Humphrey Johnson was born November 5, 1620 in Hertfordshire, England. He came from England with his father, Captain John. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts and later went to Hingham, Massachusetts where he was an innkeeper. He was a member of his brother's company in the Narragansett Expedition. The following was said about him. "He had an uncommon inclination to lawsuits, Few men have left on the records of the court, so many evidences of his litigeous disposition."
Humphrey had two wives: Elinor Cheney (1626-1678) and Abigail Stansfield (1638-1714). He had a total of eleven children: Mehitable, Martha, Deborah, John, Joseph, Benjamin, Margaret, Deborah, Mary, Nathaniel, and Isaac. He married Elinor in 1642 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of William and Margaret Cheney, ancestors of President William Howard Taft. He married Abigail May, widow of Samuel May in 1678.
Humphrey died July 24, 1692 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. His second wife Abigail lived until 1714.
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