John Johnson, II, of Jamestown

Not the same as John Johnson, of Northumberland County

John Johnson, Jr.

• Born 1623 in Jamestown, James City, Colony of Virginia
• Died after 1659 at about age 58 in Jockey's Neck, James City, Colony of Virginia
• Son of John Johnson Sr and Ann (Not Goche)
• Sibling of Ann (Johnson) Travis
• Spouse of ?

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John Johnson, Ancient Planter (c1590-before Feb 1638/9) married Ann

2. John Johnson, Jr. (1623-after 1659) married unknown

Their children:

• 1. Robert Johnson (1643?-after Oct 1698) married c1668 Katherine, of whom below
• .2. William Johnson/Johnston (1648-1719) blacksmith, married (secondly?) Sarah, daughter of Owen Griffeth (died 1698) His land in Isle of Wight County adjoined Robert's.
• 3. John Johnson (1659-1707) married c1687 Mary; m.1701 Mary Thompson Day, of whom below

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnson-3729

John Johnson,[1] the son of Ann Unknown and John Johnson of Jamestown Island, was attributed to his parents' household on February 16, 1624, as was his sister, Ann II.[2]

On January 24, 1625, when a muster was taken of the colony's inhabitants, John II was listed as age 1.[2]

His parents died sometime prior to January 25, 1638, at which time John II and his sister, Ann II, were described as their legitimate heirs.[3] (His mother was still living at the time of Jamestown merchant Thomas Warnett's February 13, 1629, will, in which she is named.) [citation needed]

On June 5, 1653, John Johnson identified himself as a James City County planter and disposed of 450 acres of land in Upper Chippokes, property he seems to have inherited from his parents.[4] [5]

On March 25, 1654, he repatented his late father's 15 acres in eastern Jamestown Island.[3] He also repatented his father's 135 acres in Archer's Hope, on the west side of Archer's Hope (College) Creek, renewing his claim in 1662.[3]

On August 8, 1659, John Johnson sold his parents' Jamestown Island farmstead to his brother-in-law Edward Travis, who by that date already owned several other parcels on the north side of Passmore Creek.[4]

Family

Extracted from http://jliptrap.us/gen/johnson.htm

John Johnson Jr was born about 1623, married about 1643, but his wife's name is unknown, (see Allen) and he died after 1659, but there was a John Johnson alive in 1704 and paying taxes for land on James Island, as the Quit Rent rolls of that year listed him as owner of 260 acres there.

When he sold his land in Surrey County in 1653, he had no wife. But he was only 30 years old, and may have remarried. But nothing has been found about John Johnson Jr after 1659.

A John Johnson "of Lower Norfolk" apparently sided with the rebel Nathaniel Bacon, for in 1677 he was exempted from the king's pardon, property forfeit, and hanged. Whether this was John Jr (1623) age 54, or someone else altogether, is not known.

Some researchers give a death date of 1681 in Jockey's Neck, but no clue where they got that date.

Wife: unknown

Children

• 1. Robert Johnson (1643?-after Oct 1698) married c1668 Katherine, of whom below
• .2. William Johnson/Johnston (1648-1719) blacksmith, married (secondly?) Sarah, daughter of Owen Griffeth (died 1698) His land in Isle of Wight County adjoined Robert's.
• 3. John Johnson (1659-1707) married c1687 Mary; m.1701 Mary Thompson Day, of whom below

Caution

The genealogy of this family was greatly complicated by Eddis Johnson, in The Johnsons and Johnstons of Corrowaugh in Isle of Wight County, 1979. The book had a very specific agenda, which was to "prove" that President Lyndon Johnson was descended from both John Johnson, Ancient Planter, and from Arthur Allen (1608-1669) of Surry County, Virginia. Many researchers have blindly accepted the contrived relationships he claimed, but failed to prove. See also < Allen > One speculation he presented as "fact" was Robert Johnson of Isle of Wight County as the son of John Johnson (1623) of Surry County, as described above.

Origins

John Johnson, born about 1590, earned the title of 'Yeoman and Ancient Planter' by arriving in Virginia before 1616, remaining for at least three years, surviving the massacre of 22 March 1622, and receiving patents of land from the Virginia Company under their rules issued in November, 1618. The rules provided that those who came to Virginia at the Company's expense would be provided 100 acres of land after serving the Company for seven years, at an annual rent of one shilling per 50 acres. John was granted land under this provision by Gov. George Yeardley between 10 Apr 1619 and 18 Nov 1621, though the exact date is unknown. But this dates his arrival in Virginia between 1612 and 1614 He lived on 15 acres on Back River in the northeast portion of Jamestown Island and raised crops, probably including tobacco, on 85 acres on Archer's Hope Creek, in the area called Jockey's Neck, (now site of the Williamsburg Winery) and 50 acres west of College Creek. He may have been related to Sir Robert Johnson who visited the Virginia Colony in 1619. His wife Ann may have been one of the "maids" imported in 1619. She died about 1653. John, with wife and two "infans" are listed as "living in Jams iland" 16 Feb 1623/4 in John C Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality...1600-1700. London, 1874, page 178. The muster of residents of James City taken 24 Jan 1624/5 lists John, his wife Ann, daughter Ann, age 4, and his son John, age 1. They apparently voyaged back to England in the mid-1630's, since his heirs were granted 450 acres in Upper Chippokes, Surry County, on 25 Jan 1637/8, for re-importing his family of four and bringing five servants, Walter Travis, Nich. Cosones, Walter Johnson, Dorothy Barnett, and Katherine Dowse. What relation these five people may have been is not known at this time. But John apparently died soon after their return, as Edward Travis repatented the 900 acres 25 Feb 1638/9 in the names of "Edward Travis and John Johnson, sonn of John Johnson dec'd." Ann apparently died about 1658, before John (Jr) sold the 15-acre home site to Edward Travis in 1659. . 1. Ann Johnson (1620) married about 1636 Edward Travis (died after 1682) . . . 11. Edward Travis, Jr (c1637-12 Nov 1700) married Elizabeth Champion (?) . 2. John Johnson, Jr. (1623-after 1659) . Some sources list additional children, but only Edward Travis and John Johnson, Jr, were granted . land 25 Jan 1637/8, as the heirs of John Johnson Sr.

References

• Johnson, John Jr - A4307; Jamestowne Island: 1655, 1659 (Landowner).

< Jamestowne Society >

• GEDCOM Note https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LZT5-WSS
• FamilySearch John Johnson and Ann Goche, 16 July 2013, based on Johnson Family Of the Northern Neck of Virginia Northumberland, King George, Prince William and Fauquier, Volume II Chapter 13 https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/1745411
• The Johnsons and Johnstons of Corrowaugh in Isle of Wight County, 1979, by Eddis Johnson
• The Allen Family of Surry County... by William Carrell, in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol.50, 2006
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnson-3729 shows Margaret Lyden as wife, based on
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LC5G-DQJ
• Dorman, John Frederick. 2004. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. Genealogical Pub. Co. 4th edition. Vol 2, Page 357, book lookup by Hill, C. [03/20/2024]