The Johnson Family

of

Isle of Wight & Nansemond Counties, Virginia

                  
      
      
      The first of this line that has  been studied was Robert Johnson of 
      Isle of  Wight County,  Virginia. His  will was  made September      
      and recorded May 28, 1738. He married  at least once, to Ann _____. 
      He had issue:
      
      I.    Robert Johnson who married Priscilla _____. Issue:
            A.   Robert Johnson who married and had a son Elijah Johnson.
            B.   Jesse Johnson
            C.   Mial Johnson who died ca. 1800. Had issue:
                 1.   Priscilla Johnson
                 2.   Jacob Johnson
                 3.   Jemima Johnson who married _____ Eley
                 4.   Elias Johnson
                 5.   Sally Johnson
                 6.   Elizabeth Johnson who married _____ Butler
            D.   Martha Johnson
            E.   Lazarus Johnson, d. ca. 1798-1800. Had issue:
                 1.   Elisha Johnson
                 2.   Lemuel Johnson
                 3.   Lazarus Johnson
                 4.   Joseph Johnson
                 5.   Jesse Johnson
                 6.   Robert Johnson, d. ca. 1789. Married Patience      
                      _____ [possibly Fulgham, daughter of John Fulgham  
                      and Mary Purcace] and had issue:
                      a.   Abel Johnson
                      b.   Martha Johnson
                      c.   Laban Johnson
                 7.   Cornelius Johnson
                 8.   Priscilla Johnson who m. _____ Butler
            F.   Mourning Johnson
            G.   Priscilla Johnson
            H.   Ann Johnson
            I.   Isabella Johnson, d. 1775
      II.   Catherine Johnson who married _____ Council.
      III.  Priscilla Johnson who married _____Council.
      IV.   James Johnson
      V.    Ann Johnson who married _____ Griffin
      VI.   Jacob Johnson
      VII.  Mary Johnson
      VIII. John Johnson
      IX.   Sarah Johnson
      X.    Isaac Johnson
      XI.   Abraham Johnson whose will was made October 20, 1759 and     
            recorded March 7, 1776. He married Ann Jones, daughter       
            of Thomas Jones, d. ca. 1749 of Newport Parish, Isle of      
            Wight County, Virginia. See Jones Family. Issue:
            A.   Abraham Johnson, (Uncle of Spencer Carr), died ca.      
            1792-1796. Married ca. 1749 to _____ Carr.
            B.   Mourning Johnson, married _____ Powell
            C.   Ann Johnson, married _____ Dunn
            D.   Thomas Johnson, married Sarah _____
            E.   Nathan Johnson, d. ca. 1785-90. Married Amey Eley,      
            daughter of Robert Eley and Allis [Alice?] Gale, the         
            daughter of Thomas Gale and Alice _____ of Isle of Wight     
            County, Virginia. Nathan and Am[e]y Johnson of Isle of Wight 
            County had issue:
                 1.   Mourning Johnson
                 2.   Jordan Johnson who married twice. First on         
                 February 17, 1787 to his first cousin, Margaret         
                 Johnson, daughter of Abraham Johnson (d. ca. 1792-96)   
                 and _____ Carr, and secondly to Holland Brewer. He had  
                 issue:
                      a.   Gale Johnson of Isle of Wight County,         
                      Virginia whose will was made October 12, 1878 and  
                      proved on February 2, 1880. At his death his wife  
                      was Nancy _____. But he had probably married       
                      Jemima Powell, for there is in Isle of Wight a     
                      marriage bond dated February 3, 1817 for such a    
                      marriage to take place. His will mentions the      
                      following children:
                           (1)  Ruth Johnson who married _____ Johnson,  
                      and had issue:
                                (a)  Joseph Johnson
                                (b)  Sarah Johnson
                                (c)  Missouri Johnson
                           (2)  Abram P[owell?] Johnson Married in       
                           Nansemond County [Bond, December 14, 1850 to  
                           Margaret Hedgbeth. Issue:     
                                (a)  Ryland C. Johnson, born in          
                                Nansemond County, Virginia February 16,  
                                1867 [Birth Reg. of Nansemond Co.]
                                (b)  John Abraham Johnson, born in       
                                Nansemond County, Virginia. At the age   
                                of 22 on January 21,1886, he was married 
                                by Z. A. Post in Nansemond County to     
                                Media Anna J. Luke, the 19 year old      
                                sister of Charles A. Luke and daughter   
                                of Isaac P. (d. ca. 1885) and Sarah F.   
                                Luke [They were no "Lukes" in Nansemond  
                                County Census of 1850]. She had also     
                                been born in Nansemond County [Also see  
                                Deed Book 28:297]. They had issue:
                                     (1)  John Letcher Johnson, born in  
                                     Nansemond County, Virginia. At the  
                                     time of his marriage [recorded in   
                                     Nansemond County] in Suffolk,       
                                     Virginia on January 16, 1923, he    
                                     was age 29. He married Lydia Mae    
                                     Baker, born in Nansemond County,    
                                     the daughter of William R. and      
                                     Mattie Baker. She was 25 when they  
                                     were married by F. W. Johnson.
                                (c)  Eva J. Johnson, born March 20, 1870 
                                in Nansemond County [Birth Reg. of       
                                Nansemond]     
                 3.   Eley Johnson
                 4.   Stephen Johnson
                 5.   Nathan Johnson
                 6.   Tabitha Johnson



       
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