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LIFE OF BRANDT
Life
of
JOSEPH BRANT—THAYENDANEGEA:
INCLUDING
THE BORDER WARS
OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
AND
SKETCHES OF THE INDIAN CAMPAIGNS OF GENERALS
HARMAR, ST. CLAIR, AND WAYNE.
AND OTHER MATTERS
CONNECTED WITH THE INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE PEACE OF 1783 TO
THE INDIAN PEACE OF 1795.
BY WILLIAM L. STONE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
NEW-YORK:
ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, 38 GOLD STREET.
1838.
[Entered according to Act of Congress of the United States of America in the year 1838, by George Dearborn & co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.]
New-York:
Printed by Scatcherd & Adams.
No. 38 Gold Street.
TO THE HONORABLE
STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER,
OF ALBANY,
These volumes are most respectfully inscribed. If the efforts of thewriter to illustrate more fully and minutely than has hitherto been done,the most interesting portion of American history, in its immediateconnection with the large and populous State of which The Patroon hasso long been one of the most distinguished citizens, shall be sofortunate as to merit the regard, and receive the approbation, of oneso excellently qualified to judge of its interest and value, there willbe nothing left unsatisfied to the ambition and the hopes of
His friend and servant, THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Birth and parentage—Discussion of the doubts cast upon his origin—Visit of Mohawk chiefs to Queen Anne—Evidence of Brant's descent from one of those—Digre