-Sero’s descent on his mother’s side from Isaac, first son of Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea*], and on his father’s from the Bay of Quinte Mohawks

[Shakóye:wa:tha?*] at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1885 and another for the dedication of a statue of Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea*] in Brantford the following year

judgment” and influence who travelled east in 1886 to witness the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea

mid 1780s to join Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea*] on the Haldimand grant along the Grand River. During the War of 1812 Thomas’s grandfather

Thayendanegea*]. Phoebe was a member of the Tuscarora, an Indigenous nation that joined the confederacy in 1722 after fleeing North Carolina following a war with English settlers. Her ancestors initially

Brant [Thayendanegea*] in the American Revolutionary War. Her father, Peter Smith, a prosperous Mohawk farmer, served in the 1850s as the Six