FAMILY OF JESSE JOHNSON

Jesse Johnson, the next elder brother of Capt. Haynes Johnson, of whom some account has just been given, was a son of Haynes Johnson and wife, born at Newbury, Vt., March 27, 1773. He married Elizabeth Sawyer, a daughter of Capt. Ezekiel Sawyer, of Bradford. They were united in marriage by Rev. Gardner Kellogg, March 19, 1807. She was a native of Rowley, Mass., born January 13, 1775. Mr. Johnson owned and occupied a good river farm in Bradford, bordering on the south side of Newbury, and there kept a house for the entertainment of travelers for several years, and died there, July 18, 1830, in the 54th year of his age. Mrs. Johnson, his widow, died at the house of Moses Chamberlin, her son-in-law, May 23, 1855, in the 81st year of her age.  These parents left four sons and two daughters. The first four of their children were born in Newbury, and the last two in this town. Of these children we are able to give only the following brief account.

1 Jesse Johnson, Jr., born May 6, 1808, married Mary A., daughter of Captain Ellis Bliss, of Bradford.   He purchased a valuable farm in Fairlee, and there lived till his decease, which occurred March 2,1866, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had four daughters and two sons, namely:

Martha Elizabeth, born September 22, 1845, died April 10,1869, in her twenty-fourth year. 

Mary Ellen, born April 16, 1847. 

Sarah French, born May 11, 1849, died April 4, 1868, in her nineteenth year.

Jesse R., born March 20, 1852, died in infancy.

Abby Wright, born June 3, 1854. 

Penniman, the youngest child, born June 6, 1856, died June 10, 1860, at the age of four years. 

After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Johnson returned, with the remnant of her family, to Bradford, where at this date she is still living; her daughters Mary E.  and Abby W. having their home with her.

2 Elliot P. Johnson, born December 19,1809, married Sarah, daughter of Alva Taylor, of Bradford, May 6, 1841, and removed to Orford, N. H., where he possesses, at this date, a good farm on the river, below the village.  They have at this writing three sons and one daughter.

 Jesse, the eldest son, graduated at Dartmouth College, studied law, and is settled in the practice of it in the city of New York.

Alva T. and Edmund, his brother, reside in the same city, engaged in the market business.  Orpha, the daughter, remains with her parents at Orford.

3 Elizabeth A., born August 27, 1811. Since the death of her parents has had her home with her sister, Mrs. Chamberlin, of Bradford.

4 Jonathan Johnson, born August 22, 1813, married Abigail Willard, daughter of Captain Israel Willard, of Bradford, February, 1845. She died in the fifty-third year of her age, March 13, 1872, leaving two sons and three daughters, namely:

Willard C, born April 4, 1846. He married Mary Smith, of Corinth, resides in Bradford, engaged in agricultural pursuits with his father.

Julia A., born April 3, 1848, still at her parental home. 

Moody, born July 22, 1851, a clerk at mercantile business.

Laura L., born October 24, 1853, married E. S. Peaslee, who is engaged in livery business here. 

Eva E., the youngest member of this family, born January 25, 1858, at home with her father. 

5 Remembrance C. Johnson, born in Bradford, November 28, 1814, was for several years proprietor and keeper of the Vermont House in this village, and is still resident here.

6 Ruby S. Johnson, born here January 29, 1819, married Moses R. Chamberlin, September 24, 1840, who owns and occupies the valuable homestead formerly possessed by his father, on the Upper Plain in Bradford.  They have at this date one son, Benjamin Franklin, who married Abby, daughter of George Monson, of this place.  He is engaged in farming business with his father. The daughters, Martha, Elizabeth, and Ruby, are still with their parents. John Westly, a promising boy, came to his death by accidental drowning.

It seems proper to add here that Jonathan Johnson, brother of Jesse and Haynes, early Settlers in Bradford, married Hannah Sawyer, a sister of the wives of his two brothers, and settled in the same neighborhood with them, though within the limits of Newbury, where they lived and died, leaving one son, Haynes Johnson, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822, became a worthy minister of the Methodist order, married a Miss Stevens, of Newbury, and died in 1856, at the age of fifty-five, leaving two sons, Jonathan and Simeon Stevens, the latter of whom became an attorney-at-law, married Miss Ellen Bailey, formerly of Fairlee, and is settled at Jefferson, Indiana.  Biographie Index

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