1. ID: I23684
2. Name: Susanna Willard 1
3. Sex: F
4. Birth: 20 FEB 1729/30
5. Death: NOV 1810
6. Note:

   They and three children

   were taken captive by the Indians Aug. 29, 1754. She gave birth to another child the next day, and another in Canada before they could get released from captivity. She was taken to England and at length reached home. She wrote a thrilling account of the experiences of the family, which was printed. She outlived Mr. Johnson and m. (2) in 1762, John Hastings, who d. Nov. 21, 1804. She d. in Nov ., 1810.

   Source:

   WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMORIAL

   MATERIALS GATHERED CHIEFLY BY JOSEPH WILLARD

   AND CHARLES WILKES WALKER

   EDITED AND COMPLETED BY CHARLES HENRY POPE

   PRINTED FOR THE WILLARD FAMILY ASSOCIATION, BOSTON, MASS., 1915*

   Digital Edition © 2001 by Richard Bingham

   Oceanport, New Jersey

   ISBN 1-930968-20-5

   Copyright, 1915

   By THE WILLARD FAMILY ASSOCIATION

   Murray and Emery Company

   Kendall Square

   Cambridge

Father: Moses Willard b: BET. 1702 - 1703 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA

Mother: Susanna Hastings

Marriage 1 James Johnson

   * Married: 15 JUN 1747   http://worcester.bettysgenealogy.org//harvard/harvard-m8.jpg

Children

  1. Has No Children Sylvanus Johnson b: 25 JAN 1747/48

  2. Has No Children Esther Johnson b: 23 DEC 1749

  3. Has No Children Susanna Johnson b: 19 DEC 1750

  4. Has No Children Mary Johnson b: 8 NOV 1752

  5. Has No Children Elizabeth Johnson b: 30 AUG 1754 in In Captivity

  6. Has No Children James Johnson b: 10 DEC 1756

  7. Has No Children James Johnson b: 12 MAR 1758

Marriage 2 John Hastings

   * Married: 1762

Sources:

  1. Title: WILLARD GENEALOGY, SEQUEL TO WILLARD MEMOIR

     Author: Materials gathered by Joseph Willard and Charles Wilkes Walker, Edited and completed by Charles Henry Pope

     Publication: Printed for the Willard Family Assn., Boston, MA, 1915, Murray and Emery, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA, Digital Edition 2001 by Richard Bingham, Oceanport, NJ

     Repository:

     Media: Electronic 

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A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson containing an account of her ...

Title: A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson containing an account of her sufferings during four years with the Indians and French.

Principal Author: Hastings, Susanna Willard Johnson, 1730-1810.

Imprint: New York : [s.n.], 1841.

General Note: Title from title screen.

Document Source: Scanned from a CIHM microfiche of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada.

Subject: Indian captivities -- North America.

Abnaki Indians.  

Collection: Native Studies

CIHM no.: 35424

Page Count: 113

Mrs. Susanna Willard Johnson. Charlestown, originally known as No. 4, was first settled in 1740 by three families from Lunenburg by the name of Farnsworth. In 1744 a fort was begun for safety reasons; the Cape Breton war had commenced and the Indians had taken up their hatchets. The cessation of arms was called between Great Britain and France in 1749, and Susanna (Willard) Johnson, but two years the wife of James Johnson, moved with her husband to Charlestown. In 1754, news of another impending rift between France and England was again on everyone's tongue. The Indians were increasingly restless; on August 29, 1754, they descended upon the Johnson home, taking as captives James and Susanna Johnson (who was nine months pregnant and ready to deliver her next child), the three Johnson children, the Johnsons' neighbor Peter Labarree and their hired man Ebenezer Farnsworth, and Mrs. Johnson's sister, Miriam Willard. The following day, August 30, Mrs. Johnson gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth Captive Johnson, the third white child born in Vermont; she lived to womanhood and married Colonel George Kimball. Mrs. Johnson describes in detail her struggles to recover from childbirth, her walk to St. Francis (the Indians' home), the sale of all the captives to the French, the dispersal of her family, and her eventual return to Charlestown

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Susannah Willard

Born: 13 JUL 1730

Harvard Ma.

Died: 27, nov 1810

Charlestown, Sullivan, N.H.

-------------------- Susanna Willard

Birth

20 Feb 1730

inHatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Death

Nov 1810

Parents

Joseph Willard

1696 – 1723

Susanna Hastings

1710 – 1797