Guy Johnson to Haldimand. Acknowledges receipt of the report of the Board on the Indian accounts, and gives a history of his services, as a reason for being treated liberally, in the consideration of these accounts.Served till the end of the campaign in 1758. Was appointed Sir W. Johnson's immediate deputy in 1762 and named as his successor. His success inkeeping the Indians faithful in 1774, and in quieting the opposition of the inhabitants to Government. The attempt of Congress to make him prisoner foiled. His march to Fort Stanwix and on to Ontario, where he collected 1,450 of the Six Nations, who entered into an agreement to support the Crown, and secured the frontiers. Similar treaty by the Hurons.
The influence of the Six Nations; the war of 1763 projected and Pontiac'smeasures influenced by the Senecas alone. He proceeded to Montreal to join Carleton; the want of officers, boats, &c. to transport the fifth part of the Indiana assembled, yet in July, 1775 he was enabled to collect 1,700 Indians, 1,300 of them men. They received the hatchet, and a portion at St. John's repulsed the first division of Montgomery's army. His commission,&c. His operations up the Hudson during the campaign of1776. The readiness of the Indians for the next year's campaign. The delay in granting his application to be sent to Canada compelled him to winter in Halifax and to purchase a sloop to convey him up in the spring.
The system of keeping accounts which he found on taking charge; his otheremployment and the prospect of an enlarged expenditure for Indians in consequence of a strong rebel invasion, as the confederacy had beenliving before that in opulence, requiring only a few supplies to keep up their stock, so that the trouble and expense must have been a mere trifle in comparison with what it became when they lost their country; an argument on this point follows. His efforts to reduce the 4,000 Indians atNiagara to a mere moderate number; his partial success. The rebel operations towards Fort Pitt, &c. How Bolton dealt with the accounts. His (Johnson's) success with the Indians in 1780, &c., given in detail.
The mode of dealing with the supplies; the delays in the arrival of goodsand the disappointment caused by the loss of the "Ontario" are given at length, as well as his efforts to prevent all abuses in the supplies and charges.