Johnson Genealogy: Records of the Descendants of John Johnson of Ipswich and Andover, MA
JOHNSON GENEALOGY. RECORDS — — OF THE DESCENDANTS — OF— John Johnson Of Ipswich and Andover, Mass. 1635—1892. WITHAN APPENDIX CONTAINING RECORDS OF DESCENDANTS OF TIMOTHY JOHNSON, OF ANDOVER, /^^ ANDPOEMS OF JOHNSON DESCENDANTS. ( IPQC COMPILED Byn^' REV. WILLIAMwfJOHNSON, COMPILER OF "RECORDS OF THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID*JOHNSON, OF LEOMINSTER, MASS." / AND "RECORDS OF THE DESCENDANTS .OF THOMAS CLARKE, PLYMOUTH,1623—1697." One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: Theae^vorda which Icommand thee tbia day ahall he in thy heart; aud thou shnlt teach them diligentlyto thychildren. Tell ye your children ofit,—and let yonr children tell their children, and their children' another generation. Bible. Published by the Compiler, NORTH GREENFIELD, WISCONSIN. 1892. PR.OV yxrt-6 I JOHNSON. PREFACE. From the summit of Sinai thousands of years ago, in the midst of thunderings and lightnings, Jehovah gave to the human race a moral code to be observed by the people of every land, and of every clime throughout all ages, and a part of this code proclaimed to every man and woman and child, "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." The duty enjoined in this commandment includes in its requirement not only respect, and kindness and honor to parents while living, but a kind and honorable remembrance also of ancestors who have departed. Hence it is becoming and appropriate in the members of a family line to collect and pre serve and transmit to posterity the history of their progenitors. The work of the genealogist is to trace ancestral lines, and to connect one generation withanother during a succession of years, to gather items ofinterest in connection with each family, and to preserve a correct and reliable history of the descendants of a remote ancestor.
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