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were intrusted solely to Sir William Johnson,
with no subordination but to Loudoun.
Yet all could not prevail.
‘In a few years,’ said one, who, after a long settlement in New England, had just returned home, the colonies of ‘America will be independent of Britain;’ and at least one voice was raised to advise the sending out of Duke William of Cumberland to be their sovereign and emancipating them at once.
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