. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. George. It was from this mansion that most of the letters on col-onial affairs were written by Sir William to His Majesty KingGeorge II. and to the governor of the colony and the lords ofthe board of trade. Here also were born his two daughters, Nancy and Mary. Whatever may be said of Sir Williams private life, no onecan read those letters without being impressed with the honestyof purpose of the writer. While frauds were being practised on the Indians by theland-grabbing officials at Albany and elsewhere, Johnson, wasfirm in his desire that t
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. George. It was from this mansion that most of the letters on col-onial affairs were written by Sir William to His Majesty KingGeorge II. and to the governor of the colony and the lords ofthe board of trade. Here also were born his two daughters, Nancy and Mary. Whatever may be said of Sir Williams private life, no onecan read those letters without being impressed with the honestyof purpose of the writer. While frauds were being practised on the Indians by theland-grabbing officials at Albany and elsewhere, Johnson, wasfirm in his desire that the Iroquois should not be cheated butshould be dealt with justly. And while fraudulent grants, likethe seven hundred thousand acres Kayaderosseras grant, wereobtained with ease, he would not claim or occupy any landthat was not justly granted to him by his friends the Indians. We remember Sir William Johnson as a loyalist, and as afriend of the savages who a little later spread terror through-out the Mohawk Valley. But we must not forget that Sir. ><«»« SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, BART., 1715-177^. 5 Sir William Johnson 117 William Johnson died in 1774, and that it was Sir John John-son and Col. Guy Johnson and the Butlers who were respon-sible for many of the savage acts of the Indians in theMohawk Valley and vicinity, and that it was Col. Guy John,son, the founder of Guy Park, who alienated the Six Nationsfrom the colonists. In reading the acts of Sir William and becoming ac-quainted with his character as it shows forth in his letters, Ido not hesitate to say that if he had lived and sided with thecolonists, his name would have been written on the pages ofhistory side by side with that of George Washington and otherheroes of the Revolution. In Frothinghams history of Montgomery County is foundthe following paragraph: Had Sir William lived it is confidently believed he would haveespoused the cause of the colonies against the mother country, inwhich event one of the most magn
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