Catherine Montour

Catharine Montour, also known as Queen Catharine (died after 1791), was a prominent Iroquois leader living in Queanettquaga, a Seneca village of Sheaquaga,[1] informally called Catharine's Town, in western New York. She has often been confused with Elizabeth "Madame" Montour, her aunt or grandmother who was a noted interpreter and adviser to the governor, and with "Queen Esther" Montour, usually described as her sister.[2] Several places in western New York were later named in her honor, after most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands and were driven out of the region.

  1. ^ Egle, William Henry, ed. (1895). Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburd, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company. p. 126.
  2. ^ Sivertsen, 114. Sivertsen argues that Esther was not Catharine's sister, as is usually said, but a relative by marriage.