Thayendanegea in civil life--His activity--His efforts to accelerate the civilization of his people--Difficulties respecting the title to his lands--Successive Councils and Speeches--Governor Simcoe leaves the province--Captain Claus appointed to the Indian Agency--President Russell--Brant's Speeches asserting the absolute Independence and Nationality of his people--Letter to Sir John Johnson--Correspondence with Lord Dorchester--The Count de Puisy--Letter of Brant to Thomas Morris--Sharp correspondence with Sir John Johnson--The St. Regis and Caughnawaga Indians, and the State of New-York involved in the land controversy--Brant's difficulties with the Caughnawagas--Letter to Thomas Morris--Brant's visit to the Caughnawagas--Council--Satisfactory explanations--Fresh difficulties at home--Norton's Mission to England--Plots against the character of Brant--Alienation of some of his friends--Conspiracy to depose him--Red Jacket and Farmer's Brother active in the plot--Character of Red Jacket--Brant deposed by an illegal Council--Letter to the Duke of Northumberland--A legal Council convoked--Brant meets his accusers, and defends himself--Another Council--Speech of Brant--Acquitted of all charges against him--Council after the return of Norton from England--Proceedings of Red Jacket's Council nullified--Brant re-instated--Letter to the Duke of Northumberland--Letter of the Duke in reply--Last letter of Brant to the Duke.
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.