There is a Johnson Cemetery 4 miles NW of Williamsport, WV with one broken but readable stone -- Isaac Johnson 7/8/1773 - 9/11/1850. ---------- > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Antoni Sadowski's Johnson in-laws of Patterson Creek,WV > Date: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:39 PM > > Thomas Brown's dau Mary d 1814,m James Sandusky. Isaac Johnson was > his uncle. Many of these Johnson's are his 1st cousins. > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > To: SANDUSKY-L@rootsweb.com > S > Great data,Ed. There is a remote tie between the Bonham's,and Jacob > Sadowski's > Vause in-laws,and my own Fox's. > George Bonham was at Plymouth,Mass,1670's. Son Nicholas Bonham moved to > Piscataway,NJ west of Staten Island,1680's-there were Darling's there. > Hezekiah Bonham convinced Piscataway Baptist Rev Edmund Dunham,that 7th > Day > was correct. > Next generation of Bonham's were in Kingwood,Hunterdon Co,NJ> NW Loudoun > Co,N E Va 1760. > 1764 Uriah and Anchor Fox Bonham sold their LOoudoun Co,Va lands to > Gabrial > and Absalom Fox's brothers. > 1778,Gabrial and Absalom Fox moved to near Romney,with my own Absalom and > Christian > Bonham Fox,and > Amariah Bonham moving on to Wash Co,sw Pa 1780. But,Gabrial Fox stayed > around > Romney,where his siblings, and the siblings of Capt Wm Vause,of Ephriam > and Theodesia > Hewling Vause,intermarried. Capt Wm Vause was bro-in-law of Jacob,of > Andrew,of Antoni, > Sadowski. Capt Wm Vause had 1000 acres in s Brown Co,Oh adjoing the Evans > that > Jacob and Ephriam,the infidel,Sadowski,married. S LebanonWarren Co,Oh > got,1797,some of the > FOX-Bonham -SUTTON colony. > Isaac Johnson's line would have retreated from Patterson Creek part of > the French and > Indian War. > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:30:44 EDT EdPink@aol.com writes: > > Hello everybody > > As you see in the following article, I have many holes to fill > > and would > > appreciate answers and family group sheets of new lines to Sadowski > > and > > Johnson. Will you please help. > > > > Edward Pinkowski > > 10212 SW 59th St. > > Cooper City, Florida 33328-6531 > > > > > > LOST FAMILY OF WEST VIRGINIA > > > > by Edward Pinkowski > > > > If you didnt know, John Johnson was the grandson of Anthony > > Sadowski, > > the famous Polish pioneer, and spawned so many children that they > > filled nine > > branches on the family tree. In more than thirty-five years of > > tracking the > > Sadowski family, I have not seen very little on John Johnsons > > children, > > spouses, and connecting lines. > > In John Johnsons life, however, he undoubtedly collected many > > Sadowski > > heirlooms. For more than 70 years he lived in the same place on > > Pattersons > > Creek, on a tract of land practically four-fifths of a mile square, > > and three > > generations of his line were either born or raised on the 400-acre > > farm his > > father, Isaac Johnson, carved out of the wilderness in the 1740s. > > When his > > father died in 1752, John Johnson got two thirds of the 400-acre > > plantation > > and his mother, Anthony Sadowskis daughter, one third, but it was > > not > > official until 1768 when the same was patented to him by Lord > > Fairfaxs land > > office. > > Its easy to picture the land grant on Pattersons Creek. The > > starting > > point was two white oak trees on Theodore Daviss line, which David > > Vance > > used in his 1768 survey, and then N.35 degrees, E. 253 poles(253x16 > > 1/2 ft.) > > to a white oak and a red oak on the side of a mountain, then N. 50 > > degrees W > > 253 poles to two pines on a hill, then S. 35 degrees W. 253 poles to > > a pine, > > and finally S. 50 degrees 253 poles to the beginning. As you see, > > you have > > an odd square with lines that show the bounds of 400 acres. > > Somehow, in the log cabin and other improvements Isaac Johnson > > made on > > this tract on Pattersons Creek, John Johnson saw his father die in > > 1752, > > his grandmother, Mary Palmer, Anthony Sadowskis first wife, who > > came to the > > Virginia frontier before 1752 from the present village of > > Douglassville, > > Pennsylvania, and lived with her daughter, Sophia, until her death > > in 1758, > > and his stepfather, William Darling, an Irish pioneer whom his > > mother > > married, the birth and growth of their three children, or his half > > siblings, > > and, longer than any other period of his life, his own family. The > > name of > > his wife got lost in the shuffle. > > When John Johnson died intestate in 1821, because no widow > > survived, the > > land he owned in Virginia, which abolished primogenture in 1786, was > > equally > > divided among his nine children. The land records of Hardy County, > > where he > > died, provide the names of seven daughters and two sons, seven > > spouses, and > > eleven heirs. In separate deeds, each sibling conveyed to the > > eldest son, > > Isaac Johnson, heir at law, an eighth of the land for $200. This is, > > then, an > > untapped goldmine of Sadowski genealogy. The census records and > > courthouses > > of Coshocton, Licking, Hanover, and Muskingum counties in Ohio, > > Mercer County > > in Kentucky, Clark County in Illinois, and Hampshire County in > > Virginia until > > 1862, would provide more details, how long these branches and > > connecting > > lines of John Johnson were around, ages of the children, and other > > changes in > > their lives. > > On October 21, 1827, six years after John Johnsons death, the > > first > > sibling to convey an eighth of the farm on Pattersons Creek to > > Isaac Johnson > > was Anna Johnson, who was born in 1769 and married John Strother, > > four years > > younger. After their son, John Johnson Strother, was born on January > > 4, 1800, > > in Hampshire County, adjoining Hardy County, the family moved to > > Licking > > County, in east central Ohio, where John Strother died in 1821 and > > his wife > > in 1851. Anna was also the first name of one of Anthony Sadowskis > > daughters, > > from whom President Gerald R. Ford is descended, and the pattern was > > similar > > in other siblings. For example, Mary Johnson, who married William > > Vandiver, > > bears the same first name as Anthony Sadowskis wife; Justina > > Johnson, who > > married James Ogilvie, was probably the namesake of Justina > > Sadowski, Anthony > > Sadowskis daughter; Sophia Johnson, who married Zachariah Bonham, > > was named > > after John Johnsons mother; Jacob Johnson carried the same first > > name as a > > son of Anthony Sadowski who, like Justina, died before Sophia > > Sadowski > > married Isaac Johnson, John Johnsons parents. The court records of > > Hardy > > County were not checked to determine if any orders were issued to > > convey land > > from Anna Strother and other siblings to their oldest brother. > > The second grantee was actually not living on September 30, > > 1830, when > > the executor of Elizabeth Ryans estate sold the eighth of her > > fathers farm > > to the eldest brother. She died in Mercer County, Kentucky. The > > first name > > of the spouse is not known. > > When the third transaction was made on October 16, 1832, Sarah > > Johnson > > was dead, and John Minton of Licking County, Ohio, to whom she was > > married, > > sold her eighth of the farm to Isaac Johnson. > > The story of Lydia Johnson, who inherited an eighth of her > > fathers lands > > and sold it to her eldest brother on December 9, 1832, has many > > angles. She > > was the only daughter who wasnt married at the time of her fathers > > death., > > and her predicament in 1821 was practically the same as her > > grandmothers in > > 1786 when William Darling died. Comparing the two women, what they > > did > > after the death of loved ones, presents an unusual view of life on > > Pattersons > > Creek in the early years of the republic. Obviously, although > > William > > Vandiver, to whom Mary Johnson, John Johnsons daughter, was > > married, rented > > the farm for $95 a year, Lydia Johnson remained with her sister, or > > closeby, > > just as Sophia Darling evidently did with John Johnson in 1786. One > > third of > > the 400-acre farm was Sophia Darlings dowry since 1752, and Lydia > > Johnson > > owned one eighth of it from 1821 to 1832. > > Certainly Anthony Sadowskis daughter was better off than Lydia > > Johnson, > > who, like her grandmother, had to shift for herself. Although we > > dont have > > any knowledge of Sophia Darlings living quarters, we know to a > > certain > > extent what Lydia Johnson did to get along in a frontier society. > > She went to > > the Hardy County courthouse at Moorefield on March 30,1821, when the > > sale of > > John Johnsons moveable goods was held, and purchased 25 objects, > > many of > > them probably family heirlooms, for which she paid $92.52. For > > starters, the > > bed she bought for $32 was probably her own. > > The evidence that she remained on the farm, at least until her > > marriage, > > was that she bought one of her fathers cows for $9.50, a hay stack > > for $7., > > and a milking pail, then called a piggin, for $1.25. > > As no home was without one in the early days, Lydia Johnson > > bought two > > spinning wheels, each for fifty cents, that were probably in the > > family for > > generations. Her grandmother inherited a small spinning wheel from > > Mary > > Palmer in 1758. In her cabin, living quarters, or whatever it was > > called, > > she had a fireplace and bought two of her fathers trammels to hold > > pots at > > different levels over a fire. In addition, she bought two > > buckets, a tea kettle, a flat iron and horn, an oven and lid, a stew > > kettle, > > a coffee mill, shoe brush, salt cellar, pepper castor, pickle > > leaves and > > waiter, two salad dishes, a pitcher, sheep shears, mirror, bread > > basket, > > carpet, spoons, knives and forks. > > Another sign that Anthony Sadowskis daughter did not neglect > > the > > education of her son in the hinterland was the number of books that > > were on > > his shelves. Like his mother, who was taught to read and write by > > Anthony > > Sadowski, John Johnson learned to read books. No one knows how many > > of them > > came from his mother. He had a large collection of books at the time > > of his > > death. > > The books that Lydia Johnson purchased were probably the > > familys > > favorites -- Thomas Cokes four-volume commentary on the New > > Testament and > > Woods dictionary of the Bible. Her father and grandmother lived at > > a time > > when Coke, a Methodist missionary who was born in Wales, over an > > apothecary > > shop, held camp meetings wherever he could assemble people. In the > > last two > > decades of the 18th century, Virginia had a severe shortage of > > Anglican > > clergy because most of them, steadfastly loyal to England during the > > American > > Revolution, returned to the mother country. In 1784, John Wesley, > > founder of > > Methodism, sent Coke, a 37-year-old assistant, to carry on his work > > in the > > new world. The first year Coke traveled 800 miles, crossing rivers > > and > > mountains, and held camp meetings in Virginia and Maryland, to which > > either > > or both John Johnson and his mother could have gone, and he made > > repeated > > visits to the United States. When John Johnson bought the religious > > books, or > > who owned them before him, is not known. The Coke books were first > > imported > > from England and later republished in the United States. Obviously, > > Lydia > > Johnson, who bought the books that were in her fathers library for > > twelve > > dollars, kept Cokes books on her shelves,and when she married James > > Dye and > > moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, where her fathers half-brother, > > Robert > > Darling, was one of the first settlers, she carried the books with > > her. > > With four down and four siblings to go, Isaac Johnson purchased > > three > > more parts of his fathers farm in 1835. The first of these from the > > heirs of > > William and Mary Vandiver was laden with memories. When John Johnson > > died, > > his daugher, Mary, and her husband, William Vandiver, rented his > > farm for $95 > > a year and raised their six children there as John Johnson raised > > nine > > children there before them. William Vandiver purchased a great deal > > of John > > Johnsons moveable goods, many of which were in the family for two > > generations, and by January 30, 1835, when Mary Vandivers eighth > > was sold, > > neither of them was alive. At the time, Isaac Johnson and Mary > > Vandivers > > children were living in Hampshire County. In addition to Sophia > > Vandiver, > > who was married to Samuel Hendren, Matilda Vandiver, who was > > married to > > James Riggs, and John Vandiver, who was married to Nancy(last name > > unknown), > > William, Elizabeth, Sarah Ann Vandiver were still not married. > > On September 30, 1835, Justina Johnson, written Christina in few > > places > > by mistake, named after Justina Sadowski, who died six years before > > Anthony > > Sadowski in Pennsylvania, and her husband, James Ogilvie, of > > Coshocton > > County, Ohio, sold her part of the farm on Pattersons Creek to > > Isaac > > Johnson. > > On the same day, the heirs of Sophia Johnson, who was married to > > Zachariah Bonham and who died in Muskingum County, Ohio, sold her > > share of > > the ancestral farm. The heirs included Amos Bonham, Robert Bonham, > > Johnson > > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, of Hancock County, Ohio, > > Hezebiah Bonham > > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, Jacob Bonham, Elizabeth Bonham, > > James > > and Elizabeth Green, husband and wife, all of Muskingum County, > > Ohio. > > Not until Jacob Johnson of Clark County, Illinois, sold his > > share on > > February 27, 1837, did Isaac Johnson have the 400-acre farm all to > > himself. > > The two grandsons of Sophia Darling who were born and raised on > > Pattersons > > Creek raises an interesting question and brings her back into focus. > > After > > the death of her second husband in the lowlands across the South > > Branch of > > the Potomac River from Moorefield, Sophia Darling looked again to > > her dowry > > and the fields and pastures of the farm on Pattersons Creek. One > > third of it > > was endowed to her in 1752 by the laws of Virginia and after her > > death it > > was returned to John Johnson without any legal action. In the 1787 > > census of > > Virginia, however, Sophia Darling was assessed for one white male > > between 16 > > and 21 years of age, eight horses or mules, and 19 head of cattle. > > No one > > knows who the person was, but her grandsons, either Isaac or Jacob > > Johnson, > > would probably fit the description. Because she was on endowed > > land, where > > she lived was not taxed or listed. > > The legal description of the 400-acre farm is practically the > > same from > > 1768, when it was surveyed for John Johnson, to April 18, 1843, six > > years > > after the last eighth was turned over to him, when Isaac Johnson > > sold the > > family homestead to William J. Armstrong. Unlike his siblings, most > > of whom > > moved to Ohio when they were married, Isaac Johnson remained in > > Hampshire > > County, where Ann was the name of his wife in 1843 and Nancy in > > 1845. The > > last sighting of him was in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1858. > > No story of John Johnson would be complete without the question > > of his > > age. Certainly he was born on a farm lying along the Schuylkill > > River, fifty > > miles north of Philadelphia, where Isaac Johnson and Sophia Sadowski > > were > > married, prior to their migration to Virginia in the late 1740s. If > > he could > > not be legally recognized as a heir-at-law until he was 21 years > > old, the > > year the tract on Pattersons Creek was entered in his name would > > make 1747 > > the year of his birth. Lord Fairfaxs land records, however, list > > the same > > name, John Johnson, who was granted 268 acres of land on both sides > > of > > Little Cacaphon Creek in Hampshire County in 1762. Unless there was > > another > > person of the same name, John Johnson was, then, born in 1741 > > rather than > > 1747. What is so puzzling about John Johnson is that, despite his > > books and > > nine children, nothing is known about his real age. Hopefully, in > > the > > future, someone will find a reliable record of his age. As more and > > more > > descendants of Anthony Sadowski dig for their roots, name by name, > > more work > > will be done on John Johnson and his progeny. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== SANDUSKY Mailing List ==== > > Search old list messages at this link to the <a > > href="http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl">Rootsweb > > Mail List Archives</a> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ______________________________