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	Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William is thought to originally planned a mercantile or legal career, but in 1738 he emigrated to America to manage the land granted to his uncle (Admiral Sir Peter Warren).
		Johnson is also known to have been intimate with the sisters Susannah and Elizabeth Wormwood (daughters of Henry Wormwood), an Irish woman called Mary McGrath (by whom he appears to have had a daughter, Mary), and several other Mohawk women.
		Johnson led an Indian and militia force as part of General John Prideaux's siege of Fort Niagara in the summer of 1759.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_William_Johnson (926 words)

	Old Fort Johnson
		William was educated for a mercantile life, but his career was entirely changed by the refusal of his parents to permit him to marry a lady with whom he had fallen in love.
		Johnson accepted, and in 1738 established himself on a tract of land on the south side of Mohawk river, about twenty-four miles west of Schenectady, which Sir Peter had called "Warrensburgh." He began to colonize this tract, and also embarked in trade with the Indians, whom he always treated with perfect honesty and justice.
		Sir William was the author of a valuable paper entitled "The Language, Customs, and Manners of the Six Nations," written to Arthur Lee, secretary of the Philosophical society of Philadelphia, and published in their "Transactions" for November, 1772.
	www.oldfortjohnson.org /willbio.html (1773 words)

	SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Sir William's nephew, GUY JOHNSON (1740-1788), succeeded his uncle as superintendent of Indian affairs in 1774, and served in the French and Indian War and, on the British side, in the War of Independence.
		Johnson took a prominent and undignified part in the congressional campaign of 1866, in which his policies were voted down by the North.
		President Johnsons leading political principles were a reverence of Andrew Jackson unlimited confidence in the people, and an intense veneration for the constitution.
	57.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHNSON_SIR_WILLIAM.htm (1248 words)

	Sir William Johnson- The Early America Review, Fall 1996
		Johnson became a merchant, dealing and trading with the Indians, and building up, through trust and goodwill, the relationship that was to be the focal point of his life in America and also the main contributor to his subsequent fame and success.
		Johnson also spoke at this meeting, on measures necessary to be taken with the Six Nations, and other matters relating to defeating the designs of the French, in respect of which he stressed the importance of securing the aid of the Six Nations, a statement that showed how strongly he identified with them.
		Johnson, being notified of the rising on the 5 June 1763 wrote to Amherst on the 6th and also wrote to the Lords of Trade and Plantations mentioning the underlying state of affairs he thought was responsible for this rebellion.
	earlyamerica.com /review/fall96/johnson.html (7414 words)

	Johnson, Sir William
		Johnson, Sir William, superintendent of northern Indians (b at Smithstown, County Meath, Ire c 1715; d at Johnson Hall, near Johnstown, NY 11 July 1774).
		As a landowner and militia officer Johnson amassed a fortune in the Mohawk Valley, NY, and cultivated close relations with the Six Nations Indians.
		Johnson's devoted companion was Mary BRANT, sister of Joseph BRANT.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0004156 (105 words)

	William Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, (1715-1774) English pioneer in New York's Mohawk Valley
		William Johnson (Australian politician), former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
		William R. Johnson, chairman, president, and CEO of the H.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Johnson (142 words)

	Fort and Firesides, Sir William Johnson
		William Johnson, born in Ireland in 1715, came to America in 1738 when but a lad of 23 years old to manage an estate of some several thousand acres that had come into the possession of his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren of the Royal Navy.
		Sir William, a Colonel in 1754, attended a military conference held in Albany in June in the hope of uniting the efforts of the colonists against the French who dominated the land west of the Alleghenies.
		Sir William was public-spirited, open-handed and co-operative in promoting any worthy project, and in his official capacity was an outstanding success, particularly so in his commanding influence over the Indians.
	www.threerivershms.com /sirwm.htm (1934 words)

	"The uncommon increase of Settlements in the back Country": Sir William Johnson Watches the Settlers Invade Indian Lands
		Sir William Johnson, a migrant from Ireland who had settled in central New York, was a British official with ties to the Iroquois; in 1756 he was appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern colonies.
		Johnson feared the loss of authority by the established government, and judging of the settlers that “they are in general a lawless sett of People.
		Sir William Johnson to the Earl of Dartmouth.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5710 (380 words)

	William Johnson, Sir Biography / Biography of William Johnson, Sir Biography
		William Johnson was born at Smithtown, County Meath, Ireland.
		Johnson gained influence with the Indians and in 1745, at the outbreak of king George's War, he kept the Iroquois from allying with the French.
		Johnson was a member of the American Philosophical Society and of the Society for the Promotion of Arts, an organization devoted to the development of agriculture.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-johnson-sir (669 words)

	Joseph Brant - Kaiienkehaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		William Johnson's Iroquois friends, provincial troops and British soldiers won the Bloody Morning Scout largely because of what had occurred earlier that month during a delay on their way to Lake George.
		William Johnson was no prude, and it is reported a continuous flow of females slipped in and out of his quarters.
		William Johnson's leg wound healed, but he carried a painful rifle ball the rest of his life.(7) The French were routed, and England had finally won a major battle.
	www2.whidbey.net /jerod/brant.htm (4041 words)

	ANCESTORS OF WILLIAM BREY
		William’s father, the mysterious red-haired Irishman, must have been somewhere in the vicinity of Towanda in Dec 1818 or Jan 1819 (when William was conceived), but he does not appear in the 1820 census and he was out of the picture by the time Mary Ann Clark was born in 1822.
		Although Sir William died in 1774 (and his son John succeeded him as Indian agent), Molly continued to influence the Mohawk tribe to remain loyal to the British cause throughout the war.
		Sir William Johnson, of the English gentry who had settled in Ireland, was sent by his uncle to develop lands along the Mohawk River in New York.
	www.meiszen.net /family/tree/manly/loretta/wm_brey_ancestors.htm (5267 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Johnson’s relief detachment was ambushed and the survivors hotly pursued by some French regulars, who rashly attempted to take the hastily fortified position at Lake George by storm.
		Johnson, himself wounded early in the attack, played little part in the battle but was given credit for its outcome.
		Johnson, as second in command, was responsible for the contingent of some 940 Indians.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36096 (2934 words)

	SirWilliam
		William Johnson was born on a 200-acre estate 20 miles from Dublin in 1715 and per his station was better educated than most of his countrymen.
		Because Johnson was a successful manager and merchant, and could be an Indian at a Mohawk village one-day and a loyal subject of the Crown at Albany the next, he became an intermediary between the Iroquois Federation and the British in New York.
		Johnson’s successes at supplying the British Fort at Oswego, gaining the support of the Iroquois against the French, his role in winning battles at Lake George, Fort Niagara and at Montreal, resulted in his receiving a Baronet from the King of England and a promotion to General.
	www.paulkeeslerbooks.com /SirWilliam.html (1916 words)

	Sir William Johnson - Seven Years War - French and Indian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		He was adopted by his relative, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, and accompanied the latter to America in 1738.
		He was placed in charge of Sir Peter Warren's estates in the Mohawk valley, and in 1752 inherited them.
		See A. Buell, Sir William Johnson (New York, 1903), W. Stone, Life and times of Sir William Johnson (2 vols., Albany, 1865), A. Pound and R. Day, Johnson of the Mohawks (New York, 1930), and Sir William Johnson, Papers (6 vol., Albany, 1921-9).
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/SirWilliamJohnson-QuebecHistory.htm (250 words)

	Sir William Johnson: The French and Indian war
		Williams, seeing a rising ground on his right, made for it, calling on his men to follow; but as he climbed the slope, guns flashed from the bushes, and a shot through the brain laid him dead.
		About an hour after Williams and his men had begun their march, a distant rattle of musketry was heard at the camp; and as it grew nearer and louder, the listeners knew that their comrades were on the retreat.
		Johnson's men, singly or in small squads, were already crossing their row of logs; and in a few moments the whole dashed forward with a shout, falling upon the enemy with hatchets and the butts of their guns.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_I/sirwillia_ej.html (2655 words)

	JOHNSON, SIR JOHN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHNSON, SIR JOHN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Of excellent repute as a craftsman and an artist in wood, his original conceptions and his adaptations of other men's ideas were remarkable for their extreme flamboyance, and for the merciless manner in which he overloaded them with thin and meretricious ornament.
		The art of artistic plagiarism has never been so well understood or so dexterously practised as by the iSth-century designers of English furniture, and Johnson appears to have so far exceeded his contemporaries that he must be called a barefaced thief.
		JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715-1774), British soldier and American pioneer, was born in Smithtown, County Meath, Ireland, in 1715, the son of Christopher Johnson, a country gentleman.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHNSON_SIR_JOHN.htm (1233 words)

	Johnstown, NY -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip
		Built in 1763 by Sir William Johnson, it is the oldest dwelling in Johnstown.
		Johnson’s burial site, which was once inside the old church, is now outside the current structure in Sir William Johnson Park.
		The fort was built in 1774 by Sir William Johnson to fortify the village and it was used by loyalists during the Revolutionary War as an important civil and military prison.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /nyroute5/johnstown (1522 words)

	Port Bruce - Site of the Royal Salute 1761
		Sir William Johnson, Baronet, of Johnstown, New York, Supt. of Indian Affairs, was one of the most powerful and influential persons in North America at the time.
		Johnson, an Irishman, had earned his title with victories in the French and Indian Wars and was highly respected by the Indians.
		Johnson describes the passage through narrows at the north part of the Long Point, then the sailing "along a kind of beach about sixteen miles; then along a high sand bank, about twenty miles or more" until arriving at a river with a good harbour for boats where the party camped for the night.
	www.kanservu.ca /~bjohnson/PortBruce/salute.htm (1202 words)

	Sir William Johnson
		Sir William Johnson was a native of Ireland.
		The Rev. William Johnson had succeeded in planting a flourishing little colony, on the east side of the Susquehannah, a short distance below the forks of the Unadilla, and several families were scattered through Springfield, Middlefield, (then called New-Town Martin,) and Laurens and Otego, called Old England District.
		One mile east of Fort Johnson was the residence of Colonel Daniel Claus, a son-in-law of Sir William.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyherkim/regiments/wjohnson.html (2452 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		Johnson died on the eve of the conflict, and his family, imbued with loyalty to the Crown, led the Tory cause in New York until defeat drove them across the border into Canada.
		It was Johnson, who at considerable expense to himself, built the forts that guarded the frontier settlements, and then for his troubles took a musket ball in the hip at the Battle of Lake George.
		Johnson had not one day of formal military training, but for the first two years of the French and Indian War, he was the only British or American commander to win significant victories.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14043 (1665 words)

	Sir William Johnson
		William Johnson was born in County Meath, Ireland, and immigrated to the American colonies in 1738 at the invitation of his uncle, Peter Warren (who later figured prominently in the siege of Louisbourg).
		Johnson is noted for establishing strong relations with the native tribes, in particular the Mohawks.
		In 1768, Johnson was the lead negotiator in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix in which the Iroquois ceded lands in western Pennsylvania and New York, as well as their dubious claims to territory in Ohio, for a payment of £10,000.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h859.html (481 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Johnson, Sir William @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM [Johnson, Sir William] 1715-74, British colonial leader in America, b.
		Because of his influence over the indigenous population, he was a key figure in the French and Indian Wars, first becoming prominent in King George's War.
		He had been appointed general superintendent of Indian affairs N of the Ohio in 1756, and after the Peace of Paris (1763) his office was of great significance in the vast new areas gained from France.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:JohnsonW&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (340 words)

	Sir William Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In 1738 at the age of twenty-three, William Johnson arrived in America from Ireland to oversee his Uncle Peter Warren's land holdings south of the present day city of Amsterdam.
		Johnson won military fame as a major general of the provincial militia and a commander when the French forces under Baron Dieskau' were defeated at the Battle of Lake George in 1755.
		The following year Sir William was appointed "Superintendent of all the affairs of the Six Nations and other Northern Indians" (north of the Ohio River) a position he held until his death.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nytryon/johnson.html (373 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		William Johnson was born in Smithtown, Ireland in 1715.
		Johnson held the rank of Major General in the British Militia, and in 1748 was placed in command of all New York colonial forces.
		She married Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and easily moved back and forth between the Mohawk world and the world of her wealthy, Irish husband.
	www.house.gov /boehlert/NFP/wbbiographies.htm (946 words)

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		JOHNSON TO CADWALLADER COLDEN, (Johnson Hall, April 6, 1764), Johnson, Sir William in: The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, vol.
		LETTER TO JOHNSON, (New York, Sept. 16, 1764), Gage, Thomas in: The Papers of Sir William Johnson, vol.
		REMARKS ON THE CONDUCT OF COL. BRADSTREET, (Nov. 24, 1764), Johnson, Sir William in: The Papers of Sir William Johnson, vol.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis15/miamitoc17.html (1237 words)

	Sir William Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		At the same time, Johnson was intimately involved with the Albany business community, in Indian diplomacy - which frequently brought him into conflict with the Albany Indian commissioners, and in the Albany Masonic Lodge.
		Johnson's Albany house stood on the east side of Market Street and on the north side of State Street.
		Johnson called it "one of the best houses in Albany." An undated notice (but probably of 1748-49 vintage) described a two-story, brick building with good cellars, kitchen, and bleach yard.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/j/swj.html (392 words)

	The Battle of Oriskany--Visual 1
		Painting 1 is a portrait of Joseph Brant, Mohawk "brother-in-law" of Sir William Johnson.
		Painting 2 is a portrait of John Johnson, son of Sir William Johnson, painted in the 1770s.
		Molly Brant was the common-law Mohawk wife of Sir William Johnson.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/79oriskany/79visual1.htm (234 words)

	The Battle of Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755 by James P. Millard
		Sir William Johnson, together with his force of 1,500 troops and Indians reaches the southern shore of Lake Saint Sacrement by August 28, 1755.
		Williams, his horse shot out from underneath him, was shot in the head as he climbed this rock, seeking to rally his troops.
		William Johnson himself takes a musket ball in the leg, and the shaken British are rallied by none other than Phineas Lyman, who ordered his officers to stop anyone from retreating.
	www.historiclakes.org /wm_henry/lg_battle.html (1424 words)

	Site - Johnson Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Johnson Hall is the 18th century Georgian home of Sir William Johnson built in 1763 by Boston trained Schenectady carpenter Samuel Fuller.
		Johnson Hall became the nucleus of a working estate designed to encourage settlement and further Johnson's control of his lands.
		Johnson Hall passed to his son John whose Loyalist politics altered the life of the Johnson family.
	www.thenortherncampaign.org /johnsonsite.htm (260 words)

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