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Mary Casier
Abt 1708 - Yes, date unknown-
Name Mary Casier Birth Abt 1708 Gender Female Death Yes, date unknown Person ID I65555 Scudder Last Modified 15 Mar 2022
Family Judge Samuel Johnston, b. 1706, Bethlehem, Township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, British Colonial America 
d. 1785, Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, United States (Age 79 years) Marriage 1740, New jersey, United States Children 1. Col. Philip Johnston, b. 27 Aug 1741, Lebanon Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British colonial America d. 27 Aug 1776, Battle of Long Island, New York, United States (Age 35 years)2. David Johnston, b. 1744, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown3. Samuel Johnston, b. Abt 1746, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown4. James Johnston, b. Abt 1748, Hutnterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown5. Elizabeth Johnston, b. Abt 1752, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown6. Catherine Johnston, b. Abt 1759, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F23777 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - In [Adjutant General] William Scudder Stryker, "Colonel Philip Johnson. Read before the Society January 18th, 1877, Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, series 2, volume 4 187–189:
"One of the first New Jersey offficers who gave his life for the liberies of his country in the war of independence was Colonel Philip Johnston, of Hunterdon County. His father was Samuel Johnson, who held a commission as magistrate, in that part of the colony, for more than thiry years prior to the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. His mother was of French descent, her maiden name being Mary Casiér. Judge Johnston erected a stone dwelling at Sidney, massive in size and appearance, very strongly built, and it was regarded as a kind of rendezvous for all the neighborhood in case of an Indian invasion, a place suitable in every particular for refuge and defence. In the spacious rooms of this dwelling he was accustomed to hold his court and administer justice to the people of that section, of what is now Hunterdon and Warren Counties. As may be supposed he was possessed of large wealth, and this he dispensed freely in charity, and in the cause of religion. He was during his life one of the strongest supporters of the well known Bethlehem Church.
"Judge Johnston had seven children older than Philip, by his first wife Sarah Oakley, formerly a resident of Trenton. She died on the first of June, 1739, and he married again, as stated, the following year.
"Philip Johnston was born at Sidney August 27, 1741. In the year 1755 he entered the College of New Jersey, but after a few months spent there he abandoned his studies for a miltary life, and connected himself with the New Jersey Battalion, in the French War. For several years thereafter he saw much active service, and gained some reputation as a brave soldier. He is spoken of as a very handsome man, very tall, of great physical strength, and of great personal courage. His wife was a Miss Rachel Martin..." They had three children: Mary, [Martha] and Elizabeth."
Philip died at the Battle of Long Island, on his 35th birthday, August 27, 1776. The account closes, "He sacarificed his life in defence of his country, and let his memory be dear to every American heart, as long as the spirit which led him to the field shall actuate the sons of freedom." https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew34newj_0/page/188/mode/2up?view=theater
Named as mother of Philip Johnston in James McClachlan, Princetonians, 1748–1768: A Biographical Dictionary, (Princeton, N. J.:, Princeton, University Press, 1976), 271–272.
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- In [Adjutant General] William Scudder Stryker, "Colonel Philip Johnson. Read before the Society January 18th, 1877, Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, series 2, volume 4 187–189: