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HISTORICAL REENACTMENT BRANT'S VOLONTEERS (574 words) |
 | That winter Brant was forced to retire to Ft. Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara River on Lake Ontario. |
| While he was there the safe areas of Onoquaga and Unadilla were destroyed by Rebel Militia. |
| Ft. Niagara had become a large refugee camp after Sullivan's raid, and though the British still sent out large raiding forces from this Fort until the end of the war, the Iroquois Confederacy had been effectively broken as a politcial force. |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography (7768 words) |
| The ceremony was conducted at Canajoharie by missionary Theophilus Chamberlain*, who described the bride as a handsome, sober, discreet and a religious young woman. The Brants had two children, Isaac and Christiana, and lived in a comfortable house at Canajoharie where missionaries labouring among the Iroquois were always welcomed. |
| Operating out of Onoquaga (near Binghamton, N.Y.), he made several excursions with his Indian-loyalist band to encourage white resistance, rouse the Indians, and confiscate food. |
| Again quartered at Onoquaga, he continued to send out foraging and scouting parties. |
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