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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
[1].
Deaths Registered in the City of Lowell for the Year eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Date of Death: July 13 [1863]
Name: Betsey Johnson
Sex: F
Condition: W
Age: 86 y. 3 m. [birth about Apr 1777]
Cause: Old Age
Place of Death: Lowell
Occupation: [blank]
Place of Birth: Watertown
Parents: Miles & Charity Greenwood
Parents Birthplaces: Watertown
- Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
[2].
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 6 Sep 1850 Dwelling 2613, Family 3319
Betty Johnson, age 73, b. Mass.
Phebe Johnson, age=42, b. NH
William Johnson, age=47, b. Mass., Cabinet maker
- Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts state census, 1855-1865. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974)
[3].
Dover, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, 18 Sep 1855, Dwelling 24, Family 30
Jonathan Perry, age 55, b. Mass, Farmer
Phebe Perry, age 47, b. N.H.
Ann Perry, age 15, b. Mass
George Perry, age 14, b. Mass
Betsy Johnson, age 78, b. Mass
- Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693)
[4].
Lowell Ward 3, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 14 Jun 1860, Swelling 883, Family 1068
Lucy Dodge, age 63, b. Mass., Matron
Alice M. Adams, age 9, b. Mass.
Paul M. Adams, age 2, b. Mass.
Betsey Johnson, age 84, b. Mass., Matron
Mary Carroll, age 21, b. Ireland, Servant
Joseph E. Adams, age 15, b. Mass.
- ↑ Betsey's death record lists Miles Greenwood and Lucy Bemis as her parents. But her birth precedes their 1782 marriage by about 5 years. Source:Johnson, Edward F. Captain Edward Johnson of Woburn, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants gives her name as "Betsey (Bemis, or Greenwood?)", not knowing which parent she belonged to, but knowing she was not of this union. Given her name at the time of her marriage as Betsey Whitney, it seems likely she was illegitimate, child of a Mr. Whitney and Lucy Bemis. The Whitney Research Group does not seem to know who the Betsey Whitney who married Abijah Johnson was ([5]). No record of her birth is found in Watertown records, no mention of her in Source:Greenwood, Isaac J. Greenwood Family of Norwich, England, in America, p. 83, nor Source:Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855).
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