On this day 250 years ago at Johnson Hall in Johnstown, New York, Sir John Johnson surrendered to a force of 3000 New York militia led by Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler. Johnson agreed to disband and handed over the arms of the unit of 400 Loyalists and Mohawk Indians who he had assembled in Johnstown to resist the Patriots. Johnson was imprisoned and subsequently paroled by orders of the Continental Congress. Johnson’s surrender effectively ended Loyalist resistance in the Mohawk River Valley and Albany area, but he quickly broke parole and fled to Canada with a cadre of Loyalists and most of the Mohawk Nation. From there he organized raids into New York for the remainder of the War.

Sources: https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=58846; https://web.archive.org/web/20080313131606/http://www.heritageny.gov/revwar/sites.cfm?id=55&PageNum_getALLsites=1&topic=rw

[note these sources differ whether the date of Johnson’s surrender was January 17 or 18.]