Generation 1

TIMOTHY JOHNSON (d. 1688) of Andover

Parents: Unknown

Timothy Johnson died on 15 Mar 1687/8 in Andover. [Ref][Ref] He married Rebecca Aslett on 15 Dec 1674 in Andover. [Ref][Ref]

Children of Timothy Johnson and Rebecca Aslett:

1. Rebecca Johnson died on 11 Feb 1739/40 in Andover, MA. She married Ens. Joseph Ballard.
2. John Johnson was born on 29 Jun 1677 in Andover. [Ref]
3. Capt. Timothy Johnson was born on 25 Mar 1679 in Andover. [Ref] He died on 10 Mar 1771 at age 90 in Andover. [Ref] He married Katherine Sprage on 3 May 1705 in Andover. [Ref] She died on 22 Feb 1758 at age 77 in Andover. [Ref]
4. Penelope Johnson was born on 13 Feb 1680 in Andover. [Ref] She was "killed by Indians" on 22 Feb 1697/8 in Andover. [Ref]
5. Mary Johnson was born on 3 Feb 1682 in Andover. [Ref]
6. Samuel Johnson was born on 25 Jul 1684 in Andover. [Ref]
7. Peter Johnson was born on 31 Jan 1685/6 in Andover. [Ref]
8. Mercy Johnson was born on 18 Nov 1687 in Andover. [Ref]
9. John Johnson was born on 29 Jun 1677 in Andover. [Ref]

Generation 2

REBECCA JOHNSON (d. 1754)

Parents: Timothy Johnson and Rebecca Aslett

There is no birth record for a Rebecca Johnson who could have married Joseph. There is a Rebecca, daughter of John and Sarah Johnson, whose 1670 birth in Haverhill is recorded in Andover. But, she died in 1688/9. There is a Rebecca who was baptised in 1680 in Roxbury, but she seems geographically unlikely. Timothy and Rebecca Johnson married at the end of 1674 and their first recorded child is in June of 1677; they could have had an unrecorded child before then. She would be the right age and the name makes sense. She would also have had a younger sister Penelope who was killed by the Indians in 1698. Her unknown son born in 1702 may have been Timothy Ballard of Andover. Johnson [Ref] says that she is mentioned in the 1727 will of her brother Samuel, but I have not seen this.

Rebecca Johnson died on 22 Jan 1754. [Ref] She married Ens. Joseph Ballard on 17 Aug 1698 in Andover. [Ref]

References

Family Genealogies

Johnson, Carol Clark, A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families: and other Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cygnet, Ohio, Priv. print., 1970.

Vital Records

Boltwood, Lucius Manlius, trans., "Deaths in the Town of Andover," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1847, 377-381.

Boltwood, Lucius Manlins, trans., "Marriages in the Town of Andover," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3, 1849, 65-68.

Vital records of Andover, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Topsfield, Topsfield Historical Society, 1912.