JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
Birth14 Dec 1782, Sanbornton, NH
Death27 Aug 1855, Freedom, NH
BurialFreedom Village Cemetery
OccupationBlacksmith And Farmer
FatherJohn Johnson (1740-1825)
MotherMary “Molly” Smith (1763-1826)
Spouses
Birth2 Oct 1785, Sanbornton, NH
Death2 Apr 1805, Sanbornton, NH
FatherJohn Huse (-?)
MotherMolly Bean (-?)
Family ID2078
Marriage29 May 1803, Sanbornton, NH
ChildrenHannah Matilda (1804-1855)
Birth3 Aug 1787, Sanbornton, NH
Death16 Jun 1865, Freedom
BurialFreedom Village Cemetery
FatherJohn Huse (-?)
MotherMolly Bean (-?)
Family ID2079
Marriage6 Feb 1806, Sanbornton. NH53
Notes for Elisha Johnson
ELISHA JOHNSON', [John', Benjamin', James, Jr.', James', Edmund'], second child and first son of John', and second wife Molly (Smith) (
) Johnson, born in San-
bornton, New Hampshire, December 11, 1782, married by Reverand John Crockett (Freewill Baptist Minister), May 29, 1803, Elizabeth, second daughter of John and Molly (Bean) (
) (Huse) ( ), born in Sanbornton October
2, 1785, who died in Sanbornton April 2, 1805; married second by Reverand John Crockett, February 6, 1806, to Rachel Huse, (sister of first wife), born in Sanbornton
August 3, 1787.
He learned the blacksmith trade of Bradstreet Moody, at Sanbornton Bridge (Franklin), and moved to Lincolnville, Maine, (then called Duck Trapp), soon after his second marriage, but this was not long to be an abiding place, as he a little later moved to the town of Knox in the same county; but his handicraft was more in demand in the village of Freedom, where came to him all that a busy and capable craftsman could do; his skill as a mechanic advertised him far and near, and his ability was always in demand.
An English Company operating on the St. Croix river at Mill-town, New Brunswick, sought his assistance in building of mills there.
Completing these, he was called again to a more distant part of the Province; answering this call, through the dense forest, he went to the Miramichia river and assisted in building the First Mill on that great navigable water, a Pioneer to assist in opening up a forest country to commerce of the world.
Subsequent to this he was engaged by, and in the employ of General Vesie, of Old Town, Maine, and for a long time had the care and upkeep of his mills at that place.
Retiring from this, he began the manufacture of farming and edge tools at Freedom, rounding out the center of a busy and useful life; completing the time between about 1808 and 1820, when he bought a farm about one mile west of the village, which by industry and frugality he greatly improved, bringing into a high state of culti-vation, spending the declining years of his life caring for the lighter details connected with its cultivation; having been engaged in garden work during the forenoon, and dying peacefully in the evening of August 27, 1855; his wife Rachel dying there June 16, 1865, and they are both buried in Freedom village cemetery; handing down to their posterity the influence of a busy, well spent life.
That one life is complete alone, is never proven! In his long and useful life Elisha Johnson had a co-partner, a helpmeet in every sense of the word, in Rachel Huse Johnson. "Children and Grandchildren rise up, to call her blessed."
) Johnson, born in San-
bornton, New Hampshire, December 11, 1782, married by Reverand John Crockett (Freewill Baptist Minister), May 29, 1803, Elizabeth, second daughter of John and Molly (Bean) (
) (Huse) ( ), born in Sanbornton October
2, 1785, who died in Sanbornton April 2, 1805; married second by Reverand John Crockett, February 6, 1806, to Rachel Huse, (sister of first wife), born in Sanbornton
August 3, 1787.
He learned the blacksmith trade of Bradstreet Moody, at Sanbornton Bridge (Franklin), and moved to Lincolnville, Maine, (then called Duck Trapp), soon after his second marriage, but this was not long to be an abiding place, as he a little later moved to the town of Knox in the same county; but his handicraft was more in demand in the village of Freedom, where came to him all that a busy and capable craftsman could do; his skill as a mechanic advertised him far and near, and his ability was always in demand.
An English Company operating on the St. Croix river at Mill-town, New Brunswick, sought his assistance in building of mills there.
Completing these, he was called again to a more distant part of the Province; answering this call, through the dense forest, he went to the Miramichia river and assisted in building the First Mill on that great navigable water, a Pioneer to assist in opening up a forest country to commerce of the world.
Subsequent to this he was engaged by, and in the employ of General Vesie, of Old Town, Maine, and for a long time had the care and upkeep of his mills at that place.
Retiring from this, he began the manufacture of farming and edge tools at Freedom, rounding out the center of a busy and useful life; completing the time between about 1808 and 1820, when he bought a farm about one mile west of the village, which by industry and frugality he greatly improved, bringing into a high state of culti-vation, spending the declining years of his life caring for the lighter details connected with its cultivation; having been engaged in garden work during the forenoon, and dying peacefully in the evening of August 27, 1855; his wife Rachel dying there June 16, 1865, and they are both buried in Freedom village cemetery; handing down to their posterity the influence of a busy, well spent life.
That one life is complete alone, is never proven! In his long and useful life Elisha Johnson had a co-partner, a helpmeet in every sense of the word, in Rachel Huse Johnson. "Children and Grandchildren rise up, to call her blessed."