Quaker, millwright. Gr. j. 1695, Tr. j. 1698. His will names 7 of 8 children32, 117

Edmund, eldest son of Peter and Ruth Moulton Johnson, was born May 8, 1671, and died November 11, 1737. He settled in the north part of Hampton on Little River, and live there till 1701, when he had Lee used by vote of the town to lay down his land on Little River and take up over toward Kingston, in the parish of Kensington. At this time, 1701, Edmund and his father-in-law’s family, the Greens, and Elihu Chase, took up three large tracts of land in and around what is now the village of Kensington and settled upon the same, the three farms adjoining. The Greens and the Chases have always kept their farms along in their respective names. The Johnson farm has passed from the Johnson name. Edmund Johnson married Abigali Green, in 1639. Children: Abigail, Ruth, Esther, Dorcas, Peter, Obadiah, Mary and Patience.726