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                          LIFE OF BRANDT




                              Life
                               of

                   JOSEPH BRANT--THAYENDANEGEA:
                            INCLUDING
                          THE BORDER WARS
                              OF THE
                      AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
                                AND
             SKETCHES OF THE INDIAN CAMPAIGNS OF GENERALS
                    HARMAR, ST. CLAIR, AND WAYNE.
                         AND OTHER MATTERS
      CONNECTED WITH THE INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
             AND GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE PEACE OF 1783 TO
                     THE INDIAN PEACE OF 1795.


                        BY WILLIAM L. STONE.


                          IN TWO VOLUMES.
                              VOL. I.


                             NEW-YORK:
                 ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, 38 GOLD STREET.
                               1838.




 [Entered according to Act of Congress of the United States of America
  in the year 1838, by George Dearborn & co., in the Clerk's Office of
  the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.]


                               New-York:
                    Printed by Scatcherd & Adams.
                         No. 38 Gold Street.




                           TO THE HONORABLE

                        STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER,

                              OF ALBANY,

These volumes are most respectfully inscribed. If the efforts of the
writer to illustrate more fully and minutely than has hitherto been done,
the most interesting portion of American history, in its immediate
connection with the large and populous State of which The Patroon has
so long been one of the most distinguished citizens, shall be so
fortunate as to merit the regard, and receive the approbation, of one
so excellently qualified to judge of its interest and value, there will
be nothing left unsatisfied to the ambition and the hopes of

                                          His friend and servant,
                                                          THE AUTHOR.




                          CONTENTS.

                          * * * * *

                          CHAPTER I.

 Birth and parentage--Discussion of the doubts cast upon his origin--Visit
  of Mohawk chiefs to Queen Anne--Evidence of Brant's descent from one
  of those--Digression from the main subject, and Extracts from the
  private and official journals of Sir William Johnson--Connexion between
  Sir William and the family of Brant--Incidental references to the old
  French war--Illustrations of Indian proceedings, speeches, &c.--Brant's
  parentage satisfactorily established--Takes the field in the Campaign
  of Lake George (1765.)--Is engaged at the conquest of Niagara
  (1759.)--Efforts of Sir William Johnson to civilize the Indians--Brant
  is sent, with other Indian youths, to the Moor Charity School, at
  Lebanon--Leaves school--Anecdote--Is engaged on public business by Sir
  William--As an Interpreter for the Missionaries--Again takes the field,
  in the wars against Pontiac--Intended massacre at Detroit--Ultimate
  overthrow of Pontiac--First marriage of Brant--Entertains the
  Missionaries--Again employed on public business--Death of his
  wife--Engages with Mr. Stewart in translating the Scriptures--Marries
  again--Has serious religious impressions--Selects a bosom friend and
  confidant, after the Indian custom--Death of his friend--His grief, and
  refusal to choose another friend.
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                          CHAPTER II.

 Early symptoms of disaffection at Boston--Origin of the Revolutionary
  War--First blood shed in 1770--Stirring eloquence of Joseph