Extracted from 

Old Kent: the Eastern Shore of Maryland, John P. Des Forges, Baltimore 1876 

available at LDS FHC Los Angeles, also online at GenealogyLibrary.com


The JOHNSON FAMILY, of Maryland, are descended from Thomas Johnson,
a grandson of Sir Thomas Johnson of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk County, England,
who was of an old family of distinction.
The Johnsons had been members of Parliament, and Bailiffs, or Mayors of Yarmouth, since 1585. 


THOMAS JOHNSON, the emigrant, was a lawyer in London,
eloped with Mary Baker, a Ward in Chancery,
and came to America prior to the year 1700.
He died in 1714,
leaving an only son,
    Thomas Johnson, who was b. 19th Feb'y 1702. 


THOMAS JOHNSON, son of Thomas Johnson and Mary Baker,
m. Dorcas Sedgwick, who was b. 2d Nov. 1705, the dau. of Joshua and Elizabeth Sedgwick,
and had child., viz., 
    Thomas, b. 13th Dec. 1725, d. an infant,
  --Benjamin, b. 6th July 1727, who m. twice, had six sons and two daus., and d. in May, 1786,
  --Mary, b. 5th Aug. 1729, who m. in 1801, Walter Hellen, had two sons and two daus., and d. in 1801,
  --Rebecca Johnson, b. 8th Nov. 1730, who m. Thomas McKensie, and d. 11th March, 1767, sine prole,
  --Thomas, b. 4th Nov. 1732, who m. Ann Jennings, and d. 26th Oct. 1819, aged 87,
  --James, b. 30th Sept. 1736,
  --Elizabeth, b. 17th Sept. 1739 (who m. Capt. George Cook, a Scotchman, ...and had one dau. and six sons),
  --Joshua, b. 25th June 1742 (who went early in life to London, where he m. Catharine (???), 
    retired to Nantes, in France, during the Revolution, returning to London, 1783, 
    was appointed the first American Counsul at that Port,
    and had a dau., Louisa Catharine Johnson, who m. 26th July, 1797, John Quincy Adams),
  --Dr. John, b. 9th Aug. 1745 
    (who had adau. Dorcas Johnson, who m. Samuel Clapham, of Loudon Co., Va.),
  --Col. Baker, b. 30th Sept.1747, who m. Catharine Worthington, and d. 18th June 1811,
  --and Roger Johnson, b. 18th March1749, who m. Betzy Thomas, a Quakeress, 
    dau. of Shepherd Thomas, and had seven sons and 4 daus., and d. 3d March 1831. 


GOVERNOR THOMAS JOHNSON, son of Thomas Johnson and Dorcas Sedgwick
Governor Johnson died at Rose Hill, 26th Oct. 1819, aged 87.
He m. 16th Feb'y 1766, Ann Jennings, of Annapolis, 
only dau. of Thomas Jennings, Justice, who d. 26th Aug. 1759;
and had child., viz., 
    Thomas Johnson,
  --Ann Johnson, who m. Major John Graham, of Calvert, and removed to Frederick County,
  --Rebecca Johnson, who m. her cousin, Thomas Johnson, of Loudon Co., Va.,
  --Dorcas Johnson, who remained unmarried,
  --and Joshua Johnson, who m. Miss Beall. 


Histories of many descendants follow.