Madame Elizabeth Catherine Montour

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    Kahnawake Mohawk Territory , Quebec
    Canada
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    Notes for CATHARINE (MADAME) MONTOUR: According to an address given by Abner C. Wright in May 1940 before the Montour Historical Society, as printed in the book, "The History of the Town of Catharine, NY," by Mary Louise Cleaver, 1945, p. 3: "Madame Catharine Montour, grandmother of Queen Catharine, was born in 1668 (discrepancy-BES), three years after her parents were married. Her father was a Frenchman, Monsieur Montour, who came to Canada in 1665 and married a Huron wife. When Madame Catharine Montour was about eight years old she was stolen by the Senecas and brought up in that tribe, but before that time she went to school and was being carefully reared.
    
    Frontenac was governor of Canada at this time, and in order to cement the friendship existing between the Indians and the French he decided to adopt a child from each of the Five Nations of the Iroquois. The child he adopted from the Senecas was Catharine Montour, and the date that John S. Clarke gives is 1674. Mr. Wright did not know where he got that date. After a few years Frontenac returned to France, and before going, returned his adopted children to the tribes from which they were taken, and so Catharine came back to the Senecas in 1680. In 1711 she became an interpreter. Her husband was killed in 1729. John Logan called her an old woman in 1733. Witham Marsh says she had been "very handsome." She is said by some to have died and been buried in 1752, at Montoursville, Pa., sometimes called "Shemokin," on the island near Northumberland, Pa. The English name of her husband was "Robert Hunter." She and all of her children were staunch adherents of the English, the cause of her bitterness toward the French being the unjust slaying of her brother. Madame Montour left a wonderful legacy; five children who did splendid things in helping the English win from the French this land in the new world, which was being claimed by the French.