Lewis Louis Montour CARONDOWANA

• General Notes
  • (V) Lezvis Montour went to the Ohio River region probably about the time his sister "French Margaret"
    removed thither. He was there until 1753, in which year, as messenger of the Shawanese on the Ohio, he
    bore to the I,ieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania a document containing an offer from those Indians to
    resign all their right to land east of the Ohio in liquidation of their debts to the traders. Montour, how-
    ever, was reported to be a spy in the French interest. Nevertheless in 1754 he settled near Aughwick (now
    Shirleysburg, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania). There were then living there, under the superintend-
    ence of George Croghan, quite a number of Indians who had left the Ohio and put themselves under the
    protection of the Pennsylvania Government. Not long after Montour had taken up his abode at this
    place Conrad Weiser complained to the Government that "L,ewis Montour, Andrew's brother, disturbs
    them [the Indians at Aughwick] often by bringing strong liquor to them. They cannot help buying and
    drinking it, when it is so near, and L,ewis sells it very dear to them and pretends that his wife, who is an
    ugly Indian squaw, does it." In January, 1757, I,ewis was sent by George Croghan (then Deputy Indian
    Agent under Sir William Johnson) to bear a message to certain Indians in New York.
    
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