Gravestone of Samuel Johnson Jr., a Revolutionary War patriot, East Side Burying Ground
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 Perkins and Hannah Ford Perkins, and the couple had children including: daughter Mary Johnson Sperry, and son Samuel Johnson III who is buried with his wife nearby the graves of Samuel and Mabel in East Side Burying Ground.