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             Husband: Phineas JOHNSON (1 2 3)
                Born: 10 JAN 1730 in New Haven, CT (4)
          Christened: 15 MAR 1730 in New Haven, CT (5)
             Married:
                Died: SEP 1819 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (6 7 8)
              Father: Stephen JOHNSON
              Mother: Mercy WILMOT
             Spouses: Sarah TERRILL
                Wife: Mary (9)
                Born:
                Died: 11 APR 1788 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (10 11)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Jonathan JOHNSON
                Born: 1752 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12)
                Died: 16 JAN 1775 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13)
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Chauncey JOHNSON
                Born: l 1755
                Died: 16 FEB 1792 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (14 15)
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Timothy JOHNSON (16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
                Born: l 1758 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (32 33)
                Died: 26 AUG 1844 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (34 35 36)
             Spouses: Olive ADAMS
04               (M): Phineas JOHNSON (37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49)
                Born: l 1761 (50 51)
                Died:
             Spouses: Lois SKEELS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 19.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/019.html.]
  2. Ibid., 9.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... 1791 ... Septr 4th, Sarah, wife to Phineas Johnson, by a letter from the Pastor & Chh at Salem.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.]
  3. Ibid., 12.
    Mary ye wife of Phineas Johnson received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Amity, bairing Date Septr 26, 1756.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/012.html.]
  4. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  5. Ibid., vol 5, p 1042.
  6. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 78.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/078.html.]
  7. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  8. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 53.
    ae. 90.
  9. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 12.
    Mary ye wife of Phineas Johnson received to Communion from ye Pastor and Chh of Christ in Amity, bairing Date Septr 26, 1756.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/012.html.]
  10. Ibid., 49.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/049.html.]
  11. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  12. Ibid., vol 5, p 1042.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 46.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/046.html.]
  14. Ibid., 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  15. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 172.
    ... revolutionary pensioners, Oxford men.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/172.html.]
  17. Ibid., 172-4.
    ... under Gen. Wayne..British fortress on the bank of the Hudson ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/172.html.]
  18. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 11.
    STORY OF TIMOTHY JOHNSON'S PART IN THE REVOLUTION
    as related by Judge N. J. Wilcoxson.
    "Mr. Timothy Johnson related to me an incident that I must not omit to mention. The corps of which he was one, was on the bank of the Hudson, under Gen. Wayne, and in presence of Washington. Wayne besought Washington for a permit to lay siege to the British fortress on the bank of the Hudson called Stony Point. Wayne was refused permission. He besought a second time. Washington said the undertaking was too hazardous, it could not be successful, and refused him permission, believing it would be but a sacrifice of men, Wayne, nothing daunted, applied a third time to the Commander-in-Chief for his permit; told his plan and expressed his confidence of success. This he did with earnestness, such as told of the will to his purpose. Permission was granted him. He was allowed to pick his men. Timothy Johnson, my narrator, was one chosen, and as I think he said, his brother Phineas was another. The men chosen, they marched onward to the onslaught. Washington re-viewed them as they passed -- he looked very sober, and thought they would all be killed. They were marched in to the enemy's picket. They halted. They were fast. Wayne came along with a piece of bread and meat in his hand, saying, "Blood may run in rivers; any one who desires it may leave the ranks and he should not be branded with cowardice." But one left. Wayne then went through the line of troops and took the flints from every gun, that there should not be a gun fired giving light for the enemy's aim. The night was densely dark. All made ready and about to commence the march. Wayne said, "Death to the man that attempts to leave or falters in duty." Onward they marched and soon came upon the enemy's picket. The picket hailed. No answer. He fired and ran. Wayne and his force ran after him, The fortress was encircled with the limbs of the apple trees piled high and thick, the twigs of which were sharpened to a point, so that it would be impossible to get over or break through.
    But said Mr. Johnson, "We were so close upon the sentinel or picket, that he could not fill the gap made for him; we ran through the same and so entered the enclosure."
    The enemy in the meantime kept up a brisk fire, but not a man was hit. They made up to the walls of the fort and set about scaling. The man first over the wall was killed, the only one lost of the detachment. The contest was sharp and and severe, but short. The British soldiery surrendered. Wayne received a severe wound with a cutlass over the eye, a cut in such a manner as to cause the eyelid to fall.
    "He bled like a butcher," as it was told to me. Wayne said that he would ever proud of carrying the scar of that wound.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p11.htm.]
  19. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 63.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/063.html.]
  20. Ibid., 305.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.]
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 53.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/053.html.]
  22. 1790 Derby Census.
  23. 1800 Oxford Census.
  24. 1810 Oxford Census.
  25. 1820 Oxford Census.
  26. 1830 Oxford Census.
  27. 1840 Oxford Census.
    [Revolutionary Pensioner.]
  28. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 51.
  29. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 13.
    ... 1787.
    April 8, Timothy Johnson, Jnr Renewd his covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.]
  30. Revolutionary War Pension File.
    ... Timothy Johnson ... who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Chas. Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of 11 months ...
    {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
    ... Timothy Johnson, a resident in the town of Oxford ... 8th day of July, 1820 ... aged 61 years ...
    That I enlisted in the service of the United States in the month of February, 1776, in the company commanded by Capt. Perrit in the Regiment commanded by Col. Webb ...
    I have a family residing with me of wife and two children, one named Esther 25 years old has been married but left her husband with two children ... The other named Timothy, 14 years old ...
    ... Timothy Johnson enlisted into the service of the United States in the month of February, 1776, into the company commanded by Capt. Peter Perrit at Milford, in Connecticut, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb.
    That he continued to serve in the service of the United States until the first of January 1777, when the time of his service expired. That he was at the battles of White Plains and several others of minor importance ...
    [http://oxfordpast.net/timothyjohnson.pdf.]
  31. Signature.
    Signature on pension papers.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sig9656.jpg.]
  32. Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery (Riverside Cemetery), 57.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/rscemscan57.html.]
  33. 1840 Oxford Census.
    Revolutionary Pensioner.
  34. Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Riverside Cemetery (Riverside Cemetery), 57.
    Johnson, Timothy, died Aug. 26, 1844, age 86 yrs. (Flag).
    [http://oxfordpast.net/rscemscan57.html.]
  35. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 81.
    ... died August 26, 1844, aged 86.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/081.html.]
  36. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  37. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 10, 11.
    STORY OF TIMOTHY JOHNSON'S PART IN THE REVOLUTION
    as related by Judge N. J. Wilcoxson.
    "Mr. Timothy Johnson related to me an incident that I must not omit to mention. The corps of which he was one, was on the bank of the Hudson, under Gen. Wayne, and in presence of Washington. Wayne besought Washington for a permit to lay siege to the British fortress on the bank of the Hudson called Stony Point. Wayne was refused permission. He besought a second time. Washington said the undertaking was too hazardous, it could not be successful, and refused him permission, believing it would be but a sacrifice of men, Wayne, nothing daunted, applied a third time to the Commander-in-Chief for his permit; told his plan and expressed his confidence of success. This he did with earnestness, such as told of the will to his purpose. Permission was granted him. He was allowed to pick his men. Timothy Johnson, my narrator, was one chosen, and as I think he said, his brother Phineas was another. The men chosen, they marched onward to the onslaught. Washington re-viewed them as they passed -- he looked very sober, and thought they would all be killed. They were marched in to the enemy's picket. They halted. They were fast. Wayne came along with a piece of bread and meat in his hand, saying, "Blood may run in rivers; any one who desires it may leave the ranks and he should not be branded with cowardice." But one left. Wayne then went through the line of troops and took the flints from every gun, that there should not be a gun fired giving light for the enemy's aim. The night was densely dark. All made ready and about to commence the march. Wayne said, "Death to the man that attempts to leave or falters in duty." Onward they marched and soon came upon the enemy's picket. The picket hailed. No answer. He fired and ran. Wayne and his force ran after him, The fortress was encircled with the limbs of the apple trees piled high and thick, the twigs of which were sharpened to a point, so that it would be impossible to get over or break through.
    But said Mr. Johnson, "We were so close upon the sentinel or picket, that he could not fill the gap made for him; we ran through the same and so entered the enclosure."
    The enemy in the meantime kept up a brisk fire, but not a man was hit. They made up to the walls of the fort and set about scaling. The man first over the wall was killed, the only one lost of the detachment. The contest was sharp and and severe, but short. The British soldiery surrendered. Wayne received a severe wound with a cutlass over the eye, a cut in such a manner as to cause the eyelid to fall.
    "He bled like a butcher," as it was told to me. Wayne said that he would ever proud of carrying the scar of that wound.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p10.htm.]
  38. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 172.
    ... revolutionary pensioners, Oxford men.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/172.html.]
  39. Ibid., 172-174.
    ... under Gen. Wayne..British fortress on the bank of the Hudson..
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/172.html.]
  40. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1042.
  41. 1790 Derby Census.
  42. 1800 Oxford Census.
  43. 1810 Oxford Census.
  44. 1820 Oxford Census.
  45. 1830 Oxford Census.
  46. 1840 Oxford Census.
    [Revolutionary Pensioner.]
  47. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 53.
  48. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 789.
    Soldiers in the Revolution ...

    Phineas Johnson, from Pine's Bridge.
  49. Revolutionary War Pension File.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/PhineasJohnson.pdf.]
  50. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 63.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/063.html.]
  51. 1840 Oxford Census.
    Revolutionary Pensioner.

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