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Title: Sir William Johnson
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Buell, Augustus C., 1847-1904 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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otent than any otheragency in giving him the control and ascend-ency over the Iroquois which he so success-fully maintained through the twenty-odd try-ing and troublous years that immediately pre-ceded the Revolution. Many times, when SirWilliam got hold of an obdurate and trouble-some delegation of Senecas or Cayugas, hewould turn them over to Lady Molly, asshe was commonly called after he was made abaronetâ^which was the next year after theirallianceâand she never failed to MoUyfythem, as he used to say. Of this period inSir Williams life. Dr. Wheelock says: I have seen at Mount Johnson and also at John-son Hall sixty to eighty Indians at one time lodg-ing under tents on the lawn and taking their mealsfrom tables made of pine boards spread under thetrees. They were delegations from all the Iroquoistribes, come to pow-wow with their great whitebrother, Warragh-i-ya-gey (the Indian namethey gave to Sir William when they adopted himinto the Iroquois nation and gave him a eouncil-58
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Si -^ â - H 3 ^ g ^ s - to ^ 3 O ^ § I H, (V, HO Domestic Life and Congress seat in the Long House ). These visits must havebeen very expensive to Sir William, and he toldme that never more than half their cost was de-frayed out of the public exchequer. They say, said the baronet to me once, thatit is not right or fair that I should be superintend-ent over the Indians and an Indian trader at thesame time. Why, bless me, doctor, my profits fromthe Indian trade do not reimburse me for my outlayin entertaining these delegations and giving pres-ents to their members! The Indians are honest, he pursued. Ihave often supplied one Indian or a small partyliving as far away as the Southern Senecas onCattaraugus Creek or the ConewangoâI have oftensupplied such with a complete hunting and trap-ping outfitâguns, ammunition, traps, etc., withblankets, woolen shirts, and other clothingâallon absolute credit. If they did not die or getkilled by the Catawbas or Shawneseâtheir naturalenemiesâ

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