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JOHN JOHNSON

Sir John Johnson was an English colonial governor. He was born in 1742 and died in 1830. He was knighted in 1765 and succeeded to. the baronetcy of Sir William Johnson, his father, in 1774. He fled from New York to Canada in 1776 on account of his loyalist principles. In 1777 he invested Fort Stanwix and fought at Oriskany. In 1780 he superintended the atrocious depredations in the Cherry Valley and conducted the raids in the Mohawk Valley. He was afterward Governor of Upper Canada.
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