John Deseronto - After War Years

After War Years

After the war, he and Joseph Brant met with Frederick Haldimand to discuss the loss of their land in New York. Haldimand promised to resettle the Mohawks near the Bay of Quinte, on the north east shore of Lake Ontario, in present day Ontario, Canada. Brant decided that he preferred to settle on the Grand River. Brant and Johnson ridiculed Deseronto's decision to stay at the Bay of Quinte. Haldimand purchased and granted the Mohawks a tract 12 by 13 miles (21 km) on the Bay of Quinte. About 200 Mohawks settled with him at what is now called the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario. The Mohawks of the Lower Castle primarily settled at the Bay of Quinte, while those of the Upper Castle settled on the Grand River. Deseronto was personally granted a lump sum payment of about eight hundred pounds for his losses, 3,000 acres (12 km2) of land, and an annual pension of forty five pounds.

In 1797, Deseronto and Joseph Brant went to New York where, in exchange for a small sum, they agreed to extinguish Mohawk land claims within New York.

He died 7 January 1811 at the Mohawk settlement on the Bay of Quinte in Upper Canada.