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.