The Reverend Isaac Johnson (1601[1] – 30 September 1630[2]), a 17th-century English clergyman, was one of the Puritan founders of Massachusetts and the colony's First Magistrate.
[3] Baptized at St John's Church, Stamford, in Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Abraham Johnson, he grew up at Fineshade,[dubious – discuss] near North Luffenham in Rutland.
Johnson was the main shareholder of the Massachusetts Bay Company and one of the twelve signatories to the Cambridge Agreement on 29 August 1629.
He was then one of the four founding patrons of the First Church at Charlestown on 30 July 1630 and provided the land for King's Chapel Burying Ground.
[10] At a Charlestown meeting shortly before he died, Johnson renamed the settlement, previously known as Shawmut or Trimountain (on account of three contiguous hills which appear in a range when viewed from Charlestown), after Boston, Lincolnshire in England where he lived with his wife before emigrating and his friend, John Cotton, was vicar of St Botolph's Church, Boston.