Part of a monument to the early Pastors at Lyme:
"Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Stephen Johnson, Fourth pastor of the first church in Lyme & member of the Corporation of Yale college. He was born at Newark, N.J., May 1724, graduated at Yale college in 1743, ordained Dec. 10, 1746, and died Nov. 8, 1786, in his 63rd year. 'He was wise in counsil, mighty in scriptures, powerful in eloquence; distinguished for his prudence, fortitude, hospitality, patience under afflictions, Revered by his brethren in the Ministry, as a father in the Churches & beloved by the people of his charge for his exemplary fidelity in the service,'...(a part I can't decipher)...
Erected as a token of filial respect by Mrs. Mary Noyes, wife of Rev. Mathew Noyes, and the only surviving daughter of the deceased."
Most of the above text is legible in the photo when enlarged.
Rev. Johnson was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Ogden Johnson of Newark, New Jersey. He was Pastor at the First Congregational Church, Old Lyme, from the year of his ordination, 1746, through the year of his death, 1786. He actively participated in the Revolutionary War as Chaplain to the 6th Conn. Regt. in 1755, and also by writing a series of six articles (the first under the pseudonym "Addison") for the "New London Gazette" and by publishing a pamphlet based on one of his sermons, in which he "articulated the insidious spectrum of England's intentions to destroy constitutional liberties under the pretense of a need for 'better security and protection.'"
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3rd marriage, May 1776, Abigail Leverett, dau of Knight Leverett (memorial 21356054) and Abigail Buttolph, of Boston, Mass., a great great granddaughter of Gov. John Leverett, of Mass.
"Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Stephen Johnson, Fourth pastor of the first church in Lyme & member of the Corporation of Yale college. He was born at Newark, N.J., May 1724, graduated at Yale college in 1743, ordained Dec. 10, 1746, and died Nov. 8, 1786, in his 63rd year. 'He was wise in counsil, mighty in scriptures, powerful in eloquence; distinguished for his prudence, fortitude, hospitality, patience under afflictions, Revered by his brethren in the Ministry, as a father in the Churches & beloved by the people of his charge for his exemplary fidelity in the service,'...(a part I can't decipher)...
Erected as a token of filial respect by Mrs. Mary Noyes, wife of Rev. Mathew Noyes, and the only surviving daughter of the deceased."
Most of the above text is legible in the photo when enlarged.
Rev. Johnson was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Ogden Johnson of Newark, New Jersey. He was Pastor at the First Congregational Church, Old Lyme, from the year of his ordination, 1746, through the year of his death, 1786. He actively participated in the Revolutionary War as Chaplain to the 6th Conn. Regt. in 1755, and also by writing a series of six articles (the first under the pseudonym "Addison") for the "New London Gazette" and by publishing a pamphlet based on one of his sermons, in which he "articulated the insidious spectrum of England's intentions to destroy constitutional liberties under the pretense of a need for 'better security and protection.'"
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3rd marriage, May 1776, Abigail Leverett, dau of Knight Leverett (memorial 21356054) and Abigail Buttolph, of Boston, Mass., a great great granddaughter of Gov. John Leverett, of Mass.
Part of a monument to the early Pastors at Lyme:
"Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Stephen Johnson, Fourth pastor of the first church in Lyme & member of the Corporation of Yale college. He was born at Newark, N.J., May 1724, graduated at Yale college in 1743, ordained Dec. 10, 1746, and died Nov. 8, 1786, in his 63rd year. 'He was wise in counsil, mighty in scriptures, powerful in eloquence; distinguished for his prudence, fortitude, hospitality, patience under afflictions, Revered by his brethren in the Ministry, as a father in the Churches & beloved by the people of his charge for his exemplary fidelity in the service,'...(a part I can't decipher)...
Erected as a token of filial respect by Mrs. Mary Noyes, wife of Rev. Mathew Noyes, and the only surviving daughter of the deceased."
Most of the above text is legible in the photo when enlarged.
Rev. Johnson was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Ogden Johnson of Newark, New Jersey. He was Pastor at the First Congregational Church, Old Lyme, from the year of his ordination, 1746, through the year of his death, 1786. He actively participated in the Revolutionary War as Chaplain to the 6th Conn. Regt. in 1755, and also by writing a series of six articles (the first under the pseudonym "Addison") for the "New London Gazette" and by publishing a pamphlet based on one of his sermons, in which he "articulated the insidious spectrum of England's intentions to destroy constitutional liberties under the pretense of a need for 'better security and protection.'"
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3rd marriage, May 1776, Abigail Leverett, dau of Knight Leverett (memorial 21356054) and Abigail Buttolph, of Boston, Mass., a great great granddaughter of Gov. John Leverett, of Mass.
"Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Stephen Johnson, Fourth pastor of the first church in Lyme & member of the Corporation of Yale college. He was born at Newark, N.J., May 1724, graduated at Yale college in 1743, ordained Dec. 10, 1746, and died Nov. 8, 1786, in his 63rd year. 'He was wise in counsil, mighty in scriptures, powerful in eloquence; distinguished for his prudence, fortitude, hospitality, patience under afflictions, Revered by his brethren in the Ministry, as a father in the Churches & beloved by the people of his charge for his exemplary fidelity in the service,'...(a part I can't decipher)...
Erected as a token of filial respect by Mrs. Mary Noyes, wife of Rev. Mathew Noyes, and the only surviving daughter of the deceased."
Most of the above text is legible in the photo when enlarged.
Rev. Johnson was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Ogden Johnson of Newark, New Jersey. He was Pastor at the First Congregational Church, Old Lyme, from the year of his ordination, 1746, through the year of his death, 1786. He actively participated in the Revolutionary War as Chaplain to the 6th Conn. Regt. in 1755, and also by writing a series of six articles (the first under the pseudonym "Addison") for the "New London Gazette" and by publishing a pamphlet based on one of his sermons, in which he "articulated the insidious spectrum of England's intentions to destroy constitutional liberties under the pretense of a need for 'better security and protection.'"
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3rd marriage, May 1776, Abigail Leverett, dau of Knight Leverett (memorial 21356054) and Abigail Buttolph, of Boston, Mass., a great great granddaughter of Gov. John Leverett, of Mass.
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