Name: nahant -- Johnson Family of Nahant & Lynn, MA

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Jonathan Johnson: Birth: 27 DEC 1746 in Lynn, MA. Death: BEF 1766


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary Johnson: Birth: 8 MAY 1754 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA.

  2. Rebekah Johnson: Birth: 26 FEB 1757 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA.

  3. William Johnson: Birth: 3 JUN 1759 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA.


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Benjamin Breem Johnson: Birth: 11 OCT 1771 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA.

  2. Joseph Johnson: Birth: 12 FEB 1776 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA. Death: 8 JUN 1854 in Nahant, Essex Co., MA

  3. Caleb Johnson: Birth: 7 DEC 1778 in Lynn, Essex Co., MA. Death: 3 NOV 1867 in Nahant, Essex Co., MA


Sources
1. Title:   Massachusettes Vital Records to 1850 for Lynn, MA.

Notes
a. Note:   When a young man, Jonathan enrolled in a cavalry regiment under Major Graves and fought in the French and Indian Wars, thus was given the title of "Trooper" Johnson. When he returned home he learned the chairmaking and block making trades. After the death of his father, he conveyed his interest in the estate to his brother. He moved to Marblehead in 1749 and purchased a house there. (This explains why on Caleb Johnson' death certifate, his father's place of birth is listed as Marblehead, MA). At this time, he became owner of vessels and followed freighting of goods from Boston to Lynn, Salem, Marblehead and Cape Ann (Letter #195, Edward J. Johnson Collections, Nahant Public Library.)
  Jonathan Johnson in 1758 purchased from Jeremiah Gray (Deed dated 27 August 1758), the third house build on Nahant. There were only three houses on Nahant until the year 1803. Their occupants were Quakers (Lewis & Newhall, "Annals of Lynn, 1865, p. 312.)
  According to Newhall in the Annals of Lynn, 1865, p. 85), "At Nahant...At the unostentatious homestead of Jonathan Johnson, Longfellow produced many of the charming strains of his world-renowned Hiawatha; and there, also he wrote his Ladder of Saint Augustine."
  Legend states that he could not get off Nahant because of ocean tides, to fight at Lexington on 19 April 1775 along with his brother Edward from Lynn (Some Annals of Nahant, 47; Lynn Scrapbooks, 54:4)

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