Misc. Notes
Son of Capt. John and Margery __ Johnson; born ___, England; died July 24, 1692, Hingham, Mass.; married March 20, 1642/3 ELINOR CHENEY, daughter of William and Margaret Cheney, ancestors of President Taft; born about 1626 in England; died Sept. 29, 1678, Hingham, Mass. Married 2nd, Dec. 6, 1678, ABIGAIL MAY, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Stansfall) May or the widow Abigail May, Samuel having died July 17, 1677. She was living in Roxbury, Mass., May 7, 1714, when she sold land.
Sergeant Humphrey came from England with his father, Captain John. “He was a capable man in town affairs and often employed in the public business. He had an uncommon inclination to law suits and few men have left on the records of teh court, so many evidences of his litigeous [sic] disposition.” He settled in Scituate, Mass., and later was of Hingham, Mass., where he was an Innkeeper. He was a member of his brother’s Company in the Narragansett Expedition. He was an original donor of the Free School. His farm house in Scituate was in later years owned by Joshua Liuncoln into whose family there was much intermarrying.
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