. Bulletin. Ethnology. 742 THECHUNTUNNE THILANOTTINE [B. A. E. 1755. Johnson sent him to Dr AVhee- lock's charity school at Lebanon, Conn., where he learned to speak and write English, and acquired some knowledge of general litej'ature and history. He married the daughter of an Oneida chief about 1765, and settled at Canajoharie, where he joined the Episcoi)al Church and for a time led a peaceful life. His wife died in 1771, leaving a son and a daughter; in the year following he mar- ried his first wife's half-sister. He was with Johnson in the Niagara expedition of 1759, and took part in the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 742 THECHUNTUNNE THILANOTTINE [B. A. E. 1755. Johnson sent him to Dr AVhee- lock's charity school at Lebanon, Conn., where he learned to speak and write English, and acquired some knowledge of general litej'ature and history. He married the daughter of an Oneida chief about 1765, and settled at Canajoharie, where he joined the Episcoi)al Church and for a time led a peaceful life. His wife died in 1771, leaving a son and a daughter; in the year following he mar- ried his first wife's half-sister. He was with Johnson in the Niagara expedition of 1759, and took part in the Pontiac war of 1763, fighting on the English side. Having visited England in 1775, he re- turned prepared to devote his energies to the British cause in the Revolution, then imminent. He was given a colonel's commission by Gov. Carleton, and sullied. THAYENDANEGEA (.JOSEPH BRANt). From a Painting by C. W. Peale in the state house at Philadelphia. his name by taking an active part in the massacre at Cherry valley and in the raid that desolated Minisink, Orange co., in 1779. He was conspicuous in the battle of Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1779, but was not present at the massacre of Wyoming in 1778, as has been charged. After the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States in 1783, still retaining his commission in the Briti.^h service and drawing half pay, Brant was granted a tract of land, 6 m. wide, on each side of Grand r., Ontario, on which he settled with his Mohawk and other Iroijuois fol- lowers, and continued to rule over them until his death, Nov. 24, 1807. He was thrice married; his second wife died child- less, but by his third wife he had seven children. His youngest son, John (Ah- youwaighs), became chief of the Mohawk tribe through his mother, who was the eldest daughter of the head chief of the Turtle gens. His daughter Elizabeth married William Johnson Kerr, grand- son of Sir William Johnson. The last survivor of the Brant children was Cath- erine B. Johnson
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