Person:John Johnson (10)

John immigrated as a young man (listed as age 26 on the passenger list) with his wife, 3 year-old daughter Elizabeth, and son Thomas. They settled in Ipswich north of Boston, where John had a lot on Argella Road next to Rev. Francis Dane. (Rev. Dane later served at Andover for years, and was part of a political battle that got his daughter Elizabeth Dane Johnson and 3 of her children accused of witchcraft in 1692).

In 1657, John and his son Thomas, soon to be married, were assigned lots in the new town of Andover (inland and several miles from Ipswich today). The Johnsons and the Danes moved to Andover about 1659. John appears as a normal citizen, on juries, in the militia and taking the oath of allegience on 11 Feb 1678 (his sons Thomas, Steven, Returne and William took the oath the same day). (See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~andovermajohnsons/johnson_tree.html and William Johnson's 1892 "Johnson Family: Records of John Johnson of Ipswich and Andover"))

John's son Thomas is tied to him thorugh a deed dated Sept. 12, 1715, which identified Thomas Johnson, "son and heir" to John Johnson, dec'd. The deed conveyed commonage in Ipswich originally granted to John in 1635. The other children attributed to John were not tied to him through primary sources as of the 1892 book, and a more recent account is not available at NEHGS. They are, however, generally accepted as his children because they are the only Johnsons in Andover at the time, and the timing of the marriages fits a generational pattern.

Note: "Herne Hill" is not an official town, though most sources list that as John's origin. "Herne" is in Kent, north of Canterbury, where Isaac and Edward Johnson are reportedly from. The connection (to John) apparently comes from a reference in Bailey's History of Andover.

John may be connected to Solomon Johnson, who lived next door to him in Lancaster.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Johnson, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
   185.

   "Johnson, John: [Origin} Strood, Kent; [Emigration]: 1635 on James; [Resided] Ipswich, Andover [GM 2:4:78-81]."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} John Johnson, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   4:78-81.

   "MIGRATION: 1635 on the James (on 13 July 1635, 'John Johnson,' aged 26, 'Suzan Johnson,' aged 24, 'Eliza[beth] Johnson,' aged 2, and 'Tho[mas] Johnson,' aged 18 months, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the James [Hotten 108]). …
   OCCUPATION: Shoemaker [ILR 1:211].
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Ipswich church prior to 28 March 1648 implied by freemanship.
   FREEMAN: 28 March 1648 (as 'John Johnson of Ipswich') [EQC 1:139]. …
   BIRTH: About 1607 (aged 26 on 13 July 1635 [Hotten 108]; deposed on 18 April 1671 'aged sixty-seven years' [EQC 4:370-72]).
   DEATH: After 12 September 1683 (implied by wife's death record, which calls her 'wife' rather thn 'widow')."