George Croghan (c. 1718 – August 31, 1782) was an Irish-born fur trader in the Ohio Country, a representative to the Iroquois Council, a land speculator in Pennsylvania and New York, and British Indian agent in colonial America. Beginning in 1756, for fifteen years he served as Deputy Indian agent under Sir William Johnson, called the "Mohawk Baron", in present-day New York.
Croghan resigned in 1771 to establish Vandalia, a fourteenth colony including parts of present-day West Virginia and Kentucky. He continued on emeritus status his work as a borderland negotiator. In 1777, he was accused of treason by, when he was serving as Pittsburgh's president judge and chairman of the Committee of Safety. He was working to keep the Ohio Indians neutral in the Revolutionary War.
As the 19th-century historian William M. Darlington noted, for thirty years, Croghan was the Ohio Country's key figure. He left the region in 1756, two decades before the Revolution broke out.
Read more about George Croghan: Early Life and Career, King George's War, 1744-1748, The Seven Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, Later Life, Dunmore's War, American Revolution, Croghan's Estate
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