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WIKIPEDIA:
THAYENDANGEGEA or JOSEPH BRANT was born on at Cuyahoga, Ohio on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, near present day Akron, Ohio in March 1743. He was a Mohawk of the Wolf Clan (his mother’s clan). Fort Hunter church records indicated that his parents were Christians and their names were PETER and MARGARET TEHONWAGHKWANGEARAHKWA. His father PETER died before 1753. Other sources cite the father’s name as NICKUS KANAGARADANKWA.
After his father’s death, his mother MARGARET, or OWANDAH, the niece of TIAOGEARA, a Caughnawaga sachem, returned to the province of New York with JOSEPH and his older sister MARY (known as MOLLY). They settled in Canajoharie, a Mohawk town on the Mohawk River, where they had lived before her family had traveled to the Ohio River. On Sept. 9, 1753 in Fort Hunter (Church of England), his mother married again, to a widower named BRANT CANAGARADUNCKA, who was a Mohawk sachem. Her new husband’s family ties with the British were shown by his grandfather SAGAYENDWARAHTON, or “Old Smoke,” having visited England in 1710. Mohawk titles and leadership positions descended through the female line.
BRANT’S stepfather was a friend of WILLIAM JOHNSON, the influential and wealthy British Superintendent for Northern Indian Affairs. During JOHNSON’S frequent visits to the Mohawks, he always stayed at the BRANT’S house. BRANT’S half sister MOLLY BRANT married SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. JOHNSON was an agent for the British and a highly successful trader. JOHNSON took an interest in the youth and helped him in his education as well as in meeting influential leaders in the colony.
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