=Brant, Joseph= (1742-1807). A Mohawk Indian chief, whose native name was Thayendanegea. Educated at an Indian school in Connecticut. Visited England in 1775. In the Revolutionary War sided with the British and rendered valuable service. Revisited England after the war. Translated the Book of Common Prayer and St. Mark's Gospel into the Mohawk tongue (London, 1787). =Index=: =S= Mohawk Indian, distrusted by Simcoe, 75, 125; visits Philadelphia and received by Washington as Indian emissary, 121; part taken by, in subsequent negotiations, 124, 125; loss of influence with his own people, 125; his motives and policy, 126, 128, 129; kills his son Isaac in self-defence, 192. =Hd= Commands scouting parties, 153; made a colonel of Indians on Haldimand's recommendation, 154; did not harm women or children, 154, 170; his success against rebel force under Lockerby, 169; advises reserve for Six Nation Indians, 258; highly esteemed by Haldimand, 300; Allan MacLean's opinion of, 308; visits Haldimand in London, 327. =Bib.=: Stone, _Life of Brant_; Cruikshank, _Joseph Brant in the American Revolution_; Eggleston, _Brant and Red Jacket_; Ke-che-ah-gah-me-qua, _Life of Brant_; Dent, _Can. Por._ =Brant, Molly.= =Hd= Sister of Joseph Brant, her influence with Indians, 154; pensioned, 155. =Brantford.= City of Ontario, on the Grand River. Named after Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chieftain. Founded about 1820. =Brassy.= =T= Offers to build European and North American Railway, 25, 27. =Breadalbane, John Campbell, second Marquis of= (1796-1862). Represented Okehampton in Parliament, 1820-1826, and Perthshire, 1832. =Index=: =Sy= Offers to go to Canada as governor-general, 58. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._ =Brébeuf, Jean de= (1593-1649). Born of a noble family of Normandy. Came to Canada, 1625; spent the winter of 1625-1626 among the Algonquins. In the latter year, after a long and difficult journey by way of the Ottawa and Lake Nipissing, reached the villages of the Hurons, on Georgian Bay, where he established the first mission. Returned to Quebec in 1629, and in 1634 re-established the Huron mission. In 1640 made an unsuccessful attempt to establish a mission among the intractable Neutral Nation, north of Lake Erie. Returned to the Huron mission, where, in 1649, he was captured by the Iroquois, and burned at the stake with unmentionable cruelties. His skull is preserved in the Hôtel-Dieu at Quebec. =Index=: =Ch= Sails for New France on De Caën's vessel, 152; returns to College of Rouen, 207; returns to Canada, 228; goes to Huron country, 249. =L= Sufferings and death of, 5, 62. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_; Ragueneau, _Relation des Hurons_, 1649; Colby, _Canadian Types of the Old Régime_. =Breda, Treaty of.= Signed between England and France, 1667. Brought to a close the disastrous war with the Dutch. By its terms Nova Scotia was handed over to France. =Bib.=: Hertslet, _Treaties and Conventions_.