Chief Joseph Brant The Mohawk chief Thayendanegea, called Joseph Brant by the Americans, had been educated in English ways at Eleazar Wheelock’s New England school (which became Dartmouth College in 1769). In 1775, the thirty-four-year-old Brant traveled to England to negotiate the Mohawk tribe’s support for the British. From 1778 to 1780, Brant led his warriors, assisted by loyalist volunteers, in many attacks on frontier settlers in central New York.

Library and Archives Canada, accession no. 1981-055-77, C-114468.