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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



PLATE 15 



Sir William Johnson, sole Indian superintendent in colonial times. Died 

 in 1774. He was born in Ireland in 17 15, and came to America in 1738 to 

 manage his uncle's estate, soon becoming prominent in Indian affairs. In 

 1755 he was made a baronet for his services at Lake George. His published 

 manuscript are voluminous, but a large collection in the New York State 

 Library have not yet been published and are now being indexed. The plate 

 is the best portrait accessible, but the Documentary History of the State 

 of New York, 2 1545, contains a good one published in 1756. An American 

 soldier writing at Johnson Hall in 1776, said : " I had a view of Sir William 

 Johnson's picture, which was curiously surrounded with all kinds of beads 

 of Wampum, Indian curiosities, and trappings of Indian finery, which he had 

 received in his treaties with the different Indian nations." 



