1758. The next year he was wounded at the siege of Quebec. In 1766 he
was made governor of Quebec, and was governor of Canada, 1767–70. In
1775, he was again made governor of Quebec, and defended Canada
against the American forces until relieved by Haldimand in 1778. In
1782, he succeeded Clinton as commander in chief of the forces in
America, and having evacuated New York in 1783, returned with the
troops to England. He was created Baron Dorchester in 1786, and
appointed governor general of Canada, whither he arrived in October,
serving as the ruler of this province until 1796, when he retired to
England, where he died in 1808.
Henry Hope, lieutenant colonel of the 44th regiment, came to America
in 1776, and served throughout the war. In November, 1785, he was made
lieutenant-governor of Canada, and served as acting governor until the
arrival of Dorchester, under whom he continued as lieutenant-governor
until his death at Quebec, April 13, 1789.—ED.
Footnote 117:
Sir John Johnson was the son and heir of Sir William Johnson, the New
York Indian agent. Born in the Mohawk Valley in 1742, he received part
of his education in England, and was knighted there in 1765. He
succeeded to his father’s position and estates in 1774; and on the
outbreak of the Revolution escaped to Canada, where he was made
colonel in the British army. His services during the war, leading
Iroquois against the border settlements in the Mohawk and Cherry
Valley, are well known. His estates were confiscated by the State of
New York, and he retired to Canada, where he was made superintendent
general of Indian affairs in British North America. His death occurred
at Montreal in 1830.—ED.
Footnote 118:
In the surveys made in 1783–84, preliminary to the Loyalists’
settlement, ten townships were set off in Quinté Bay, which were long
known by their respective numbers. The third township was that now
called Fredericksburgh, and was chiefly settled by Johnson’s disbanded
soldiers.—ED.
Footnote 119:
On the land system of Canada, see Canniff, _History of Settlement of
Upper Canada_; and Kingsford, _History of Canada_ (London and Toronto,
1894), vii, pp. 300–313. The feudal tenure was not abolished in Quebec
until 1854; but the Act of 1791, separating Upper from Lower Canada,
decreed a modern system for the Loyalist settlements.—ED.
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