Experience (Johnson) Gouverneur (1720-1788)

She was born at Newark, New Jersey, daughter of Joseph and Mary Johnson. Her portrait hangs at Winterthur. In about 1748, she married Samuel Gouverneur, of New York City. They were the parents of eleven children to reach adulthood: (1) Isaac, Senior Partner in the firm of Gouverneur & Kemble, married firstly Elizabeth Peacham and after divorcing her for adultery, Alida Gouverneur (2) Margaret, married Lewis Ogden, of Newark (3) Nicholas, of Gouverneur & Kemble, married Hester Kortright, sister of First Lady Elizabeth (Kortright) Monroe (4) Mary, married the Rev. Uzal Ogden(5) Gertrude, married Peter Kemble II, of Gouverneur & Kemble (5) Anthony, married Martha Elizabeth Bussing (6) Hannah, married Charles Ogden (7) Sarah, married Lt. Samuel Reading (8) Rebecca, married Captain Thomas Bibby, British Deputy Adjutant-General at New York (9) Samuel, married Mary Philipse (10) Joseph, died unmarried.