Guy Johnson

Guy Johnson (c.1740 – 5 March 1788) is an Irish-born military officer and diplomat for the Crown during the American War of Independence.

He had migrated to the Province of New York as a young man and worked with his uncle, Sir William Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the northern colonies.

He is appointed as his successor in 1774.

The following year, Johnson relocates with Loyalist supporters to Canada as tensions rise in New York before the American Revolutionary War.

He directs joint militia and Mohawk military actions in the Mohawk Valley.

Accused of falsifying reports, he goes to London to defend himself after the war, and dies there in 1788.

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