Life Of Catharine

  • Catharine born in Ostonwakin

    Date uncertain. Estimate based on Madame Montour's age and Margaret's marriage in 1728
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    Catharine living in Ostonwakin

  • Catharine is in Ostonwakin PA

    Winter.
    Madame Andrew etc are there.
    Zinzindorf may have visited?
    Near Williamsport:
    http://visitpa.com/pa-historic-towns/montoursville
  • Montours move to Shamokin

    Date uncertain. Probably spring.
    Present day Sunbury PA is site of Shamokin indian village:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury,_Pennsylvania
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    Catharine living in Shamokin

    Dates uncertain
  • Lancaster Conference

    Lancaster PA
  • Armstrong murder

    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/
  • Events in Shamokin

    Spring:Maple Festival: Croghan is introduced to the story
    Summer: Tension with colonists builds
    Fall: Planting Festival
    Date uncertain: Moravian missionaries visit Montours
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    Macks stay with Montours

  • Catharine marries Telehemet

    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
  • Albany Conference

    With PA, MA, and CT, about the Armstrong murder.
    460 natives. No Senecas, Pro-French.
    Second conference on the 14the of October
  • Catharine has 1st Child

    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.
    Roland and John follow later.
  • French burn Saratoga

  • Montours move to Ohio Valley

    Settle near Logstown,
    Telehemet gone for months on long hunting and warring parties.
    Croghan nearby.
    Logstown was outside of where Pittsburg is presently:
    http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-210
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    Montours in Ohio Valley

    3 chldren born during this time
    French wooing Ohio Valley indians
    Andrew acts as intelligence agent for Ohio Valley
    Madame is blind.
  • Andrew and Montours settle on Penn lands

    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.
  • Iroquois lose PA lands

    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.
  • Ohio Company formed

    Reformed in 1769 to the Grand Ohio Company with Croghan, Ben Franklin, and Sir WIlliam Johnson as shareholders among others.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Company
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    Catharine living at Lothar Manor

    Dates uncertain
  • Logstown Council

    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.
    http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-210
  • Shikellemy dies

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    Croghan and Andrew travel on missions

    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
  • French planning to tour Ohio

    Purpose of the tour was rallying Senecas to pressure Indians to expel British traders
  • Montours move to Juniata Valley

    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.
  • Madame Montour dies

    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.
  • Margaret is in French Margaret's Town.

    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?)
    Near Williamsport PA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshequin_Path
  • Andrew employed by the Ohio Company

    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.
  • Telehemet dies

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    Catharine living at Juniata Valley

    Dates uncertain
  • Margaret travels to divine worship

    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
  • Margaret may have moved to Tioga Point PA

    Margaret moves to Tioga point (south of Waverly)? Attended Easton Treaty conference (why?)
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    Catharine living at Tioga Point?

    Uncertain
  • Catharine is at Canisteo

    Canisteo is 40-50 miles NW of Tioga Point
  • Catharine living at Maragret's Town?

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    Catharine living at Canisteo?

    Uncertain
  • Catharine marries Fur Trader

    Fur Trader who had previously been married to a Seneca
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    Pontiacs Rebellion

    Violence had been rumored as early as 1761.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac%27s_War
  • Andrew destroys Canisteo

    Brings scalps back to William Johnson
  • Andrew Montour murdered

    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.