Ancestry of
Jerry Van Dyke

TV and Movie Actor

Isaac Johnson

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Jerry Van Dyke — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3336 
  • Father:
  • John Johnson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Heath   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Feb 1615/1616 
  • Christening Location:
  • Ware End, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • Great Swamp Fight, Fort Naragansett, near South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Jan 1636/1637 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Johnson

  Mary Johnson

  Isaac Johnson

  Nathaniel Johnson (Ahnentafel No:1668 )

  • Notes: 

  • Capt. Isaac Johnson was killed in the Narragansett Great Swamp Fight while leading his men over the bridge, which was simply a fallen tree, into the Indian fort.

• Sources for Isaac Johnson

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Humphrey Johnson (m. 1641), p. 1.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 326.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1893, Vol. 47, p. 459.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1994, Vol. 148, pp. 45-50.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 145.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1108.
  • ⁷ Bartholomew, George Wells, Jr., Record of the Bartholomew Family: Historical, Genealogical and Biographical, Austin, Texas: Published by the Compiler (1885), 56.
  • ⁸ Bowen, Daniel, The Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Boston, Mass., 1638-9, Especially the Branch of . . ., Jacksonville, Florida: DaCosta Printing Company (1893), 29.
  • ⁹ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420.
  • ¹⁰ Johnson, Gerald Garth, The Biography and Genealogy of Captain John Johnson from Roxbury, Massachusetts: An Uncommon Man in the . . ., Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc. (2000), 102.
  • ¹¹ Johnson, Paul Franklin, et. al., Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts: Generations I to XIV, Los Angeles, California: Privately printed by The Commonwealth Press, Inc. (1951), 4.
  • ¹² Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 380.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Great Swamp Fight", (accessed 05/12/2011).
  • ¹⁴ Williams, Alicia Crane, Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. 1, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Socity (2015), 191.

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