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Charles JohnsonBookbinderFitchburgMassachusetts, 1.1. (1853) Massachusetts Register for the year 1853, George Adams.

D. JohnsonBookbinderPortland Book-storePortlandMaine 1.1. (1805) “D. Johnson havinf determined to carry on the Book-Binding Business,in its various branches

J. B. JohnsonBook Binders and Printers, Dealers in Book (sic)& StationeryColumbus ave near Water streetSandusky City Ohio *11. (1848) The Democratic Pioneer, December 1, 1848.

Joseph JohnsonBookbinder and PrinterDuke StreetNew YorkNew York ( 1731-1734)  1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.106.2.  Johnson was made a freeman on January 12, 1731. Collections of the N.Y.Historical Society, The Burghers of New Amsterdam and The Freemen of New York1765-1866 pg. 115  He may have learned the trade  from William Bradford.Lawrence C. Wroth The Colonial Printer, pg. 191.3. (1734)  “Joseph Johnson of the City of New York Bookbinder, is now set upBook-binding for himself as formerly, and lives in Duke-street… near the OldSlip Market; where all Persons in Town or Country, may gave their Bookscarefully and neatly new bound either Plain or Gilt reasonable” from the NewYork Gazette, October 7, 1734. Worth ‘guesses’ that Johnson may have earlierbeen employed by William Bradford. The Colonial Printer, Lawrence C. Wroth pg.193.  The same ad was placed in The New York Gazette, September, 23-30, 1734a similar ad appears in The New York Weekly Journal Sept 30,1734.4. (1734) Johnson was suspected of having several counterfeit ten shillingnotes and although he managed to elude the constables he left  behind his sixyear old son. Joseph Jr. would be apprenticed, by the court, to WilliamBradford printer and was expected to remain with him until reaching the age oftwenty one. Justice in N.Y. Under George II’s Regime New York Times July 21,1901.5. “New Yorkers who tried to counterfeit their own local currency were nosafer, Joseph Johnson was a bookbinder and printer who printed up illegaltender as well as pamphlets and books. one evening in 1734 a New Yorker whohad received the forged bills from Joseph brought them back. Joseph did notdeny that he had given the man the counterfeit bills, and he offered toexchange them for legal tender. As he did so , however, he was “in an Agony anTrembled”; an hour later he packed up his bags and absconded to Philadelphiain the middle of the night, leaving his wife Catherine and their six-year oldson. The authorities never found Joseph but they arrested Catherine for tryingto put “a great number ” of bills into circulation She was convicted of amisdemeanor (the court assumed that she had not been a part of theirmanufacture) and sentenced to receive twenty-one lashes”  Dangerous Economies,Status and Commerce in Imperial New York, Serena R. Zabin, pg 22

Peter JohnsonBookbinderat the house of Richard Johnson on Morris GreenMorris-TownNew Jersey 1.1. (1802)  “The Subscriber having commenced business at the house of RichardJohnson”… “Blank books of every description”  Advertisement in: Genius ofLiberty, (Morristown, N.J.) Jan. 7, 1802.