Colony, at a time when most of the people of Derby were still dependent on bartering. In that year, Johnson appears to have acquired land in Quaker Farms, Oxford. William C. Sharpe wrote in 1885, that "a well preserved document found at Quaker Farms some years ago gave a description of a layout of 170 acres at Quakers Farm, for Lieut. Johnson, made March 27, 1688."
    Other major land transactions which involved Ebenezer Johnson were numerous and included the following:
    In April, 1700, Ebenezer Johnson and Samuel Riggs bought from the Indians the tract of land north of Little River, which extended eastward, as well as twenty acres of meadow and upland in the Chestnut Tree Hill area in Oxford.
    In 1702, he was one of the signers of the Camp's Mortgage Purchase located west of the Naugatuck River and the falls, which included a tract of land three miles square in the Great Hill region in Seymour.
    In 1708, there was a division of land in Pines Bridge, with Johnson taking the land east of the Naugatuck River in Beacon Falls.
    There is a record that in 1703, a vote of the Derby Town Meeting was made that Capt. Ebenezer Johnson "have liberty to take up land in the Quakers Farm purchase, land not previously laid out, he to take up said land, according to His list that was when ye land was pitched upon, viz: 1689, & upon ye foregoing termes have ye like privilege with his neighbors there."
    In addition to this material wealth, it is apparent that Johnson enjoyed the respect of his fellow citizens. Abel Gunn, keeper of Derby's early records, noted that the Derby Town Meeting voted him its highest privilege, that he be allowed a special seat of honor, on the highest seat in the front of the hall. He also was given a similar privilege for Sunday morning worship, sitting in front, facing the congregation.
    Johnson also served as a delegate to the General Court for the Town of Derby forty-six times. He was appointed Sargeant major of the New Haven militia in 1704, and in 1710 he went on an expedition to Port Royal at the age of 61 years.
    One of the services of Col. Ebenezer Johnson was performed out of the local area, and this perhaps explains why local historians have not fully explored the subject. This