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Catharine had a sister named Mary (or Molly), and two brothers: Andrew Montour and Nicholas Quebec. [3] (Her brother Andrew should not be confused with Andrew Montour (c. 1720–1772), who was the son of Elizabeth "Madame" Montour and was probably Catharine's uncle. He was a well-known interpreter in the backcountry of Pennsylvania and Virginia.)
Madame Montour (1667 or c. 1685 – c. 1753) was an interpreter, ... Her given name has also been represented as Catherine, Elisabeth/Isabelle, and Madeleine.
Madam Montour (1667–c.1753). Information on Madam Montour is fragmentary and contradictory. Even her given name is uncertain. According to her own account: she was born in Canada, whereof her father (who was a French gentleman) had been Governor; under whose administration the then Five Nations of Indians had made war against the French, and the Hurons and that government (whom we term the ...
Catherine's Town was a Seneca village, (Queanettquaga, or Sheoquago [1]) named informally for a prominent Seneca woman, Catherine Montour.It was located at the south end of Seneca Lake, near present-day Watkins Glen (and the towns of Catharine and Montour, as well as the village of Montour Falls, all named for Catherine Montour) in what is now Schuyler County, New York.
The modern day Village of Montour Falls is developed on the site of a former Seneca Indian village, Queanettquaga, informally known as Catherine's Town after a prominent Seneca Indian resident and leader, Queen Catharine Montour. Queen Catharine Montour's father (Peter Quebec) was a Mohawk Chief, and her mother (Margaret Montour Hunter) the ...
Montour is a town in Schuyler County, New York, United States. The population was 2,323 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] The town is one of two towns in the county named after Catherine Montour .
The Montour Trail, where the attack occurred, is a converted railroad line used by more than 400,000 people a year, according to its website.
Roland and John were the sons of Catherine Montour, called French Catherine. Samuel Harris, John Huston, and his son John Huston, jr.,— Cayugas. John Fox - Delaware; The other five were unidentified Senecas. The war party took the Gilbert family and some neighbors captive, fifteen people in all: Benjamin Gilbert, aged 69.