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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
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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
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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
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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
Raids into New England.
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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.
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Catharine living at Lothar Manor
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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?)
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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
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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?
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Catharine is at Canisteo
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Catharine living at Maragret's Town?
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Catharine living at Canisteo?
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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.
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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.