What is recorded here
William Johnson was born in County Meath, Ireland, around 1715. His family had a history of Jacobitism, but he was raised as a loyal subject of Great Britain. He later moved to New York, where he learned the Mohawk language and became the British agent to the Iroquois.
Why this person is known: Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire (1715-1774)
- Birthplace
- County Meath
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Photo: from a plate in The Old New York Frontier by Francis Whiting Halsey , Charles Scribner's Sons · Public domain