Bringing the Eighth Baronet of New York Back to Life
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Most New Yorkers would be surprised to learn that, somewhere out there, a British aristocrat rejoices in the title of Eighth Baronet of New York. But then, most New Yorkers have probably never heard of the man for whom that impressive title was first created: William Johnson, a near-mythic figure in colonial America who has fallen, in the words of his latest biographer, “through the gaps in the official narrative into the subterranean sump of myth and oblivion.”
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