he was not the less the legitimate sucat the era of

the opening of the American revolution, On this, there was a vacancy which was

cessor to the throne.

But

HUDSON RWER INDIANS.

then temporarily residing, and where his father soon after died. His mother, on her return to Canajoharie, married an Indian Carrihogo, or News Carrier, whose Christian name was Barnet or Bernard, which was subsequently contracted into Brant, by which name his step-son was also known, being first called

Joseph, and subsequently, by inversion, His position as chief was mainly due to his

Brant's

called

Joseph Brant.

associations with the Johnsons.

the concubine

of Sir William,

His sister, Mary or Molly, was and as her brother was perhaps

necessarily much

in her company, Johnson sent him to Dr. Wheelock's school, and subsequently employed him as his secre in public affairs. Throughout the revolution he tary as an agent

was engaged in warfare chiefly upon the border settlements of

New York and Pennsylvania, in connection with the Johnsons After the war he devoted himself to the social of the Mohawks, who were settled improvement religious in Upper Canada, upon lands or Grand the Ouise river, upon the He trans them to governor of that province. by granted

and Butlers.

and

lated the Gospel of St.

Mark into the Mohawk language

;

and

ways his exertions for the spiritual and

temporal wel fare of his people were eminently successful, and endeared him in many

He was far from being a great or an able chief, his of contemporaries being his peers in courage and in many native ability. "His education and his association with the John to his nation.