Gee, I wish these authors would get together about this slight matter of Polly's death. In "JOSEPH BRANDT 1743-1807 MAN OF TWO WORLDS" , by Isabel Thompson, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY (1984, repr. 1986), page 153: "It was also the day [11 July 1775] on which .. a long series of misfortunes that were to befall Guy Johnson, happened. Mary Johnson, Sir William's younger daughter and Guy's wife, died in childbirth just a few hours before the party set out." According to various authors, the two daughters, Mary (Little Polly), age ca, 13 and Julia, age about ten, were with them. Colonel Guy's wife was thirty years old. randy -----Original Message----- From: Sandy Allen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [NYHERKIM-L] Sir John JOHNSON & Clarissa PUTMAN >Hi Randall and other interested list members, > >According to Sir John Johnson, Loyalist Baronet (by Earle Thomas, Toronto & >Reading: Dundurn Press, 1986), Mary (Polly) Watts d. 7 Aug 1815 from "dysentery >with symptoms of palsy". "She had been sick about 3 weeks". Their daughter >Marianne was also very sick at the same time and not expected to live, but she recovered and outlived her father. > >I like this book, it is well written from the "loyalists" perspective and has a good bibliography. Amazon.com lists it as "out of print", however the >Montgomery County Department of History and Archives has it as a recent >acquisition! > >Sandy Allen > >"randall a. diefendorf" wrote: > >> So far, so good, Sandy. What do you know about Mary (Polly) (Johnson) >> Johnson's deathj when she died of childbirth at Fort Ontario after they fled >> the Mohawk Valley? I'd give a lot to learn these details. Thank you for >> your input. randy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sandy Allen <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 5:38 PM >> Subject: [NYHERKIM-L] Sir John JOHNSON & Clarissa PUTMAN >> > >> >To Johnson Researchers, >> > >> >Just a recommendation, verify the information on Sir John Johnson and >> >Clarissa Putman before using it. >> > >> >To my knowledge they were never married. However they had 2 children: >> >Margaret (m. James E. Van Horne) and William, b. 1770 at Fort Johnson, >> >Montgomery County, NY. ( m. Margaret Clark). >> > >> >Sir John m. Mary (Polly) Watts in 1773 in NYC. They returned to Fort >> >Johnson. Clarrisa and her children had moved out. >> > >> >Sandy Allen