Sir William Johnson was a British colonial soldier. He was born in 1715 at Ireland and died in 1774. Having emigrated to America, he settled in the Mohawk Valley. In this region, then mainly an Indian wilderness, Sir William Johnson's tact, ability and knowledge of the Indian character, made him the central personage. He was colonel of the Six Nations, commissary of Indian affairs, and member of the Governor's council. His headquarters was Fort Johnson, near Amsterdam. The influence of the Johnson family held the Six Nations to the English alliance in the French war and American War of Independence. Johnson attended the Albany Congress in 1754, and the next year was appointed to command in the north. For the victory at the head of Lake George, on September the 8th, 1755, really won by General Lyman, Johnson received the credit together with a baronetcy and a sum of money. In 1759, after the fall of Prideaux, he succeeded to the command in the attack on Fort Niagara.
William S Johnson was an American politician. He was born in 1727 and died in 1819. He was a Connecticut delegate to the Stamp-Act Congress in 1765. He was London agent of the colony from 1766 to 1771. He was Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1772 to 1774, served in the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787, and aided in drafting the American Constitution. He was a US Senator from 1789 to 1791, then president of Columbia College until 1800. Research William Johnson
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