The Three Faces of Molly Brant
- Publisher
- Quarry Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550821765
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $19.95
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As a Mohawk matriarch living in up-state New York during the American Revolutionary War, Molly Brant became one of the most important of the United Empire Loyalists as she persuaded five of the Six Nations to remain loyal to Britain and immigrate to Canada, settling first on Carleton Island and eventually in Kingston, Ontario. This book is the first full-scale biography of one of North America's "first" women. A monument has been erected in her honor at the site of her home on the shores of the Cataraqui River, next to the house of her brother, Joseph Brant. Earle Thomas is also the author of Sir John Johnson: Loyalist Baronet.
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"Her influence over the Indians of the Mohawk Valley was far superior to that of all the Chiefs put together."—Lieutenant Colonel John Butler, Butler's Rangers