John Johnson ¹

  General Notes:

John2 (Johnson) (William1) was born in England probably about 1631, was brought to New England in 1634, and lived in Charlestown, where he received a grant of land, until 1638. In this latter year he removed to Haverhill, Mass. where he founded the first permanent smithy in the town. He became a prominent and influential man in Haverhill where he was a tithingman and deacon in the church, a proprietor, selectman, juror, and moderator of the town meetings, and in 1691 a representative to the Great and General Court of the Colony. He was also a lieutenant in the militia. … He was killed in his own house by Indians in an attack on Haverhill August 29, 1708. His wife, granddaughter-in-law, and others in the house were killed in the same attack; but his great-grandchild, Lydia Johnson, who was in his wife's arms, somehow survived. His property was divided by will. ²