York. He also organized counter-raids. In 1781, General MacLean reported that Johnson's wartime accounts were "Extravagant, wonderful & fictitious, and the quality of articles so extraordinary, new & uncommon". Johnson was suspended as superintendent and summoned to Montreal, where the governor-in-chief, Frederick Haldimand, criticized his conduct as "reprehensible". Although never convicted, Johnson was in disgrace and in limbo. He went to London to defend his reports to the government and remained there. He died in 1788. Sir John Johnson took over Fort Niagara as superintendent of Indian affairs in his cousin's absence; he was officially appointed to the position in March 1782. Legacy The state of New York confiscated the property of Loyalists and sold the house after the war. While in private hands, the house was used as a stagecoach stop during the extensive nineteenth-century westward migration through New York State. Since the early twentieth century, the house has been preserved as a state historic site. Recently used as the Walter Elwood Museum for local history, it was severely damaged in late August 2011 by the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene. References Citations Books Kelsay, Isabel. Joseph Brant, 1743–1807: Man of Two Worlds. 1984. O'Toole, Fintan. White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. . Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground. 2006. External links More about the Benjamin West portrait at the National Gallery of Art Biography at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online References to letters and documents from Guy Johnson in the Haldimand Collection (Papers) 1740 births 1788 deaths British Indian Department Colonial American Indian agents Loyalists in the American Revolution from New York (state) People from County Meath People of the Province of New York Members of the New York Provincial Assembly O'Neill dynasty Kingdom of Ireland emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies