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--Digression from the main subject, and Extracts from the private and official journals of Sir William Johnson--Connexion between Sir William and the family of Brant--Incidental references to the old French war--Illustrations of Indian proceedings, speeches, &c.--Brant's parentage satisfactorily established--Takes the field in the Campaign of Lake George (1765.)--Is engaged at the conquest of Niagara (1759.)--Efforts of Sir William Johnson to civilize the Indians--Brant is sent, with other Indian youths, to the Moor Charity School, at Lebanon--Leaves school--Anecdote--Is engaged on public business by Sir William--As an Interpreter for the Missionaries--Again takes the field, in the wars against Pontiac--Intended massacre at Detroit--Ultimate overthrow of Pontiac--First marriage of Brant--Entertains the Missionaries--Again employed on public business--Death of his wife--Engages with Mr. Stewart in translating the Scriptures--Marries again--Has serious religious impressions--Selects a bosom friend and confidant, after the Indian custom--Death of his friend--His grief, and refusal to choose another friend. Page 1 CHAPTER II. Early symptoms of disaffection at Boston--Origin of the Revolutionary War--First blood shed in 1770--Stirring eloquence of Joseph Warren--Feelings of Sir William Johnson--His influence with the Indians and Germans, and his unpleasant position--Last visit of Sir William to England--His death--Mysterious circumstances attending it--Suspicions of suicide unjust--His son, Sir John Johnson, succeeds to his title and estates--His son-in-law, Col. Guy Johnson, to his office as superintendent General of the Indians--Early life of Sir John--Joseph Brant appointed Secretary to Guy Johnson--Influence of the Johnson family--Revolutionary symptoms in County, fomented by the proceedings in New England--First meeting of Tryon County Whigs--Declaration of Rights--First meeting of Congress--Effect of its proceedings--in England--Tardiness of Provincial legislature of New-York--Spirit of the people--Notes of preparation in Massachusetts, &c.--Overt acts of rebellion in several States--Indians exasperated by the Virginia borderers in 1774--Melancholy story of Logan--Campaign of Lord Dunmore and Colonel Lewis--Battle of the Kanhawa--Speech of Logan--Its authenticity questioned--Peace of Chilicothe--Unhappy feeling of the Indians. 29 CHAPTER III.