Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, Mohawk war chief, Loyalist, statesman (born circa March 1742/43 in Cayahoga (near Akron, Ohio); died 24 November 1807 at Burlington Bay, Upper Canada); brother of Mary (Molly) Brant.
Ally of the British
Joseph Brant saw limited action during the Seven Years' War and was with Sir William Johnson in the expedition against Fort Niagara in 1759. In 1761 Johnson sent him to Moor's Indian and Charity School at Lebanon, Connecticut, where he stayed for two years. In 1765, Brant married an Oneida woman (who died in 1771) and settled at Canajoharie in the Mohawk Valley.
For nearly a decade, he acted as an interpreter for Johnson and his successor in the British Indian Department, Guy Johnson; he also aided missionaries in teaching Christianity to the Indigenous people, and helped translate religious materials into Mohawk.
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