| Last name | Johnson |
| First name | William |
| Display name | Sir William Johnston |
| Birth date | 1715 |
| Death date | 1774 |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | British Government |
| Bio notes | British official. Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren, which was located amidst the Mohawk. Johnson learned the Mohawk language and Iroquois customs, and was appointed the British agent to the Iroquois; he was appointed in 1756 as British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern colonies. He had numerous children with several European and Native American women. Johnson had a relationship with Elizabeth Brant, a Mohawk woman by whom he had a surviving son, Keghneghtago or Brant (born in 1742). Johnson also had a son named Tagawirunta, also known as William of Canajoharie, by a Mohawk woman, possibly Margaret Brant, Elizabeth's younger sister. |
| Data notes | birth date is approximate |
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796
Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom