Maryland Family Group Sheet for the Joshua JOHNSON Family *********************************************** Copyright © by the submitter All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** =============================================================== SUBMITTED BY: Rebecca Hobson e-mail: Sunnybrk9@aol.com =============================================================== HUSBAND: Joshua JOHNSON date and place of birth: b. Maryland, probably Calvert County date and place of marriage: London, England other marriages: military service: date and place of death: father: Thomas JOHNSON II mother: Drocus SEDWICH ........................................................................... WIFE: Catherine NUFF date and place of birth: 1757,England other marriages: date and place of marriage: date and place of death: father: mother: ........................................................................... CHILD 1: Catherine Anne JOHNSON date and place of birth: abt 1773 married: date and place of marriage: other marriages: date and place of death: 1810 ........................................................................... CHILD 2: LOUISA CATHERINE JOHNSON date and place of birth: February 12, 1775, London, England married: John Quincy ADAMS date and place of marriage: July 26, 1797,parish church of All Hallows Barking. London, England other marriages: date and place of death: May 15, 1852, F Street. Washington, D. C. ........................................................................... CHILD 3: Thomas B. JOHNSON date and place of birth: married: date and place of marriage: other marriages: date and place of death: ........................................................................... CHILD 4: Nancy JOHNSON date and place of birth: married: date and place of marriage: other marriages: date and place of death: SOURCES: Cryer, Leona A. Some Johnsons of Southern Maryland, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991. Crier, Leona A. Deaths and Burials in St. Mary's County Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland 1995 ISBN 0-7884-0173-4 Drake, Paul Now in Our Fourth Century: Some American Families CD ROM, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD. Freeburn, D. & E. (Tracing the) Footprints of the Freeburn Family in America publisher unknown. Fresco, Margaret K. Marriages and Deaths St Mary's County Maryland 1634-1900, printed locally Margaret K. Fresco, Ridge, Maryland, 1982. George, Christopher T., Terror on the Chesapeake, White Mane Books, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 2000. (ISBN #1-57249-058-6) Griffin, Patrick The People with No Name, Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scotch Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1774 Princeton University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0-691-07461-5 & 0-691-07462-4 Hammet, Regina Combs History of St. Mary's County, printed locally, 1977. O'Rourke, Timothy J., Catholic Families of Southern Maryland reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland 2001. Skordas, Gust The Early Settlers of Maryland Genealogical Publishing Company Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1974. Tice, Janet et al. Burials from Tombstones, Grave Markers, and Church Registers of St. Mary's County, Maryland (1634-1994), for St. Mary's County Historical Society, (1996) T.L.C. Genealogy, St. Mary's County, Maryland, Rent Rolls, 1639-1771, , Miami Beach, FL. (spiral bound) T.L.C. Genealogy, St. Mary's County, Maryland, Administrative Accounts, Miami Beach, FL. (spiral bound) Wise, Marian & Bradley, Mildred. Our Freeburn Ancestors and Related Families, private printing. http://www.masshist.org/adams/biographical.cfm#louisa Some Johnsons of Southern Maryland, at pp. 107-110. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjohn55447/pages/early/thomasII.htm ........................................................................... NOTES: Joshua Johnson probably born Calvert County at "The Brewhouse.He went to Annapolis to become partners with friend in the tobacco business. He was sent to London to handle marketing where he met and married an English girl. When the American Revolution broke out he was considered an alien in England so he moved to France in 1777. After the war he returned to England and became an affluent merchant. In 1782 he owned "Preston's Cliffe" a bayside plantation in Calvert County, Maryland on the lower cliffes. Sadly he went bankrupt in 1797 and was living on the street in Washington, D.C. in 1801. John Quincy ADAMS B. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts Sixth President of the United States 1825-1829 =============================================================== Copyright 2003. All rights reserved. This site may be freely linked to, but not duplicated in any manner without written consent from the submitter.