John Graves Simcoe, 1752-1806 by Mary Beacock Fryer

Author:Mary Beacock Fryer [Fryer, Mary Beacock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781554882021
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He wore an English Coat with a handsome Crimson Silk blanket lined with black and trimmed with gold fringe & wore a Fur Cap, round his neck he had a string of plaited sweet hay, It is a kind of grass that never loses its pleasant scent.7

Brant, the wartime leader of the Iroquois warriors, held his captaincy in the Indian Department. He had been sent, financed by Sir William Johnson, to Rev. Eleazor Wheelock, then the headmaster of Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, where the pupils were promising Indian boys. There he improved his command of English. Soon after he returned to his own people he became an Anglican.8 In 1775 Brant had made a journey to England, to seek help for the Six Nations in their struggle against the Americans. Little came of the journey; perhaps the most concrete result was his portrait that was painted by George Romney. Brant also made a striking impression on, among others, Hugh Percy, the 2nd Duke of Northumberland. His Grace was also the honorary colonel of the 5th Regiment and a general in the British Army who had served in North America during the Revolution. At that time, or when Brant came to England, Northumberland had been made an honorary Mohawk.9

The day after Brant came to dine, at Navy Hall, Simcoe set out to walk to Burlington Bay at the head of Lake Ontario, some fifty miles. He returned a week later having been “delighted with the beauty of the Country & Industry of the Inhabitants.”10

Meanwhile Elizabeth had drawn a map of Canada and the United States. The dog Trojan, left in her bedroom while she went to have dinner, chewed the map to pieces, and she was obliged to paste it together. “The Gov. made some very pretty verses on the occasion”:

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