Andrew Montour was of Oneida and Algonquin ancestry, with a French grandfather.
17 Facts About Andrew Montour
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Andrew Montour was commissioned as a captain in 1754 by Pennsylvania officials during the French and Indian War.
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Andrew Montour commanded raiding parties in Ohio in 1764 during Pontiac's War at the behest of Sir William Johnson, British superintendent of Indian Affairs.
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Andrew Montour was likely born in Otstawonkin, a native Lenape village located at the mouth of Loy ck Creek on the West Branch Susquehanna River, about 1720.
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Andrew Montour's mother was known as Madame Montour and was a well-known, influential interpreter, and his father was Carondawanna, otherwise known as Robert Hunter, an Oneida war chief based in New York.
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Andrew Montour was primarily of Native American ancestry, though his maternal grandfather was a French fur trader.
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In 1729, when Andrew Montour was young, his father was killed during a raid on the southern Catawba tribe.
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In 1742, Andrew Montour acted as guide and interpreter for Count Zinzendorf, among the Moravian missionaries who stopped at Otstonwakin.
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Andrew Montour welcomed us cordially and when I spoke to him in French he replied in English.
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Andrew Montour has been arrested for fifty pounds and indeed, I would have suffered him to have gone to jail for he is a lavish man, having a wife who takes up goods at any rate and to any value.
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Andrew Montour had problems with alcoholism and debt in much of his life.
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Andrew Montour served under Major General Edward Braddock, though the experience was a sour one.
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Andrew Montour received a captain's commission in 1754 during the French and Indian War.
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Later, under Sir William Johnson's Indian Department of the Northern District, Andrew Montour was given command of a raiding party in Ohio in 1764 during Pontiac's War.
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Andrew Montour first married Madelina, a Delaware woman, granddaughter of Sassoonan, a Lenape chief.
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Andrew Montour sent their children to school in Philadelphia and Williamsburg, Virginia, to learn English, to be educated for both cultures.
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John Andrew Montour served with American troops at Pittsburgh during the American Revolution.