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Subject: Hezekiah Johnson, Chester Vt.
Date: 8 Jun 2004 03:54:48 -0600
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I would like to correspond with you if you are related to Hezekiah Johnson and wife Ruth Bowker of Chester, Vt. Which child of their's is your ancester? Can you give me some information about Hezekiah's lineage? I am working on the Families of Chester (Windsor Co) Vt. I am not related to Hezekiah.... We are doing this for our historical society. How does he fit in with the other Johnson families in Chester, and if he was a Connecticut birth (as one correspondent had suggested), that doesn't fit in with the rest of them who were Massachusetts born.
The first JOHNSON family to arrive in Chester does not look like Hezekiah was related:
Edward Johnson(5) {John(4), Nathaniel(3), Isaac(2), John(1)}, was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, 6 Sept., 1700. He m. 20 Feb., 1729 Sarah Marcy (b. 8 Feb., 1707, dau. of John & Sarah (Hadlock) Marcy.
They removed to Winchester, NH., and then in 1763 to Chester, Vt., To encourage the rapid settlement of Chester, the proprietors had voted to give each of the first three settlers with families 500 acres of land and to give each of the next seven settlers 100 acres. Edward and his son Isaiah were two of the seven that received 100 acres each. Edward was one of the first selectmen of Chester at a Town Meeting held March, 1765, and he, along with sons, Isaiah, Ebenezer and John, signed the Association Test at Chester 2 Sept., 1776.
He died at Chester, 13 Dec., 1780 (age 80 years), and Sarah died 12 Jan., 1793. Edward Johnson's grave marks the grave of the person born the earliest in time and buried at Chester.
Thanks for your help... Keep thinking 'ancestors'
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