Samuel Johnson D.D. (1696 - 1772)

Born 14 Oct 1696 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Died 6 Jan 1772 at age 75 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Samuel Johnson D.D. is Notable.

• Samuel Johnson was born October 14, 1696 as the second son of Samuel Johnson and Mary Sage. Samuel passed away January 6, 1772.^[1]
• Graduated Yale 1714.
• First President of King's College (later Columbia University).^[2]
• Fact: Burial Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

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1. ↑ MIDDLETOWN UPPER HOUSES a history of the north society of Middletown, Ct. from 1650 to 1800 with genealogical and biographical chapters on early families. Charles Collard Adams New York: Grafton Press, 1908. THE SAGE FAMILY [transcribed by Coralynn Brown ]
2. ↑ Famous Kin [1]

• Guilford (Conn.) Vital Records, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1938) Vol. 15, Page 187. b. 15 Oct. 1696.
• Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson D.D.: missionary of the Church of England in Connecticut, and first president of King's College, New York (Hurd & Houghton, New York, 1874)
• Johnson, Rev. George. The Reverend Samuel Johnson, D.D., of Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1873) Vol. 27, Page 42
• Nicholls, Walter (1909) Sergeant Francis Nicholls of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639, and the Descendants of his son, Caleb Nicholls. The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, New York. page 33
• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Vol. 2, Page 1124
• Wikipedia: Samuel_Johnson_(American_educator)
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 25 July 2021), memorial page for Rev Samuel Johnson II (14 Oct 1696–6 Jan 1772), Find A Grave: Memorial #12001634, citing Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by D. O. (contributor 46506671).
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• American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1981, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 212-213, 218.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148.
• Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence (subscription). CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. Yale page 70
• Hollister, Gideon. The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 512-3
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 522-3
• Wilcoxson, William Howard. History of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939 (Stratford Tercentenary Commission, Stratford, Conn., 1939) Page 258
• Fothergill, Gerald. List of Emigrant Ministers to America, 1690-1811 (Elliot Stock, London, 1904) Page 37
• The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors (Glossary definitions provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, New York, 2021), Yale Converts.
• Haslam, Patricia L. & Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. A Registry Book Belonging to the Episcopal Church at Stratford, Connecticut, 1722-1828, The Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, 2011) Vol. 44, Page 86.
  • Burial record: "6 Jan 1772 - The Rev Dr. Samuel Johnson, AEt 75"