John Wiley

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Clough. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married David Sage about 1669. David was born about 1639 in England; died on 31 Mar 1703 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Deacon Samuel Johnson on 7 Nov 1694 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Samuel (son of William Johnson and Elizabeth Bushnell) was born on 5 Jun 1670 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 8 May 1727 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; was buried in Village Green, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married: 1 Nov 1705, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; Ame Bidwell, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Colfax) Bidwell. She was born 1 October 1678 in Weathersfield, Connecticut and died 29 March 1748 in Middletown, Connecticut. Issue: 1. Lydia Sage (1706-1781) 2. Rachel Sage (1708-1755) 3. Ame Sage (1709-1759) 4. Jonathan Sage (1711-____)

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• Married: 7 Feb 1706, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; Margaret Hurlburt, the daughter of John and Mary (Deming) Hurlburt. She was born 16 February 1685 in Middletown, Connecticut and died in July 1769 in Middletown, Connecticut. Issue: 1. Samuel Sage (1709-1726) 2. Marcy Sage (1712-1761) 3. Timothy Sage (1714-____) 4. Mary Sage (1716-1767) 5. David Sage (1718-____) 6. Solomon Sage (1720-____) 7. Amos Sage (1722-_____)

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He died in infancy.

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• History: Samuel Johnson, philosopher, colonial Connecticut's first Anglican priest and the first president of King's College in New York, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, to Mary Sage and Samuel Johnson, a prosperous fuller and farmer, October 14, 1696. Young Samuel showed an early aptitude for learning, and by age fourteen he entered the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Connecticut. Shortly before his 1714 graduation, Johnson began teaching school in Guilford, a position he held until moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 1716. In New Haven, Samuel Johnson tutored at his newly relocated and renamed alma mater, Yale College, teaching introductory courses in the philosophies of Isaac Newton and John Locke. When students singled out Johnson in a 1719 protest against tutors, he resigned his post at Yale and accepted a ministerial calling to the Congregational parish in nearby West Haven, where he was ordained March 20, 1720. During his tenure at West Haven, Samuel Johnson remained close to friends and colleagues at Yale, and he made considerable use of the college's growing library. Much of his study during this time led him to question his professed Calvinist tenets, which he discussed with Anglican missionary George Pigot, then stationed nearby. With college president Timothy Cutler and tutor Daniel Browne, Samuel Johnson professed his Anglican bent at the Yale commencement of 1722, after which official debates ensued in the college library. Cutler, Brown, Johnson and fellow Congregational minister James Wetmore sailed from Boston in late 1722, to seek Holy Orders in the Church of England. Samuel Johnson received conditional baptism and confirmation and ordination by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1723; he then returned to Connecticut under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. As missionary to Stratford, Connecticut, Samuel Johnson took over a small congregation in that town and set about extending the Anglican Church's reaches in New England. His congregation opened Connecticut's first Anglican Church on December 25, 1724, and under Johnson's direction for the next three decades it flourished. In 1725, Samuel Johnson married Charity Floyd, a young widow from New York. With her, Johnson raised Floyd's two sons and her daughter by her first husband, and two sons of their own. Johnson's wife brought him into contact with many prominent New Yorkers who shared his Anglican beliefs. Throughout the 1720s and 1730s, Samuel Johnson remained one of few Anglican priests in New England. To educate the children of his congregants, he opened a rectory school, to which families from New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island sent their children. With no seminary in the colonies, Johnson personally prepared men - many converts like himself - for Holy Orders, allowing him to maintain and expand the number of Anglican ministers in his growing demesne. To his critics, Samuel Johnson addressed several epistles, which he published as A Letter from a Minister of the Church of England to His Dissenting Parishioners in 1733, A Second Letter . . . in 1734 and A Third Letter . . . in 1737. Samuel Johnson formed a notable friendship with the Anglican philosopher, then-Dean George Berkeley, who served as both spiritual and intellectual mentor to the minister. Johnson would become a proponent of Berkeley's philosophies and would incorporate them into his own writings. Johnson's academic works, usually philosophical in nature, gained the attention of European contemporaries, and in 1743 Samuel Johnson received a Doctorate in Divinity from Oxford University. He published in New London, Connecticut that year An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy; a London publisher released a second edition in 1744. Several influential American thinkers found Johnson's works compelling. Proponents of Johnson's work at home included Benjamin Franklin, who published a second edition of the minister's 1746 Ethices Elementa. Or the First Principles of Moral Philosophy. And Especially that Part of It Which Is Called Ethics ..., expanding and revising it in 1752 as Elementa Philosophica: containing Chiefly Noetica, or things relating to the Mind or Understanding and Ethica, or Things Relating to the Moral Behavior. In developing a college plan for Philadelphia, Franklin and his colleagues solicited Samuel Johnson for the school's presidency; however, Johnson declined the offer in favor of continuing his ministry in Stratford. When developers of a college in New York sought Johnson's assistance in 1753, he resigned from his Connecticut post, and moved to New York City in April 1754 to direct King's College ? which in time would develop into Columbia University. Johnson's tenure at King's College lasted until 1763. As president, Samuel Johnson educated the institution's first three classes of graduates, and he helped the school grow beyond its initial eight students, whom he and his son educated. He published some sermons, A Short Catechism for Young Children and began work on a grammar text. In controversy with the school's trustees over the spiritual direction of the students, Johnson compromised on a liberal acceptance of professions and church attendance, with the stipulation that the school's president would always remain an Anglican minister. During this time, Samuel Johnson lost two children and his wife to smallpox. He married Sarah Hull Beach of Stratford, mother-in-law to his son, William Samuel Johnson, in the summer of 1761; following her death from smallpox two years later, Johnson left New York City, retiring to Stratford, where he continued to minister his former congregation, in varied capacities, until his 1772 death. Following his resignation from King's College, Samuel Johnson continued both academic and ministerial endeavors. His text The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue appeared in 1765, and Johnson followed it with An English and Hebrew Grammar. Being the First Short Rudiments of Those Two Languages. Taught Together, which first went to print in 1767. In addition to The Christian: Explained, In Two Sermons, of Humility and Charity, printed in 1768, Samuel Johnson collected and prepared manuscripts of Prayers and Meditaions, which George Strahan published in 1785. Samuel Johnson agitated for Anglican bishops in America - a lack of which he considered a major source of discontent between England and the colonies - and he continued to correspond with influential American and English church leaders. Samuel Johnson died in Stratford, Connecticut, on January 7, 1772. From Early Encounters in North America Biography
• Religion: say 1725; He was a minister in the Church of England.
• Married: 1726; Charity Floyd, a young widow from New York. Issue: 1. Senator William Samuel Sage (1727-1819)
• Offices Held: 1754 to 1763; He was the first president of King's College, now Columbia University.

Mary married Jeremiah Peck in 1723 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Jeremiah (son of Captain Samuel Peck and Ruth Ferris) was born on 29 Dec 1690 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died in 1765 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married: 19 Apr 1726, Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut; Ruth Gaylord. Her maiden name may have been Hickox/Hickok. She was born 31 Aug 1713 in Durham, Connecticut and died after 1739. Issue: 1. Mercy Johnson (1728-1777) 2. David Johnson (1730-1820) 3. Mary Johnson (1733-1812)
• Military: 1758; He served in the Connecticut First Regiment during the French and Indian War.
• Military: Jul 1779; He served as a corporal in Captain Abraham Stanley's company, Col. Thaddeus' Regiment. Pay Abstract for horse travel in two alarms during July 1779.
• Census: 1790, Union, Union County, South Carolina; Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 Free White Persons - Females: 3 Number of Household Members: 5

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• Married: 2 Aug 1727, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; Margery Morgan. She was born in 1705 in Groton, Connecticut and died 14 November 1729 in Guilford, Connecticut. Issue: 1. Samuel Johnson (1727-1808)

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• Married: 24 Apr 1728, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; George Bartlett, the son of Daniel and Concurrence (Crane) Bartlett. He was born 7 February 1698 in Guilford, Connecticut and died 13 September 1766 in Guilford, Connecticut. Issue: 1. George Bartlett (1730-1806) 2. Samuel Bartlett (1734-1759) 3. Henry Bartlett (1741-1805) 4. Lydia Bartlett (1742-1787)

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Sage (1952) gives her birth as 9 April 1707.

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Sage (1952) gives his death as 30 May 1732.