w hich was laid out by him
with stores, church, and other buildings, at his own expense. \t Johnson Hall he
lived in the style of an old country baron, dividing his attention between Indian
affairs ami the raising of blooded stock, and dispensing a princely hospitality to all
comers. His influence alone prevented the six Nations joining Pontiac's great con-
federacy against the English. In 1768 he concluded the treaty of Fort Stanwix,
which fixed the Ohio as the boundary between the northern colonic- and the western
tribes, the boundary for which the Indians afterward contended against the Ameri-
cans until 1795. In 17:i!i he married a German girl of the Mohawk valley, who died
after bearing him three children. Later in life he formed a connection with the
sister of Brant, the Mohawk chief. He diedfrom over-exertion at an Indian council.
His son, Sir John Johnson, succ led to his title and estates, and on the breaking out
of the Revolution espoused the British side, drawing with him the Mohawks and
a great part of the other Six Nations, who abandoned their homes and tied with
him to Canada I see \Y. L. Stone. Life of Sir William Johnson).
(13) Captain John Stc u;t (p. 44): This distinguished officer was itemporaneous
with Sir William Johnson, and sprang from the same adventurous Keltic stock
which has furnished so many men conspicuous in our early Indian history. Born in
Scotland about the year I7nn. he came to America in 1 7.'i.".. was appointed to a
subordinate command in the British service, and soon became a favorite with the
Indians. When Fort Loudon was taken by