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  Joseph Brant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brant was born at Cuyahoga Ohio Country on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, near present-day Akron, Ohio, during the hunting season when Mohawks travelled to the area.
Brant became infamous for the Wyoming Valley "massacre", which it was widely believed he led, although he was not present at the battle.
Brant was unable to arrange a truce, and the war continued, ending with the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
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 Mary Brant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1736 – April 16, 1796) was a Mohawk leader and the older sister of Joseph Brant, both of whom wielded considerable influence during the American Revolution as British Loyalists.
Mary Brant was the common-law wife of Sir William Johnson, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley in the colony of New York.
She is credited with passing information to the British in advance of the Battle of Oriskany and otherwise aiding the Loyalist cause, and was forced by the Americans to flee west into the Cayuga nation and eventually to Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Molly_Brant   (309 words)

  
 Joseph Brant - The Greatest Tory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brant was a brave and honorable friend of the British crown, and their staunchest ally during the conflict with the colonies.
Brant was a talented orator, and the court was mightily impressed with his eloquence and regal bearing.
Brant felt such a confederacy would thwart future ill treatment of the Iroquois in the United States and allow them a means of defense if they needed to press their demands by military persuasion.
www.freemasonry.org /psoc/josephbrant.htm   (4481 words)

  
 BookRags: Mary (Molly) Brant Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brant was born in 1736 to "Margaret" and "Peter," Canajoharie Mohawks registered as Protestant Christians in the Anglican chapel at Fort Hunter.
Brant had been well known and was politically active in her village before joining Johnson at either Fort Johnson or at Johnson Hall, his residence located near Schenectady, "on the edge of Mohawk territory." From 1754 to 1755, she is recorded as having accompanied to Philadelphia a delegate of elders to address Iroquois land conflicts.
Molly Brant could not have known the outcome of the wars she attempted to influence.
www.bookrags.com /biography/mary-brant   (1506 words)

  
 Myth of the Iroqouis Loyalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brant’s adoption of many European practices and his ability to navigate English and Mohawk societies fluently has puzzled historians and caused his major biographers to question his “Indianness.”3 Like Brant’s Euroamerican contemporaries, many historians have accepted the image that he projected in his public dealings with Crown officials as an accurate representation of Mohawk beliefs.
After Johnson was buried, Molly Brant returned to Canajoharie, where she began to establish herself as an Iroquois leader in her own right;10 Guy Johnson assumed control of the Indian Department; John Johnson remained quietly on his estate; and John Butler, a senior Indian officer, had a falling out with the heirs.
At the end of 1779 Brant married Catharine Croghan, a matron of the turtle clan and the niece of the Mohawk sachem Tekarihoka.24 The marriage allied Molly and Joseph Brant’s wolf clan with the turtle clan and gave Brant the support of two clan matrons who exercised considerable influence with the warriors.
www.wampumchronicles.com /josephbrant.html   (3090 words)

  
 Chiefs - Mohawk, Molly Brant Biography - Galafilm, Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mary "Molly" Brant spent 22 years of her adult life acting as housekeeper and concubine to Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
As the stepdaughter of influential Mohawk Sachem / Chief Brant Canagaraduncka and "wife" of Johnson, Molly was well positioned to become one of the Clan Mothers of her people.
Molly Brant is typical of the difficulties in discovering facts in history regarding Native women.
www.galafilm.com /chiefs/htmlen/mohawk/sp_mollybrant.html   (382 words)

  
 Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Mohawk
Brant was born in 1742 on the banks of the Ohio River and given the Indian name of Thayendanegea, meaning "he places two bets." He inherited the status of Mohawk chief from his father.
Molly Brant, Joseph's sister, married General Sir William Johnson who was the British superintendent for northern Indian affairs.
The settlement was abandoned and the event came to be known as the "Cherry Valley Massacre." Brant won a formidable reputation after this raid and in cooperation with loyalists and British regulars, he brought fear and destruction to the entire Mohawk Valley, southern New York, and northern Pennsylvania.
www.indians.org /welker/brant.htm   (1814 words)

  
 Joseph Brant -Mohawk Indian Chief
Joseph Brant's sister, Molly, became the Indian wife of Sir William Johnson, and the small boy went to live in the household of the Englishman.
Brant later married the daughter of an Oneida chief and in 1765 settled at the old family home at Canajoharie Castle, New York.
Brant was an intelligent man and during his old age translated the new Testament into the Mohawk language.
members.tripod.com /pambies/brant.html   (376 words)

  
 The War of 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As stepdaughter of influential Mohawk sachem[chief] Brant Canagaraduncka and "wife" of Mohawk honorary sachem, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs William Johnson, Molly was a natural to become one of the Clan Mothers of her people.
As one of her biographer put it, Molly "was as highly respected by the Indians as was her husband, and she was as versatile.
But Molly felt, as had Sir William, that the Iroquois should naturally side with the British against the Americans who were intent on robbing them of their land.
www.galafilm.com /1812/e/people/mollybrant.html   (859 words)

  
 Brant, Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brant, Mary, or Konwatsi'tsiaiénni, meaning "someone lends her a flower," Mohawk, (b c1736; d at Kingston 16 Apr 1796).
Mary, or Molly Brant as she was generally known, was one of the most important women in North American native history.
Molly rendered invaluable assistance to the Crown by encouraging the Six Nations to keep their alliance with England.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0000960   (199 words)

  
 History's Women
Molly Brant was a Mohawk and her people were a member of the Iroquois Confederacy, a political union of six different Indian nations from the northern part of what is now the state of New York.
Molly, also known as Konwatsi’tsiaienni (meaning “Someone lends her a flower”), was born in a village called Canajoharie, on the south bank of the Mohawk river, in about 1736.
For Molly, the change in lifestyle was dramatic: suddenly she was in charge of a busy household which included a cook, a gardener, a secretary, and several slaves.
www.historyswomen.com /earlyamerica/mollybrant.htm   (1223 words)

  
 MollyBrant
Although William Johnson and Molly Brant were never married under British law, all of Molly’s children were recognized, as heirs in Sir William’s will, receiving significant funds and thousands of acres of land, much of which was within the boundaries of the Royal Grant.
When it was discovered that Molly had warned the British through her brother Joseph that the militia was on its way to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix, she was harassed and threatened to such a degree that she fled with her children to Canada.
Molly was recognized for her role in Colonial history by a 1986 Canada Post stamp.
www.paulkeeslerbooks.com /MollyBrant.html   (1013 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 to Mohawk Brants.
Brant was a devout Christian, he preached Christianity, translated the Book of Common Prayer and the Gospel of Mark into the Mohawk language, and raised funds to build the first Episcopal church in Upper Canada.
Molly Brant was born in 1736 to Mohawk parents.
www.house.gov /boehlert/NFP/wbbiographies.htm   (946 words)

  
 Loyalists - Background Information for Teachers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Molly Brant was born in about 1736 in the Ohio River Valley.
Molly Brant was born and lived in the Ohio River Valley with her father, Peter, mother, Margaret, and her brother, Joseph.
Molly suddenly became a widow in July 1774 as Sir William died at the age of 59.
www.qesnrecit.qc.ca /history/loyalists/loybkgr_mbrant.php   (759 words)

  
 Augusta Cecconi-Bates Winter 2004
Molly Brant, a one-woman opera, was premiered by soprano Rhona Gale, with Carrie Wyatt, flute, and the composer at the keyboard, April 25, 2003, St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Molly Brant was heard in performance throughout 2003: at Grand Theatre, Kingston, Ontario, March 14; in Clayton, NY, June 14; and at "Theatre 5" Kingston, November 15.
Sonatina 1981, cello and piano; Molly Brant; Willie Was Different; Essences of the North Country (in preparation); Together: organ march for churches with short aisles; all by Enclave Music.
www.sai-national.org /pubs/win04/acecconibates04.html   (225 words)

  
 brant - HighBeam Encyclopedia
BRANT [brant] or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose.
White brant is an alternate name for the snow goose, which belongs to the same family, and gray, or prairie, brant refers to the American white-fronted goose.
Brants are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Anseriformes, family Anatidae.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-brant.html   (277 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
A Mohawk woman named Katy Moses, aged 77 in 1879 and “distantly related to Brant’s last wife,” stated that “she learned many years ago from aged Mohawks, that Brant’s mother was a daughter of Old King Hendrick.” Joseph Brant’s granddaughter Charlotte told Draper that Joseph’s mother was a granddaughter of Hendrick.
Early in the conflict Mary Brant did all in her power to feed and assist those loyalists who had taken refuge in the woods, and she also sent ammunition to supporters of the king.
Mary Brant and her family, who had lost most of their possessions in the attack, took refuge at Onondaga (near Syracuse), the capital of the Six Nations Confederacy, where she submitted her grievances to the confederacy council and was promised satisfaction.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36113   (2162 words)

  
 CHIEF BRANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brant and a number of young Mohawks were selected by Johnson to attend Moor’s Charity School for Indians at Lebanon, Connecticut--the school which in future years was to become Dartmouth College.
Brant was certainly not dissuaded or criticized by the British or the Tories for his efforts.
Brant died on November 24, 1807, at the age of nearly sixty-five years, at his own house on Grand River, Ontario, and was buried by the side of the Episcopal church he had built there.
members.fortunecity.com /gwolf2/brant.html   (2815 words)

  
 Chief Joseph Brant -- Mohawk, Loyalist, and Freemason
Brant, however, was born on the banks of the Ohio River in 1742 while his parents were on a hunting excursion to that region, and was given the Indian name of Thayendanega, meaning "he places two bets".
It was due largely to JohnsonÂ’s relationship with Molly that Brant received the favor and protection of Sir William and through him the British government, which set Brant on the road to promotion.
But we should not forget that Brant had received the education of a civilized man, had read the Scriptures, and professed to be a Christian and a Freemason, and he knew that the rapine and atrocities practiced by the Indians were unjustifiable.
www.earlyamerica.com /review/1998/brant.html   (2898 words)

  
 The Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation: Who Was Molly Brant?
Molly was obviously able to successfully transfer both power and status to her position, as she apparently dominated the Johnson household.
Molly Brant was also known as an expert herbalist, bringing her healing abilities to the household.
After Molly's death, the Brant farm remained in the family: it was passed on to her daughter, Magdalene Ferguson, and then to another daughter, Margaret Farley.
www.carf.info /kingstonpast/mollybrant.php   (5391 words)

  
 THE ORISKANY BATTLE OF ONEIDA HANYERY AND MOHAWK JOSEPH BRANT
Brant hailed him-- begged him to stop as he was in the act retreating, pledging his honor that he should neither be hurt nor detained.
Brant portrayed the great and resistless power of the King, and professed to deplore the ruin of the Oneidas if they should foolishly and recklessly persist in their determination.
Molly fled but there is no evidence Oneidas drove her from her home or threatened her.
www.oneida-nation.net /hanyery/text.html   (4415 words)

  
 Town of Brant New York
Brant is an agricultural center and supplies such commodities as corn, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, peas, pepper, and farm crops.
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 on the banks of the Ohio River and given the Indian name of Thayendanegea, meaning, "he places two bets." He inherited the status of Mohawk chief from his father.
The settlement was abandoned and the event came to be known as the.Cherry Valley Massacre." Brant won a formidable reputation after this raid and in cooperation with loyalists and British regulars; he brought fear and destruction to the entire Mohawk Valley.
www.brantny.com /about.php   (1931 words)

  
 Iroquois
Brant was able to block an attempt by the Seneca Red Jacket to make peace with the Americans, and the Iroquois continued to attack the frontier in support of the British.
Brant fought in the Ohio Valley during 1781 and in August ambushed a group of Pennsylvania militia near the mouth of the Miami River (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Brant's Mohawk and the Canadian Iroquois were conspicuous by their absence at the signing of this treaty, and the Iroquois League had split into two parts.
www.tolatsga.org /iro.html   (22114 words)

  
 Molly Brant, A Legacy of Her Own
Brant was a vital link between the white world and that of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, before, during and after the American Revolution.
This book recognizes Molly Brant’s achievements in the face of overwhelming odds and the legacy that she left as mother, diplomat, and Mohawk matron.
MOLLY BRANT: A LEGACY OF HER OWN is published in a seven by ten inch, 144 page format.
www.johnstown.com /mollybrant.html   (308 words)

  
 The Pool Tribe of Bradford Co
Molly Brant was married to William, but not properly according to British law.
Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant were also Loyalists (British sympathizers) during the American revolution - Sir William died in 1774 but Molly continued to influence the Mohawk tribe to remain loyal to the British cause.
Sir William Johnson married Mollie Brant, sister to the celebrated Iroquois Indian Chief, and Anthony Vanderpool married Elizabeth Johnson, the daughter of Sir William and Mollie.
meiszen.net /family/tree/manly/loretta/pool_tribe.htm   (6675 words)

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