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Mary Brant was the Common-law Wife of Sir William Johnson , the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley in the colony of New York . She is credited with passing information to the British in advance of the Battle Of Oriskany and otherwise aiding the Loyalist cause, and was forced by the American s to flee west into the Cayuga Nation and eventually to Canada . There she continued her role as head of the Six Nations matrons and in keeping four of the six Iroquois nations loyal to Great Britain . After the war, she moved to Kingston, Ontario where she was given a house and a large pension by the British government. FAMILY TREE Owandah/Margaret of the Haun(Iroquois) =Peter Tehonwaghkwangeraghkwa of the Mowhawk
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