Joseph Brant was a Mohawk warrior and diplomat who organized bands of North Eastern natives into a military unit that aided the British during the American War of Independence. He had a record of protecting civilians and good treatment of captured rebels.
We have not found an image of John More. However, we've created this from a fine etching of his son. John was the first settler of Roxbury/Grand Gorge. John More was a friend of Joseph Brant and organized a Minutemen unit during the American War of Independence.
You can find the grave of Peace Scudder in the "Old Quaker Graveyard" a little past John Burroughs's cabin, on Hardscrabble Road in Roxbury. The Corbin and Scudder families were Quaker. They had been whaling families which moved inland during the British blockade of the whale fleet in the 1770s. Peace was born in 1780 in Dutchess County. Her husband, Obedia Smith Sudder, a farmer/blacksmith was born in 1780 in Westchester. She died in Roxbury in 1826. Obedia died in 1830.