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Brandt’s son the horse you mentioned (AIA, Old Series, Vol. IV, p.237). On 27 JuneKnox wrote to Chapin’s son about a sum of money, You are to defray the expenses ofCaptain Brandt, his servant and two horses, from this city to Niagara (Ibid.). Son orservant? Kelsay deals with the inconsistency by assuming that once “the son” got thehorse he turned back (Kelsay, 1986, pp.466-7). In the Diary of David Zeisberger of theDelaware Moraviantown settlement along the Thames River, in relation to a later trip byIsaac, he noted that on the 17 th of August 1792, Brant’s son went through here with sixMohawks with peace propositions from Congress to the nations who are now assemblingupon the Miami. Brant could not himself come, being ill, but will soon follow. The latteris correct in that Joseph Brant became seriously ill on the way back from Philadelphia(see Kelsay, 1986). He did pass by Moraviantown on 29 September with about 40 of hispeople (1885, p.282). Perhaps Isaac did nothing but give his name Isaac Brant and didnot find it in his interest to correct the assumptions of Europeans. It should be noted thatin her comprehensive biography of Joseph Brant, Kelsay (1986) notes that the head ofthis party was Isaac Brant but she terms him Joseph Brant’s son – despite the statementsof Hendrick Aupaumut who calls Isaac, Brant’s nephew. She states that Aupaumut,persisted in speaking of the youth as Brant’s nephew, giving him the Algonquian –sounding name of Tawalooth. Kelsay said that this apparent misconception was due tothe fact that, Hendrick did not know Joseph well, and probably had no acquaintance atall with his family (p. 478). In fact one of Aupaumut’s cousins, Delaware Aaron (alsoknown as Captain Aaron Kanaghsadiron), was literate and well known to Joseph Brant(see p. 85 of the Aupaumut Journal). He was a member of the party of Mohawks selectedby Joseph Brant to go on a mission to the west and described by Aupaumut. DelawareAaron was also a signator to virtually all of the deeds and Council minutes of the time.Aaron was Hendrick’s informant for the early diary entries. However the Miamis, theDelawares of Sandusky, Delawares of the Grand River, and Mahicans were all aware thatIsaac was Brant’s nephew – as well as Joseph Brant himself, it was only some Europeanswho did not know the family who, likely made an assumption, and reported this IsaacBrant as being Joseph Brant’s son. In the official records of conferences, mistakes wereunlikely to have been made. The American Commissioners correctly identified Isaac asBrant’s nephew – as will be seen shortly.The only evidence that Brant’s son Isaac played any official role for his father is from aconversation with Brant by Samuel Woodward wherein the latter recalled that Brant saidabout Isaac that he, installed him in the capacity of his own secretary (Stone, Vol. 2,p.185). Meanwhile in the years leading up to his death at the hands of his father, Isaacwas in almost constant trouble in the Mohawk Village for example shooting the horse ofa resident and wounding the man, aligning himself with the malcontents (i.e., anti JosephBrant faction) at the Grand River, and ultimately Isaac murdered a village saddle makerbefore precipitating a fight with his father in 1795 which resulted in Isaac’s death (seeKelsay, 1986). Not in the least the consistent with the actions of the Isaac recorded in theyears 1792 to 1794.It is essential to clarify these statements of Aupaumut further, using other sources to seekcross validation and an indication (preferably two different document sources) that Isaacwas known as Karonghyontye (Flying Sky). This was to come in the year 1793.16