Person:Rowland Montour (1)

Rowland Montour was the Indian that adopted Rebecca while she was a captive.

Among the 'Rugged Pioneers' With Madam Montour By Robin Van Auken Williamsport Sun-Gazette New World history -- and especially that of the Susquehanna Valley -- is filled with tales of "rugged pioneers" and "bloodthirsty savages," and one of the more interesting is Madam Montour. Her life is sketchy, but mythic in proportion. Historians have proposed that Elizabeth Catherine "Madam" Montour led an adventurous life on the French and English frontiers. She was born in 1667 at Three Rivers, Canada, the daughter of Frenchman Pierre Couc and his Algonkin wife (name unknown). According to Dr. Paul Wallace, historian and consultant to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission from 1951-57, Madam Montour spent several years in the early 1700s at Forts Mackinac and Detroit where her relatives were engaged in the Indian trade. John G. Freeze, in an 1879 article, "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," reports that she married Roland Montour, "a brave of the Senecas." No further information is available about him.