biography
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| lived:
| (?1720–82)
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| biography:
| Indian agent, born near Dublin, Ireland. He went to Philadelphia (1741), where he learned Indian languages and soon built a trade empire on the Pennsylvania frontier. When the French and Indian War (1754) ruined his trade, he became the deputy superintendent of N Indian affairs (1756–72). In 1766 he brought about the treaty which ended Pontiac's revolt. During the American Revolution he was unjustly suspected of Loyalist sympathies, and he also lost the fortune he had accumulated through trading and land speculation. |
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