1777

   Not many peaople know of this but my husband found out from a family friend. Joseph Brant, the Mohawk Sachem, was actively recruiting men to fight for the British. These men, known as Brant’s Volunteers, were mostly white men. Scarcely more than one fifth were Indians, and most if not all of them were his clansmen. The white men were mainly Loyalist refugees from the upper Delaware and Susquehanna River valleys. Revolutionaries assumed Brant had a large party of Mohawk warriors as the white men disguised themselves by dressing and painting themselves as Indians.This was just a fact that i found interesting since part of it took place in my home colony.


Deverell, William, and Deborah Gray. White. United States History: Beginnings to 1877. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print.

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