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William Samuel Johnson (view source)
Revision as of 23:50, December 28, 2019
, 23:50, December 28, 2019→Early life: Over 20 years as militia member
==Early life==
==Early life==
Johnson was born in Stratford, Connecticut, to Samuel and Charity Floyd Nicholl on October 7, 1727.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RBt3CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT62 Connecticut Families of the Revolution: American Forebears from Burr to Wolcott]</ref> As a child, he was [[homeschooled]], receiving private tutoring from his father, [[Samuel Johnson (American educator)|Samuel Johnson]]. He attended both [[Yale]] and [[Harvard]], graduating from the former in 1744 and the latter in 1747. Following graduation, he pursued a course of study in law, and entered practice in Stratford.<ref name="bioguide.congress.gov">http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000182</ref> In 1749, he married Anne Beach.<ref>[http://supreme.findlaw.com/documents/fathers/connecticut.html William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819)]</ref>
Johnson was born in Stratford, Connecticut, to Samuel and Charity Floyd Nicholl on October 7, 1727.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RBt3CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT62 Connecticut Families of the Revolution: American Forebears from Burr to Wolcott]</ref> As a child, he was [[homeschooled]], receiving private tutoring from his father, [[Samuel Johnson (American educator)|Samuel Johnson]]. He attended both [[Yale]] and [[Harvard]], graduating from the former in 1744 and the latter in 1747. Following graduation, he pursued a course of study in law, and entered practice in Stratford.<ref name="bioguide.congress.gov">http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000182</ref> In 1749, he married Anne Beach.<ref>[http://supreme.findlaw.com/documents/fathers/connecticut.html William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819)]</ref>
Johnson spent over 20 years commissioned as a member of the Connecticut colonial militia.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soldier_statesmen_of_the_Constitution/QpZTKmK1FzkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA161 Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution]</ref>
==Continental Congress==
==Continental Congress==