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<p>Guy Johnson, son-in-law and later successor to Sir William Johnson, the British superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern district, drew up this map in 1771 for William Tryon, the newly appointed colonial governor of New York. The map shows the territory of each of the Six Nations, the Iroquois confederacy made up of the Mohawk (spelled “Mohock,” on the map), Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora nations. Johnson noted that parts of his map had not yet been surveyed, so for these regions his map was based on “the Sketches of intelligent Indians and other persons.”</p>
