 In 1754 , Molly accompanied her stepfather and a delegation of Mohawk elders to Philadelphia , where the men were to discuss a fraudulent land sale with colonial leaders . The party traveled to Albany , where an English officer , Captain Staats Long Morris , nephew of Governor Lewis Morris of Pennsylvania , met and fell in love with Brant . She was then about nineteen years old and described as " pretty likely " , meaning " good looking " . 
