Person:Frances Montesque (1)

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m. 6 Apr 1750
  1. Frances Montesque1760 - 1834
  • H.  Crean Brush (add)
  • WFrances Montesque1760 - 1834
m. Abt 1766
  • H.  John Buchanan (add)
  • WFrances Montesque1760 - 1834
m. Abt 1776
m. 1784
  1. Frances Allen1784 - 1819
  2. Capt Hannibal Montresor Allen1787 - 1813
  3. Ethan Alphonso Allen1789 - 1855
m. 28 Oct 1792
  1. Julietta Octavia Penniman1798 - 1883
Facts and Events
Name Frances Montesque
Alt Name[4] Fanny Montresor
Gender Female
Birth[3][4] 4 Apr 1760 New York, United States
Marriage Abt 1766 per Find A Grave
to Crean Brush (add)
Marriage Abt 1776 per Find A Grave
to John Buchanan (add)
Marriage 1784 Vermont[2nd husband]
to Gen. Ethan Allen
Marriage 28 Oct 1792 [she is the widow Allen]
to Dr. Jabez Penniman
Death[3] 13 Oct 1834 Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States

Frances and her daughter were pioneering botanists in Vermont.

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References
  1.   Colonial Dames of America. Chapter 1, Baltimore. Ancestral records and portraits: a compilation from the archives of Chapter I, the Colonial Dames of America. (New York: Grafton Press, 1910)
    2:619-620.
  2.   Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed Oct 2017.

    ... Allen met his second wife, a young widow named Frances "Fanny" Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784; and after a brief courtship, they wed on February 16, 1784. Fanny came from a notably Loyalist background (including Crean Brush, notorious for acts during the Siege of Boston, from whom she inherited land in Vermont), but they were both smitten, and the marriage was a happy one. ...

  3. 3.0 3.1 Frances “Fanny” Montresor Buchanan Penniman [1], in Find A Grave.
  4. 4.0 4.1 There are different accounts of her birth and parentage.