FRENCH & INDIAN WAR]. JOHNSON, William (1715-1774), Superintendent of Indian Affairs . Autograph letter signed ("Wm Johnson") to Lt. Col. Jacob Glen in Albany, Fort Johnson [near Johnstown, N.Y.], 2 April 1759. 1 page, folio, integral autograph address panel, neat repairs to folds . PREPARATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FORT NIAGARA. Johnson, about to leave for a council with the Indians of the Six Nations, leaves instructions with a deputy regarding the militia force he is raising, almost certainly for his expedition against Fort Niagara later in the summer: "As I am making ready to set off to Meet and hold a Congress with the Six Nations at the German Flatts, where there are above 400 of them Assembled, I shall not be able to do anything with regard to the Drafting the Men &c wherefore [I] leave it to you, & Major VanDerheyden to see done, and hope you will have it done regularly, and with all the Justice & Impartiality possible...I have given the Warrants as followeth..." He lists eight men to be named officers, who include Christopher P. Yates and members of the Herkimer family (owners of land on the Mohawk River near German Flats). Johnson commanded a mixed force of Indians allies, militia, and British regulars which journeyed westward, laid seige to Fort Niagara, and forced its surrender on 25 July, cementing British control of the northern frontier east of Detroit.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR]. JOHNSON, William (1715-1774), Superintendent of Indian Affairs . Autograph letter signed ("Wm Johnson") to Lt. Col. Jacob Glen in Albany, Fort Johnson [near Johnstown, N.Y.], 2 April 1759. 1 page, folio, integral autograph address panel, neat repairs to folds . PREPARATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FORT NIAGARA. Johnson, about to leave for a council with the Indians of the Six Nations, leaves instructions with a deputy regarding the militia force he is raising, almost certainly for his expedition against Fort Niagara later in the summer: "As I am making ready to set off to Meet and hold a Congress with the Six Nations at the German Flatts, where there are above 400 of them Assembled, I shall not be able to do anything with regard to the Drafting the Men &c wherefore [I] leave it to you, & Major VanDerheyden to see done, and hope you will have it done regularly, and with all the Justice & Impartiality possible...I have given the Warrants as followeth..." He lists eight men to be named officers, who include Christopher P. Yates and members of the Herkimer family (owners of land on the Mohawk River near German Flats). Johnson commanded a mixed force of Indians allies, militia, and British regulars which journeyed westward, laid seige to Fort Niagara, and forced its surrender on 25 July, cementing British control of the northern frontier east of Detroit.
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