[RCC] East Pearl Street Methodist Church

[7] Sarah Cordeliah Corliss

	b. 18 January 1848	Stratford Conn
	d. 6 June 1929

FHJ's discharge papers:
	To all whom it may concern:
	know ye that Frank Henry Johnson
	a Private of Captain B..Major George D. Sargeant
	Company (C) First Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery
	Volunteers, who was enrolled on the third day of January
	one thousand eight hundred and sisty -five to serve three years or
	during the war, is hereby discharged from the service of the United States
	this Twenty fifth day of Sept, 1865, at Fort Ellsworth
	[??] by reason of Muster out of Regt Special Order No 220
	Hd Qs Dept of Wahington
	(No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist)
	Said Frank Henry Johnson was born in Ellington
	in the state of Connecticut is Twenty-one years of age
	Five feet Eight and Three Quarters inches high, light complexion, Hazel eyes
	Brown hair and by occupation, when enrolled a Farmer
	Given at Washington DC this 25th day of
	Sept 1865
				G D Sargeant
				[?] 1st Conn Arty & Bot Major of Vols
				Commanding the Co

[Census 1880, vol 9, ed 95, sheet 19, line 6] Frank Johnson, W, M, 37. Connecticut; New Haven County, New Haven Town, New Haven City, Exchange Street; Sarah Johnson, W, 32, Connecticut; Gracie, D, 3, Connecticut. FJ, painter, 3, Conn, Conn, Conn; SJ, keeping house, Conn, Vermont, New Hampshire; GJ, at home.

[13] Adeline Landon

b. 28 September 1820

[Landon1 306-7]

[ELC's Notes, and others] GHJ may have gone to LI or NY sometime after FHJ was born in 1843.

6 children:

• Emeline -- born c1842
• Frank -- born 1843. Living with youngest aunt, Catherine Cogswell and her in-laws in Vernon in the 1860 census.
• Lucy -- born 1845 in New York and living with Asahel Johnson according to the 1860 census.
• Sarah -- born 18 January 1848
• Elizabeth -- Elizabeth lived with Gilson Landon at Oyster Bay LI and married Townsend Vernon.
• George --

[Landon1 367] AL married GHJ. [Guilford VR 2:309] Married by Rev David Baldwin. [Guilford1 741] lists Gilson Landon as born 5 April 1813, married to Lucy Ann Davis, and lived in Hempstead LI, no children.

Marriage noted in the Bridgeport Republican Standard, 3 February 1841, the New Haven Palladium, 3 February 1841, the Columbian Register, 6 February 1841, and the Hartford Times 6 February 1841 (where GHJ is listed as of Bridgeport and AL is listed of Guilford).

[Bridgeport1 196] Names George Johnson as a member of the 1st Congregational Church of Bridgeport in 1840 and 1841.

[Stratford1 2:783] The Pequonnock Lodge, No 4, of Bridgeport, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was founded on 11 June 1841 with a petition signed by George H. Johnson, John M. Wilson, Gilson Landon [GHJ's brother-in-law]. Samuel L. Eldred, and George Waters. The first meeting was in a small room in the upper story of 35 Wall St, but in January 1845, a larger hall was occupied at 407 Water St.

[Stratford1 2:817] lists a George H. Johnson as president of The White Manufacturing Company [but it is not at all clear whether this is our GHJ or not] which was located at 95 Cannon St and which produced coach lamps, carriage mountings and hardware. It was started in 1832 as Rippen and Sturges, succeeded by White and Bradley, and merged into the present company in 1861 with a capital of $40,000.

[25] Sarah (Sally) Hyde

b. c1790

Stafford Conn

[1850 Census]

7 children:
• Elizabeth -- mentioned first in will with the other apparently by age. Married E. Sears, of Vernon.
• Emiline -- born 1817 and [EVR M:47] married S[] Streeter of Keene NH, 19 May 1836. ES living with AJ in the 1860 census.
• George H. -- born c1818/9
• Sarah Ann -- born 4 September 1820, Ellngton Conn [EVR 10]; died before 6 October 1851 when JHA remarried. [Woodstock1 2:102] John Howland Aldrich of Providence married 8 December 1839 Sarah Ann Johnson of Stafford Conn; they had Elizabeth 5 September 1840 who died in Hartford 21 October 1891, who married Charles Murray Pond (treasurer of the NY, NH & H Railroad) of Hartford; He willed their home to Hartford to be used as a park named after his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Aldrich was living with AJ in 1850 (according to the 1850 census).
• Martha C. -- born 1824, married Francis Gowdy of East Windsor, 15 April 1846 (noticed in the New Haven Palladium 18 April 1846, the Hartford Courant 25 April 1846 and the Hartford Times 25 April 1846). [Ellington2 22] Martha C. Gowdy died 6 June 1855, age 32 years.
• Henry A. -- born c1826, died 8 July 1845, age 19 years.
• Catherine L. -- born 1833, and unmarried at the time of AJ's will in 1852. Married William H Cogswell; in the 1860 census WC is 27 and Kate is 26 with son George H, 2 years, in Vernon Conn.

[Ellington2 32] lists Sarah Johnson 1801-1874.

Newspaper marriage notices: Hartford Courant, 3 July 1811 (AJ of Stamford, SH, at Stafford); Connecticut Mirror, 8 July 1811, ditto; Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post-Boy (AJ of Stamford, SH of Stafford, at Stafford)

Census information:

	[Census 1820]	Ellington, ?? ;
	[Census 1830, 26:105-6]	Ellington, 40+, 9 in family;
	[Census 1840, 26(64):108-9]	Ellington, 50+, 8 in family;  
	[Census 1850, 11(116):22]	Ellington, 63, 6 in family.

[Census 1850, Ellington, Sept 1850, page 30(60), dwelling 186, family 172] Asahel, 63, M, Farmer, 6000, CT; Sarah Johnson, 59, F, CT; Catherine, 17, F, CT, in school; Martha Gowdy, 26, F, CT; Elizabeth Aldrich, 10, F, CT, in school; Francis Gowdy, 8, M, CT, in school.

[Census 1860, Ellington, page 568, dwelling 362, family 374] Asel, 73, N, farmer, 5000, 3500, CT; Sarah, 69, F, CT; Emiline Streeter, 43, F, CT; Lucy, 15, F, NY; Charles P. Thompson, 21, M, farm laboror, CT.

[Ellington Cemetery Inscriptions 1:22] Asel Johnson died Dec 26 1860, 74 years of age. Death notices: Hartford Courant, 12 January 1861, pg 1693; Hartford Evening Press, 31 December 1860, p160; New Haven Paladium 1 January 1861, pg 909; New London Weekly Chronicle, 3 January 1861, pg 88; Columbian Register, 5 January 1861, p 891; Connecticut Press, 5 January 1861, pg 175; Hartford Times 5 January 1861, pg 1063.

[Ellington] Captain Asahel Johnson came from Stafford into Ellington about 1830 and settled in what was then called McKinney St; he had a family of 6 children, 2 sons and 4 daughters. The sons left Ellington and settled in Bridgeport; they are both dead. One daughter married a Mr Sears of Vernon; one married William H. Cogswell, then of Vernon; one married Frank Gowdy of East Windsor; the other married and went west. Mr. Johnson was a representative in the General Assembly from Ellington; he was also Selectman. He died about 1860; his widow has been dead some years.

[Stafford1] In property transactions dated 25 March 1820 and 11 April 1820 (Book 13 pages 292 and 306) Asel Johnson is listed as from heirs of Nathaniel Hyde: Alvan Hyde, Lovina Hyde, Nathaniel Hyde, Joesph P. Pinney and Martha Pinney his wife, all of Stafford and Asahel Johnson and Sarah Johnson of Ellington in Tolland ... 2 March 1829.

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[Will - document dated 5 January 1861] I Asel Johnson of Ellington in Tolland County Connecticut do humbly make and declare this to be my last will and testament.

First = I desire that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid and I hereby authorize my executor herinafter named to sell lands instead of personal property to pay the same as he may deem just.

Second, I give devise and bequeath all my estate which I may have and posses of both real and personal property to Edward G. Hyde of upon the special trust following that is to say that out of the rents, profits, use interest and income of said estate. ASfter deducting all necessary repairs, charges, and taxes, he the said Edward G. Hyde shall furnish to my wife Sarah Johnson a good ample and sufficient support and circumstances during her natural life, so far as she shall need the same to render her in every way comfortable if the use of her dower in my estate shall not be sufficient for that purpose. An if all the said rents, profits, use and income of my estate shall not be sufficient to furnish my said wife everything which she may need as aforesaid - I hereby direct said trustee to expend so much of the principle of my said estate as shall be sufficient for that purpose -

Third, if during the life of my said wife the rents, profits, use interest and income of my said estate shall be more than sufficient for the support and maintenance of my said wife as aforesaid then it is my will tht said trustee shall annually distribute whatever may remain of siad rents, profits, use interest and income of my estate among my children Elizabeth Sears, Emiline Streeter, George H. Johnson, Martha C. Gowdy, and Catherine L. Johnson of the survivors of them as follows to wit said distributions to be made by said trustee to such of my said children as in his opinion shall stand most in need of the same for their support and to be made in proportion to their necessities.

Fourth, after the decease of my said wife Sarah Johnson it is my will that said trustee shall ammicably distribute all the said rents profits use interest and income of my said estate among such of my children or the survivors of them as in his opinion shall from time to time stand most in need of the same for their support the amount to be paid to each to be in proportion to their necessities. Provided after the death of my said wife if at any time any of my said children shall become reduced to actual want and all of the seaid rents profits use interest and income of my estate shall not be sufficient for their comfortable support I hereby direct my said trustee to expend so much of the principle of my estate as shall be necessary for that purpose.

Fifth, after the decease of all my said children it is my will and desire that said trustees shall distribute and pay over all the residue of my estate, both real and personal to my grandchildren to be divided among them equally share and share alike.

Sixth, I hereby authorize my said trustees to sell any of my said real and personal estate whenever such sales shall be deemed advisable for all parties and to reinvest the money arising from such sale or sales on goods and ample security.

Seventh, in case said trustees shall refuse to accept this trust or shalldisavow the execution of the same then the Judge of Probate for the District of Ellington shall have power to appoint some suitable person to be a trustee in his place who shall have the full power to perform the aforesaid trust.

Eighth, I hereby consitute and appoint Alvin P Hyde of Tolland to be the executor of this my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal and publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in the presence of the witnesses named below this first day of June AD 1852 Asel Johnson

Signed, sealed, published as declared by the said Asel Johnson as an for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other and at his request have hereunto substhcribed our names as witnesses Dennis Fox [?] Minnie Hyde F. W. Perry

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County of Tolland

I have personally appeared before Mr Dennis Fox who made solemn oath that the said Asel Johnson signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument signed the same and declaimed it to be his last will and testament in our presence and in the presence of Minnie Hyde and F W Perry the other two subscribing witnesses and that she by the name of Jennie [?] Hyde together with the other two subscribing witnesses subscribed the same as witnesses in the presence of the trustee and in the presence of each other. And that the said Asel Johnson at the time of the execution of said will was of sound mind and memory. Carlos Prouty Justice of the Peace

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Alvin P. Hyde and others Executors Bond 1861

Know all then by these present that we William H. Cogswell of ellington in Tolland County and the state of Connecticut as principle and Wm T Cogswell of Vernon in said county as ---- are holden and family bound jointly and severally into Caleb Hopkins, Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Ellington in the final sum of fifteen thousand dollars to be paid to the said judge or to his certain attorney or successor in said office to the which payment will and truly be done, we the said obligors do bind oushrselves and each of us, our heirs, executors, and administrators, and each and every one of them for an in the whole sum aforesaid finally by these present, the consideration of this obligation is such that if the above bounden William H. Cogswell who was appointed and has accepted the trustee ship created by the last will and testament of Asel Johnson late of Ellington aforesaid deceased now therefore if the said William H Cogswell shall perform his duty as said trustee according to the law and the provision of said will then this bond to void, otherwise good and valid.

1864 Signed with our hand and sealed with our seal at Vernon this 11th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight- hundred and sixty four W H Cogswell William T Cogswell

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Schedule A of Property of Asel Johnson Estate, March 29th 1863

amount of inventory	9952.24
gain on oxen		  35.00
gain on 4 2 year old steers	  10.00
gain on yearling	  22.50
gain on 2 cows	  25.64
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	10045.38
{to be continued}

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[49] Sybil Elithorpe

	b. 1 June/July 1755	Killingly Conn	[Killingly VR 1:273]
	d. 4 November 1836	Ellington Conn	[Ellington Inscr Cem 1, pg

Tentative set of children:
• Elizabeth --
• Azel -- born 1787
• Nathan M. Jr --
• Eli -- born 1792
• Lucia --
• Sarah E. --

[Ellington] Eli Johnson, brother of Asahel, came from Stafford into Ellington in 1830; he was educated a lawyer, but never practiced. He never married; he died about 1878. There is no member of the Johnson Families now living [in 1889].

[Ellington2 32] Eli Johnson died 9 January 1877, age 79 years [Hartland (West) 2nd Congregational Church DG:129] Eli Johnson died 8 June 1883, Tolland, age 91.

[LDS-IGI] One child listed: Elizabeth Johnson, born 31 October 1781, Stafford, Tolland Co, Conn. Mother listed as Sibbel.

Census information:

	[Census 1800]	Tolland Co, page 642, 22101-11112-00
	[Census 1810]	Tolland, page 381, Stafford
	[Census 1820]	Tolland, page 988, Stafford

[Stafford VR 2:13] Sybel Elethorp married Nathan Johnson Jr, 8 Feb 1781.

[Ellithorp: 5] Sybil Ellithorpe was born 1 June-July 1755 at Killingly Conn (spelled as Sibbel); baptized at the Congregational Church in the Thompson Parish of Killinngly. 8 February 1781 She married Nathan Johnson Jr at Stafford, son of Capt Nathan and Mary (Russell) Johnson. Elizabeth Johnson was born 31 October 1781, the only child found on the Stafford Vital Records.

[97] Mary Russell

[Killingly VR 1:29,33] Mary, daughter of Nathan and Marry, born 21 February 1746/7; Moses, son of Nathan and Mary, born 23 February 1740/1; Rachel, daughter of Nathan and Mary, born 11 May 1744.

[Stafford VR 1:39,41; 2:10,37] Amey, daughter of Nathan and Mary, born 21 January 1754; Anna, daughter of Nathan and Mary, born 18 June 1759; Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan and Mary, born 25 July 1751.

[Johnson2 27] Was this the man who married Marry Russell at Thompson Conn 24 April 1739? (on Pg 28, his uncle Nathaniel moved to Stafford where children are baptized at Killingly. This could be the tie.)

[193] Rachel Ordway

	b. 28 January 1685	Newbury Mass	[Ordway1 94]
	d. 31 December 1764		[Johnson2 27]

[Johnson2 27] TJ married 1) Ruth Bradley, 13 November 1706, daughter of Janiel J. and Hannah (Dow) Bradley. She was killed by Indians together with her grandfather and grandmother-in-law 29 August 1708. One daughter Lydia. TJ settled in the north east side of Lake Kenoza on land given him by his grandfather. Children by his second wife: Ruth, Daniel, Maverick, Nathan, Peter, Seth, Rachel, Anna, Moses.

[385] Mary Mousal

	b. 26 July 1659	Charlestown	[Savage 3:251]
	d. 23 May 1688		[Johnson2 11]

[Johnson2 11] JJ married 2) -- Clement, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Fawne) Clement, who died 11 October 1696; 3) Mary Johnson, 16 May 1697. JJ succeeded his father as blacksmith in Haverhill and was styled Lieutenant int he records. Children by MM: John, Thomas and William. By -C: Lydia, Nathaniel, Mary and Sarah; by MJ: Ruth, Elizabeth, Timothy, Rebecca, Maverick, Hannah and William.

[769] Elizabeth Maverick

	b. 2 June 1639	Charlestown Mass	[NEHGR 69:146-159]
	d. 22 March 1674	Haverhill Mass	[Johnson2 5] [NEHGR 69:146-159]

[NEHGR 69:146-159] JJ of Charlestown, removed to Haverhill before 1662, was the first blacksmith there, freeman in 1666, and a representative in 1690. He m (2) at haverhill, 3 Mar 16744/5 Sarah (Keaser) Gillo[w], widow of John of Lynn, who d 24 July 1676; m (3) at Haverhill, 8 Sept 1680, Catherin (Skipper) Maverick, widow of John of Boston (brother of EM), who with her husband, then called Lieut. John Johnson, was "killed by ye enemy" at Haverhill 29 Aug 1708, she in her 70th year and he in his 76th.

[NEHGR 96:232-241] JJ and EM children: John, 3 August 1657; Elizabeth, 26 Nov 1659; Ruhama, 10 Sept 1661; William, 14 Nov 1663; Sarah, 2 Aug 1665; Ruth, 4 Oct 1667; Ruth 14 Feb 1669/70; Timothy, 31 June 1672.

[Johnson2 5] Came to NE in 1634 and was in Charlestown until 1658. Then he went to Haverhill where he was the first permanent smithy. He was prominent and influential, a tithingman and deacon in the church, a proprietor, selectman, juror, moderator of twon meetings and in 1691 representative to the Great and General Court of the Colony. He was also a lieutenant in the militia. He married 2) Mrs Sarah (Kezar) Gillo of Lynn, 3 March 1675, who died in childbirth 24 July 1676; 3) Catherine (Skipper) Maverick, 8 September 1680, widow of John Maverick of Boston. Killed in the Indian Attack with his wife and others; his great grandchild, Lydia was in his wifes arms and survived. Children: John, Elizabeth, Ruhamah, William, Sarah, Ruth, Ruth, Timothy, Mary and Rebeccah.

[1537] Elizabeth Storey

[Johnson2 1-4] WJ, of Charlestown. Unconfirmed stories: 1) came from Canterbury, married Elizabeth Storey and had a son John born c1633 (but have no proof); 2) came with Winthrop in 1630 (again, no proof); 3) brother of Edward (not proved, but would explain a great deal -- EJ did come with Winthrop. 3 January 1634, assessed by Charlestown for several parcels of land (thus he would be in NE 1633 at the latest). He and his wife Elizabeth joined the church in Charlestown 13 February 1635. On 4 March 1635, made a freeman. 10 parcels of land: a house, 2 barns, 2 brickmaking mills and a garden. He held positions of overseer of houses and fields, selectman and juror. Estate appraised at 308-11-00. Children: John, Ruhamah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Sachariah, and Isaac.