Ancestry of
James Manderson Castle

(1871–)

William Johnson

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of James Manderson Castle — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 168 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 31 Mar 1716 to 6 Aug 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • Dec 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Jacob Johnson (Ahnentafel No:84 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Johnson's given name is also seen as Wingle. He is almost certainly of Dutch descent and not English.

    William Johnson is often claimed to be the son of Thomas Johnson from Yorkshire, England, who drowned in New Haven harbor in 1640. There is no evidence to support the claim. Thomas Johnson had two known children: Thomas of Newark, New Jersey, and Jeremiah, of Derby, Connecticut.

• Sources for William Johnson

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Case No. 6082, Probate file for William Johnson.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, p. 369.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1912, Vol. 66, p. 15.
  • ⁴ New Haven (Conn.) Probate Records, 1647-1916, FHL 7626740, Images 414-415, Will of William Johnson, dated 31 MAR 1716, proved 06 AUG 1716.
  • ⁵ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 3, p. 694.
  • ⁶ Hitchcock, Mrs. Edward, Sr., The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family: Who are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and . . ., Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1894), 119.
  • ⁷ Johnson, Frederick C., M.D., Rev. Jacob Johnson, M. A.: Pioneer Preacher of Wyoming Valley (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), 1772-1790 . . ., Wilkes-Barre: Wilkes-Barre Record Print (1911), 4.