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had been admitted before this, and that they had been joined by others. 

 Stone tells us that even some of the Six Nation Indians who had borne 

 arms against the Crown and the Mohawks intruded on the reservation 

 at Grand River, bringing jealousy and strife with them. However 

 this may be, Mr. A. F. Hunter, in his ethnological survey of Ontario, 

 gives the total population of the Indian settlers of Brant County as 

 3,929.1 



In February, 1792, Mr. P. Campbell, together with a party 

 of friends, visited the Mohawk village on Grand River, driving over 

 the road leading back from the head of Burlington Bay. The party 

 was hospitably entertained in the village by Captain and Mrs. Brant, 

 who were living well on a pension and officer's half-pay contributed 

 by the British government. Mr. Campbell noticed that the family 

 larder was supplied with rum and various kinds of wine, that the table 

 was furnished with handsome china and plate, that among the house- 

 hold possessions was "an elegant hand organ," and that the other articles 

 of furniture were in keeping with these evidences of affluence. He 

 was not less impressed by the appearance of the mistress of the house 

 and her "fine family of children." Mrs. Brant was superbly dressed 

 the Indian fashion and possessed elegance of person, besides gran- 

 deur of looks and deportment; she had large mild black eyes and 

 expressive symmetrical features; she wore a jacket and short petticoat 

 made of silk and fine English cloth, scarlet leggings, moccasins orna- 

 mented with beads and ribbons, and a blanket of the same materials as 

 her petticoat, but trimmed with narrow lace. At table the family 

 was served by two slaves in highly colored livery, set off by frills and 

 buckled shoes. 



Mr. Campbell attended service in the church, which was conducted 

 by an Indian with entire decorum. The schoolmaster, who was an 

 "old Yanky," taught English and mathematics to his sixty-six pupils, 

 whom he declared to be apt scholars. Mr. Campbell visited several 

 houses in the village, and found that. each consisted of two rooms 

 with deal floors and glass windows, and that the occupants were well 

 supplied with the necessaries of life. The farming was done by the 

 old people, while the young men ranged the woods for game, part of 

 which they sold to "the white inhabitants of the neighborhood." 

 In the evening Brant assembled the young warriors in one of the largest 

 houses of the settlement to entertain his guests with war dances. 

 The Indians came in their showiest apparel, bespangled with silver 

 ornaments. The music for the dancing and bounding was a song 

 of peculiar cadence sung by Brant and others of the tribe, Brant also 

 keeping time by beating a drum. Later, the warriors and young 



1 Stone, Life of Brant, II, 289; Papers and Records, Ont. Hist. See, III, 191. 



