The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart, Vol. 2 The school receives a charter under the name of Dartmouth College, 294 - Three Cherokee chieftains, accompanied by Colonel Philip Scuuyler, arrive at the Hall, 294. Chapter XVI. 1768-1769. The borderers still bent on hostilities. Murder of the white Mingo. Settlements in defiance of the King´s proclamation, begun along the Monongahela and Red Stone creek, 295 - The Delawares and Shawanese polish their hatchets, and prepare for war. Pennsylvania, alarmed, votes twenty five hundred pounds for presents. Johnson thinks good laws, properly enforced, a better guaranty for peace than presents, 296 - The Six Nations come to the council at the Hall with scowling brows. Johnson dissipates their anger; and the Confederacy concludes a joint treaty with the Cherokee deputies, 297 - Through the vigilance of the superintendent, the congress of the Western nations comes to nought. He takes a violent cold, and, by the advice of his physician, goes to the sea side, 298 - The history of New York imperfect without an allusion to the great patent of Kayaderosseras. History of the patent and the controversy concerning it, 299 - Johnson´s agency in it, 300 - Procures a release of part of the patent from the patentees to the Mohawks, 302 - The delay in settling the boundary a continual source of irritation to the Six Nations, 302 - Cogent reasons why the boundary should be settled. Alarm of the wealthy trading companies. Governor Franklin corresponds with Johnson in relation to the purchase of a large tract of land south of the Ohio, and the forming of a colony, 303 - Benjamin Franklin applies to the Crown for a grant of the land, but fails, at that time, to obtain it. The company afterward formed under the name of the Walpole Company, 304 - Shelburne authorizes the Baronet to adjust the boundary with the Six Nations at once, 304 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Its proceedings in detail, 305 - In adjusting the boundary, the Baronet is forced to deviate from the royal instructions. Takes a deed from the Six Nations to the King of the land now known as the states of Kentucky and Western Virginia, 308 - The Six Nations give a deed to the proprietaries of Pennsylvania of the Wyoming lands. Fort Stanwix, by order of the commander in chief, is dismantled, 309 - A new assembly convened. The right of Parliament to tax America freely discussed by the colonists, 310 - Sir Henry Moore lays before the assembly a letter from the Earl of Hillsborough, 311 - The address of the assembly gives little satisfaction to the representative of the Crown, who forthwith dissolves that body, 312. Chapter XVII. 1769-1770. Quiet state of the Six Nations. Indian teachers, supported by the Baronet, diffuse among the tribes a taste for reading and peaceful avocations, 314 - He builds, at his own expense, a church at Canajoharie for the Mohawks. Professors Danford and Willard of Cambridge visit Johnson Hall, 315 - Philip Schuyler has a misunderstanding with Johnson; writes a letter of explanation which is not satisfactory, 316 - Is reelected to the assembly. The election in New York city hotly contested, 317 - In the new assembly the, De Lancey interest prevails. John Cruger chosen speaker, 318 - Governor Moore complains of the manner in which the colony´s agent is appointed, and recommends another. The assembly decline to adopt his views, 319 - The division of Albany county now first contemplated. Schuyler proposes a plan, which is opposed by Johnson. Schuyler´s bill lost, 320 - Startling news from Detroit arrives at Niagara. Fears of the Detroit garrison prove groundless, 321 - Johnson sets out on a tour of inspection through the Upper Castles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at
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