The Papers of Sir William Johnson

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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.