Joseph Brant
Joseph Brant
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brantwas a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. Perhaps the Native American of his generation best known to the Americans and British, he met many of the most significant Anglo-American people of the age, including both George Washington and King George III...
ProfessionSoldier
lands subjects
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
christian children practice
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
loyalty kings people
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.