The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . n, to Brant of Canajoharie to buy pro-visions, 6 pounds. Another and later item in thesame year is this : To Brants son two days afterhis fathers death, 12 shillings. In the veins of Joseph Brant ran the blood ofIndian chiefs of high distinction in the annals ofthe Iroquois. Of his grandfather, a portrait is re-produced in this volume from a mezzotint of theperiod—Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, King of theMohawks, alias King Brant—who was one of thefive kings whom Colonel Pete
The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . n, to Brant of Canajoharie to buy pro-visions, 6 pounds. Another and later item in thesame year is this : To Brants son two days afterhis fathers death, 12 shillings. In the veins of Joseph Brant ran the blood ofIndian chiefs of high distinction in the annals ofthe Iroquois. Of his grandfather, a portrait is re-produced in this volume from a mezzotint of theperiod—Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, King of theMohawks, alias King Brant—who was one of thefive kings whom Colonel Peter Schuyler, in 1710,took to England. These men of the forest, as alreadystated, became in London the lions of social andpublic life, much as Joseph Brant himself was twiceto become two generations afterward. Of Brantsvisit an account was given in the London Magazinefor July, 1776. Stone infers that it was written byBoswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, Brant 158 Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, King of the Mohawks (1710), alias King Brant, Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of Josephs grandfather. the Six Nations (1710).. E Tow O , King of the River Indians,or Mohigans (1710). Joseph Brant in 1S0His age, sixty-three. FOUR EMINENT NEW YORK INDIANS WHY BRANT CAME having become intimate with him. The visit in-evitably recalled the one made by the five Indiankings, of which Steele wrote an account for theTaller and Addison one for the Spectator. As theQueens Court was then in mourning, the Indiansfollowed the English custom of wearing black under-clothes, over which, instead of a blanket, they had amantle of scarlet cloth edged with gold, a presentfrom the Queen. Brants sister, Mollie, according to Indian custom,had become the wife of Sir William Johnson. Shebore the familiar title of the Indian Lady Johnson,and lived with him in a state of felicity down to hisdeath in 1774. Stone gives as follows the traditionof the Mohawk Valley as to the rather wild andromantic manner in whic
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