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Mary Molly "Degonwadonti" Brant^1,2,3

• Father*: Peter Tehowaghwengaraghkwin Brant³ b. 1707, d. Feb 1743
• Mother*: Margaret Sahetagearat Onagsakearat Hendrick³ b. 1710, d. 1779

• Birth*: 1736; Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., New York, U.S.A.; per family tree of kattie931 on ancestry.ca, Feb 12 2019. per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.^2,3
• Marriage*: July 1752; Mohawk Village, Canajahorie Co., New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Major General Sir William "Warraghiyagey" Johnson Baronet²
• Death*: 16 April 1796; Kingston, Frontenac Co., Upper Canada; Date Apr 16 1796 & location Kingston per family tree of kattie931 on ancestry.ca, Feb 12 2019. per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.^2,3

• Married Name: July 1752; Johnson²

Peter Warren Johnson¹

• Father*: Major General Sir William "Warraghiyagey" Johnson Baronet¹ b. 3 Jul 1715, d. 11 Jul 1774
• Mother*: Mary Molly "Degonwadonti" Brant¹ b. 1736, d. 16 Apr 1796

• Birth*: September 1759; New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Death*: before 1788; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

Elizabeth Johnson¹

• Father*: Major General Sir William "Warraghiyagey" Johnson Baronet¹ b. 3 Jul 1715, d. 11 Jul 1774
• Mother*: Mary Molly "Degonwadonti" Brant¹ b. 1736, d. 16 Apr 1796

• Birth*: 1762; New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1785; Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Robert Kerr¹
• Death*: 24 January 1794; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

• Married Name: circa 1785; Kerr¹

Robert Kerr¹

• Birth*: 1765; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1785; Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Elizabeth Johnson¹

William Johnson Kerr¹

• Father*: Robert Kerr¹ b. 1765
• Mother*: Elizabeth Johnson¹ b. 1762, d. 24 Jan 1794

• Birth*: 1787; Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: 7 October 1824; Upper Canada; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Elizabeth Brant¹
• Death*: 24 April 1845; Wellington Square, Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

Elizabeth Brant¹

• Father*: Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹ b. Mar 1742, d. 24 Nov 1807
• Mother*: Catherine "Adonwentishon" Croghan b. 1759, d. Nov 1837

• Birth*: 1796; Brantford, Brant Co., Upper Canada; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: 7 October 1824; Upper Canada; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=William Johnson Kerr¹
• Death*: 25 April 1845; Wellington Square, Canada West; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

• Married Name: 7 October 1824; Kerr¹

Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹

• Father*: Peter Tehowaghwengaraghkwin Brant b. 1707, d. Feb 1743
• Mother*: Margaret Sahetagearat Onagsakearat Hendrick b. 1710, d. 1779

• Birth*: March 1742; Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, U.S.A.; "THAYENDANEGEA (he also signed Thayendanegen, Thayeadanegea, Joseph Thayendanegea, and Joseph Brant), Mohawk interpreter, translator, war chief, and statesman; Indian Department officer; member of the wolf clan; his Mohawk name means he sets or places together two bets; probably b. c. March 1742/43 in Cayahoga (near Akron, Ohio), son of Tehowaghwengaraghkwin; ..." ... and also .. " Joseph was probably born in March 1742 of the Julian calendar. Estimates of his year of birth made by subtracting his age at death as given by his biographer William Leete Stone produce a date of 1743, but this purely arithmetical calculation ignores the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar which took place in his lifetime. Joseph’s father, Tehowaghwengaraghkwin, who was reputed to have been a prominent warrior, died while his son was an infant. Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.
  Date Nov 24 1742 & location Akron, Summit Co., Ohio per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.^1,2
• Marriage*: 22 July 1765; Canajoharie, Mohawk Valley, New York, U.S.A.; "On 25 July 1765 Brant married an Oneida woman, Neggen Aoghyatonghsera, whose English name was Margaret, daughter of Isaac of Onoquaga. The ceremony was conducted at Canajoharie by missionary Theophilus Chamberlain*, who described the bride as “a handsome, sober, discreet & a religious young woman.”" Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.
  Date Jul 22 1765 per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Margaret "Neggen Aoghyatonghsera" Sasaya^1,2
• Marriage*: 1773; Canajoharie, New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Susannah Skenandoah¹
• Marriage*: 1779; Fort Niagara, Niagara Co., Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Catherine "Adonwentishon" Croghan¹
• Death*: 24 November 1807; Grand River Reservation, Brantford, Brant Co., Upper Canada; " ... d. 24 Nov. 1807 in what is now Burlington, Ont." Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.
  Date Nov 24 1807 & location Wellington Square, Ont. per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008. per family tree of kattie931 on ancestry.ca, Feb 12 2019.^1,2,3

• Residence*: 1755; Canajoharie, Mohawk Valley, New York, U.S.A.; "A few years before the outbreak of the Seven Yearsf War, Josephfs mother took him and his sister Mary [Konwatsi.tsiaienni*] to the Mohawk valley, settling at Canajoharie (near Little Falls, N.Y.), which had been her home before the familyfs emigration to the Ohio country." Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.²
• Note*: 1759; Fort Niagara, New York, U.S.A.; "Brant’s first military service with the British came when he was about 15, during the Seven Years’ War. He took part in James Abercromby*’s campaign to invade Canada by way of Lake George (Lac Saint-Sacrement) in 1758 and he was with the warriors who accompanied Sir William Johnson*, superintendent of northern Indians, in the 1759 expedition against Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.). The next year he was a member of the force led by Jeffery Amherst* that descended the St Lawrence to besiege Montreal." Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.²
• Residence: 1761; Lebanon, Columbia Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.; "Brant’s stepfather died about 1760. Testimony that Draper received from Brant’s godson, John “Smoke” Johnson*, indicates that a warrior known as Old Crooked Neck “took charge” of young Brant and brought him to Sir William Johnson. Impressed by his abilities, Johnson decided to send him to school. In the summer of 1761 Joseph was dispatched along with two other Mohawk boys to the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock in Lebanon (Columbia), Conn., to be enrolled in Moor’s Indian Charity School. Wheelock referred to him as “being of a Family of Distinction . . . , was considerably cloathed, Indian-fashion, and could speak a few Words of English.” Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.²
• Note: 4 November 1761; Lebanon, Columbia Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.; "His mental capacities and demeanour commended him highly to Wheelock. Brant was soon employed in teaching the Mohawk language to a fellow scholar, Samuel Kirkland, who planned to be a missionary to the Iroquois. On 4 Nov. 1761 Brant and Kirkland went to Iroquois country to secure six more boys for the school. They returned a few weeks later with two Mohawk boys and a promise from Johnson that he would send more when families had returned from the fall hunt." Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.²
• Residence: 1763; Mohawk Valley, New York, U.S.A.; "Brant and Smith left for Mohawk country in the summer of 1763, and though both Smith and Wheelock looked forward to Brant’s return to the school, it was not to be. Johnson in fact was contemplating sending him to New York City where he could be prepared for entrance into King’s College (Columbia University). However, upon advice that prejudice against Indians was running high in the city as a result of Pontiac*’s
  uprising, Johnson sent him and three other Mohawk youths to missionary Cornelius Bennet in the Mohawk valley to further their education." Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.²
• Note: March 1784; Grand River, Quebec; "Brant had initially seemed satisfied with the choice of Quinte, but by March 1784 he had decided instead in favour of a region he had visited some years before – the valley of the Grand River. Political and strategic considerations appeared to govern Brant’s change of mind: the site offered greater proximity to his allies the western Indians and to his kinsmen the Senecas and Onondagas, who were still clinging to a vulnerable position on the flanks of American settlement in New York." C. M. Johnston, “DESERONTYON, JOHN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5,
  University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed August 22, 2017,
  http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/deserontyon_john_5E.html.
  Note: The province was till called Quebec and would not be divided into Upper and Lower Canada until 1792.²

Margaret "Neggen Aoghyatonghsera" Sasaya^1,2,3

• Birth*: circa 1745; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.²
• Marriage*: 22 July 1765; Canajoharie, Mohawk Valley, New York, U.S.A.; "On 25 July 1765 Brant married an Oneida woman, Neggen Aoghyatonghsera, whose English name was Margaret, daughter of Isaac of Onoquaga. The ceremony was conducted at Canajoharie by missionary Theophilus Chamberlain*, who described the bride as “a handsome, sober, discreet & a religious young woman.”" Barbara Graymont, "THAYENDANEGEA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed
  October 21, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html.
  Date Jul 22 1765 per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant^2,3
• Death*: March 1771; Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.²

• Married Name: 22 July 1765; Brant²

Susannah Skenandoah¹

• Birth*: circa 1745; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: 1773; Canajoharie, New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹
• Death*: 1778; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

• Married Name: 1773; Brant¹

Isaac Brant¹

• Father*: Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹ b. Mar 1742, d. 24 Nov 1807
• Mother*: Susannah Skenandoah¹ b. c 1745, d. 1778

• Birth*: 1767; Canajoharie, New York, U.S.A.; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1790; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Mary Hill¹
• Death*: 1795; Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

Mary Hill¹

• Father*: David Hill b. c 1735
• Mother*: Esther Spring b. c 1735

• Birth*: circa 1768; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1790; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Isaac Brant¹

• Married Name: circa 1790; Brant¹

Ellen Brant¹

• Father*: Isaac Brant¹ b. 1767, d. 1795
• Mother*: Mary Hill¹ b. c 1768

• Birth*: circa 1797; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

Margaret Brant¹

• Father*: Isaac Brant¹ b. 1767, d. 1795
• Mother*: Mary Hill¹ b. c 1768

• Birth*: circa 1799; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

Christina Brant¹

• Father*: Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹ b. Mar 1742, d. 24 Nov 1807
• Mother*: Susannah Skenandoah¹ b. c 1745, d. 1778

• Birth*: 1769; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1790; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Capt. Henry Aaron Hill¹

• Married Name: circa 1790; Hill¹

Capt. Henry Aaron Hill¹

• Father*: David Hill¹ b. c 1735
• Mother*: Esther Spring¹ b. c 1735

• Birth*: circa 1765; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1790; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Christina Brant¹

David Hill¹

• Birth*: circa 1735; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: before 1760; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Esther Spring¹

Esther Spring¹

• Birth*: circa 1735; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: before 1760; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=David Hill¹

• Married Name: before 1760; Hill¹

Catherine "Adonwentishon" Croghan¹

• Birth*: 1759; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Marriage*: 1779; Fort Niagara, Niagara Co., Ontario; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.; Principal=Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹
• Death*: November 1837; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹

• Married Name: 1779; Brant¹

Jacob Brant¹

• Father*: Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹ b. Mar 1742, d. 24 Nov 1807
• Mother*: Catherine "Adonwentishon" Croghan¹ b. 1759, d. Nov 1837

• Birth*: circa 1787; Grand River, Quebec; Date c. 1787 & location Brantford per family tree of lynn533 on ancestry.ca, Sep 9 2019. Date 1786 per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.
  Note: Joseph Brant moved to the Grant River to take up land purchased from the Mississaugas by the British. This would much later be in the area of the town of Brantford.^1,2
• Marriage*: circa 1783; per family tree of lynn533 on ancestry.ca, Sep 9 2019.; Principal=Mary Mariah Lancaster²
• Death*: 16 December 1847; Brantford, Brant Co., Canada West; Date Dec 16 1847 & location Brantford per family tree of lynn533 on ancestry.ca, Sep 9 2019. Date 1846 per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.^1,2

Joseph Brant¹

• Father*: Joseph "Theyendanegea" Brant¹ b. Mar 1742, d. 24 Nov 1807
• Mother*: Catherine "Adonwentishon" Croghan¹ b. 1759, d. Nov 1837

• Birth*: 1784; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹
• Death*: November 1850; per GEDCOM of Tom Glad, Jan 23, 2008.¹