JOHNSON, Abraham (d. 1676), of Hackney, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 1st. s. of William Johnson, saymaker, of Colchester, and Ann Verake of Bailleul, Flanders.Vis. Mdx. ed. Foster, 74; PROB11/166/214. educ. appr. to Peter Sadler, Fishmonger, 18 May 1620.GL, ‘London apprenticeship abstracts 1442-1850’. m. bef. 1633, Jane, da. of John Southcote of Devon, 2s. d.v.p. 2da.Vis. Mdx. ed. Foster, 74; PROB11/351/402; PROB11/166/214. suc. fa. bef. 4 Sept. 1634.PROB11/166/214. d. 23 June 1676.St Mary Woolnoth, London par. reg.

Offices Held

Mercantile: liveryman, Fishmongers’ Co. bef. 1636; jt. warden of the co. yeomanry, 1637 – 39; asst. 29 Jan. 1649 – d.; fifth warden, 1652 – 54; jt. renter warden, 1652 – 54; second warden, 1656 – 58; prime warden, 1664–6.GL, MS 5570/3, p. 297; MS 5570/4, pp. 119, 339, 569, 1150.

Religious: vestryman, Hackney by May 1651-aft. Apr. 1657.R. Simpson, Some Account of the Monuments in Hackney Church (Guildford, 1884), 105, 106–7.

Local: commr. sewers, London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 259. River Lea, Herts., Mdx. and Essex 14 Dec. 1663;C181/7, p. 224. militia, London, Tower Hamlets 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, London 1660; assessment, 1661.SR.

: of Hackney, Mdx.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JOHNSON, Abraham (d. 1676), of Hackney, Mdx.

Will

16 Dec. 1674, pr. 24 July 1676.PROB11/351/402.

Estates

bought land at Mile End, Colchester for £3,340, Dec. 1653;Essex RO, D/DJ 20/2. owned land at Clapton, Hackney and at Croydon, Surr. by 1674.PROB11/351/402.

Oxford 1644

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