[1352] Cf. also Gent. Mag., 1757, p. 73; London Mag., 1759, p. 594. Cf. Trumbull’s Connecticut, ii. 370, etc.
[1353] See particularly for this fight vol. i. 501. Stone treats the subject apologetically on controverted points. Cf. Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 1,511. Johnson’s letter to Hardy is given in N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. p. 1013.
[1354] Various books may be cited for minor characterizations of Johnson: Mrs. Grant’s Memoirs of an American Lady; J. R. Simms’ Trappers of New York, or a biography of Nicholas Stoner and Nathaniel Foster, and some account of Sir William Johnson and his style of living (Albany, 1871, with the same author’s Schoharie County, ch. iv.), called Frontiersmen of New York in the second edition,—works of little literary skill; Ketchum’s Buffalo (1864). Parkman’s first sketch was in his Pontiac (i. p. 90). Mr. Stone has also a paper in Potter’s Amer. Monthly, Jan., 1875. Cf. Lippincott’s Mag., June, 1879, and Poole’s Index, p. 694. His character in fiction is referred to in Stone’s Johnson, i. p. 57.
Peter Fontaine, in 1757, wrote: “General Johnson’s success was owing to his fidelity to the Indians and his generous conduct to his Indian wife, by whom he has several hopeful sons.” Ann Maury’s Huguenot Family, p. 351.
William Smith (New York, ii. 83), who knew Johnson, speaks of his ambition “being fanned by the party feuds between Clinton and De Lancey,” Johnson attaching himself to Clinton.
[1355] Many of these which cover Johnson’s public career have been printed in the Doc. Hist. N. Y. (vol. ii. p. 543, etc.), and Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vol. vi., not to name places of less extent.
[1356] Cf. An account of conferences held and treaties made between Maj.-Gen. Sir Wm. Johnson, Bart., and the Chief Sachems and Warriours of the Indian nations, Lond., 1756. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,119; Stevens’ Hist. Coll., i. 1,455; Harvard Coll. lib., 5325.48.) Johnson’s views on measures necessary to be taken with the Six Nations to defeat the designs of the French (July, 1754) are in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 203.
As early as 1750-51, Johnson was telling Clinton that the French incitement of the Iroquois was worse than open war, and that the only justification for the French was that the English were doing the same thing.
[1357] N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 422.
[1358] Ibid., p. 421.