[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] He was born, says Stone, in the Ohio country, in 1742, where his father and mother were 1 Speaking of the succession of kings, supplied by the election of Joseph Brant, Schoolcraft remarks : " The din of ihe an entirely new man in the line of chiefs, chief's oldest sister was the chief pre-It was the wise policy of Sir Wm. John-sum ptive. Such was the Iroquois rule son and his son, to lay the greatest stress when King Hendrik fell at the battle of on his tribal authority, and to strengthen Lake George 5 he had a son of mature age, it by every means, as the best and most who made use of the memorable expres-direct way of exercising an influence over sion, on hearing his father's death, " No, the tribes." (Hist. Indian Tribes, part iv, he is not dead, but lives here," striking 481). In Colonial History, vin, 53, Abra-his breast. Yet he did not succeed his father ham' is, said to have been the great Hen-in the Mohawk chieftaincy. It fell to drik's brother, not a son of the sister of his sister's son, Little Abraham, a mild that chief, as stated by Schoolcraft. But and politic chief, who died at the era of he was not the less the legitimate suc-the opening of the American revolution, cessor to the throne. On this, there was a vacancy which was 314 HUDSON RWER INDIANS. then temporarily residing, and where his father soon after died.