Robert Johnson (1670 - bef. 1732)

Born 1670 in Ireland

Husband of Margaret (Berthwaite) Johnson — married 29 Aug 1693 in Wicklow Monthly Meeting, County Wicklow, Ireland

Descendants

Died before 28 Nov 1732 before age 62 in New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Disputed Origins Robert Johnson may be seen as the son of a Thomas Johnston and an Agnes Maxwell. These parents have been detached for lack of documentation and a strong probability that these persons may not exist but appear in some internet genealogy to erroneously connect Robert Johnson to James (Stewart) IV of Scotland. The origins of Robert Johnson are currently unknown. Please do not attach parents without primary source documentation.

Robert Johnston now attached as father has been attached absent primary source documentation and will be detached absent primary sources. T Stanton, Leader Quakers Project

Biography

Robert Johnson was born in Ireland.

Robert Johnson, of Cooleboy, County Wicklow, married Margaret Brathwit [sic] of Ballynacarrig, County Wicklow, 29 Aug 1693 at Wicklow Monthly Meeting.^[1] Parents of the couple are not stated on the marriage contract. Among the 32 witnesses the only other Johnson is a "Robert Johnson Son" and no members of the Brathwit family. It has been suggested that the "Robert Johnson Son" could simply indicate that this Robert's father was Robert.

ROBERT JOHNSON, and wife Margaret, from Carlow Meeting, Ireland, received 12 mo. 5, 1714.^[2]

own a tract of 200 acres of land in New Garden, where he died in 1732, leaving children: Benjamin, James, Joshua, Robert, Abigail, and Ann. Of these Joshua, b. 7 M o. 29, 1696, at Coleboy, County Wicklow, m. Sarah, daughter of Gayen and Margaret Miller. (Children: James, Lydia, Margaret, William, Sarah, Joshua, Hannah, Robert, Dinah, Rebecca, and David.) Robert Johnson, Jr., m. Katharine, daughter of Simon and Ruth Hadly, and had children: Hannah, Simon, Caleb, Lydia, Stephen, Jonathan, and Isaac.--History of Chester Count y, 615. , 1682-1750 [2]

Will

Abstract:^[3]

Johnson, Robert. New Garden. Glaizer. 1/26/1732. November 28, 1732. A.386. Provides for wife not named. To sons James, Joshua and Robert £20 each. To daughters Abigail and Ann £15 each. To son Benjamin, my plantation whereon I now dwell containing 300 acres, he paying above legacies. Executors: son Joshua and friend Benjamin Fred.

1732 Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993, Chester Co., Will books A-C, Vol 1-3, 1713-1755 p. 386 (Page 1, Bottom of page) for Robert Johnson, Dated: 26th of the 5th Mos. 1732. . .Going by Quaker Dating before 1753, it's translated to: 26 July 1732, unless Wills go by Normal Calendar then Date would be 26 May 1632, Those mentioned in Robert's Will:

• 1. Dear Beloved wife (No Name), and her heirs
• 2. My Son James
• 3. My Son Joshua
• 4. My Son Benjamin
• 5. My Son Robert
• 6. My Daughter Abigail
• 7. My Daughter Ann
• 8. My Sons Joshua and Benjamin of New Garden to be Executors of my whole will.
• Dated: 26 May 1732, Proved 28 December 1732
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Research Notes

It may be seen in several research efforts that this Robert, or perhaps a father Robert, is the son of a Thomas Johnson who died Fermanagh, Ireland in 1658. There are extant records but for one Thomas Johnson, gent of Tullyhanon, Fermanagh whose will is dated 14 Oct 1658 and who died 4 Feb 1658/59. Between the genealogical extracts of Betham and Thrift based upon the will (National Archives, Dublin) we know that the Thomas who died 1658/59 was the son of a Thomas (whose will is dated 1636), his wife was Jane, and at the time he wrote the will in October 1658 he had one son named Thomas. He had a brother Robert and sister Mary, and a half-brother (name illegible in Thrift) who was age perhaps 59 (or 69). The abstracts indicate sufficient land rents to pay debts with the residue to wife Jane and child.^[4][5][6] ~ Research Ongoing T Stanton 24 Mar 2023

Sources

1. ↑ Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives. Register of marriages, WICKLOW, 1859. Image here subcription $ [1]
2. ↑ MYERS, ALBERT COOK. "List of Certificates of Removal from Ireland Received at the Monthly Meetings of Friends in Pennsylvania, 1682-1750; with Genealogical Notes from Friends' Records of Ireland and Pennsylvania, Genealogies, County Histories, and Other Books and Manuscripts." In Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland. Swarthmore, [PA]: Myers, 1902, p 338. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore,
3. ↑ Chester County Wills. Located at the Chester County Archives and Records Service.
4. ↑ Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858, Prerogative Court, Archive Reference Thrift/1508
5. ↑ Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Will of Ireland 1536-1810 with Supplement (1914)
6. ↑ Betham's Genealogical Abstracts Prerogative Wills. (Phillips Mss)

Book: Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 - with their early history in Ireland, by Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960 , p. 338 Robert Johnson, Website Address: https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/338