Margaret Montour, daughter of Robert Hunter Dit Carondowanna and Elisabeth Madeleine Couc Lafleur Dit Montour. Born estimated EST. WFT, 1695-1723, died estimated EST. WFT, 1718-1806, approximately 83 years Married estimated EST. WFT, 1705-1755 (approximately 43 years married) to: Peter Quebec Dit Keterioncha Dit Frontenac Born estimated EST. WFT, 1677-1718, died estimated EST. WFT, 1718-1798, approximately 80 years Children: 1. Catherine MontourBorn estimated EST. WFT, 1714-1740, died estimated EST. WFT, 1763-1828, approximately 88 years Catharine Montour, the Queen Esther of the Senecas, was a half-breed, anative of Canada, and a putative daughter of one of the French Governors,"probably," says Lossing, "of Frontenac." Her superior mind gave hergreat ascendancy over the Senecas, among whom she was indeed a Queen. She"assumed the office of executioner, and, using a maul and tomahawk,passed around the ring of prisoners, who had been arranged at herbidding, deliberately chanted the song of death and murdered her victimsto its cadences in consecutive order."--Lossing and Ruttenber. 2. Esther MontourBorn estimated EST. WFT, 1718-1755, died estimated EST. WFT, 1727-1837, approximately 82 years |