CHAPTER XIV.

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.

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