Signed letter from Joseph Brant to Mathew Visscher, Esq.
- F3129
- Discrete Item
- 1784, 1873
Letter concerns the imprisonment by Congress of a Mohawk chief, Captain Aaron Hill, a delegate to the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, which was finalized on October 22, 1784. Brant learned of Hill's imprisonment and wrote letters to Governor George Clinton, Peter Schuyler, and Mathew Visscher to intercede for Hill.
Accompanied by a copy of The American Historical Record, Vol. 2, No. 19. July 1873 where the letter was first published, as well as a transcription and two file cards describing the letter.
Brant, Joseph