George Croghan (disambiguation)

George Croghan was a prominant American Colonist and early advocate of westard expansion. He was an experienced Indian agent and trader. He moved from Pennsylvania to New York in 1756 and became a Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs under Sir William Johnson.

Crogan led a group of speculators, including Benjamin Franklin and his son in land schemes in Ohio, Illinois and New York.

In 1764, while in England, he claimed that his infuence had previously won him a 200,000 acre land grant from the Iroquois and asked that the Governor of New York be instructed to issue patents for this land. Crogan was turned down by the Board of Trade because of the size of the grant and because it would not meet "the terms of the Proclamation of October 7, 1763."

Croghan managed to get the grant from the Iroquois renewed by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768.

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George Croghan (15 November 1791 - 8 January 1849) was born in Locust Grove, Kentucky and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a relative of both William Clark and George Rogers Clark because his mother, Lucy Clark, was their sister. His father was William Croghan of Dublin, Ireland.

Croghan studied at the College of William and Mary and joined the army after he graduated in 1810. He fought at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. For his defense of Fort Stephenson, Ohio during the War of 1812, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel.

He resigned from the army during a reduction in force and served as a postmaster in New Orleans. Later he became and inspector general in the army. During the Mexican American War he fought as a coloned at Monterrey, Mexico.

Croghan died of cholera.

The Village and Town of Croghan, New York are named after him.