William Johnson
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English: Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715 – 1774), Irish pioneer and army officer in colonial New York. British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1755 to 1774.
Deutsch: Sir William Johnson (* 1715 in Smithtown, County Meath, Irland; † 11. Juli 1774 in Johnstown, New York) war ein britisch-irischer Händler, Politiker und General in den britischen Kolonien in Nordamerika.
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Sir William Johnson, mezzotint engraving, 1765
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The Old New York Frontier by Francis Whiting Halsey, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. The caption reads:(From a portrait in the State Library, at Albany, that was copied from an original owned by Sir John Johnson.)
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Portrait of Colonel Guy Johnson, Sir William's nephew, by Benjamin West at the National Gallery of Art. A recent biography argues that this is actually a portrait of Sir William Johnson.