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

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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,

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an Onetda chief of the Oquacbo or Wolf tribe of Indians, who was in 1728, acting representative of the Five Nations, in busi ness affairs with the proprietary government, and who was ap pointed their vicegerent, and in this capacity administered their

Pennsylvania, with Shamokin His father was one of the earliest to encourage

tributaries within the province of

for his seat. 1

the introduction of Christianity by the Moravians. great friend of the celebrated James Logan,

He was a

who accompanied

Penn on his last voyage to America, and who subsequently became distinguished in the colony for his learning and benevo lence. Hence the name of his son. LOGAN married a Sbawanoe woman and removed from his father's lodge to the Ohio country where he became a chief, and, from the fact of his He was a friend intermarriage with the Shawanoes, a Mingoe. of the white men,