Thomas Johnson (1732–1819)
Thomas Johnson, Supreme Court associate justice, was born on 4 November 1732 in Calvert County, Maryland. Home-educated, he worked as a clerk of the Provincial Court in Annapolis and studied law with Annapolis attorney Stephen Bordley. In 1760 Johnson was admitted to the bars of Frederick County and Baltimore; six years later, he married Ann Jennings (1745–1794), the daughter of his former employer.
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Douglas R. Littlefield, "Eighteenth-Century Plans to Clear the Potomac River: Technology, Expertise, and Labor in a Developing Nation," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 93, Number 3 (July 1985), 291–322.
"To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 18 June 1770," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0233. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 349–353.]
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