Johnson, Guy, approximately 1740-1788

Superintendent of Indian Affairs; loyalist.

Guy Johnson, nephew of Sir William Johnson, served as Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the northeastern American colonies and became Superintendant in 1774 when his uncle died. In 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, Johnson fled to Canada and sailed to England. He returned to America in 1776, where he directed British raids on settlements in the Mohawk Valley through the end of the Revolutionary War.

Guy Johnson, nephew of Sir William Johnson, served as Deputy Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the northeastern American colonies and became Superintendant in 1774 when his uncle died. At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, Johnson fled to Canada and sailed to England. He returned to America in 1776, where he directed British raids on settlements in the Mohawk Valley through the end of the Revolutionary War.

British colonial Indian official and New York politician.

Presumed to be a nephew of Sir William Johnson, Guy Johnson reached America around 1755, was appointed deputy superintendent of northern Indians by his uncle in 1762, and served in the New York General Assembly from 1773 to 1775.