James Johnson (1670 - 1740)

Born 1670 in Scotland

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Died 1740 at about age 70 in Scarborough, York, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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James was born in 1670. James Johnson ...[birth is estimated]

James Johnson, who came to Spurwink in 1733, but was b. in Scotland, and moved to Ireland about 1692; d. in Scarborough, Me., in 1746). Page 44 [Warren Genealogy]

James Johnson left Auckley, Scotland, for the North of Ireland, where he remained until about 1732, when he came to America; and settled at Scarborough, Me. He was a ferryman over the Spurwink river.

He had two sons, John and James. John's son, Robert, served in the Revolution ; and was master of the sloop Britannia, in 1779, in the Penobscot expedition. He married Mary (Trunley) Millions, the widow of Robert Millions, and lived in Falmouth. Page 593 [History of Gorham]

JOHNSON

The first of the family bearing this name in New England, so far as we can learn, was one. James Johnson, who probably wrote his name "Johnston." He came from the North of Ire- land, in 1733. He was born in Scotland and moved to Ireland, in 1692. He came to Spurwink, bringing his two sons with him, where he was a ferryman a short time. Afterwards he ferried between Prout's Neck and Old Orchard.

He died in 1740, an old man. Nothing is known of his wife, but his two sons, who were born in Scotland. were named James and John. Page 451 [Windham in the Past]

Sources

http://archive.org/stream/warrengenealogyo00warr/warrengenealogyo00warr_djvu.txt Full text of "Warren; a genealogy of the descendants of James Warren who was in Kittery, Maine, 1652-1656;"

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028810146/cu31924028810146_djvu.txt Full text of "History of Gorham, Me."

https://archive.org/stream/windhaminpast00dole#page/450/mode/2up

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