Captain Benjamin Johnson, son of Sergeant Benjamin Johnson, was born in Woburn, October 8, 1700. Married (first), April 10, 1728, Mary Walker, daughter of Samuel and Judith (Howard) Walker, of Woburn, who died June 5, 1762-63. He married (second), February 14, 1765, Mary (Pierce) Wyman, widow of Solomon Wyman and daughter of John and Mary (Parker) Pierce. He was captain of a Woburn company in the Crown Point Expedition from September 8, 1755, to January 3, 1756. The records show that he lost his gun, sword and certain articles of clothing for which he was reimbursed by the government. As one of the four selectmen of Woburn he signed a census of that town in 1764. He was styled captain in the alarm list of Captain Walker's company, Woburn second precinct, March 9, 1776. He died May 4, 1781, aged eighty years, seven months. His estate was settled by the agreement of the heirs. He deeded the land for the old burying ground to the town, this plot having belonged to his family, but having been used as a cemetery for forty years before the deed was given, June 26, 1769, the condition being that the wall around the grounds be kept up.
Children by the first wife: 1. Joel, born January 31, 1729, died September 4, 1758. 2. Mary, born November 6, 1730, married (first) Eli Wyman, and (second) Abraham Sheldon, she being his fourth wife. 2. Azal or Asahel, July 9, 1732. 4. Judith, born February 26, 1734, married David Wilson, of Bedford; married (second) James Johnson. 5. Benjamin, born April 12, 1736, died June 21 1756, when a student at Harvard, by drowning. 7. Keziah, born April 9, 1741, married, June 25, 1761, Jacob Kendall; married, February 2, 1779, Amos Wyman; married (third), October 22, 1799, Ebenezer Richardson as his seventh wife: she died November 13, 1814, aged seventy-five years. 8. Ruth, born June 1, 1743, married, October 31, 1765, Silas Cutler: died April 4, 1802; resided in Templeton, Massachusetts. 9. Abijah, born June 13, 1745; mentioned below. 10. Enoch, born May 12, 1748, died April 13, 1750.