Daniel Claus
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| Deputy Agent of Indian Affairs | |
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Bönnigheim, Germany |
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| Children | William Claus |
| ParentScript error: No such module "Detect singular". | Adam Frederic Claus Anna Dorothea |
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| Allegiance | Great Britain |
| Branch/service | Indian Department |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | Seven Years' War American Revolutionary War |
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Christian Daniel Claus (1727—1787) was a Deputy Agent in the British Indian Department and a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution.
He was born September 13, 1727, at Bönnigheim, Württemberg the son of Adam Frederic Claus and his wife Anna Dorothea. He arrived in America in 1749. In 1755, he was made a Lieutenant in the Indian Department and a Deputy Secretary of Indian Affairs.
He had lived with Joseph Brant and the Mohawks for a while and could speak their language.
In September 1775, he was replaced as the deputy superintendent by Major John Campbell. In November, Daniel Claus sailed to London to appeal his case before the British House of Lords. He was given the post of deputy confined to working with the Iroquois refugees in Canada. In August, 1777, he was appointed as agent of the Six Nations Indians by Frederick Haldimand.
He died November 9, 1787, near Cardiff, Wales.
Family
Claus married Ann "Nancy" (Johnson) Weisenberg.[1] Their son, William Claus (1765–1826), was an leading figure in Upper Canada, where he was a member of the Executive Council, a prominent militia officer during the War of 1812, and the Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Department.[2] Daniel's father-in-law was Sir William Johnson, who was commissioned as the British Empire's first superintendent of Indian affairs from 1755 to 1774, and whose son, Sir John Johnson, was Superintendent General of Indian Affairs from 1782 to 1828.[2][3]
References
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard (October 1962). "The Early Life of Daniel Claus". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 29 (4): 357–372. JSTOR 27770134.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Claus". MyHeritage. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."William Claus | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Murray Killman. "The Johnson Genealogical chart" (PDF). uelac.org. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
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