Chapter XIV

Exertions of Thayendanegea for the moral and social improvement of his
people--His religions views--Efforts for the religious instruction of
his people--Letter to Sir John Johnson upon the subject of obtaining a
resident clergyman--Farther correspondence--Interview of Brant with the
Bishop--Disappointment--Letter to the Chief Justice--Appeal of Brant to
the Lord Bishop, but without success--Application to the American
church--Letter to Colonel Burr--Succeeds in obtaining the ordination of
Mr. Phelps--Estimate of Brant's character by the clergy--Letter of Rev.
Dr. Mason--Rev. Elkanah Holmes--Letter of Brant to the Rev. Dr.
Miller--Ardent spirits--Efforts of Brant to prevent their
introduction--Letter to Sir John Johnson--Interposition of the
women--Address of Brant in reply--Indian games and pastimes--National
game of Cricket--Great game at Grand River, between the Senecas and
Mohawks--Judge Woodruff's visit to Brant's residence--Description of his
person--Indian funerals--Respect for the dead--Estimate of women--Their
influence--Funeral speech of Seneca-George--Death of Mrs. Claus--Speech
of condolence by Captain Brant--Captain Claus in reply--Brant's visit to
New-York, Philadelphia, and Hartford, in 1797--Attentions to him in
Philadelphia--Dinner party of Colonel Burr--Talleyrand and other
distinguished guests--Letter of introduction from Colonel Burr to his
daughter--Dinner party in his honor by Miss Theodosia--His manners
described by Dr. Miller and by General Porter--Designs upon his life in
the Mohawk country--The late John Wells--Striking incident in
Albany--Anecdotes--Brant and General Gansevoort--Brant and Colonel Van
Courtlandt--Reasons of Brant for taking up arms for the King--His
reasonings in defence of the Indian mode of warfare.

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CHAPTER XV.

Domestic relations of Brant--Account of his family--Bad character of his
eldest son--His death by the hand of his father--Condolence of the
Chiefs--Grief of the father at the event--Anxiety for the education of
his sons--Proposed memorial to the Duke of Portland--Letter of Brant to
Colonel Smith--Correspondence with the Wheelock Family--Letter from
Brant to James Wheelock--Two of his sons sent to Dartmouth--Various
letters from and to the Wheelocks--Correspondence upon other
subjects--Reply to the questions, whether the Indians have
beards--Letter from Bishop Peters--Views or Brant on imprisonment for
debt--Tumuli--Opinion of Brant touching their origin--Indian tradition
of white settlements cut off in a single night--Investigations of Samuel
Woodruff--Brant's inquiries in Paris--The discoveries of the
Northmen--Review of the life and character of Brant--His death.

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