Person:John Johnson (40)

John was twelve years old when his father and six siblings were drowned while on a boating trip in Ponty Pool, Wales. He had stayed home with his mother during this family outing.John Johnson was a successful farmer in Wales. He had at least three children Edmund settled in Hampton,New Hampshire in 1635. Mary married Joseph Peaslee and settled in Haverhill, MA, while John remained in England where he became a noted Quaker and a companion of George Fox.

Information from an undated baptism record in the parish register of Llangoden,Derbighshire, North Wales. Another source is "A Passel O'Peasley's" by Lamphere. Vol 1 part 1, 1979.