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.

sons

gave him

in

prominence what he lacked

in

distinctive

He died at his residence at the head of Lake Ontario, November 24th, 1807, aged 65 years. One of his sons (John)

merit.

was an officer in the British service, on the Niagara frontier in Schoolcraft repudiates the the war of 1812. (Lossing, I, 257). that Brant made the war chieftain of Stone was claim set up by He that no such office existed, and asserts the confederacy. that

simply a chief of the third and lowest class. The authority which he exercised on the Iroquois, 496).

Brant was

(Notes

was undoubtedly by virtue of his commission from the British At no time was his course approved by the united government. voice of the confederacy in council at Onondaga.

LOGAN, who was regarded by Jefferson as the most eloquent of all the aborigines, " was the son of Shikellimy, alias Swatane,