Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
The Johnsons were Irish, not Scottish (Sir William was born in Co. Meath) but they certainly had ties to a number of Highlanders that lived on their estate. You are quite right; they certainly do not get the recognition they deserve, or their protege, Joseph Brant.

We have a recent biography of Sir William, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'Toole, in our library; I need to read it sometime.

I seem to remember a made-for-tv movie about Joseph Brant that had Pierce Brosnan playing Sir William.

T.
They were local boys (to me) and according to that traditon they were Scots Irish. They were certainly Irish Protestants so we're going to claim them anyway, both based on their fighting natures and also according the admittedly shakey notion that the native Irish of the period never were Protestants.