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Tamar Whitcomb Johnson

Birth
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
5 Mar 1815 (aged 79)
Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Tamar was the oldest child/daughter of Benjamin and Dorothy (White) Whitcomb of Lancaster, Worcester Co., Mass.

Her parents lived in that part of Lancaster, which was set off as the town of Leominster in 1740, when she married Asa Johnson, Feb. 22, 1753 in Leominster, Worcester Co., Mass. and had 14 children.

Tamar was living on the "Sewell-Tyler place" when she died.

Obituary:
From the New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser - March 31st. 1815
"Death Notice Only"
"Died" - "In Leominster, Widow Tamar Johnson, aged 80. She was the first child born in Leominster and is the mother of 14 children, all now living."

Children:
Tamar Johnson 1754-1827
Sarah Johnson 1755-aft.Mar.1815
Relief Johnson 1757-1845
Prudence Johnson 1759-1826
Asa Johnson 1761-1833
Jonas Johnson 1762-1842
Silas Johnson 1765-1849
Jonathan Johnson 1767-1842
Eunice Johnson 1769-1840
Lucy Johnson 1771-1852
Lettice Johnson 1773-1857
Mary Johnson 1774-1846
Nathan Johnson 1777-aft.Mar.1815
Jotham Johnson 1779-1815
Tamar was the oldest child/daughter of Benjamin and Dorothy (White) Whitcomb of Lancaster, Worcester Co., Mass.

Her parents lived in that part of Lancaster, which was set off as the town of Leominster in 1740, when she married Asa Johnson, Feb. 22, 1753 in Leominster, Worcester Co., Mass. and had 14 children.

Tamar was living on the "Sewell-Tyler place" when she died.

Obituary:
From the New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser - March 31st. 1815
"Death Notice Only"
"Died" - "In Leominster, Widow Tamar Johnson, aged 80. She was the first child born in Leominster and is the mother of 14 children, all now living."

Children:
Tamar Johnson 1754-1827
Sarah Johnson 1755-aft.Mar.1815
Relief Johnson 1757-1845
Prudence Johnson 1759-1826
Asa Johnson 1761-1833
Jonas Johnson 1762-1842
Silas Johnson 1765-1849
Jonathan Johnson 1767-1842
Eunice Johnson 1769-1840
Lucy Johnson 1771-1852
Lettice Johnson 1773-1857
Mary Johnson 1774-1846
Nathan Johnson 1777-aft.Mar.1815
Jotham Johnson 1779-1815

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