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Last name Sullivan
First name John
Display name General Sullivan
Other names John Sullivan
Birth date 1740
Death date 1795
Gender m
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Bio notes An American General in Revolutionary War, delegate to the Continental Congress, Governor of New Hampshire, and a federal judge. Headed the scorched earth Sullivan Expedition in 1779, which destroyed pro-British Iroquois towns in estern NY and nearly splintered the Confederacy. After 1781, he largely remained in New Hampshire.

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A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom