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is unknown. LAND: unknown acreage in Prince
George's and Baltimore counties held in trust by
his brother Horatio.
JOHNSON, THOMAS (?-1738/39). BORN: by
1705, probably at Head of Elk, Cecil County.
NATIVE, probably; if so second generation. RE-
SIDED: at "Triumph," Cecil County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: probably Thomas John-
son, Sr. (?-1739/40), of Elk River, Cecil County.
MOTHER: probably Jane. BROTHERS: Edward;
probably William; Daniel; and George. SISTER:
probably Rachel. MARRIED Rebecca. She subse-
quently married by May 26, 1742, Rev. William
Wye. CHILDREN. SON: Edward, a minor in 1736.
DAUGHTER: Millicent, a minor in 1736. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: Gent., at death. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE.
Lower House, Cecil County, 1725-1727, 1728-
1731, 1734/35-1737, 1739 (elected to the 1739-
1741 Assembly, but died before the beginning of
the Convention). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Cecil
County, 1732-1738/39 (quorum, 1737-1738/39).
MILITARY SERVICE: captain, by death. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 300
acres (by patent), 1726. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: pur-
chased 1,000 acres in 1730, and may have owned
1,100 acres by 1734; sold 668 acres, 1731-1733;
probably all of his land transactions were in Cecil
County, although the boundaries of some tracts
may have extended into Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on
March 14, 1738/39, in Cecil County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, £404.3.0 current money (in-
cluding 3 slaves, 3 servants, 1 schooner, 1 old
boat, 1 canoe, and 1 cider mill); FB, £36.14.10.
LAND: ca. 600-700 acres in Cecil County.
JOHNSON, THOMAS (1732-1819). BORN: on
November 4, 1732, near St. Leonard's Creek,
Calvert County; second surviving son. NATIVE:
third generation. RESIDED: in Annapolis until ca.
1779; "Richfield," and later "Rose Hill," Fred-
erick County, ca. 1776 until death. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Thomas Johnson (1702-1777)
of St. Leonard's Creek, Calvert County. MOTHER:
Dorcas (1705-1770), daughter of Joshua Sedg-
wick. BROTHERS: Thomas (1725-1725); Benja-
min (1727-1786); James (1736-1809), who mar-
ried Margaret Skinner; Joshua (1742-1802), the
London partner of the Annapolis mercantile firms
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Wallace, Davidson & Johnson, 1771-1776, and
Wallace, Johnson & Muir, 1781-1790, the Amer-
ican consul in Nantes, France, and agent for
Maryland in France during the Revolution,
American consul in London in the 1790s; John
(1745-1811), a physician in Frederick Town; Baker
Johnson (1747-1811); and Roger (1749-1831),
who married Elizabeth Thomas. SISTERS: Mary
(1729-1801), who married Walter Hellen, Esq.,
of Calvert County; Rebecca (1730-1767), who
married Thomas McKenzie, Esq.; Dorcas (1734-
1815), who married Josiah Clapham of Virginia;
and Elizabeth (1739-1806), who married Capt.
George Cook. FIRST COUSIN: Margaret Gough (ca.
1742-?), who married in 1758 John Mackall (1738-
1813). MARRIED on February 16, 1766, Anne (1745-
1794), daughter of Thomas Jennings (?-1759) of
Annapolis and wife Rebecca Sanders (ca. 1707-
?). Her grandfathers were Rev. Henry Jennings
of St. Mary's County and Robert Sanders (?-
1755) of Anne Arundel County. Her aunt was
Ann Sanders (ca. 1705-1785), who married Darby
Lux (ca. 1698-1750). Her sisters were Elizabeth
(1735-by 1768); Rebecca (1737-by 1768). Her
first cousins were William Lux (by 1730-1778);
Darby Lux (?-1795); Ann Baldwin, who married
Samuel Chase (1741-1811); and Hester Baldwin
(?-1823), who married Jeremiah Townly Chase
(1748-1828). CHILDREN. SONS: Thomas Jennings,
who married first, Charlotte Hesselius, and sec-
ond, Elizabeth Russell; James; and Joshua.
DAUGHTERS: Anne Jennings (1759-1835), who
married John Grahame (1760-1833); Elizabeth;
Rebecca, who married Thomas James Johnson
of Loudon County, Virginia; and Dorcas. PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: studied law with Ste-
phen Bordley (ca. 1710-1764). RELIGIOUS AFFIL-
IATION: Anglican, St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis,
and All Saints' Parish, Frederick Town. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., by 1775; Hon., by
1776. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: lawyer, admitted
to the following courts: Mayor's Court, Annap-
olis, January 1756; Charles County Court, by
March 1759; Provincial Court, September 1759;
Anne Arundel County Court, June 1760; Fred-
erick County Court, June 1760; Baltimore County
Court, November, 1760; Prince George's County
Court, by June 1761; Court of Chancery, by De-
cember 1767. In partnership with Lancelot Jacques
in an iron furnace in Western Maryland, 1760s-
until early 1770s. In partnership with his brothers
James, Baker Johnson (1747-1811), and Roger
in the family ironworks business, which included
furnaces, forges, and mills in Frederick County,
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