The Johnson Family Crest

William Johnson, the adopted son of his maternal uncle, Admiral Sir Peter Warren [then Captain Warren], came over to New York in 1742, at the age of twenty-three, to improve the wild property bought in the Mohawk country by the brilliant young naval officer. From his humble beginning as a farmer and a dealer in furs and small wares, William Johnson became a wealthy merchant, a government contractor, a general in the armies of New York, and a Baronet of the British realm. After describing the arms we give, and which were used by Sir William Johnson, Bart., of Johnson Hall, New York, and Twickenham, Co. Middlesex, Burke states ""that, subsequently to this registration of arms, a pedigree was accepted by Betham, Ulster, deducing the family from Thomas O'Neill, called MacSlane, or Johnson, and from the O'Neills of Dungannon; and the coat of O'Neill was allowed, viz.: ""Arms: Argent, two lions, counter-rampant, supporting a dexter hand, gules; in chief three estoiles of the last, and in bas

Family

Johnson

Motto

Deo regique debeo.I owe all to God and King.

Blazon

An Arm, Couped At The Elbow, Erect, Holding An Arrow: Proper.

Source

America Hereldica