Category: Families

Bradley family in Woodbridge

William Bradley arrives in New Haven in the early 1650s. “According to the family tradition we are descended from William Bradley, an officer of Cromwell’s army, who came to Connecticut about 1650, and was the first settler of the town of North Haven. His son was Abraham Bradley, a deacon in the church of New Haven.” — from page 582…

Johnson family in Woodbridge

Clues to the origin of the Johnson clan in Connecticut can be found in Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus. On page 1029 he states: “Three Johnson brothers, said to have come from Hull, Yorkshire, England, settled early in New Haven, Connecticut; these were John, who removed to Rowley, Massachusetts and died in 1641 leaving issue; Robert (see Family…

Samuel Johnson Jr.

Marker Number: 327 Name: Johnson, Samuel Death: 12/30/1789 Military Service: Revolutionary War Veteran Other: Age 73 Samuel Johnson Jr. was a son of Samuel Johnson and Anna Hotchkiss Johnson, born approximately 1715. His uncle Captain Isaac Johnson was the first Deacon of the church in the early days of Woodbridge settlement. Samuel Jr. married Mabel Perkins, a daughter of Peter…

Hannah Beecher Johnson

Marker Number: 333 Name: Johnson, Hannah Death: 03/17/1789 Military Service: N/A Other: Age 36, Wife of Samuel, Daughter of Joseph Beecher and Elizabeth Alling Hannah Beecher Johnson is a daughter of Captain Joseph Beecher and Elizabeth Alling Beecher. She married Samuel Johnson III, a son of Samuel Johnson Jr. and Mabel Perkins Johnson, on March 24, 1776. Her in-laws, Samuel…

Ensign Nathaniel Sperry

Marker Number: 321 Name: Sperry, Nathaniel Death: 09/08/1751 Military Service: Veteran (probably French and Indian War) Other: Age 56 Ensign Nathaniel Sperry a the son of Nathaniel Sperry and Sarah Dickerman and a grandson of Richard and Dennis Sperry, original settlers of Woodbridge in the early 1640s. He is among the first people known to be buried in a Woodbridge cemetery…