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A Brief sketch of the lives of Ezekiel and Julia Hills Johnson
No full textTypescript (4 pages), story of the Johnson family headed by Ezekiel and Julia Johnson, some of whose children were early LDS converts, and who lived at Kirtland and Nauvoo. Copied from the journal of son Benjamin F. Johnson by Klea Johnson Ballinger in 193
Tag from Private Andrew W. Johnson, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, to Mrs. Mamie L. Johnson, Louisville, Kentucky
No full textThis item is from the Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, a diary, books, newspaper clippings, dog tags and other items of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s while he was in the Army
Benjamin Johnson letter to Thomas Rotch, Philadelphia, 2 mo 27, 1819
No full textBenjamin Johnson describes his decision to relocate to Illinois rather than Ohio country. 8.45" x 10.5" (21.5 by 26.6 cm) Johnson visited Virginia and reports that the eastern part of the state was already over tilled, and "large districts are reduced to almost barren wastes by constant cultivation of tobacco & indian corn, until the wretched slave and still more wretched master scarcely find a sufficiency for support. " Quakers did not speak with one voice on the issue of slavery, but many of them including the Rotches hated the institution and refused to settle in a slave state
Benjamin Johnson letter to Thomas Rotch, Philadelphia 5 mo 4, 1818
No full textAn update from Benjamin Johnson who visited the Rotches at Kendal in the fall of 1817, at a time when Johnson was considering migration to Ohio country. This letter contains news of the death of his daughter, Ann and illness of other family from typhus fever-like disease. Like most fevers that appeared suddenly, victims were at times dead by morning. The writer mentions the families of M Folger, N. Hunt and G Brantingham who may have been Kendal settlers. 7.8" x 9.7" (19.9 by 24.7 cm
Ben & Stella Johnson Folder
No full text7 pages of family history documents containing and related to Benjamin T. Johnson; Stella M. Sandidge Johnson; Lloyd Johnson; Fay Johnson; - including: wedding anniversary; obit; photograp
Benjamin Johnson letter to Thomas Rotch, York 7 mo 20, 1817
No full textBenjamin Johnson informs Thomas Rotch that he and family are on their way to Ohio country to inspect land near Kendal owned by his Philadelphia neighbor Furman Laming, for possible homesteading. Much of the most fertile land in New England and Pennsylvania by this time had been bought up and turned to the plough, whereas some land in Ohio was still affordable. Johnson writes that he and wife and three children will cross the Ohio River at Charlestown (West Virginia), the journey will take about 2 weeks, traveling slowly as roads were atrocious, he is not certain he will make the Yearly Meeting of Friends at Mt Pleasant to meet up with Rotch. 6.7" x 8.1" (17 by 20.8 cm
[Headstone of Benjamin Johnson]
No full textPhotograph of the headstone of Benjamin Johnson in Sabine Pass Cemetery. The headstone is rounded at the top; text engraved on it says "Benjamin Johnson [Born] June 8, 1815. Died Oct. 13, 1872.
Letter from W. T. Johnson to Benjamin F. Murvin
No full textLetter from W. T. Johnson to Benjamin F. Murvin, concerning recommendations for Harold Horace Hutto
Benjamin Willard Johnson Ancestors
No full textThis is a portrait of the ancestors of Benjamin Willard Johnson family
Johnson, Benjamin F.
No full textGenealogy of the Benjamin F. Johnson family in Rowan County, Kentucky
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