Rebecca (Hersey) Johnson (1663 - 1712)

Born 20 Aug 1663 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamine Johnson — married 11 Jun 1683 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1712 at age 48 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Rebecca Hersey, the daughter of William and Rebecca (Chubbuck) Hersey was born 20 Aug 1663 at Hingham, MA.^[1]

Rebecca married Benjamin Johnson on 11 Jun 1683.^[2][3] Children:

1. Rebecca, b. June 28, 1684; d. Sept. 28, 1684.^[2][4]
2. Benjamin, b. July 15, 1685; d. Dec. 5, 1685^[2][5]
3. Joshua b. 9 Aug, 1689; d. 21 Mar 1712^[2][6]
4. Ruth b. 10 Jan 1691; d. 8 Mar 1712^[2]
5. Rebecca, b. July 31, 1692.^[7]
6. Sarah b. 7 Feb 1693 m. Nathaniel Fearing^[2]
7. A daughter, b. Dec. 1, 1695; d. Dec. 8, 1695.^{[citation needed]}
8. Benjamin, b. 3 Jun 1696^[2][8]
9. Mary b. 1699 m. Barnabus Seabury^[2][9]
10. Joshua b. 1702^[2]
11. Deborah, 1703.^[10]

She died 11 Feb. 1712.^[2][11]

Research Notes

Rebecca is the sister of Deborah Hershey who married Samuel Lincoln, brother of Mordecai Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln. She died in 1712.

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.299
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.384
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5T-GZZ : Thu Oct 26 00:51:20 UTC 2023), Entry for Benjamin Johnson and Rebecah Hersee, 11 Jun 1683.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-9SW : 13 July 2016), Rebekah in entry for Rebekah Johnson, 28 Jun 1684; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-S8Y : 13 July 2016), Rebekah in entry for Benjamin Johnson, 15 Jul 1685; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-W3G : 13 July 2016), Rebecca in entry for Joshua Johnson, 09 Aug 1689; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-W5B : 13 July 2016), Rebekah in entry for Ruth Johnson, 10 Jan 1692; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
8. ↑ [[Johnson-76553|Benjamin
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ3W-151 : 4 December 2014), Rebeckey in entry for Mary Johnson, 28 Jul 1699; citing HINGHAM,PLYMOUTH,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 426,570.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHDG-NJ2 : 13 July 2016), Rebecka in entry for Deborah Johnson, 08 Sep 1703; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FH1S-3YG : 13 July 2016), Rebekah Johnson, 11 Feb 1712; citing Death, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.

Bibliography

• History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town.

• Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts GENERATIONS I TO XIV By PAUL FRANKLIN JOHNSON, Editor 1945 INCLUDING THE GENERATIONS I TO IX From the 1932 and 1935 Manuscripts of FRANK LEONARD JOHNSON GENERATIONS IX TO XIV Compiled by PAUL FRANKLIN JOHNSON Completed with Additions and Corrections by ADA JOHNSON MODERN 1948. pg 11.
• Alonzo Leroy Johnson, Johnson Family Thirteen Generations of Descendants of Captain John Johnson and Margery Scudder of Roxbury, Mass. 1630-1971.
• "Lincoln Genealogy," by Waldo Lincoln, pp. 10, 75, 76.