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Date uncertain. Estimate based on Madame Montour's age and Margaret's marriage in 1728
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Winter.
Madame Andrew etc are there.
Zinzindorf may have visited?
Near Williamsport:
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Date uncertain. Probably spring.
Present day Sunbury PA is site of Shamokin indian village:
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Dates uncertain
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Lancaster PA
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Date uncertain. Sometime in Feb, Apr, or Mar.
Andrew serves as the English-Delaware interpreter.
https://pennsylvanus.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/who-killed-jack-armstrong-along-the-juniata-river/ -
Spring:Maple Festival: Croghan is introduced to the story
Summer: Tension with colonists builds
Fall: Planting Festival
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Date uncertain. Sometime in July
Andrew Madame Ester and Catharine travel to NY
Catharine falls in love with Eagle Falls
Catharine is probably 15 or 16 years old.
Telehemet was also known as Thomas Hudson -
With PA, MA, and CT, about the Armstrong murder.
460 natives. No Senecas, Pro-French.
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Date uncertain. Fall, otherwise she would have been too pregnant to travel from PA to NY for the wedding,
Child is a daughter named Belle.
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Raids into New England.
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Settle near Logstown,
Telehemet gone for months on long hunting and warring parties.
Croghan nearby.
Logstown was outside of where Pittsburg is presently:
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3 chldren born during this time
French wooing Ohio Valley indians
Andrew acts as intelligence agent for Ohio Valley
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Lowthar Manor on the Conodoquinet River across the Sesquahanna from Harris Ferry. Moved for safety, as French invasion into Ohio in retaliation for the Indians there.
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Wealthy colonists in Virginia and Maryland obtain permission from British to colonize a region of half-million acres rashly ceded in 1745 by the Iroquois.
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Reformed in 1769 to the Grand Ohio Company with Croghan, Ben Franklin, and Sir WIlliam Johnson as shareholders among others.
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Dates uncertain
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Andrew assists Croghan and Weiser in negotiations with Iroquois, Deleware, Shawnee, and other nations of the Ohio Valley.
Andrew most qualified interpreter/ambassador in anglo/indians negotiations for next 20 years.
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Croghan and Andrew travel on diplomatic and commercial missions.
They winter at Pickawillamy, used as a base for rallying Illinois nations to the English Cause. French put a price on their heads -
Purpose of the tour was rallying Senecas to pressure Indians to expel British traders
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Governor of PA gave decree to Andrew.
Moved to a stone house in Juniata Valley, north of Lothar Manor, on the Sherman Creek. PA wanted to insure strict and permanent control over the Junita Valley. Sherman's creek was a stopover point for travellers on their way west to Ohio or East to Phil. The hospitality of the Montours was offered to everyone. -
She was 85. She passed her final months on the stone house. Margaret and family were not far away, at a place that became known as French Margaret's Town, on the west branch of the Sesquahanna.
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Margaret and her family move to west branch of Susquehanna, in a place that became known as French Margaret's Town, not far from where Andrew lived in the stone house. (Catharine there also?)
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Ohio Company and Virginia authorities ask Andrew to act as interpreter/diplomat. Iroquois appoint him to the great council of the six nations. He was continually on the move.
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Dates uncertain
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Margaret, husband, and 2 grandchildren (Catharine's?) travel to semi-barbaric state with an Irish groom from Bethlehem to NYS via Wyoming attended divine worship music and singing
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Margaret moves to Tioga point (south of Waverly)? Attended Easton Treaty conference (why?)
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Uncertain
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Canisteo is 40-50 miles NW of Tioga Point
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Uncertain
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Fur Trader who had previously been married to a Seneca
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Violence had been rumored as early as 1761.
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Brings scalps back to William Johnson
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He was murdered in his home by a Seneca who had been entertained by him for some days, maybe because he had brought back scalps during Pontiac's Rebellion. Andrew was buried at Fort Pitt.