. 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. hinted b) J. -Ay»i>. BATTLE OP aUEENSTON. 501 On the removal of the old Chief, Thayendanegea, to his newestablishment at the head of Lake Ontario, he had adopted theEnglish mode of living, and. arranged his household Brant, however,—the mother she might be styledin Europe—preferred the customs of her people, and soon afterthe death of her husband returned to the Mohawk Villaofe onthe Grand R
. 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. hinted b) J. -Ay»i>. BATTLE OP aUEENSTON. 501 On the removal of the old Chief, Thayendanegea, to his newestablishment at the head of Lake Ontario, he had adopted theEnglish mode of living, and. arranged his household Brant, however,—the mother she might be styledin Europe—preferred the customs of her people, and soon afterthe death of her husband returned to the Mohawk Villaofe onthe Grand River, where slie ever afterward resided. The young Chief was born at the Mohawk Village on the27th of September, 1794—being at the time of his fathers deceasethirteen years of age. He received a good English educationat Ancaster and Niagara, under the tuition of a Mr. RichardCockrel; but through life improved his mind greatly, by thestudy of the best English authors, by associations with goodsociety, and by travel. He was a close and discriminating ob-server of the phenomena of nature, upon which he reasoned ina philosophical spirit. Amiable and manly in his feelings andcharacter, a
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