There are 100s of online Johnny Appleseed publications many are more fiction than historical. Some of the more interesting ones are posted on this page.
Did the young Johnny Appleseed spend summers with the young Uncle Sam?
It has been claimed that, as a boy Johnny spent a half dozen summers in Mason New Hampshire, sometime between the years, 1782 and 1788.
And it is further suggested that he stayed there with maternal relatives. During those years he was living in a very cramped household in Longmeadow. His father remarried after his first wife, Johnny’s mother, died and moved the family to Western Massachusetts when he left the Continental Army after the war.
What makes the story even more interesting is that Johnny may have spent time with Sam Wilson the man generally recognized as “Uncle Sam.” It seems one of Johnny’s relatives in Mason eventually married Wilson, another Mason resident. One can picture the three youngsters all spending time together in that tiny, southern New Hampshire town. And while half the country doesn’t think Johnny Appleseed was a real person, they might doubly doubt he spent a few summers with “Uncle Sam” !
"Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero" Magazine article By: W. D. Haley, Date: November 1871, Source: Haley, W. D. "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero." Harper's New Monthly Magazine (November 1871) on Encyclopedia.com.
Scientist of the Day - John Chapman September 27, 2022 reprints of images and text from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 43, no. 258, Nov. 1871 (Harvard University copy on hathitrust.org) at Linda Hall Library
Johnny Appleseed’s flask. While wandering the frontier planting trees and spreading the Gospel as a missionary, Appleseed no doubt got thirsty. A pocket flask known to be used by Appleseed, who died in 1845, is on display at the museum. Copied from History Center’s ‘200 @ 200’ project highlights area’s past posted January 22, 2016 by The News-Sentinel newspaper.
Allen County, Indiana was created on December 17, 1823, from Delaware and Randolph counties then established April 1, 1824. The last blockhouse of the last Fort Wayne was photographed in 1852.
87 Appendix a John Chapman’s Ancestry in both his father’s and his mother’s line, the ancestry starts with the first person to arrive in what would become the United States. this list is reprinted, with permission, from Robert Price’s Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth, courtesy of the Johnny Appleseed Foundation at Urbana University.
5. Nathaniel Chapman
b. Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Washington County, Ohio, 1807
Married (first) Eabeth Simons (or Simonds) of Leominster, Massachusetts, February 8, 1770
Children: Elizabeth, b. November 18, 1770
John, b. September 26, 1774 (“Johnny appleseed”)
Nathaniel, b. June 26, 1776
