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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Guy Park, also known as Guy Park State Historic Site, is a house built in 1774 in the Georgian architectural style for Guy Johnson, nephew and son-in-law to Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, the British Superintendent for Indian Affairs in colonial New York. He came to New York from Ireland, where he married Mary (also known as Polly), one of the senior Johnson's daughters with his first common-law wife, Catherine Weisenberg. In 1773 the senior Johnson gave his nephew and daughter a square mile of land near the Mohawk River as a wedding present, where they built their first house. The next year it was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.Guy Johnson commissioned a limestone house in the Georgian architectural style, which was built in 1774. After William Johnson died in 1774, Guy obtained the appointment from the Crown as British Superintendent for Indian Affairs and was determined to keep the powerful Iroquois on the side of the British in the face of increasing colonial tensions. A Loyalist, because of increasing local hostility related to the coming American Revolutionary War, Johnson risked imprisonment. He gathered allies and friends and left the area in 1775 for Canada. His wife Polly died in Oswego during the journey. Johnson lived from 1776-1778 in British-occupied New York City. By 1779, he directed forces against the rebels in the Mohawk Valley from his headquarters in Niagara, Ontario. After the war, he returned to London, where he died in 1788."@en }

• Guy_Park abstract "Guy Park, also known as Guy Park State Historic Site, is a house built in 1774 in the Georgian architectural style for Guy Johnson, nephew and son-in-law to Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, the British Superintendent for Indian Affairs in colonial New York. He came to New York from Ireland, where he married Mary (also known as Polly), one of the senior Johnson's daughters with his first common-law wife, Catherine Weisenberg. In 1773 the senior Johnson gave his nephew and daughter a square mile of land near the Mohawk River as a wedding present, where they built their first house. The next year it was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.Guy Johnson commissioned a limestone house in the Georgian architectural style, which was built in 1774. After William Johnson died in 1774, Guy obtained the appointment from the Crown as British Superintendent for Indian Affairs and was determined to keep the powerful Iroquois on the side of the British in the face of increasing colonial tensions. A Loyalist, because of increasing local hostility related to the coming American Revolutionary War, Johnson risked imprisonment. He gathered allies and friends and left the area in 1775 for Canada. His wife Polly died in Oswego during the journey. Johnson lived from 1776-1778 in British-occupied New York City. By 1779, he directed forces against the rebels in the Mohawk Valley from his headquarters in Niagara, Ontario. After the war, he returned to London, where he died in 1788.".