Series 44 - John Johnson letters

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P/P155/64/44

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John Johnson letters

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  • 1828-1981 (Creation)

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Citation from a published source: Huxley, D. (1981), 'The Letters of John Johnston', Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Newsletter 1, no. 7, pp. 220-231.

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A copy of the Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Newsletter 1, No. 7 (1981), which contains published typed transcripts of the John Johnson letters.
Johnson's letters comprise a set of six biographical letters written by John Johnston (1762-1828), a native of Belfast who left Ireland in 1790 to become a fur trader in the Great Lakes region of North America. The recipient is his son-in-law, geographer/ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft, Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie. They were written in the months before his death in 1821.

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