Person:Ruth Johnson (49)

Which Ruth Johnson married Jonathan Shepard (and which married Jonathan Page)

Shepard and Jacobus, 3:330, have Ruth Johnson, daughter of Thomas⁴ and Rachel (Ordway) Johnson, born 5 July 1710 at Haverhill, marrying Jonathan Shepard of Rowley and Haverhill. Eleanor Johnson Baker, p. 27, has her marrying Jonathan Page of Haverhill and her second cousin once removed, Ruth Johnson, daughter of Thomas³ and Elizabeth (Page) Johnson, born 24 August 1709 at Haverhill, marrying Jonathan Shepard. Thomas³ d. 1742, and apparently has no probate file in Essex County. Thomas⁴ left a will, dated 1753, naming daughter Ruth normally (i.e., not labeled deceased, no mention of heirs, etc., but also with no surname given), and it appears the daughter of Thomas⁴ was alive, ruling her out as the wife of Jonathan Shepard, leaving daughter of Thomas³ as Jonathan Shepard's wife.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Baker, Eleanor Johnson. A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Johnson of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Immigrant About 1630: Fairly Complete Through the First Six Generations: and a Few Lines Carried Through the Seventh to the Tenth. (Newburyport, Mass.: Newburyport Press, Inc., 1969)
   15.
2. ↑ WT 20. Jonathan³ Shepard, in Shepard, Gerald Faulkner, and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Shepard Families of New England. (New Haven [Connecticut]: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1971-1973)
   3:338-39.

   "Jonathan³ Shepard … married second, at Haverhill, 30 May 1738, Ruth Johnson, born at Haverhill 5 July 1710, died there 13 May 1743, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Ordway) Johnson."
   [Note: apparently wrong Ruth, see comments elsewhere on page.]

3. ↑ Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)
   2:470.

   "Shaperd, Ruth (Johnson), w. Jonathan, [died] May 13, 1743."