Talk:Catherine Montour

Many Montours
Catherine Mountour may have been known as Madame Montour, but I don't believe that she was the first. I am proposing that the title,(Madame Montour), for wiki purposes, be given to the Madame Montour mentioned below. This Madame Montour was born well before Catherine and would seem to be her grandmother.

I have been researching the History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The Montour family plays a prominent role in the history of the county.

Madame Mountour
My research shows that "Madame Montour" was born in 1684, the daughter of a French official. She was then kidnapped and adopted by the Iroquois. She eventually settled with her husband at the mouth of Loyalsock Creek on the West Branch Susquehanna River, near what is now Montoursville, Pennsylvania in a village named Otstuagy. She was the mother of three children, Andrew, Lewis and Margaret. Lewis was killed during the French and Indian War,

Margaret Montour
Margaret was the matriarch of her own town, French Margaret's town on the mouth of Lycoming Creek also on the West Branch Susquehanna River. Her oldest daughter, Esther "Queen Esther" is said to have participated in the Wyoming Massacre.

Andrew Montour
Andrew took over leadership of Otstuagy upon his mother's death. He also served as an intetpreter with Conrad Weiser and Chief Shikellimy. He was granted 880 acres of land by the Province of Pennsylvania in the Montoursville area (Nice of them to let him have his land). He later was appointed to captain in George Washington's Army at Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War. Andrew Montour left Montoursville at some point and moved to Juniata County before finally settling on Mountour's Island in the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh.

Reference
Dincher 02:32, March 4, 2007 (UTC)


 * Dincher is right, the more famous Catherine Montour is Madame Montour, grandmother of this one. I have some books that I will look her up in to double check this. Ruhrfisch 03:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Removal of info re Memorial Marker
The editor who provided this information gave some reference details in the edit summary, but did not include them in the text in the approved manner. To summarily remove all of the text without making any effort to add some refs seems to be a backward step for no good reason. Downsize43 (talk) 06:18, 30 April 2013 (UTC)