Jeremiah Johnson

General Jeremiah Johnson (1766-1852) was the third mayor of Brooklyn, New York. He was the first president of the Saint Nicholas Society of Nassau Island.

Biography Jeremiah Johnson was born on January 3, 1766, to Barent Johnson (1740–1782) and Anna Remsen (1743–1782).

He married his first wife, Abigail Remsen, the daughter of Rem Remsen and a cousin through his mother's family, in 1787. She died at age 18 in 1788. His second wife, Sarah Rapilyea, the daughter of Tunis Rapilyea, in 1791. She died at age 53 in 1825. Together they had ten children. Two sons are Barnet Johnson and Jeromus Johnson. Two daughters are Sarah Anne Johnson who married Nicholas Wyckoff, and Susanna Johnson who married Lambert Wyckoff.

Johnson died on October 20, 1852. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.