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Madame Montour (1667 or c. 1685 – c. 1753) was an interpreter, diplomat, and local leader of Algonquin and French Canadian ancestry.[1]

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  1. 78 relations: Abenaki, Albany, New York, Algonquian languages, Algonquian peoples, Algonquin people, Andrew Montour, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Appalachian Mountains, Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, British Indian Department, Canada (New France), Captivity narrative, Catawba people, Catherine Montour, Confluence, Conrad Weiser, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Equal pay for equal work, Fort Detroit, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, French and Indian War, French Canadians, Fur trade, Gentry, George Washington, Great Shamokin Path, Iroquoian languages, Iroquois, Iroquois kinship, John Harris Jr. (settler), Juniata County, Pennsylvania, King William's War, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Logstown, Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire, Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming Creek, Madam, Michilimackinac, Montour County, Pennsylvania, Montour Falls, New York, Montour family, Montour Run, Montoursville, Pennsylvania, Moravian Church, Mrs., Neville Township, Pennsylvania, New France, Nicholas Montour, ... Expand index (28 more) »

  2. 1750s deaths
  3. 18th-century Native American women
  4. Algonquin people
  5. American Métis people
  6. American Métis women
  7. Montour family
  8. Native American people from Pennsylvania

Abenaki

The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.

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Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages (also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group.

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Algonquian peoples

The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.

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Algonquin people

The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada.

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Andrew Montour

Andrew Montour (– 1772), also known as Sattelihu, Eghnisara,Hagedorn, 57 and Henry,Montour was also called Henry, possibly due to the similarity of sound with the French "Andre". was an important mixed interpreter and negotiator in the Virginia and Pennsylvania backcountry in the latter half of the 18th century. Madame Montour and Andrew Montour are American Métis people, interpreters, Montour family and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (March 5, 1658October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. Madame Montour and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac are people of New France.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.

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Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont

Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (April 1679 – 1734) was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century.

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British Indian Department

The Indian Department was established in 1755 to oversee relations between the British Empire and the First Nations of North America.

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Canada (New France)

The colony of Canada was a French colony within the larger territory of New France.

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Captivity narrative

Captivity narratives are usually stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose.

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Catawba people

The Catawba, also known as Issa, Essa or Iswä but most commonly Iswa (Catawba: Ye Iswąˀ), are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans, known as the Catawba Indian Nation. Their current lands are in South Carolina, on the Catawba River, near the city of Rock Hill.

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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, informally called Catharine's Town, in western New York. Madame Montour and Catherine Montour are 18th-century American women, 18th-century Native American women, American Métis people, Montour family and women Native American leaders.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Conrad Weiser

Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760), born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) pioneer who served as an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native American nations. Madame Montour and Conrad Weiser are interpreters.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB; Dictionnaire biographique du Canada) is a dictionary of biographical entries for individuals who have contributed to the history of Canada.

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Equal pay for equal work

Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labour rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay.

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Fort Detroit

Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac.

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Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Fort Necessity National Battlefield is a National Battlefield in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, which preserves the site of the Battle of Fort Necessity.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gentry

Gentry (from Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Great Shamokin Path

The Great Shamokin Path (also known as the "Shamokin Path") was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran from the native village of Shamokin (modern-day Sunbury) along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River north and then west to the Great Island (near modern-day Lock Haven).

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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Iroquois kinship

Iroquois kinship (also known as bifurcate merging) is a kinship system named after the Haudenosaunee people, also known as the Iroquois, whose kinship system was the first one described to use this particular type of system.

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John Harris Jr. (settler)

John Harris Jr. (1716 – July 29, 1791 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), was a storekeeper and frontiersman who operated a ferry along the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg.

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Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Juniata County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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King William's War

King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Lewisburg is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States, south by southeast of Williamsport and north of Harrisburg.

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Logstown

The riverside village of Logstown (1725?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the Colony of Virginia, and the Six Nations, which occupied the region.

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Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire

Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire (1670June 29, 1739), also known as Sononchiez by the Iroquois, was a French army officer and interpreter for New France who worked with the Iroquois tribes during the French and Indian Wars in the early 18th century. Madame Montour and Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire are interpreters.

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Loyalsock Creek

Loyalsock Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data., accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River located chiefly in Sullivan and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. As the crow flies, Lycoming County is about northwest of Philadelphia and east-northeast of Pittsburgh.

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Lycoming Creek

Lycoming Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Madam

Madam, or madame, is a polite and formal form of address for women in the English language, often contracted to ma'am (pronounced in American English and this way but also in British English).

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Michilimackinac

Michilimackinac is derived from an Ottawa Ojibwe name for present-day Mackinac Island and the region around the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.

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Montour County, Pennsylvania

Montour County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Montour Falls, New York

Montour Falls is a village located in Schuyler County, New York, United States.

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Montour family

The Montour family is a family of Native-American and French descent that was prominent in colonial New York and Pennsylvania before and during the American Revolution. Madame Montour and Montour family are American Métis people and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Montour Run

Montour Run is a tributary of Fishing Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

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Montoursville, Pennsylvania

Montoursville is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.

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Mrs.

Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard English pronunciation) is a commonly used English honorific for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title or rank, such as Doctor, Professor, President, Dame, etc.

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Neville Township, Pennsylvania

Neville Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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Nicholas Montour

Nicholas Montour (1756 – August 6, 1808) was a fur trader, seigneur, and political figure in Lower Canada. Madame Montour and Nicholas Montour are American Métis people, Canadian Métis people and Montour family.

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Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 – 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major figure of 18th-century Protestantism.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Oneida people

The Oneida people (autonym: Onʌyoteˀa·ká·, Onyota'a:ka, the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone, Thwahrù·nęʼ in Tuscarora) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band.

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Onondaga (village)

Onondaga was a city that served as the capital of the Iroquois League and the primary settlement of the Onondaga people.

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Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).

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Patrick Gordon (governor)

Patrick Gordon (– August 17, 1736) was Deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties on the Delaware from 22 June 1726 to 4 August 1736.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial

Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Province of New York

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783.

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Province of Pennsylvania

The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Queen Anne's War

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

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Robert Hunter (colonial administrator)

Robert Hunter FRS (– 31 March 1734) was a Scottish military officer, playwright and colonial administrator who successively served as the governors of New York, New Jersey and Jamaica.

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Shamokin (village)

Shamokin (Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Shikellamy

Shikellamy (1680 - December 6, 1748), also spelled Shickellamy and also known as Swatana, was an Oneida chief and overseer for the Iroquois confederacy. Madame Montour and Shikellamy are 18th-century Native Americans and native American people from Pennsylvania.

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Siouan languages

Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.

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Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (– 11 July 1774), was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Ireland known for his military and governance work in British colonial America.

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Six Nations land cessions

The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.

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Sorel-Tracy

Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Champlain Valley.

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Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland).

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Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour.

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University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a not-for-profit university press associated with the University of North Carolina.

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West Branch Susquehanna River

The West Branch Susquehanna River is one of the two principal branches, along with the North Branch, of the Susquehanna River in the Northeastern United States.

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Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Witham Marshe

Witham Marshe was the representative of the colony of Maryland at the negotiation of the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744, where he recorded the negotiations.

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See also

1750s deaths

18th-century Native American women

Algonquin people

American Métis people

American Métis women

Montour family

Native American people from Pennsylvania

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Montour

Also known as Elisabeth Montour, Elizabeth Catherine Montour, Elizabeth Couc, Elizabeth Montour, Isabel Montour, Isabelle Couc, Isabelle Montour, Madam Montour.

, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Ohio River, Oneida people, Onondaga (village), Optical character recognition, Patrick Gordon (governor), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Pittsburgh, Province of New York, Province of Pennsylvania, Quebec, Queen Anne's War, Robert Hunter (colonial administrator), Shamokin (village), Shawnee, Shikellamy, Siouan languages, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Six Nations land cessions, Sorel-Tracy, Susquehanna River, Trois-Rivières, University of North Carolina Press, West Branch Susquehanna River, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Witham Marshe.