Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (born 1715)

Major-General Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Ireland known for his military and governance work in British America. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Royal Navy officer Peter Warren, which was located in territory of the Mohawk, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee.