Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Obadiah Johnson Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • Obadiah Johnson 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Brooks   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jun 1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Apr 1765 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Cleveland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Nov 1723 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lydia Johnson (Ahnentafel No:27 )

• Sources for Obadiah Johnson Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 100, Birth record for daughter Lydia Johnson.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 101, Marriage record for Obadiah Johnson and Lydia Cleveland.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 101, Death record for Obadiah Johnson.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 101, Birth record for Obadiah Johnson.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68, pp. 143-144.
  • ⁶ Abbott, Jane Harter and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, Volume 1: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1929), 63.
  • ⁷ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 85-86.