The children borne to him by Molly

Brant,

sister

of the

great

chief,

were

made legitimate by marriage a short time before his death.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

performed ; their interests were bound up in obedience to the To Croghan was assigned the charge directions of Sir William. of the Ohio country ; Col. Claus was sent to Canada, with his heacl-quarters at Montreal, while Guy Johnson was made deputy in charge of the Six Nations and the neighboring tribes, and

remained at Johnson Hall. 1

That there was plan^and purpose in this arrangement, there no reasonable doubt. It was no idle boast on the part of Johnson, when, in 1771, he wrote that he was confident that " in in or in event that

is

America," might happen Europe any he could, from the measures he had taken and the influence which he possessed, secure and attach to the interests of the crown,

" such a

body of Indians as if not so numerous as those would " give a severe check to

opposed," to those interests, Nor were their attempts."

tr^e

of the

expectations

home

government disappointed in the result, although the great force of the plan was lost by the death of Johnson in July,

I774-

When that event occurred, Guy Johnson at once assumed the duties of superintendent, 4 with all the prestige

Colonial'^History vn, 579. Documentary History , n, 983. 'Sir William Johnson was born in He was Ireland, about the year 1714. ',

the nephew of Sir Peter Warren, the commodore who was distinguished in the