SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
AND
The Six Nations
“MAKERS OF AMERICA”
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
AND
The Six Nations
BY
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS
AUTHOR OF “THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE,” “COREA THE HERMIT
NATION,” “MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY,” ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD, AND COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1891
By Dodd, Mead, and Co.
All rights reserved.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
Dedication.
Like my friend, the late Judge John Sanders, of Scotia,
Schenectady County, N. Y., who took off his hat when meeting
descendants of the heroes of Oriskany, the bloodiest, the most
stubbornly contested, and perhaps the decisive battle in the War
of the American Revolution, the writer makes his bow to the
people of the Mohawk Valley, and to them, and to the memory
of their brave ancestors, dedicates this sketch of one of the Makers
of America.
PREFACE.
The Mohawk Valley in which Sir William Johnsonspent his adult life (1738–1774) was the fairest portionof the domain of the Six Nations of the IroquoisConfederacy. In this valley I lived nin