Johnson, Samuel

Ct., 1696-1772. An Episcopal clergyman of Str at ford, Connecticut, who was president of Columbia (then Kings) College, 1753-63. A System of Morality, republished by Franklin as Element a Philosophia; English and Hebrew Grammar. An influential writer in his day. See Life and Correspondence by E. E. Beardsley; Life by T. B. Chandler, 1805.