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This collection of Johnson's papers represents a significant number of Johnson's personal and business papers. The collection consists of several thousand individual documents ranging from bills and receipts to correspondence to household inventories. The collection includes materials seized by the State during the American Revolution and other materials acquired subsequently to supplement the collection.
This collection of Johnson's papers represents a significant number of Johnson's personal and business papers. The collection consists of several thousand individual documents ranging from bills and receipts to correspondence to household inventories. The collection includes materials seized by the State during the American Revolution and other materials acquired subsequently to supplement the collection.
Sir William Johnson, 1st Bt (c. 1715 - 11 July 1774) was an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man, Johnson came to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren which was located amidst the Mohawk one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League . Johnson learned the Mohawk language and Iroquois customs, and was appointed the British agent to the Iroquois. Throughout his career as a British official among the Iroquois, Johnson combined personal business with official diplomacy, acquiring much Native land and becoming very wealthy.--Wikipedia.
Volume 2 [written by William P. Johnson and Rosemary Willhide].
Johnson (1715-74) was an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire who moved to the Province of New York where his successful appointment as British agent to the Iroquois led to him becoming British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern colonies in 1756. This biography was first published in 1891 in Dodd, Mead & Co's 'Makers of America' series.