Note 2 — Chapter II · JOHNSON AS AN INDIAN TRADER.
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The young and charming Lord James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater, the idol of the Jacobites, was beheaded 24th of February, 1716; that is, on the very day, it is claimed by Col. T. Bailey Myers, that Sir William Johnson was born, and the wild fervour of a Jacobite loyalty was still alive when Sir John was a boy.—De Peyster’s Life of Gen. John Johnson, Introd., p. xvi.