Chief Joseph Brant was appointed the departmental secretary with the rank of a Captain for the New British Superintendent's Mohawk warriors from Canjohrie in 1775. The British people had promised the Iroquois people that they would give them land in Quebec if they helped the British with the war against the Americans. In London, Chief Joseph Brant was treated as a celebrity and was interviewed by James Bowell who was a lawyer,diarist, and an author. He was received b King George III at St.James Palace. Brant returned to Staten Island, New York in July 1776. Over there he became lifelong friends with Lord Percy, who was the only white man friend of Chief Joseph Brant. In November, Joseph Brant left New York City to join his family in Onaquaga. In Onaquaga he travelled village to village. Joseph Louis Cook was a Mohawk leader who was with the rebel American colonists, and he became a lifelong enemy of Chief Joseph Brant.