remicks both of Pownalboro [All the marriages were "both of Pownalboro"]
Thos Rice Just Peace
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F11485 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos |
 | Samuel Johnson His Plan
This is the copy of the plan of Samuel's lot as recorded in the Lincoln County Registry Books. The
survey was completed in 1790 by William Davis, brother of surveyor Isaac Davis who would purchase
a portion of the lot. |
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| Notes |
- David Terry at Battle of Monmouth
Thomas Clark at Battle of Monmouth, Battle of Rhode Island
Hollis Hutchins at Battle of Montmouth, Battle of Rhode Island
* * *
Leonard Bartlett was a witness for the Isaac Davis to Thomas Brann deed in 1804, part of the Samuel Johnson tract in Balltown.
John Johnson, Joseph Johnson 39068 and Samuel Johnson were all at Newcastle about the same time during the Revolution. Samuel was married at Wiscasset in 1773 and John in 1777. Joseph Johnson is said to have been from Lee, Strafford, NH and John Johnson from Cambridge, Middlesex, MA.
* * *
Samuel Johnson s Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle? The family came from Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire. Two sons, including David, moved to Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine. A daughter Lydia settled in Lovell, Oxford, Maine. Lovell is adjacent to Fryeburg.
The Whitefield town records record a David Johnson s David Johnson b November 1800. Census records put his birth later and in New Hampshire. This David is likely the son of David Johnson m Martha Carter r Fryeburg.
Another Johnson in the Newcastle/Balltown area was Joseph Johnson b c 1751 Lee, Strafford, NH. He and Samuel Johnson belonged to Jackson's Company, Bayley's Regiment during the Revolutionary War.
If Samuel Johnson came from New Hampshire and settled in Newcastle and then Balltown, this would explain why New Hampshire origins were recalled by Sarah Johnson McClelland d Samuel Johnson m Sarah.
* * *
Jonathan Munsey and family from Durham (Lee) c 1765.
* * *
Note: John Bamford lived at Balltown and went to New Brunswick about the time Samuel Johnson did. He is said to have been from Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire. Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle (who later settled at Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine) is also from Barrington. Thomas and Esther are said to have had a son Samuel born about 1744. I have not been able to trace this Samuel Johnson.
* * *
Samuel McLain lived in Newcastle and owned a Tappan Lot. He later lived in Waldoborough. He was the son of William McLain and Elizabeth JOHNSON. Elizabeth Johnson was born about 1735, some say in Bristol, Maine.
* * *
William Johnson 39486 m Susanna b Andover, Essex, MA d Sheepscot 1746. Children born at Sheepscot 1739, 1742
* * *
Timothy Blake, father of Timothy Blake m Joanna Greenlaw, was a Sergeant in the same regiment during the Revolutionary War. Timothy Blake was Samuel Johnson's Sergeant in Lieut John Hobby's Company, Henry Jackson's Regiment 1777-1779. See his file for more information.
***
The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle: Nil
Early town records of Newcastle, Maine, from June 24, 1756, to January 6, 1779: Nil
Valuation Pownalborough 1771: Nil
The Petition & memorial of the towns of Bristol, Nobleborough, New-Castle, Edgcomb, and Boothbay, in the county of Lincoln: Nil
Newcastle Census 1783: Nil http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2010/06/census-and-valuation-of-newcastle-1783.html
Vital Records of Edgecomb & Newcastle (Skidompha Library typescript): Nil
A History of Newcastle, Maine (Palmer): Nil [quick skim]
Census 1820: Nil
The Town Register: Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Whitefield, Alna, Woolwich, Dresden: Nil [Whitefield records 437/615: Including list of "freeholders and other inhabitants of Balltown qualified by law to vote"]
Whitefield Historical Society - Alphabetical List of Families 1826-1858 (Vol 2, Town Records Whitfield): Nil
Lincoln County Probate Records Vol 13 - 22: Nil [Checked twice]
Lincoln County Registry Books: Checked indexes book by book until 1790
Kennebec County Probate Vol 6 - 13, 15, 29: Nil [Checked twice]
Maine at Valley Forge: proceedings at the unveiling of the Maine marker, October 17, 1907; also roll of Maine men at Valley Forge 2d ed.: Nil
Balltown Valuation 1792: Jonson
Balltown Valuation 1797: Nil
Balltown Valuation 1801: Nil
Jefferson Valuation 1810: Nil
Whitefield Valuation 1810: Nil
Pownalborough 1783: Nil
Pownalborough 1784: Nil
1783: Newcastle available [see above]
1784: Balltown available aggregate
1791: Balltown available. Newcastle available. Aggregate
1792: Balltown available.
1800: Balltown available
1801: Balltown available
1811: Balltown available aggregate
Massachusetts [Maine] Direct Tax 1798: Nil [Records from Balltown don't seem to survive]
York County Probate: Nil
Balltown Treasurer's Book 1789-1830: Nil [Per Libby Harmon, Whitefield Historical Society]
Kennebec County Deeds [Online]: Nil
There don't appear to be any Remicks who served in the same units as Samuel Johnson.
Lincoln County Court of General Sessions through 1785 [435/1111]: Checked
Lincoln County Registry Books - c 1819 Volume 101: Checked
Colonial Wars: Nil
Cumberland County Registry of Deeds: Samuel Johnson r Cape Elizabeth
Samuel Johnson b 17 April 1742 Andover, Essex s Asa Johnson m Ann Kettle [Children went to Albany, Phippsburg and Limerick; Oxford, York and Sagadahoc Cos]
Samuel Johnson bap 24 March 1745 Harvard, Worcester s Samuel Johnson m Rebecca [Niles?]
Samuel Johnson b c 1748 Charlestown, Suffolk, MA s Isaac Johnson m Catherine Dowse [first wife Mary Remick]
Samuel Johnson b 1749 Woburn, Essex, MA s Samuel Johnson m Elizabeth Kendall [Children to NY and NH]
Samuel Johnson b September 1748 Rowley, Essex s William [m? Susanna Sibley?]
Samuel Johnson b 30 December 1753 s Obed Johnson m Abigail
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Samuel Johnson sold land to William Cressey, who moved to Saint Patrick, Charlotte, NB.
Samuel Johnson sold land to William Palmer m Rachel Decker. Is he the same who m Joanna Greenlaw?
- Strafford County, New Hampshire, must be looked at as a possible birthplace of Samuel Johnson for several reasons.
Dover 1623
-1729 Somersworth Parish. 1754 town. [Sligo]
-1732 Durham [Oyster River Plantation]
-1755 Madbury Parish. 1775 town. [Barbadoes]
-1766 Lee from Durham
Barrington 1722
-1820 Strafford
1. Possible New Hampshire origins.
2. Madbury. Mary and Lydia Remick.
3. Joseph Johnson.
4. Josiah Johnson
5. DNA evidence. Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle.
6. Thomas Johnson's missing son Samuel.
7. William White and David Johnson
8. The Elwells
9. The Gliddens
10. John Bamford. The Whittiers.
1. The Johnson family of St Andrews has long been known to have been from the US. Most evidence points to Samuel Johnson r Waweig to have been from Maine, and this seems to bear out. There is one mention by Sarah d Samuel that he was from New Hampshire. This piece of data could have been an error on the part of the census taker, or confusion on the part of Sarah, or simply a family memory of New Hampshire origins, somewhere back in the line.
2. Settlers of the Sheepscot were from the coastal areas of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Although there were attempts at settlement of the area earlier, earnest and succesful settlement didn't begin until the mid-1700s. Samuel Johnson and Lydia Remick were both part of this migration north in Maine. Lydia Remick was born in York, Maine in 1746. During that time there was frequent migration across the Piscataquis River into Strafford County. In fact, Lydia's half-sister Mary Elwell Otis lived in Barrington. Lydia's mother Mary is said to have died in Dover, but no evidence substantiates this.
In 1765, Mary Remick and her daughter Lydia were warned out of Madbury (I have not been able to confirm this yet). It was around this time that Lydia Grover m Elisha Kinney, Ebenezer Grover m Martha Grant (and perhaps Mercy Grover m Alexander Grant), and their families moved to the Sheepscot region. Perhaps Lydia Remick and her brother Joseph Remick (and perhaps their mother) moved with the whole family as a group.
3. Joseph Johnson lived in both Newcastle and Balltown. He enlisted with the Continental Army in 1777 and served about 4 years. One document gives his birthplace as Lee, New Hamsphire. (I have not been able to locate this document, but it is alluded to in the Massachusetts Revolutionary War military records compliation. The data is probably from Massachusetts Militia records, which are not filed with the Continental Army records.)
There were no Johnson men in Lee in 1776 nor any Johnson households in Lee in 1790. One family of Johnsons did live there as late as 1772. Josiah Johnson was mentioned in the Lee records in 1768 as a field driver and hog reeve, in 1771 as a fence driver, and 1772 as a tithing man. Four children of Josiah were baptized by the Rev Hugh Adams in Durham in the 1750s, including a Joseph who is no doubt the same Joseph. Samuel Johnson may be another son, but no records substantiate this.
4. Joseph Johnson of Newcastle and Balltown was likely the Joseph Johnson baptized 1758 s Josiah Johnson. Josiah Johnson lived in Lee as early as 1750, when it was still part of Durham, but later moved with his son Gideon to Middleton, also in Strafford County. He apparently was the same Josiah Johnson who was granted land at Brownfield, Maine, in 1771. Fryeburg and Brownfield were granted for consideration of the service of General Frye and Captain Brown in the French War. Families were settled there in the 1770s, but apparently Josiah Johnson's wasn't one of them, as he remained in Lee. However, two sons of Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle setted in Fryeburg in the 1790s.
5. Two descendants of Samuel Johnson and a descendant of Thomas Johnson and Esther Tuttle share a segment in common on Chromosome 6. It is possible that they share a common ancestors as close as 6-8 generations back. Considering the three descendants triangulate on the same segment, and the size of the segments, the confidence of the same common ancestor is quite high.
6. I have found few records of Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle, but they put him in Barrington, Strafford, NH, as early as 1742 and as late as 1773. A family history of the Tuttles cites a manuscript describing their family of 10 children. All of the children have been traced except for John and Samuel. John was injured during a military engagement in 1760, and his father petitioned for compensation. It is unclear what became of him. There is no information about Samuel s Thomas apart from the year of his birth, said to be 1744. Is Samuel Johnson s Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle the Samuel Johnson who went to Sheepscot?
7. William White was living in Conway in 1790, a town in New Hampshire abutting Fryeburg. He had moved to New Milford [Alna] by 1800 and Whitefield by 1810. His one known child Joseph was born in 1785, lived in Whitefield, East Bridgewater and eventually Augusta, where he died. When Whitefield compiled the family data of its residents in 1826, David Johnson was living with the Whites.
David Johnson was the son of David Johnson m Martha Carter from Fryeburg. He seemed to follow William White to Sheepscot, perhaps for work. Joseph White's middle initial was C; perhaps he was related to David's mother Martha Carter Johnson. David Johnson married in Fryeburg in 1834, lived in Whitefield with his family in 1840, but settled eventually in Farmington, Strafford, New Hampshire, where his family can be found in the census in subsequent enumerations. David appeared to still travel north to Sheepscot, again perhaps for work, as late as 1860.
Apart from the possibility that Samuel Johnson r Whitefield may be Samuel Johnson s Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle, there doesn't seem to been a connection between Sheepscot and Fryeburg. William and Mary White may be relatives of David Johnson, and so might Samuel Johnson.
8. Before Lydia Remick's mother Mary Grover married Jacob Remick, she was married to Benjamin Elwell. At least one of their three children were known to survive until adulthood: Mary Elwell. Mary Elwell married Stephen Otis and settled in Barrington before 1776. They had numerous children, most of whom remained in Strafford County. On son Hezekiah moved to Fairfield, Maine, in the 1810s. He seems to have followed his brother Elwell to the Kennebec Valley. Elwell Otis died near Waterville about 1810. It appears another brother Thomas Otis settled in Wiscasset before 1810.
9. Samuel Johnson has more direct connections with the Gliddens from New Hampshire: he bought his farm in Balltown from a Glidden, and his son Samuel married a Glidden.
From early on the Gliddens had lived in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, primarily in Portsmouth and Exeter. Later generations spread out, particularly to Durham. Joseph Glidden m Mary Smart and their family moved from Exeter to Durham some time in the 1730s, settling in the part that later became Lee. His sons Tobias, Joseph and Zebulon moved to Newcastle, Maine, some time in the 1760s. Zebulon later returned to New Hampshire.
Joseph Glidden Sr's nephew Charles Glidden had moved to the Sheepscot area the decade before. Several of Charles's children settled Balltown the same time Samuel Johnson did. These were the Gliddens that Samuel was closer to. He purchased his farm from Charles Glidden's son Charles, and Samuel Jr married his daughter Mary.
It is likely that Joseph Johnson knew the Gliddens, following them (along the general migration) to Newcastle and Balltown. Samuel Johnson likely did the same.
10. John Bamford came from Barrington. He went to the Sheepscot area and married there by 1794, settling at Balltown by 1797. Around 1810, he and his family left Balltown and went to Charlotte County, settling in St David.
Joseph Whittier was from Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire. He and his family lived at Nottingham, son Henry was born at Deerfield, both a town or away from Barrington and Durham. By 1790 the Whittiers were in Pownalborough. By 1810, sons Henry and Reuben had moved to Charlotte County. Reuben returned to Maine, but Henry settled in Saint Patrick.
John Bamford and Henry Whittier are two examples of folks who were from New Hampshire, and lived in the Sheepscot area and later Charlotte County.
Conclusion
The hinterlands of New Hampshire and Maine were successfully settled in the middle of the 1700s. After the Revolutionary War, some of those folks went to New Brunswick. Samuel Johnson of Balltown may have been part of the emigration from Strafford New Hampshire. In fact, he may be connected to the Johnsons in Barrington who settled Fryeburg. Whether he is the same Samuel Johnson who is the son of Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle is hard to say. The Joseph Johnson from Lee who went to Newcastle and Balltown could be a brother, and son of Josiah Johnson of Durham/Lee. But Thomas Johnson and Josiah Johnson may be connected as well.
- Is there a connection between Samuel Johnson m Lydia Remick, Josiah Johnson of Lee, and Thomas Johnson m Esther Tuttle?
1. Samuel Johnson was born about 1745. He was living at Newcastle, Maine, in 1773 when he was married, and moved to Balltown. He served in the Continental Army. His descendants claimed New Hampshire ancestry.
2. Joseph Johnson was born in Lee, most likely the son of Josiah Johnson. He was living in Newcastle, Maine, in the 1770s, and later at Balltown. He served in the Continental Army. It is unclear what happend to Joseph after the war, but he may have returned to New Hampshire.
3. Thomas Johnson was said to have had a son named Samuel who was born in 1744, but nothing more is known about him. Descendants of Thomas Johnson and descendants of Samuel Johnson both share a segment on Chromosome 6, but it is unclear if the segment came through the Thomas Johnson line.
4. Thomas Johnson was probably the same who was assessed at Cocheco Parish, Dover in 1741, moving to Barrington by 1742. Josiah Johnson was living in Durham as early as 1747. Durham was part of Dover unil 1732, and Lee part of Durham until 1766.
5. Josiah Johnson was apparently granted land in Conway and Eaton in 1765 and 1766, although he didn't settle there. Thomas Johnson's sons Andrew and David, and daughter Lydia were living in Fryeburg, Maine, adjacent to Conway, by 1797. There was a Samuel Johnson who claimed land in Conway around 1765.
- There were several Johnsons in Strafford County before 1750. How and if they are related to each other is not obvious. One possibility is that they are brothers.
Thomas Johnson was born in 1717, according to a history of the Tuttle family. It was probably him who was assessed at Dover in 1741 and Barrington in 1742. He was still living at Barrington as late as 1773 when he and other inhabitants of Barrington made a petition to the Province for a Justice of the Peace. He was not on a list of men in 1776 in Barrington associated with the Revolution, nor were his sons. Nor were they on the list of those who refused to sign. Were they in Barrington? Sons Thomas and James were living in Barrington in 1790, and deeds seem to support their continual residence in Barrington. Andrew and David, sons of Thomas, moved to Hales Location [North Conway] by 1790 and before 1800 to Fryeburg.
Joseph Johnson baptized two sons in 1739 and 1740 at the meeting house in the part of Dover that later became Madbury. He was probably the Joseph Johnson assessed at 1742 in Barrington. Neither Joseph nor his two children can be traced after 1742. Who were they? Where did they go? Were they related to Thomas m Esther Tuttle?
The earliest record of Josiah Johnson is found in the town records of Durham. In March of 1750 he was appointed one of the hog reeves of the town. Later that year the Rev Hughs baptized a son and daughter of his. Another daughter was baptized in 1757, and a son in 1758. He lived in the part of Durham that later was set off as Lee, and signed a petition to incorporate Lee in 1765. He and his son Gideon moved to Middleton in 1773, but Gideon had been at work clearing land there as early as 1769. Josiah was living as late as 1801.
Josiah of Durham/Lee and Middleton, was probably the same Josiah Johnson who was granted land in Conway and Eaton in 1765 and 1766. Settlement of Conway and Eaton began to around the same time as Brownfield and Fryeburg. Josiah apparently never settled his land there, and sold out in the 1780s. Since Thomas Johnson's children settled Fryeburg in the 1790s, there appears to be a trend of settlers from the Durham area. Additionally, a John Johnson was also granted land in Conway and Eaton. Was this the John Johnson of Durham who married Mary Kenniston?
The other Johnson in the Durahm area in the mid-1700s was John Johnson. The John Johnson who was married to Mary Kenniston in 1752 at Durham was probably the same who had three children baptized in the 1750s and 1760. Was he the same John Johnson who was granted land in Conway and Eaton? And the same John Johnson who, with wife Deborah, had a daughter whose birth is recorded at Barrington in 1769? None of either of these families can be traced.
The coincident movements of these four families, plus their Strafford County origins, suggest a relationship, altough it is unlikley it will be proven.
- Evidence for children
Samuel Johnson died without a will. The Town of Whitefield handled his estate and apparently didn't report anything to the Probate Court of Lincoln County. In 1812 an administrator was appointed to settle his estate. It appears that he sold most of his land by 1807. In fact, for the 1811 town tax Samuel Johnson was not rateable. The matter of his estate was again taken up by the Town in 1816. In 1819 the Widow Johnson first appeared on the poor rolls in Whitefield.
The fact that Samuel's wife or children were not administrators on his estate, and that the Widow Johnson had to be bid off to townsfolk as a pauper, suggests that his children were dead or gone. There were four probable children, three of whom are theorized: Samuel Jr left for New Brunswick before 1804. David married, but his wife seems to have died soon thereafter. No records exist for David after 1800. By 1810 Mary Jane had married and settled in China (Harlem), Maine,some 25 miles from Whitefield.
There were four children in the Samuel Johnson's 1790 household. Were they his children? Three of the same appear in the 1800 census.
Samuel: Samuel Johnson Jr appears as a head of household in the 1800 census; Samuel Johnson Sr's household is less 1 child. Samuel Johnson and Samuel Johnson Jr are named together disposing of land in Jefferson in 1801. [Is Samuel Jr the same Samuel that later lived in Waweig, NB? See file for Samuel Jr]
David: David Johnson was a resident of Balltown in 1799 when he was married. Although there were two Johnson families living in the plantation at that time, only one has an unaccounte-for son. [The family of John Johnson m Martha Whitehouse is well documented.] He was married in Harlem/China, the same as Mary Jane. He was born about the right time. He was married a Baptist. There is a person in Samuel Johnson Senior's 1800 census household who fits the description of this David Johnson, ie he is the right age. Considering that there is no census household headed by the David Johnson who married Polly Evans; and the above mentioned 1800 didn't enumerate an unaccounted for woman; then Polly Evans Johnson may have died soon after their marriage. No further records exist for David Johnson either. Did they die from some communicable disease such as consumption?
Mary: Mary Jane Johnson was a resident of Balltown in 1799 when she was married. Although there were two Johnson families living in the plantation at that time, only onehas an unaccounted-for daughter. [The family of John Johnson m Martha Whitehouse is well documented.] She was born about the right time. She was married a Baptist. She named a son Samuel Johnson Evans.
- Others in Ebenezer Thayer's 5th Suffolk who enlisted the same time as Samuel Johnson:
Cornelius Stilphen. Pownalborough: Langdon, Jackson
Amos Allen. Pownalborough: Langdon, Jackson
Ezekiel Averill. Pownalborough: Langdon, Jackson
John Letton. Newcastle: Langdon, Jackson [possibly John Leighton m Lois Worcester s Jonathan Leighton m Mary Boynton. His brother Moses Leighton m Rebecca Worcester appears to be the father of Lois Leighton who married Henry Whittier, settler of Saint Patrick, New Brunswick, not long after Samuel Johnson arrived.]
*Joseph Carr. Georgetown: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 3 p 134
*Tristram Daget. Pownalborough: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 4 p 349
*Ichabod Douty. Brunswick, Kennebec: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 4 p 906
*Isaac Harden. Georgetown: Langdon, Jackson;. Volume 7 p 251
Daniel Lines Pownalborough Langdon
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War
p 28
Cornelius Stilphen, Pownalborough. Return of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from Col Ebenezer Thayer Jr's (5th Suffolk Co) regt, dated Braintree, 20 January 1778; residence Pownalborough; engaged for the the town of Braintree; joined Capt Langdon's Co, Col H Jackson's regt; term 3 years.
Volume 1
p 137
Amos Allen. Pownalborough. Return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Col Ebenezer Thayer Jr's (5th Suffolk Co) regt, dated Braintree, 20 January 1778; residence Pownalborough; enlisted for town of Braintree; joined Capt John Langdon's co, Col Henry Jackson's regt; enlistment 3 years;
also
Private, Light Infantry co, Col Jackson's regt; Continental Army pay accounts for service from 10 October 1777 to 31 December 1779; reported deserted 8 August 1779; returned 25 October 1779;
also
Capt Langdon's co, Col Jackson's regt; pay roll for February 1778 dated Lancaster
also
pay rolls for June, July, August 1778, dated Providence
also
pay roll for September 1778 dated Pawtuxet
also
Lieut Thomas H Condy's co; Col Jackson's regt; pay roll for November 1778
also
pay roll for February 1779 dated Pawtuxet
also
pay roll for March 1779
also
Capt William Scott's 4th (Light Infantry) co (later commanded by Ensign William Rickard); muster roll for April 1799 dated Garrison at Pawtuxet
also
Continental Army pay accounts for service from 1 January 1780 to 27 November 1780
Volume 1
p 363
Ezekiel Averell, Pownalborough. Return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Col Ebenezer Thayer Jr's (5th Suffolk Co) regt dated Braintree 20 January 1778; residence Pownalborough; enlisted for town of Braintree; joined Capt Langdon's co; Col Henry Jackson's regt; enlistment 3 years.
Volume 1
p 967
Joseph Benoit. Return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Col Ebenezer Thayer Jr's (5th Suffolk Co) regt dated Braintree 20 January 1778; enlisted for town of Braintree; joined Capt Langdon's co, Col Crane's regt; enlistment 3 years; reported a transient; mustered by Nathaniel Barber, Muster Master.
Volume 9
p 716
John Letton. New Castle. Return of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from Col Ebenezer Thayer, Jr's (5th Suffolk Co) regt, dated Braintree, 20 January 1778; residence, New Castle; engaged for town of Braintree; joined Capt Langdon's Co, Col H Jackson's regt; term, 3 years.
Others on 20 January 1778 muster
John Thomas. Newburyport, Newbury
Edward Bass. Braintree
William Lynes
Reuben Skillings. Cape Elizabeth
Samuel Wescut. Cape Elizabeth
Nehemiah Vickery. Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Royalsborough
Beza Burrell. Topsham
David Burrell. Braintree
Ebenezer Brown. Braintree North Parish
William Blanchard. Stoughton, West Indes, Braintree
Solomon Bloom
Oliver Blosom
William Brackett. Braintree
*Joseph Carr. Georgetown: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 3 p 134
? Ceaser. Braintree
Paul Clarck. Braintree
Samuel Cole. Falmouth
John Chandley
William Dodge. Boston
*Ichabod Douty. Brunswick, Kennebec: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 4 p 906
Michael Davis. New Boston, Gray, Old York
Jonathan Curtis. Braintree
Joseph Curtis. Braintree
*Tristram Daget. Pownalborough: Langdon, Jackson. Volume 4 p 349
Francis Fontrey
Archibald Edministon
Seth Dutton. New Boston, Gray
Benjamin Dyer. Braintree
Elijah French. Braintree
James Grandy. Braintree
Joseph Hayden. Braintree
Ziba Hayden. Braintree
*Isaac Harden. Georgetown: Langdon, Jackson;. Volume 7 p 251
Stephen Hollis. Braintree
- 300 Acres In Balltown from Sheepscot East to Travel Pond straddling the Whitefield/Jefferson Line 1 mile by 1/2 mile
[I Checked both the master index, and each volume individually for Charles Glidden, Daniel Plummer and John Plummer, but cannot find acquisition.]
Includes in Jefferson Plan ~128 acres: David Dodge, James N Cooper
Inculdes in Whitefield Plan ~172 acres [Scammon Plan original 1816 continually revised compiled map later in the century]: No 6 James Cooper 64 - 25; No 7 Nehemiah Turner 42 acres; No 8 Nathaniel Plain 43 2 20; Johnson 22 acres [Maybe also: No 4 Samuel Plain 20 acres; No 5 James Cooper 19 1 14]
Centennial celebration of the town of Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, U.S.A.
The historical address
p 32
Charles Glidden moved from Damariscotta in 1772 and took up the land bounded on the south by the road leading from Jefferson to Cooper's Mills, on the west by the Sheepscot river, on the north by the present town of Somerville, and on the east by Travel Pond. At the time of settlement he was six miles from any public road. He had two sons, Charles and William. William built the saw and grist mill at Cooper's Mills.
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Charles Glidden [m Thankful Rogers s Charles Glidden m Abigail Weathern] and Daniel Plummer [s John Plummer m Mary] yeoman both "of a place called Ballstown" [See Charles Glidden for deeds index. Plummer deeds index on file from c 1770-1790s] [Gliddens came from Exeter, NH, Plummers from Rowley, Mass. The Gliddens must have some connection to Rowley, as Charles Glidden's father's death was recorded there.]
Know all men by these presents that we Charles Glidden and Daniel Plumer both of a place called Ballstown in the County of Lincoln & Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeomen in consideration of the sum of five shillings lawful money paid us in hand by Samuel Johnstone of the same place called Ballstown yeoman, the Receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and for divers other good causes and considerations hereunto moving do our selves & our heirs remise release sell and forever quitclaim unto the said Samuel Johnstone a certain tract of land situated in said Ballstown and bounded as follows beginning on the eastern side of Sheepscutt River at the North Northwest corner bounds of land now owned by Abraham Heath from thence running south southeast one mile to stake & stones from thence running East North East fifty rods to stake and stones from thence running North North west to Sheepscutt River aforesaid from thence running by said River to the bounds first mentioned, together with all the Estate, right, title, Interest, use, property, claim & Demand whatsoever of ours the said Charles & the said Daniel which we now have or at any time heretofore had, of in & to the aforementioned premises with the appurtenances or to any part therefor which at any time heretofore has been held used occupied or conjoyned as part or parcel of the same.~To have and to hold all the aforegranted & bargained premises wth the appurenances to him the said Samuel Johnstone & to his Heirs and Assigns forever, with the Reversion & reversions remainder and remainders thereof; or any part or parcel thereof forever. So that neither we the said Charles & said Daniel or either of us nor our Heirs, nor any other person or persons claiming from or under us or them or in the name right or stead of us or them, shall or will by any way or means have claim challenge or Demand any estate right title or Interest of in & to the aforesaid premises with the appurtenances, or any part or parcel thereof forever. In witness whereof we the said Charles Glidden & Daniel Plummer have hereunto set our hands & seals this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Ninety two.
Charles Glidden [His mark & a seal]
Daniel Plummer [& a seal
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of
Orchard Cook
Lincon SS April 3d 1792
then the above named Charles Glidden & Daniel Plummer acknowledge the above Instrument to be their Act & Deed before me Orchard Cook Justice of Peace
Recd Novr 26 1793 & entered & examined
by Thos Rice Regr
Book 31 Page 264 Saml Johnston's Plan
The above figure describes a tract of land run out for Samuel Johnson containing 300 acres butted and bounded as follows
first beginning at a hemlock tree marked on 4 sides at Abraham Heath's NW corner
from thence running ESE 320 poles to a ash tree marked on four sides
from thence running NNE 150 poles to Travel Pond to an Ash tree marked on 4 sides
from thence running NNW to the River to a white maple tree marked on 4 sides
from thence down the river to the bound first mentioned
bounds run out in the year 1790 by William Davis, Sworn Surveyor of Land
Recd Nov 26th 1793 & entered & examined
Orchard Cook: [Newcastle/Pownalborough/Wiscasset; m Mary Hodge s Jonathan Cook m Mehitable Grant]
Abraham Heath [m Mary Bran]
- History of Ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle
By Rev David Quimby Cushman
1882
p 208
24 December 1776
"The Town are together and agree to pay a Bounty of Twenty Dollars to each man who shall "enlist, march and continue in the service three months; and that the sums shall be assessed in five days; and in five days more, paid into the Treasury of the Town."
p 211
22 December 1777
"Agreeable to the recommendation of General Court the Town votes 30 pounds for the benefit of the soldiers' families, and the Selectmen were appointed a committee for that purpose.""
16 March 1778
"One seventh part of the male population were in the Continental Army. Town on May 28th [1778] voted to supply their clothing. The assessment was made by a rate. The people manufactured and made the articles. Fifty pounds were also raised for the support of the soldiers' wives who belonged in Town."
p 213
6 January 1779
"Town voted to raise fifty pounds for the Soldiers' families."
p 346
Soldiers in the Late War
Privates
Charles W Johnston
- https://archive.org/details/mainehistoricalm00bang
Volume: 1893 The Maine historical magazine
Publisher: Bangor, Me. : Joseph W. Porter
Year: 1891
Pages: 514
Volume 7 October November December 1891
Nos 4 5 6
p 72
PETITION FOR GRANT OF LANDS BETWEEN PENOBSCOT AND ST. CROIX, 1762
FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES.
Contributed by R. G. F. Cundage, of Brookline, Mass,
These papers have not been printed before in the knowledge of the writer. They have been often referred to. They contain the names of many of the early settlers, who are still represented in the families in Bucksport, Orland, Penobscot, Blue Hill, Sedgwick and Surry, which were the towns laid out under the petition between Penobscot and Union rivers. Some of the names may be found in other towns Gouldsborough, Cherryiield, Brewer, Orrington, Deer Isle and others.
Haverhill. January ye 6th, 1762.
To Messrs. David Marsh, Enoch Bartlet, James McHard Esq'r, James Duncan, C'pt Edmond Moors, C'pt Peter Parker, Dudley Calton, Benj. Harrod.
We the Subscribers being desirous of settling some of the Land upon the Sea Coasts or Rivers between the Lands belonging to the Heirs of the Late Honourable Brigadier General Waldo and the River Passamaquade or St. Croix desire our Names may be carryed to the great and General Court at their next session with a Petition which we desire you'll please to draw and Lay betore the same for Lands within s'd Limits for the purposes aforesaid.
[including]
David Remick [? s James Remick m Abigail Benjamin m Susanna Whittier d Haverhill 1793]
John Jonston
Jesse Jonston
Thomas Jonston
Caleb Jonston
Nathaniell Jonston
Daniell Jonston
Elias Jonston
Hanes Jonston
Joseph Johnston
Samuell Johnston
Samuel Johnston
- Genealogical Advertiser Volume III Number 1 March 1900
Lincoln County, Maine, Petitions
[Massachusetts Archives Vol 116 pp 263-274]
in reference to the earlier printer "Petition of the Inhabitants of Kennebec River for Protection" dated 22 April 1755
Petition not dated [November 1752] action in the House of Representatives 28 November 1752
p 7
[p 271]
William Johnson
...
[p 272]
James Johnston
p 8
[p 272]
Arnold Wethun
Charles Glidden
- Margaret Johnson r Newcastle c 1765
Court records, 1761-1989
Authors: Maine. Court of General Sessions (Lincoln County)
[254/1111]
At his Majesty's Court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Pownalborough within and for the County of Lincoln on the first Tuesday of June being the 4th Day of said Month Anno qe Dom 1765
[256/1111]
James Campbell of New Castle in the County of Lincoln recognized in L20 & Benjamin Woodbridge gent, & Samuel Waters yeoman, both of said New Castle, as Sureties in L10 each with Condition that he the said James appear at the next Sessions to answer to the Complaint of Margaret Johnson of Pownalboro Single Woman, for having committed the Crime of Fornication with her
[258/1111]
At his Majesty's Court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Pownalborough within and for the County of Lincoln on the last Tuesday of September, being the 24th Day of said Month Anno qe Domini 1765
[263/1111]
Dom Rex v James Campbell of NewCastle, who was at this Term is ordered to go without Day & discharged of his Recognizance by proclamations Costs taxes at L 0 13 8
- John, Daniel or David Plummer grantees Lincoln County Deeds -1793
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Jos Chamberlain to David Plummer 221
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Joshua Chamberland husbandmand Pownalborough
David Plummer cordwainer Pownalborough
33 6 8
land in Pownalborough
beginning 34 poles at right angles to the southward of the northeast corner of my lot on the west side of the Sheepscutt River
at a stake on the bank of the river
thence running south 87 1/2 degrees west 41 poles to a pine tree
thence running south 11 degrees west 38 1/2 poles to a small red oak
thence running southwest to the head line of my lot about 260 poles
thence running northwest to my corner bounds
thence running northeast on my north lineto the Sheepscutt Rive
thence down said river to the first mentioned bounds
30 acres
part of Lot 65 on the proprietors plan
29 August 1763
Joshua Chamerlain
Hannah Chamberlain [Her mark]
Wit: David Nelson, Daniel Scott
Volume 3 Page 221
[236/289]
Joshua Chamberlain husbandman Pownalborough
David Plummer cordwainer Pownalborough
33 5 8
land in Pownalborough
beginning at the south side of Sheepscut River adjoining to Mr Askins's lot at a white pine tree
running southwest 320 poles
then running northwest 75 poles
then running northeast to the river
then to the bounds first mentioned down said river
13 September 1763
Josiah Chamberlain
Wit: Daniel Scott
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Book 7 [1769-1770]
David Nelson to John Plumer 197
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David Nelson joiner Pownalborough
John & David Plummer yeoman Pownalborough
30 pounds
land in Newcastle
beginning on the east side of Sheepscut River at white pine tree marked four sides
adjoining to land of Solomon Hearleys originally Nehemiah Summers?
running 320 poles northeast
then 25 poles northwest
then running southwest to said river
then down said river to the bounds first mentioned
50 acres
11 March 1767
David Nelson
Wit: Elias Cheney, Daniel Scott
Book 8 [1770-1772]
Joshua Chamberland to David and John Plumer 145 [Pownalborough]
Book 12 [1776-1778]
Caleb Cresey to Josiah Plumer et al 152 [100 acres Newcastle East side Sheepscot]
David Nelson to John Plumer 153 [50 acres Pownalborough]
Book 13 [1778-1781]
Bodwich to Plumer & Trask 250 [1/3 sawmill Hallowell]
Book 16 [1782-1784]
David Nelson to John Plumer et al 92 [Pownalborough]
Jeremiah Nelson to John Plumer 93 [Pownalborough]
John Nelson to John Plumer 94
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David Nelson yeoman Pownalborough
John Plumer and David Plumer yeoman Pownalborough
233 5 8
land lying in Pownalboro and the lower saw mill and priviledge on the Sheepsscut River
beginning on the westerly side of Sheepscut River at a stake and stones on the edge of said river
thence westwardly to a large white pine tree
running southwest to the cross road
thence by said road running to said Plumers north line
thence running up the County Road 26 poles
thence running southwest 320 rods
thence running northwest 49 poles
thence northeast 320 poles to Sheepsscutt river
thence running down the river to the first mentioned bounds
100 acres
7 March 1782
John Nelson
Wit: Samuel Dudley Jr, John Nelson
Volume 16 Page 93
[62/567]
Jeremiah Nelson yeoman Pownalborough
David Plumer yeoman Pownalborough
1600 pounds
the one half of the upper saw mill standing on land owned by John Nelson in Pownalborough on the southern side of Sheepscutt Ruver
1 March 1780
Jeremiah Nelson
Mary Nelson
Wit: John Plumer, Thaddeus Bayley
Volume 16 Page 94
[63/567]
John Nelson yeoman Pownalborough
John Plumer yeoman Pownalborough
200 13 4
half the upper saw mill standing on the westerly side of Sheepscut River
adjoining to the land belonging to me the said John Nelson
which said mill the other half belonging to David Plumer
6 March 1782 ("and in the sixth year of American Independence")
John Nelson
Abigail Nelson
Wit: Daniel Scott, Stewart Hunt
[67/463]
Book 21 [1787-1788]
Daniel Plumer to Josiah Plumer 64
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David Plumer yeoman Pownalborough
John Plumer yeoman Pownalborough
115 pounds
lot of land lying in Pownalborough being the same lot that I and John Plumer purchased of David Nelson 7 March 1782
2 October 1787
David Plummer
Sarah Plummer
Wit: Henry Hodge, Thomas Rice
[Volume 21 Page 64
[308/515]
Daniel Plumer yeoman Balltown
Josiah Plumer cordwainer Balltown
40 pounds
interest and demand which I have in a certain lot of land lying in Balltown which I purchased in common with the said Josiah of one Caleb Cressey 13 April 1777 Volume 12 Page 152, 153
22 September 1787
Daniel Plumer
Wit: Thomas Rice, Rebecca Rice
[69/463]
Book 26
Bedfield Plumer to John Plummer 284
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John Plummer yeoman Bristol
Book 28 [1791-1792]
Joseph Trask to Daniel Plummer 109 [60 acres Balltown]
- 1777: Resided Balltown
1790: Resided Balltown
1791: Assessed for 300 acres, 2 of which were improved.
1792: Acquired quitclaim deed of 300 acres on the east side of the Sheepscot in Balltown for "in consideration of the sum of five shillings lawful money...and for divers other good causes and considerations." Extended from the river to travel pond, straddling the present Whitefield/Jefferson line.
1792: Assessed for 150 unimproved acres, 50 acres unimproveable, 1 acre tilled, 2 acres mowed
1797: Not assessed
1801: Not assessed
1801: Quitclaim deed with Joseph Trask to Abijah Grant, 25 acres between the river and the road, abutting Abraham Heath, for $100.
1801: Quitclaim deed with Samuel Johnson Jr to Isaac Davis, 100 acres in Jefferson, for $100.
1807: Quitclaim deed to Samuel Gilman 50 acres on the west side of the road, for $100.
1810: Not assessed
1811: Assessed not rateable, not supported by the town.
1812: Town appoints Samuel Gray to administer on the estate of Samuel Johnson
1816: Town appoints Eliakim Scammon to administer on the estate of Samuel Johnson
Paid 1792: 300 acres: 5 shillings and for divers other good causes and consideration
1801: 25 acres: $100 to Johnson and Joseph Trask
1801: 100 acres: $100 to Jr & Sr
1807: 50 acres: $100
The history of Samuel Johnson's land in Balltown can also be seen as the story of his poverty, his attempt to rise out of it, and his failure to do so. Settling in the Sheepscot valley and squatting on disputed land could have made Samuel a pioneer, an adventurer, or even a speculator. But it probably just reflected a need to move from the well-settled and more expensive southern communites, where he probably was born. To better his situation, he moved to the Maine back country, married, volunteered in the Continental Army, worked a farm and bought a large tract of land. Yet, even with three sons and land, he was not able to prosper enough to pass that land on to his children. After his children moved away, Samuel died without any property and probably in debt. And for the remainder of her life, his wife Lydia remained a papuer.
The mere fact that he chose the Sheepscot valley speaks to the fact that Samuel was poor. Had he been any better off, he would have been able to afford to travel to and to settle on more fertile land in Vermont or New York. Or would have stayed in the place of his birth and purchased land there, at a higher price, no doubt. His father was probably still living when Samuel left home, and it was likely that he had no land to offer him. This suggests Samuel was probably one of the older sons. If he was to make his own way, he would have to do it away from his father's farm.
The earliest mention of Samuel Johnson in the Sheepscot region was the record of his 1773 marriage intention to Lydia Remick. He was living at Newcastle. David Quimby Cushman, a historian of Newcastle, claimed a Samuel Johnson occupied one of the Tappan Lots in that town with several others, possibly around 1772. But no record of this has been found. In any case, Johnson was living in Balltown by 1777.
Lydia Remick's family was poor too. Her father died during the French and Indian Wars. Her mother Mary Grover Elwell Remick was widowed twice by 1749, left with 5 young children. That year, the York County Court of Sessions put all of them in the care of her father Matthew Grover. After his death, Mary left York. She followed her daughter Mary Elwell Otis to New Hampshire, but she apparently did not live with her. In 1765 she and Lydia were warned out of Madbury, so as not to be charges of the town. By the time of her marriage in 1773, Lydia was living at Pownalborough, probably with her brother Joseph. He had gone north to Brunswick as early as 1768. If their mother was still living this late, I doubt she travelled with them, and probably remained in New Hampshire. Joseph and Lydia had probably moved to mid-coast Maine for the same hopeful reasons Samuel Johnson did.
Backcountry Maine would have been appealing to Samuel due the the vast, unpopulated wilderness, with plentiful game and better soil than the coastal towns. One could stake a claim, carve a farm out of the forest, and eventually pass prosperity in the form of improved land onto your children. As a general rule, settlers believed that occupation and improvement of land was where title began. When Samuel went to Balltown in the late 1770s, he probably took up on a claim that was staked by an earlier possession speculator. The Charles Glidden and Daniel Plummer who he obtained his 1792 deed from were possibly such small-time speculators.
Apart from the chance to pass on his legacy to his sons, there were other ideological reasons to settle in the wild backcountry of Maine. Subsistence farming held the appeal of freedom from wage laboring. Simply raising livestock and growing crops could keep you from being bound to a employer. Land possession would also keep you from that other fear of Maine settlers...tenancy. Settlers believed that the Great Proprietors were interested in establishing lordships, like in Ireland and England, with the settlers as their vassals. Freehold title of one's farm would never give the chance for others to hold sway over your land or your labor on that land. And your improvements on the land would add value to the property.
The increase in settlement of the Maine backcountry, like Balltown, coincided with the Revolution. For the settlers, the Revolution was not an ideological endeavor. They were not fighting for independence from the Crown, philisophical democracy or republicanism, or even Freedom. They simply believed that vacant land should be available to the poor and needy, as long as they were willing to improve it. Furthermore, since the Great Proprietors were wholly Loyalists, the settlers believed that their military service in the name of the United States would rightfully win them free land, or at least title to the land they held. Samuel was one of the many Balltown residents who enlisted with the Continental Army. He joined in 1777 and served for nearly 3 years, wintering at Valley Forge, fighting at the Battle of Newport, and eventually deserting after the failed Penobscot Exepedition. His military career did not serve him though, and it can be argued that leaving his farm and young family for such a long time did more harm than good, despite the cash it brought to him.
The mid-coast Maine patents were never confiscated by the government though. Although there were petitions entered for many years to take the land, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (then the government of the District of Maine) failed to to so, and eventually upheld the claims of the Proprietors. Despite the ostensible democratic republic created as a result of the Revolution, the backcountry settlers failed to benefit. The back lands of Maine had no incorporated towns, so no elected representatives could speak for the settlers in the General Court. The influence, connections and political power of the Proprietors outmaneuvered the settlers at every turn. Soon the settlers turned to violence to make their voices heard. Whevener the Proprietors would send surveyors into the backcountry to delineate their claims, organized bands of settlers would rough them up, destroy their equipment, and chase them off. Supporters of the Proprietors would find their livestock let loose and their barns or crops burned. The Proprietors demanded greater and greater payments for titles to the land the settlers inhabited. Resistance was widespread and Balltown was the center of it. Nearly all of the settlers resisted the demands of the Proprietors. Some of those who were identified and prosecuted escaped the region. Other settlers left the region for less turbulent places. Before the revolt was settled, though, Samuel had sold off his land, and his children had moved to more stable places.
It was more than a decade after his settlement at Balltown until Samuel aquired a deed for his farm, for only 5 shillings and "for divers other good causes and considerations." Perhaps it took him those 13 years to settle the arrangement with the previous claimants. Whatever the case, by 1797 he was not even assessed for the land, nor does he appear in the assessment of 1801. The last deed of disposal of parcels of the land occured in 1807, but he appears to only quit his claim to the land. In 1810, he was only taxed for a poll. His land seems to have been out of his possession for quite a while before the deeds indicate.
What little data we have about the land in Balltown indicates that the lot was not the 300 acres that the original deed claimed. It was probably 200 acres or less, 50 acres of which was not improveable. In 1791 Samuel had improved 2 acres, and by 1792 3 acres. By that time his 2 sons were nearly adults, so would have been helpful in clearing and maintaining a farm. But for some reason that's not how it went.
The Johnsons may have been an ambitious family who simply failed to rise up, or a lazy family whose failure was their own doing. There is no way to know. But the deck was stacked against them. Title for land was uncertain. Cash was scarce. Infestation of grasshoppers and other insects ruined crops in 1779 and 1793. Late springs and early frosts lowered crop yields. There was even a famine in 1789. And Samuel was away for nearly two years with the army, time that could have been spent improving his farm.
It is difficult to say what Samuel's life was like after his children left Balltown and after he sold off his farm. What money he got for selling his claims disappeared quickly. In fact he was probably in debt when he died in 1812. Instead of letting the county probate court administer on his estate, the town took care of it. Four years later they were still looking for property that would "Beneficials to the Town." At this point Lydia was probably receiving some assistance from the town. Beginning in 1819 and continuing to her death around 1825, she was bid off to the lowest bidder, basically as a household servant. Lydia died a pauper around 1825, her family long moved away.
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/352440?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Land records, 1761-1912; indexes to land records, 1761-1901
Authors: Lincoln County (Maine). Register of Deeds
Land records v. 30-31 1793-1794
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Book 31 1793-1794 [164/]
Jacob Cresey his Plan 264
Same page as Samuel Johnston Plan and 2 Louis Trask plans [Not microfilmed]
- Was Samuel in the militia in 1777 before his enlistment with the Continental Army?
Samuel Johnson Militia 1777
The Sullivan family of Sullivan, Maine : with some account of the town
by Emery, John Simpson, 1816-1895
Publication date 1891
p 2
In Col Allan's report at Machias, where he was in command of Revolutionary forces, mention is made of Capt Sullivam coming there from Frenchman's Bay 13 September 1777, with some drafted militia for service there, and also of his coming again 13 November 1777.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online)
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol 8
p 888
Samuel Johnston. Private. Capt Daniel Sullivan's co, Col Benjamin Foster's Lincoln County regiment; discharged 11 October 1777; service 1 month 16 days; company marched to Machias three different times.
https://archive.org/details/bangorhistoricalv3bang/page/n101
The Bangor historical magazine
Publication date 1885
p 39
Capt Daniel Sullivan of Sullivan
His Company 1777
A list of men in Capt Daniel Sullivan's Company, in Colonel Benjamin Foster's Regiment in the County of Lincoln, who were called upon to do duty at Machias several times in June, July, August, September and October in 1777.
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These men belonged in what are now the towns of Sullivan, Mount Desert, Eden, Trenton, Ellsworth, Franklin and others. In Revolutionary Operations in Eastern Maine, page 136 "Machias 13th September, Capt Sullivan came with some militia for service here."
Name: Samuel Johnston
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 11 Oct 1777
Event Place: Massachusetts, United States
Event Place: Massachusetts
Military Rank: Private
Digital Folder Number: 007843928
Image Number: 01908
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGFB-B8VH : 12 July 2018), Samuel Johnston, 11 Oct 1777; citing Military Service, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .
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Samuel Johnston Appears with rank of Private on Muster and Pay Roll of Capt Daniel Sullivan's Co, Col Benjamin Foster's Reg. Time of service 1 month 16 days
Discharged 11 October 1777. On duty at Machias called out 3 different times.
Volume 37 Page 17
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 37, Sea coast defense, Penobscot Expedition 1775-1781 Vol. 38, Penobscot Expedition, Crafts Regiment 1776-1783
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Volume 37 Page 17
A Pay Role of Capt Daniel Sullivan Company of Militia in Coll Benja Foster Regiment in the County of Lincoln. Called to Machias three Diferent Times to Do Duty
Names: Samuel Johnston
Rank: Private
Pay pr month: 2 - -
Date of Discharge: October 11th
Time in Service: 1 month 16 days
Whole amount: 3 1 4
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Samuel Ball Private
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NB The Original Sworn to before Jabex Fisher Jus Peace
Feb 25 1778
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https://archive.org/details/baxtermanuscript08baxt/page/n6
The Baxter manuscripts
by Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921, ed
Publication date 1889
p 41
To the Honble the Council of the State of Massachusetts Bay
The Petition of Capt Daniel Sullivan Humbly Sheweth,
That he he officers nor men have never received their back Rations for their Marches to, and while doing duty at Machias last Summer; And the Board of Ward refuses to Settle the same without an order from your Honors
He therefore humbly prays your Honors would be pleased to give him an Order upon the Board of Ward for the Rations now due to him and his Company, Agreeable to an order of the General Court passed the 30th of April last
And as in duty bound shall pray &c
Boston July 27 1778
Danl Sullivan
Roll for back Rations due Capt Daniel Sullivan's Company of Militia in Colo Benjamin Fosters Regiment called to Machias at different times vizt
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Saml Ball Private 6 rations
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Saml Johnston 6 rations
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John Johnston 3 rations
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Errors Excepted
Danl Sullivan
In Council July 27 1778 Ordered that the Board of War be and they hereby are directed to pay the within Ration Roll agreeable to the Order of the General Court of April 30th 1778
read & Accepted
Jno Avery Dy Secy
- Did Samuel Johnson immediately re-enlist?
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Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island]
Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
Vol. 37, Sea coast defense, Penobscot Expedition 1775-1781 Vol. 38, Penobscot Expedition, Crafts Regiment 1776-1783
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Volume 37 Page 105
A Role for the Continental Pay of Cptn John Blunts Compy in A Detachment of Militia Under the Command of Major William Lithgow to Defend the frontier of the County of Lincoln Commencing the tenth Day of September and Ending the tenth Day of November AD 1779
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Saml Johnston. Private. Service: 1 month 15 days [25 September]. Pay per month 2 - -. Subsistence per month: 3 0 0. No of Miles: 90. Mileg at a peny pr Mile: - 7 6. Amount of Subsistance Mileg and pay Due: 3 7 8
Others at 90 miles
Joshua Little
Thomas Clerk
James Clerk
John Clerk
John Starbird
Saml Johnston
Ebenezer Philbrook
Nathaniel Muncey
David Boyington
Thomas Grover. Private. 1 month 15 days. 2 - -. 3 - -. 96. - 8 0. 3 8 0.
Others at 96 miles
Ralph Cheney
Cap John Blunt Roll for Service at Penobscot in 1779 for Continental Pay Examined and found Due in new Money
Volume 37 Page 144
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A Role for the aditional Pay of Capt John Blunts Compy in a Detachment of Militia in the Command of Major William Lithgow to Defend the frontier of the County of Lincoln Commencing the tenth day of September and End the tenth day of November AD 1779
[More or less the same roll.]
Names. Rank. Time of service. Pay pr Month. No miles. Mileg at 2 Shill pr Mil. Amount of Miledge & pay Due.
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Saml Johnston Private 1 month 15 days. 21 - -. 90 miles. 9 - -. 40 10 -
Capt John Blunts Role for Service at Penobscot 1779 for State Pay
- Town looks into Samuel Johnson's Estate
Town and vital records, 1791-1924
Authors: Whitefield (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1791-1924
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p 71 (246/615)
[Meeting: 6 April 1812]
Given under our hands and seals at Whitfield this 7th day of March AD 1812...SS Jeremiah Norris, Abraham Choate
Voted. Samuel Gray [m Susanna Cooper [d Leonard Cooper m Sarah Platts] s Moses Gray m Sarah Miller] [Leonard Cooper's son Peter Cooper m Mary Skillian was the father of Molly Cooper m Caleb Bartlett] to Administer on the estate of Samuel Jonson, late of Whitfield, deceased.
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p 127 (274/615)
[Meeting: 20 May 1816]
9. To see if the Town will appoint a person to administer on the estate of Samuel Jonson, deceased.
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Given under out hands and seals this 6th day of May AD 1816
Abr Choate [m Abigail Norris s Abraham Choate m Sarah Potter]
Eliakim Scammon [m Joanna Young s Richard Scammon m Elizabeth Chase]
Selectmen of Whitefield
True copy, attest Abr Choate, Town Clerk
p 128 (275/615)
9. Voted. Eliakim Scammon to administer on the Estate of Samuel Jonson, deceased, if he can find property sufficient that he thinks will Beneficials to the Town.
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p 124
Lincoln Ss To Aaron Potter Constable of the town of Whitfield
Greeting
you are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn the Mail inhabitants of said town being twenty one years of age and resident in said town for the space of one year next proseeding having a freeholds Estate within said town of the anual income of thence pounds or any Estate to the value of sixty pounds to meet at the schoolhouse near Jesse Crowels in said town on Saturday the fourth Day of May Next at one of the Clock in the afternoon for the purpose of Choosing a representative to Represente them at the next general Court to be holden at the Boston on the Last Wednesday of May NExt
Also you are hereby required as aforesaid to notify the inhabitants of said town Qualified by law to vote in town Meetings Viz such as pay to one single tax besides the poll or polls as sum Eaquel to Two Thirds of a poll tax to assemble at the time and place aforesaid to Act on the following Viz
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3. to see what the town will do respecting the land Claimed by the heirs of Saml Jonson
4. To see if the town will Vote build a Work house and if so What Method they will take to Build it.
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Given under our hand & seals twenty second day of April 1816
Abr Choate
Edward Palmer
Selectmen of Whitfield
Lincoln Ss April 27 1816
I have warned the inhabitants of the town of Whitfield to meet at the day and time and place and for the purposes Mentioned in thi warrant by posting up Notifications in four indifferent places within said town Viz at the Meeting house at the school house near Jesse Crowell at the Gard post in hunt Meddow & Ezekiel potters house at Least seven days before the time of Meeting Accoding to law
Aaron Potter
Constable of Whitfield
Trew Copy Abraham Choate Town Clerk
Meet agreable to the above warrant
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Voted to Dismiss the third article
Voted to Dismiss the fourth article
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- Wouldn't be surprised if soldiers deserted if they heard how dire the circustances were at home.
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society Vol xvi
Documentary History of the State of Maine
Series 2
Volume 16
Containing the Baxter Manuscripts
Portland 1910
p 294
Pownalborough June 19th 1779
Sir
Inclosed is a petition [Mary Hudson m Samuel Perham] which be so kind as to present to the Hoble house. The matters contained in the petition is of great consequence to the petitioner & unless the court will do something to help her she must suffer. I have wrote to the committee of Newcastle but they will do nothing & the woman according to my advice tendered them the money which they offered to take & give her for it what corn it would fetch at the present exorbitant price of ?15 pr bushel & would not receive it on any other terms. The sum she tendered was eighteen pounds. In short the soldiers wifes in the eastern country suffer so much that should it be known in the army I should not wonder if all who have left families here should desert.
If any order should be passed on the within petition if you will leave it at my fathers he will forward it.
I am Sir with respect Your Humble Servt
Timo Langdon
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