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Abigail Johnson (May)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, MA, United States
Death: April 09, 1745 (85)
Pomfret, CT, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Samuel May, Sr. and Abigail Johnson (Stansfield)
Wife of Nathaniel Johnson
Mother of Abigail Johnson, (died young); Nathaniel Johnson; Lieutenant Joseph Johnson; Abigail Johnson; Elisha Johnson and 5 others
Sister of Samuel May; Jonathan May; Joanna Farrow; Eleazer May; John May and 2 others
Half sister of John Johnson; John Johnson and Deborah Davis

Managed by: Hatte Rubenstein Blejer
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About Abigail Johnson

From http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Johnson.htm#Nathaniel which agrees with Cooke also.

NATHANIEL JOHNSON (1666 - 1755) of Hingham, Sherborn and Pomfret

Parents: Sgt. Humphrey Johnson and Ellen Cheney. [Ref, p. 12]

Nathaniel Johnson was born on 19 Jan 1665 in Hingham. [Ref][Ref, p. 12, says 1666] He was baptised in Jul 1666 in Hingham. [Ref, p. 6] He died on 4 May 1755 [Ref, p. 12] in Pomfret. [Ref] He married first Abigail Unknown. [Ref, p. 12] She was born in Jul 1666. [Ref, p. 12] She died on 9 Apr 1745 in Pomfret, CT. [Ref][Ref] He married second Mrs. Mary Laurens on 13 May 1747 in Pomfret. [Ref]

Nathaniel and Abigail lived in Hingham, Sherborn and Pomfret. [Ref, p. 12]

Nathaniel went on the Canada Expedition in 1690 under Capt. Andrews. [Ref, p. 12]

There is confusion about Abigail's last name and parentage. She is sometimes confused with Nathaniel's step-mother, Abigail Stansfield May. One source states that Abigail was "Abigail May," daughter of Abigail Stansfield and Nathaniel's step-sister:
Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55259974

  • Birth: May 22, 1659, Boston. Suffolk County.Massachusetts
  • >Death: Apr. 9, 1745, Windham, Windham County, Connecticut

"Abigail, was the dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Stansfield) May, of Roxbury, MA. Abigail's mother married 2nd: Humphrey Johnson. Abigail, married her step-brother, Nathaniel Johnson about 1684 in Hingham, MA. Abigail and Nathaniel, resided in Hingham and Sherborn, MA"

Children of Nathaniel Johnson and Abigail Unknown. The birthdates are given in Johnson and Johnson [Ref, p. 12]

  1. Abigail Johnson was born in Jul 1683. She died young. [Ref, p. 12]
  2. Lieut. Joseph Johnson was born on 9 Sep 1685. He died on 25 Mar 1745 in Holliston. He married Lydia Twitchell.
  3. Abigail Johnson was born on 1 Apr 1687. She died on 15 Jan 1782 in Pomfret. [Ref, p. 12][Ref]
  4. Elisha Johnson was born on 12 Mar 1688. He married Abigail Weld on 25 May 1708/9. [Ref, p. 19] Abigail, the daughter of John Weld, was born on 27 Aug 1663 in Roxbury. [Ref, p. 19] Elisha was one of the first settlers of Sutton. [Ref, p. 19]
  5. Thomas Johnson was born on 12 Mar 1690.
  6. Mary Johnson was born on 11 Mar or May 1691. She married Noah Morse on 12 Jul 1705. [Ref, p. 19] Noah was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Barbour) Morse, the grandson of Daniel Morse and Capt. George Barbour and the great-grandson of Samuel Morse. [Ref, p. 33] He was born on 20 Apr 1681 in Medfield. [Ref, p. 33] He died in 1717/8 in Sherborn. [Ref, p. 33] He married second Abigail, the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Gleason of Sherborn. [Ref, p. 33] Abigail was the granddaughter of Corp. Joseph Gleason and Martha Russell. She married second Nathaniel Heaton of Wrentham. [Ref, p. 33] Morse [Ref, p. 33] says that Noah married Mary, the daughter this Mary's brother Nathaniel, but this is impossible. Mary is young to have married in 1705.
  7. Jonathan Johnson was born on 16 Mar 1692. He died on 6 Jan 1702 in Sherborn. [Ref, p. 12]
  8. Nathaniel Johnson married Mary Haven, the daughter of John and Hannah (Hitchens) Haven of Lynn, on 23 Nov 1708. [Ref, p. 19] Nathaniel and Mary had five children. [Ref, p. 19]
  9. Martha Johnson was born on 19 Feb 1697. She died on 2 Oct 1745. [Ref, p. 19][Ref] She married Timothy Sabin on 5 Feb 1717/8 [Ref] in Pomfret. [Ref, p. 19, says 1 Feb][Ref] Timothy was the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Parker) Sabin. [Ref, p. 19][Ref] He was born on 27 Jul 1694 in Woodstock, CT. [Ref, p. 19] He died on 9 May 1780 [Ref][Ref, p. 20] , age 85, and is buried in the Sabin cemetery in Pomfret. [Ref] He married second Experience Houghton on 14 Oct 1746. [Ref, p. 20] She was the widow of William Houghton [Ref, p. 20] of Lancaster. [Ref] Martha and Timothy had eight children. [Ref]
  10. Mehitable Johnson was born on 15 Oct 1699. She married Humphrey Goodell on 12 Jan 1726/7. [Ref, p. 20] Humphrey, the son of Thomas and Sarah Goodell, was born on 30 Oct 1699 in Pomfret and died on 20 Apr 1759. [Ref, p. 20][Ref] Mehitable and Humphrey had seven children. [Ref, p. 20]

Citations

  1. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Name: Nathaniel Johnson Gender: Male Birth Year: 1666 Marriage Date: 1685 Death Year: About 1755 Marriage Place: New England, United States Spouse's Name: Abigail May Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/May-788

Abigail (May) Johnson (1659 - 1745)

Abigail Johnson formerly May

Born 22 May 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

ANCESTORS

Daughter of Samuel May and Abigail (Stansfield) Johnson

Sister of

Samuel May, Jonathan May, Joanna (May) Farrow, Eleazar May, Eleazer May Sr,

John May, Gideon May, Experience May, John Johnson [half] and Deborah (Johnson) Davis [half]

Wife of Nathaniel Johnson —

married about 1682 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

DESCENDANTS

Mother of

Nathaniel Johnson, Abigail Johnson, Joseph Johnson, Abigail Johnson, Elisha Johnson,

Thomas Johnson, Mary (Johnson) Morse, Jonathan Johnson, Martha (Johnson) Sabin

and Mehitable (Johnson) Goodell

Died 9 Apr 1745 in Pomfret, Windham, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America

Profile managers: Brian McCullough private message [send private message] and Toby Rockwell

Profile last modified 3 May 2018 | Created 8 Jul 2011

Biography

Researchers of the Johnson Family to date have failed to document the family name of Abigail and have reported it as 'unknown.' However, it seems reasonable to assume that this Abigail was probably the daughter of Abigail (Stanfield) May and Samuel May. No record so far has been found to establish that Abigail married anyone else. She was born May 22, 1666 (Roxbury Births, page 229). She would have been 12 years of age when her widowed mother Abigail married Humphrey Johnson as his second wife and would have been brought into close association with Nathaniel as a stepsister. Her father, Samuel May and Abigail Stanfield were married at Roxbury January 7, 1657. She had a brother Jonothon who was born February 4, 1663/64 and another brother, John who was born June 1 2, 1670.

Sources

WikiTree profile Hingham-8 created through the import of Horton Family Tree.ged on Oct 23, 2012 by Toby Rockwell. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Toby and others. Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts GENERATIONS I TO XIV By PAUL FRANKLIN JOHNSON, Editor 1945 INCLUDING THE GENERATIONS I TO IX From the 1932 and 1935 Manuscripts of FRANK LEONARD JOHNSON GENERATIONS IX TO XIV Compiled by PAUL FRANKLIN JOHNSON Completed with Additions and Corrections by ADA JOHNSON MODERN 1948. pg 12. Johnson Family Thirteen Generations of Descendants of Captain John Johnson and Margery Scudder of Roxbury, Mass. 1630-1971 Compiled by Alonzo LeRoy Johnson. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4L2-FJV : 13 July 2016), Abigaile Mayes, 22 May 1659; citing Birth, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 741,320. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-SZC : 13 July 2016), Abigail in entry for Joseph Johnson, 09 Sep 1685; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-37Q : 13 July 2016), Abigaile in entry for Abigaile Johnson, 01 Apr 1687; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-W36 : 13 July 2016), Abigail in entry for Elisha Johnson, 12 Mar 1689; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-W3B : 13 July 2016), Abigaile in entry for Thomas Johnson, 12 Mar 1690; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-4X6 : 13 July 2016), Abigaile in entry for Jonathan Johnson, 16 Mar 1693; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCW6-7ZR : 4 December 2014), Abigail in entry for Martha Johnson, 19 Feb 1696; citing SHERBORN,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 164,693. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F45Z-XR9 : 4 December 2014), Abagall Johnson in entry for Mahetabell Johnson, 15 Oct 1699; citing Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, P 27 R.9; FHL microfilm 872,789. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVKY-71J2 : 11 July 2016), Abigail May Johnson, 1745; Burial, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States of America, Windham Center Cemetery; citing record ID 55259974, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. WikiTree profile May-788 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Brian and others.

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Abigail Johnson's Timeline

1659
May 22, 1659
Boston, MA, United States
1683
July 1683
1684
1684
Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1685
September 9, 1685
Hingham,Plymouth,Massachusetts,USA
1687
April 1, 1687
Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States
1688
March 12, 1688
1690
March 12, 1690
1691
March 11, 1691
Hingham, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay
1692
March 16, 1692